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Pope fears technology that destroys reality; Pope's fears realized
Oct 13, 2010
Pope Benedict who, I don't know, has just seen Tron for the first time or something, has spoken out against the warped reality that technology pro...
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Facebook Groups tripped up by the old opt-out problem
Oct 8, 2010
So we know Facebook set up this new thing where you can make groups and sort your friends into those groups. The idea is that you can keep your...
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Smiling Cigar Guy? Smiling Cigar Guy!
Oct 7, 2010
On tomorrow's show, we talk to the good folks at the indispensable Know Your Meme site about the phenomenon of Smiling Cigar Guy. ...
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Foursquare goes down for 15 hours
Oct 5, 2010
You may have noticed the world plunged into chaos and all governments collapsed because for 15 hours, NO ONE KNEW WHERE ANYONE ELSE WAS. Fake...
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Tony Curtis was buried with his iPhone
Oct 5, 2010
This according to his family.
I have many jokes I can make, none of them appropriate or respectful.
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Facebook movie #1 at box office
Oct 4, 2010
It brought in 23 million. The conversation around the movie in tech circles has been kind of interesting. It was reported that Mark Zuckerberg had...
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Obscenely wealthy person slightly less obscenely wealthy than he theoretically could have been
Oct 1, 2010
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer received only half of his potential bonus, a mere $670,000 (insult!) from the Microsoft board of directors after his...
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Twitter + photography = art
Sep 30, 2010
Artists Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman take location data from Twitter tweets, go to the place where the tweet originated and photograph it, and...
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Incredibly depressing mega millions lottery simulator!
Sep 29, 2010
Is located here. Good luck! That luck won't do you any good!
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Eric Schmidt is really upset that we have to drive cars
Sep 28, 2010
The CEO of Google is still complaining that we have to drive our own cars. Humans, I mean. Clearly, cars should have the ability to drive...
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