The Onion: YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video
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YouTube contest: can you make a video worth watching?
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November 11, 2008 at 11:06am
by thecodepounder
Humor · Internet · Technology
Nate Silver: the man behind FiveThirtyEight.com
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November 10, 2008 at 2:29pm
by thecodepounder
New York Times profile of Nate Silver, the man behind the wildly accurate FiveThirtyEight.com:
In March, he introduced FiveThirtyEight.com, and it quickly became a go-to site for readers whose interest in raw numbers had grown after the close (and miscalled) elections in 2000 and 2004. As his reputation grew online — there’s a Facebook group called [...]
Internet · Politics · Technology
Website of the Office of the President-Elect online
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November 6, 2008 at 10:04pm
by thecodepounder
The website of the Office of the President-Elect is online.
It really does kind of feel like a metaphorical “torch” is being passed, if you’ll excuse me for referencing the Inaugural Address of John Kennedy. What I mean is, Barack Obama will be the first President of the United States that is less than two decades [...]
Government / Law · History · Internet · Personal · Technology
Quote of the day
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November 3, 2008 at 10:32pm
by thecodepounder
Technology pundit and columnist Andy Ihnatko on Twitter:
I like and respect Senator McCain, his character, his service, and his accomplishments. But in the end, he’s a 4:3 mind in a 16:9 world.
Internet · Politics · Quotes · Technology
Campaign ‘08, presidential candidates and Twitter
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November 3, 2008 at 1:56pm
by thecodepounder
Elizabeth Chuck writing at MSNBC, 140: The 2008 election’s other magic number. Nothing really shocking or significant here, but I found the following interesting:
Both presidential candidates are on Twitter. At press time, twitter.com/barackobama had more than 112,000 followers; twitter.com/johnmccain had more than 4,600. (This discrepancy in their online fan bases is apparent across other social [...]
Internet · Politics · Technology
Ha! Splog manages to steal only my copyright notice!
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October 17, 2008 at 9:53am
by thecodepounder
Here’s one from the “it doesn’t happen often, but…” file…
Call them what you want, “spam blogs”, “link blogs”, whatever. You’ve all seen the sites I’m talking about that contain no content other than a crapload of advertising, plus links to legitimate articles on other blogs that all focus on a specific subject-matter. Some are worse [...]
Crime and Punishment · Humor · Internet · Website
Latest campaign videos
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October 6, 2008 at 6:43pm
by thecodepounder
Here’s the latest from the McCain campaign: ’Dangerous‘.
And here’s the latest from the Obama campaign: ‘Keating Economics‘.
“Last lecture” professor Randy Pausch dies
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July 25, 2008 at 1:06pm
by thecodepounder
Randy Pausch, now famous for the life-affirming message of the ubiquitous “last lecture” internet video, died of pancreatic cancer today at his home in Virginia. Randy Pausch was 47.
If you haven’t seen the lecture, watch it on YouTube.
Health / Medicine · Internet · Technology
WordPress for iPhone application now available
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July 22, 2008 at 8:02am
by thecodepounder
The WordPress for iPhone app is now available at the iTunes App Store. Woo-hoo! This is the one I’ve been waiting for… Downloading it now, can’t wait to give it a spin!
Internet · Technology · Wireless / Mobile · iPod / iPhone / iTunes
Netflix to stream movies to Xbox 360
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July 15, 2008 at 7:09am
by thecodepounder
This is cool. Xbox 360 owners who are also Netflix subscribers will soon be able to steam 10,000 Netflix movies and TV shows.
Entertainment · Internet · Movies · Technology · Television