July 2009
165 posts
Military May Ban Twitter, Facebook as Security... →
The U.S. military is strongly considering a near-total ban on Twitter, Facebook, and all other social networking sites throughout the Department of Defense, multiple sources within the armed…
Slow Internet connection? Try using a coffee... →
Twitter post leads to lawsuit - San Francisco... →
Times Online
Twitter post leads to lawsuit San Francisco Chronicle AP source: FINA moves up bodysuit ban to Jan. 1 07.31.09 “@JessB123 You should just come…
Twitter post leads to lawsuit - San Francisco... →
BBC News
Twitter post leads to lawsuit San Francisco Chronicle “@JessB123 You should just come anyway. Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for…
Dreamcast, NES Ported to Papercraft [Papercraft] →
Sure, they don’t work, but these cardboard consoles definitely start more conversations. Best part, you don’t even need tape or glue. Thicker paper is recommended, as is a nice printer that…
Bill O'Reilly: Moral Barometer or Guitar Hero... →
Once more Bill O’Reilly finds himself attacking a video game ad during his show. And by attacking I mean allowing the entire sexy advertisement to play, unedited, while he quietly…
Twitter, Facebook Should Be On 360 Before... →
Popular social media services Facebook and Twitter are coming to the Xbox 360. But don’t expect them to come as part of the next dashboard update. Instead, they’ll launch as separate…
Teaching Drones to Fly in Formation →
In a clever bit of viral marketing, a few weeks ago Lockheed Martin released artwork on-line depicting the company’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter painted in the colors of the Air Force’s…
Speak Now, Or Forever Hold Your Na Nahh Na Na Na... →
Shared by Chris
Some people need help.
Aidra and Ernest loved each other very, very much. So much that they got married. But it wasn’t just any old wedding! It was one the King of the…
Twitter Lawsuit, What Should Business Learn? - PC... →
ABC News
Twitter Lawsuit, What Should Business Learn? PC World Horizon Group Management has probably by now figured out that suing a tenant over an…
Punch Sackboy, Right In His Goofy Little Face... →
The tables, they have been turned. Rather than having other characters appear in his game, Sackboy is making the leap into somebody else’s. The game in question is Rag Doll Kung-Fu, and…
Can You Follow This? Suing A Tenant Over A Tweet -... →
ABC News
Can You Follow This? Suing A Tenant Over A Tweet ChannelWeb While Horizon is going after Twitter user Amanda Bonnen for her Tweet, Twitter is…
Woman's Tweet Draws Landlord Lawsuit -... →
Daily Mail
Woman’s Tweet Draws Landlord Lawsuit InformationWeek The Chicago woman is being sued for $50000 for making a negative remark about her apartment…
‘Cowboys of Kabul’ Allegedly Defrauded Uncle Sam... →
A Houston couple, in debt to the tune of $260,000, apparently saw their financial salvation in the lucrative security contracts coming out of the under-manned U.S. war effort in…
Pakistan: Authorities rescue 200 kids who were... →
While this is truly horrendous, it does show that the jihadis are getting desperate.
200 ‘groomed’ suicide bombers rescued in Pak
Peshawar: Two-hundred boys, who were being trained at a…
Landlord sues tenant over moldy Tweet - Register →
Daily Mail
Landlord sues tenant over moldy Tweet Register Pop quiz. You find a disparaging post about your company on Twitter that’s written by a client…
Defamation lawsuit for US tweeter - BBC News →
BBC News
Defamation lawsuit for US tweeter BBC News A tenant who used the micro-blogging service Twitter to complain about mould in her Chicago apartment…
A Tenant's Twitter Tangle - Wall Street... →
MyFox Houston
A Tenant’s Twitter Tangle Wall Street Journal A Chicago management company has sued a tenant for libel over a Twitter post complaining about…
Twitter tiff: Moldy "tweet" ticks off... →
MyFox Houston
Twitter tiff: Moldy “tweet” ticks off Chicago firm The Associated Press CHICAGO — A Chicago company ticked off over a former tenant’s moldy…
Chicago apartment group claims defamation by Tweet... →
The Inquisitr
Chicago apartment group claims defamation by Tweet The Associated Press CHICAGO — A Chicago apartment management company is suing a former…
Landlord's Lawsuit Over 'Moldy'... →
The Inquisitr
Landlord’s Lawsuit Over ‘Moldy’ Twitter Post Offers Lessons ChannelWeb A Chicago-based property management company is suing a former tenant…
Landlord sues tenant after tweet about moldy... →
AFP
Landlord sues tenant after tweet about moldy apartment Ars Technica Can you hold someone responsible for defamatory comments on Twitter? A property…
Air Force on the Hunt for ‘Subversive’ Behavior... →
The Air Force’s geek squad wants the technology to monitor government employees’ deviant online behavior. And they want you to build it.
Today, the Air Force issued a call for proposals…
China Bans All Online Games Featuring "Gangs"... →
China has a problem. A problem with gangs. And as part of the government’s plan to tackle that problem, all websites offering online games glorifying organised crime have been banned. The…
Poor Rock Band Sales Blamed For Declining Viacom... →
Viacom’s second quarter 2009 financials dropped this morning, singling out lower than expected Rock Band sales as one of the primary causes of the company’s 14% drop in revenue over the…
Texting increases crash risk 23 times: study
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AFP - Talking on a cell phone while driving increases the risk of a crash but not nearly as much as text messaging while behind the wheel, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Apple Rejects Google Voice iPhone App
(PC... →
PC World - Why does Apple get to decide what applications your iPhone can run? That’s a question on customers’ minds today after Apple rejected Google Voice as an iPhone application, apparently to…
Warning: The Wrong Tweet Can Get You Sued - PC... →
GadgetCrave.com
Warning: The Wrong Tweet Can Get You Sued PC World A Chicago-area woman is being sued for $50000 by her landlord over a critical Tweet, the…
Microsoft confirms leaked retail store plans are... →
Those leaked Microsoft retail store plans certainly seemed like the real deal when Gizmodo got a hold of them last week, and Microsoft itself has now finally come out and confirmed…
Review: Wii Sports Resort
I have to say that I was not too enthusiastic about Wii Sports Resort when its release was announced. What intrigued me, obviously, was the addition of the Wii MotionPlus functionality. Wii Sports Resort is essentially Wii Sports 2 with a resort/spa theme. All sports activities take place on an island which is explorable by plane (which I do enjoy). The added gyroscopes and spatial awareness...
It works for the Med Group →
Seriously though, come back tomorrow, and I’ll give you two strips. Something came up tonight and due to the nature of Blues News, I wasn’t able to sit down and make a current strip.
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Special Forces Getting High-Tech Soldier Suits for... →
Just a few years ago, the Army was so down on the Land Warrior high-tech soldier get-up that it officially canceled the project. Now, Land Warrior is back from the dead — and considered…
Navy’s Trimaran Fighter Speeds Ahead →
With the world’s largest and most powerful fleet of aircraft carriers, destroyers and cruisers, the U.S. Navy absolutely dominates the deep water. But not so much in shallow waters — the…
DR Book Club: Dangerous Webmasters and... →
As a genre, journalist memoirs often fail to deliver. The dust jacket promises “the story behind the story,” but the book ends up being an interminable notebook dump.
This isn’t the case with…
Blogger: America ‘Less Safe’ Without More F-22s →
“America is less safe now than it was an hour ago,” The Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb declared, after the Senate voted down a proposal to buy seven more F-22 fighters on top of…
Where the Wild Things Are romps into our hearts... →
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We didn’t want to wake you up, but we really want to tell you something … specifically, that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today officially…
ModNation Racers Trailer →
Shared by Chris
I’m very excited about this game. From what I’ve read and watched it seems like it will be Mario Kart Wii on so much steroids that it would make Roger Clemens blush.
It’s been…
Darpa Searches for Next-Gen Nuke-Spotters →
In 2007, former Homeland Security nuclear office director Vayl Oxford reported that metal containers like steel and lead could prevent the detection of dangerous radioactive material…
India’s ‘Hottest’ New Weapons Powered by Chilli →
India’s military is getting ready to deploy weapons-grade chillis for counter-insurgency and riot control. The Indian Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) is harnessing…
The 2nd Most Popular Platform For Skype In Japan... →
Skype is a wonder. It’s allows users to connect via the internet phone for free. The mass majority of people in Japan use the computer for Skype, sure. Let’s see what numero two choice is. …
Secret Missions for Special Forces’ Stealth... →
Last year, U.S. Special Operations Command quietly began taking delivery of 10 Boeing-built Hummingbird robotic helicopters, and outfitting them for two-gigapixel spy cameras,…
Danger Room in Afghanistan’s ‘Boomtown’ →
PANJSHIR VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN –Earlier this week, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew to Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, where he visited a school for girls built…
Grandchildren left in car while Fla. woman gambled... →
AP - A Florida woman has been sentenced to 14 months of house arrest for leaving two grandchildren alone in a parked car while she went to play the slots.
‘Heat’ Blu-ray Cover Art →
Shared by Chris
One of the best movies of all time.
Release date: November 3, 2009
'Burn Notice' star Jeffrey Donovan... →
Washington Post
‘Burn Notice’ star Jeffrey Donovan arrested on suspicion of DUI Entertainment Weekly Jeffrey Donovan, star of the USA Network series Burn…
The Mortal Kombat / NBA Jam Crossover We Never Saw... →
While Midway have been consigned to the dustbin of history, in the early 1990’s, they were gods. Largely because of two games: NBA Jam & Mortal Kombat. Two games that, for all their…