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Siri Takes Lead From SNL's Self-Deprecating Humor Making Apple Butt Of Joke

by Ron Callari

Does anyone remember when iPhone prototypes were left behind in Silicon Valley bars only to be found by those looking to make a quick buck while providing the techie world with an advance sneak peak at Apple's latest iteration? In both cases, Apple execs were none too pleased and subsequent police investigations and threats of litigation were filed against Gizmodo and ex-Apple employees responsible.

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Turn Your iPhone Into A REAL Camera With The iPhone Shutter Grip

by Must Love Gadgets

It's summer time. Vacation's coming up. Of course, you're taking your iPhone with you; how could you exist without it, now that you have one? But won't you have to take your camera as well? Admit it; it's not that easy to manipulate the iPhone to take photos or videos. Unless... you have an iPhone Shutter Grip.

From "Finish Line" To "Shut The Mother F-er Down": OTB Employees Struggle To Be Heard

by Ron Callari

If one was to ask what happened on December 7, 2010 and 2011, most folks would reference the 69th & 70th-year anniversaries of Pearl Harbor. Few people would know or care that New York's Off-Track Betting Office doors were shuttered that first year, depriving thousands of workers from earned health benefits. And on its anniversary date the following year, it marked the day that OTB worker Patti McCole entered the hospital for brain cancer.

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The Big City Dog Whisperer In New CBS Series "Dogs In The City"

by Lady Bee

CBS is presenting a first for network TV; a dog whisperer straight from New York City, a Manhattan-based professional 'dog-guru,' who visits homes with dog problems just like cable stars Cesar Milan and Victoria Stilwell. His name is Justin Silver, he's self-taught, and he's all New Yorker!

Is Buffy, The Mobile Slayer, Facebook's Ace In The Hole?

by Ron Callari

Being left behind on the mobile landscape has motivated countless bloggers and techie prognosticators to cyberventilate as to FB's future. Based on an 11th hour stock devaluation by the company themselves (see previous post, "Facebook's IPO Morality Tale…"), coupled with the claim the company can't survive in the public sphere relying solely on ad revenues, Zuck has ridden a roller-coaster of criticism in one week's time that has cast yet another shadow over the world's largest social network.

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Aston Martin's Lagonda SUV Concept Spies Well-Heeled Chinese Drivers

by China.new

Aston Martin Lagonda Limited, famed for its high performance GT sports cars favored by the likes of James Bond, reckons its future lies far to the east of MI6 headquarters in the garages of China's rich and famous. The super-luxury 4x4 Lagonda SUV is expected to cost a pretty moneypenny and would likely leave 007 shaken, not stirred.

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Facebook's IPO Morality Tale: If The Green Shoes Fit, Wear Them?

by Ron Callari

Facebook's reversal of fortunes in such a short span of time has played out almost like a modern-day morality tale. The fall-out of the social network post-IPO, after such an enthusiastic build-up was telling. While it lined the pockets of some (namely investment bankers), it deprived the 99 Percenters (or Dumb F*cks as Zuckerberg so adroitly labeled them back in 2004) full-disclosure, resulting in a subsequent short-fall on their FB investment.

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Calling All Inventors! FridaBaby Wants Your Baby Product Ideas

by Myra Per-Lee

I'm going to try to write this with a straight face.... The FridaBaby company, which I have just learned of, markets some very inventive and 'curious' products for babies so far. One is called the Snotsucker, which employs a mom (or dad) to suck the snot out of their baby's nose....

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Peak Download: Internet Access Arrives at Remote Tibetan Village

by China.new

A pilot project to provide network services for a tiny Tibetan village has allowed residents to connect to a wider world many did not know even existed. The project, sponsored and funded by China Telecom, also provides villagers with internet-ready computers, Tibetan-language web development and skills training.

Google's Autonomous Car Gets Its License To Drive In Nevada

by Myra Per-Lee

You can talk on your cell phone, even text, check your email, eat your lunch, tun-in your radio, change a CD.... You can even take in all of the distractions along the Strip in Las Vegas... if you hop a cab. Or, you can take the Google autonomous car, currently a Toyota Prius, without a driver.

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Do You Have Enough Klout To Fly The Friendly Skies Or Land The Perfect Job?

by Ron Callari

Klout is to 'personal influence' what Google is to 'page ranking.' While the Big G's algorithms determine the relevance of the Internet's every web page, Klout supposedly ranks the influence of every person online. As a 3-year old start-up, it's raison d'être is to measure influence based on the digerati's ability to drive action.

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Coffee Jitters Keeping You Awake At Night? Take A Chill Pill

by Toby

The folks at Think Geek know about caffeine, believe me. How do you think they're able to test the hundreds of weird products they receive every day and then write-up all the clever things to say about them? CAFFEINE! There had been a fast turnover of employees at Think Geek just because of caffeine - the employees, you see, couldn't sleep - at night, at least....

How Many "Dumb F*cks" Rocked Facebook's IPO Like It's 1999?

How Many Dumb F*cks Will Rock Facebook's IPO Like It's 1999?

by Ron Callari

The term "Dumb F*cks" has hung over Mark Zuckerberg like a dark cloud during the course of the last 8 years. Not because his nickname "Zuck" rhymes with the expletive, but because the CEO of today's largest social network derided his early FB users as such. In 2004, when first percolating the idea of FB in a Harvard dorm room and asked how he attracted so many followers so quickly, he off-handedly responded they were following him blindly, like "Dumb F*cks."

Time to Read? Amazon Japan Limited Edition Analog Alarm Clock

by Steve Levenstein

Amazon Japan is offering a simple yet stylish analog alarm clock for a limited time only. The clock comes in black or orange, sports the Amazon Japan website URL on its face, and wakes up loyal Amazon customers with an electronic beeping chime and complementary flashing lights.

Top 50 Best Quotes About Success

by Spencer Lanoue

Here's a compilation of 50 amazing quotes about success and entrepreneurship meant to inspire and motivate you. Contributing authors include Edison, Einstein, Picasso, Twain, Mandela, and other greats.

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Saddle Leather Computer Mouse for Skin to Skin Luxury

by Steve Levenstein

Desktop computer users tired of caressing a bland, boring, cold plastic mouse all day can click up to some luxury thanks to Japanese specialty retailer Atelier Wazakura. The so-called Kawanezumi (Leather Mouse) features our favorite handy peripheral swathed in soft, supple Saddle Leather. Giddyup!

Heat Conducting Designer Ice Cream Spoon Softens the Hardest Häagen-Dazs

by Steve Levenstein

So your ice cream's too hard but waiting for it to soften at room temperature can be agonizing. “If you wait, you might wait too long and it turns into liquid,” explains Japanese architect and designer Naoki Terada. “All this frustration, all this calculating. It had to stop somewhere!” Now thanks to Terada, our long national nightmare is over.

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Anti-Psychotic Drugs Overused In Nursing Homes

by Boomer Babe

....The Globe study found that more than one in five U.S. nursing homes are using anti-psychotic drugs for those suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other ailments associated with dementia - approximately 185,000 people who have not been diagnosed with a psychosis.

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Ramos Alarm Clock: Get Up Or Get Up!

by Must Love Gadgets

Alarm clocks are a pain in the butt. No one wants to get up in the morning, or they wouldn't need an alarm clock, would they? That's why we all have snooze buttons on our alarm clocks, because we need one more chance to be late. Ineffective as snooze alarms are for many, engineer Paul Sammut has created a new version of the alarm clock, one that never shuts up!

From "This Land Is Your Land" To "99 Percenter Song" OWS Guitarists March On NYC (Music Video)

by Ron Callari

Legions of guitarists, string players, troubadours, and DIY-shaker makers will converge on Bryant Park May 1, 2012 for Occupy Guitarmy, as part of the Occupy Wall Street May Day initiatives for social and economic justice. And you're all invited. Just show up at the Gertrude Stein statue at 12 Noon on that date and get ready to jam all the way down to Union Square.

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