January 2011
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Official Google Blog: Some weekend work that will... →
hilker:
“Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection.
We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company weacquired last week, to make this idea a...
What Is Binary Code?
fakescience:
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U.S. 'losing credibility by the day' on Egypt: El... →
“The American government cannot ask the Egyptian people to believe that a dictator who has been in power for 30 years will be the one to implement democracy,” ElBaradei told US network CBS from Cairo.
“You are losing credibility by the day. On one hand you’re talking about democracy, rule of law and human rights, and on the other hand you’re lending still your support to a...
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Facebook Spat Leads to Car Rundown - The Daily... →
What fate awaits the man who denied the friend request here? Two cousins in Long Island got into a spat over a denied Facebook friend request—which ended with one cousin mowing the other down with her van. Melanie Spanopoulos, is accused of running her cousin, Giselle Penagos, over with a van after they began fighting when Penagos learned that a man who had rejected her friend request on Facebook...
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karlfun asked: Whoa, Slydial sounds awesome! How do the ads work?
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“When he and his companions got into a tussle with a crocodile on the Nile,...”
– From our obituary of Hendrik Coetzee, explorer, who died on December 7th, aged 35. (via theeconomist)
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