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Finding the sharing button

Interview Did anyone, I wonder, ever buy just one Motown single? Or just one 2-Tone single? And while you're pondering... can you even remember what major label your favourite artist is on? Unigram, perhaps. Or Polycorpse.…

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Hitachi promises 1TB per square inch

Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.…

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Yet another reason I'm proud to be a New Yorker.

Of the top five women executives in New York State, their businesses consist not of fashion or a perfume line, but of cars, computers, electronics, construction and envelopes.

Hotness.

h/t to MAC.

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Who has the first SCC with Intel's new chip?

PC World today claimed to have beated Asus to the punch by launching the first Small, Cheap Computer in the UK equipped with an Intel Atom processor.…

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As in 'Dude, where's my multispectral imaging device?'

DARPA, the renowned bulgy-bonced battle-boffinry bureau (apparent motto: "If you can't beat them... well, some sort of murderous killer robot army would seem to be in order") has just issued its latest call for notions. This time, the Pentagon science chiefs want a new and ultra-puissant combo nightsight module.…

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Photoshoppers, pick up your brushes...

Competition More than a decade after it crashed and burned so spectacularly, WiReD - the house magazine for the Children of the Corn - is returning to the UK.…

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Are we really surprised?

Planned Parenthood of Central Washington was scheduled to hold an event at a local Wal-Mart on National HIV Testing Day where their Teen Council were simply going to stand outside of the store and hand out information about HIV prevention and testing. But the American Life League got a tip on the event, and urged their supporters to call and complain to the store, after which Wal-Mart succumbed and canceled the event.

You know, because handing out preventative information that saves people's lives is just so not okay. American Life League's statement is horrific, and conveniently makes no mention of what the event was actually for:

“Planned Parenthood is now in such desperate need of customers it’s willing to do anything – even stand outside shopping centers to lure young people into its clinics,” said Marie Hahnenberg, a researcher for American Life League.

"They’re pushing pornography and contraception onto young children – beginning in kindergarten. Now parents aren’t even safe to go shopping without worrying Planned Parenthood will pressure their kids into promiscuous lifestyles that will increase their bloated birth control and abortion profits,” Hahnenberg said.

I just love it when they equate pro-choicers with pushers and pimps. (And on 5 year olds, no less. They're big money, I tell ya!) This is the kind of shit that reminds me just how fucking insane these people are. Their supporters who called Walmart - and Walmart itself - should be ashamed that they believed these horrid lies and, in Planned Parenthood's words, "put the wishes of extremists ahead of crucial community health information that empowers people to make responsible choices."

Call Walmart at 509-628-8420 and let them know just how wrong they were.

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Waiting for the second coming

Apple has failed to keep software for the iPhone up to date with patches available for its desktop PCs.…

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HALP! Boobie trap got me

oh noes! iz a trap.

picture: Lextacy. lol caption: hollipop421

» Recaption This

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The folks at Tor.com are offering up a free computer wallpaper for folks, featuring John Harris’ art for Zoe’s Tale. Yes, now you can revel in the orange and green-ness of my book’s cover, right on your computer! It’s starship explody-licious. Get it in the next week, because that’s just how long it’ll be up.

The Tor.com folks have also announced their target launch date: July 20, 2008. If all goes according to plan, there will be cool stuff there then (if it doesn’t go to plan, there will be cool stuff there a couple days later). And if you suspect that I might be part of that launch, you would be suspecting correctly. Just how I shall not reveal now. But I think you will like it.

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Job cuts consultation underway

Government services firm Serco is looking to cut up to 500 jobs from its IT division, with satellite offices and its Birmingham HQ all likely to be hit.…

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Next gen network quid pro quo tabled

The boss of Ofcom has given the clearest indication yet that regulators are ready to offer BT more control over a next generation UK broadband infrastructure in exchange for investment.…

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Ten songs off your shuffle on your MP3 player of choice.  Leave ‘em in comments.  Here’s mine:

1) “Down But Not Yet Out"---Felt
2) “Lake Of Fire"---The Meat Puppets
3) “Die"---Bratmobile
4) “White Wedding"---Queens of the Stone Age (Billy Idol cover)
5) “Ever Fallen In Love"---The Buzzcocks
6) “Another Day"---Sludgeworth
7) “Repo Man"---Iggy Pop
8) “Marla"---Grizzly Bear
9) “Us And Them"---The Easy All-Stars (Pink Floyd cover)
10) “Rome"---les savy fav

For the 4th of July, what band is more all-American than the Ramones?  Here’s some Ramones animations to start the day off with a bang:

More under the fold, including a Ramones Godwin’s violation.

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And be damn grateful about it, worms

Well, I was actually hoping to spend this Friday performing my usual duties, perhaps enjoying a little light banter with my colleagues, and then sauntering out at lunchtime to get society-endangeringly drunk.…

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