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shitmydadsays: “We’re banned from the dog park. Well, I guess it’s okay to hump, and it’s okay to bark, but both at the same time freaks people out." - C. K. Sample III

I just wanted to let everyone know, that I too will be publishing Sample the Web in a format specifically designed for Apple’s new forthcoming tablet. Just like Wired Magazine, I too have not seen this tablet, nor do I have any real word of there being a specific format for it. However, that didn’t stop Wired from announcing that it intends to publish an Apple Tablet-savvy version of its magazine and gaining lots of attention and traffic from bored and lazy “journalists” looking to get lots of attention and traffic from yet another story about the Apple Tablet. Why should it stop me from reaping those same benefits? Here’s a current picture of Sample The Web on Apple’s Tablet: Short link for tweeting this post: http://ck4.us/2r Related posts:September 9th, 2008 Apple Event PredictionsMy writing WIRED!My Writing WIRED!: Part Deux - C. K. Sample III

[clears throat] Juicy-eyed pug in a sweateuw, Juicy-eyed pug in a sweateuw, Juicy-eyed pug in a sweateuw! That is all, Brittany W. Posted in Uncategorized - C. K. Sample III

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Odds and ends It should be pretty obvious by now that smoking cigarettes is bad for your health. What's not as obvious is that it might be bad for your Mac, too. According to The Consumerist, two different people got turned down for AppleCare maintenance because their Macs were used in a house with a smoker. Both people appealed their cases all the way up to Steve Jobs, and both of them lost. I've opened up a few computers that spent time in a house full of heavy smokers, and the insides weren't pretty. There was this disgusting brown resin built up all over everything, and it pretty much smelled like an ashtray stuffed full of 5-year-old cigarette butts. Though it's probably a stretch to call this "a biohazard" like in one of the cases The Consumerist cites, AppleCare agreements are worded loosely enough in their limitations of coverage that Apple seems perfectly within its rights to deny coverage in these two cases: The Plan does not cover:... - C. K. Sample III

pigeon flying Derwent “Drawing” 24-set - thick drawing pencils with a hint of colour - on A4 - C. K. Sample III

Melly Hawkshaw - Deceased Used to take mud baths for her skin. The real test, however, was lying in the muck for months and it's safe to say there has actually been some improvement. - C. K. Sample III

If you've downloaded firmware 6.20 for your PSP, you'll be able to access the Digital Comics service, featured under the new "Extras" section of the XMB. While the PlayStation Store won't offer comics until next month, Sony is offering fans an early sneak peek at the service by offering free codes through the official PlayStation Comics website. Americans will be able to get the first issue of Transformers: All Hail Megatron, while Europeans can download the first issue of Aleister Arcane. Each issue will take about 40MB of space on your Memory Stick / PSP Go. To get your trial codes, visit the PlayStation Comics website. [Thanks, Simon R.!] Try PSP Digital Comics with these free codes originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments - C. K. Sample III

Designer Michiel Cornelissen laser-sintered stainless-steel crucifix has screwdriver bits cut into each tip, turning it into a screwdriver that repels vampires. a bit cross (via Make) Previously:Boing Boing: Electronic crucifix broadcasts Lord's Prayer Boing Boing: Mobile phone antenna disguised as a churchtop crucifix Boing Boing: Programmable screwdrivers - C. K. Sample III

You don't see nearly the amount of coverage of Second Life (or as we call it in these parts, PlayStation Home's creepy, aggressively pornographic uncle) these days as you used to, and BBC did a little digging to find out why. Their discovery? Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but Second Life sucks. It's overly complicated to control, it's full of some truly horrific human beings, there are many better social networking hubs and (perhaps most importantly) companies that sunk a bunch of money into it rarely got their investments back. What the BBC seems to be implying is that Second Life was largely a media-created phenomenon, with journalists and public figures so smitten by the idea of a virtual world, no one stopped to notice that it was a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Besides, everybody knows that HiPiHi is where it's at. BBC asks: What happened to Second Life? originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read |... - C. K. Sample III

The Samsung Omnia II impresses with hardware but fails to do so with software. The hardware in question: a 3.7-inch, WVGA, AMOLED, resistive touchscreen; a 5-megapixel camera; Wi-Fi; 30fps video recording; and 8 GB of storage with the option to increase that via microSD card. The software? Windows Mobile 6.5, which is admittedly much better than originally expected; early versions of the Omnia II had Windows Mobile 6.1. The phone also runs TouchWiz 2.0. Admittedly, it's not running a hip new phone OS like Android or webOS, but it will get the job done. The Omnia II will ship in the United States through Verizon on December 2nd, 2009. It will cost $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate, as the standard goes. Company: Samsung, Verizon Wireless, Bell Canada, Bell Related Products Samsung Omnia Pro, Samsung Omnia HD, Samsung Omnia - C. K. Sample III

The first randomly selected audience winner today at the RealTime CrunchUp is SuperFeedr. They are an API service that works with both XMPP and PubSubHubbub (which launched at the first CrunchUp) to create realtime content feeds. As they noted on stage, it’s hard to demo something that is API only, but one implementation that we’ve written about before is Excla.im, which we wrote about recently. This allows for the realtime tracking of keywords on Twitter via IM. But this idea works for all content. And one of the most interesting thing about SuperFeedr is their promises. One is that if you don’t get your content served in less than 15 minutes, it’s free. Another promise is that they will meet or beat the cost of your existing system for monitoring feeds. If you monitor less than 1,000 feeds, SuperFeedr is free. If you go over that, you must buy credits (but it’s pretty cheap). Coincidentally, SuperFeedr just 3 days ago raised a seed round of funding from Betaworks and Mark Cuban.... - C. K. Sample III

The Camangi WebStation has been floating around for a few months now in little more than proof of concept form. Now, it's on the cusp of being a real product, released next month for $400. The system runs Android 1.5 through its 7-Inch (800×480) glass touchscreen display, plus you get Wi-Fi (b/g), GPS , microSD reader, 2MP camera, .3MP webcam and a USB port that can always add 3G (though, the whole idea becomes sort of silly at that point). Plus, a built-in stand on the back means it can double as a picture frame. Yes!! My only concern is the bit of lag you notice in this video. If the final production models have that issue ironed out, this could be an attractive little tablet. [Camangi WebStation via Gearlog] - C. K. Sample III

By Julian Harty The open-source launch of Chrome OS was announced today, and the source is available to download and build http://www.chromium.org/chromiu.... The entire project, including testing, is being open-sourced and made available for scrutiny and to help others to both contribute and learn from our experiences. The test engineering team haven't been idle - we're a small, international team and as a result we're having to be innovative in terms of our testing so we maximize our contribution to the project. We had two goals: to take care of short-term release quality and to plan an automation infrastructure that will serve the operating system for many years in the future. Currently we're combining manual and automated testing to achieve these goals. The manual testing provides fast feedback while we're extending the use of test automation to optimize future testing. In terms of test automation, we're using a collection of open-source tools such as: autotest... - C. K. Sample III