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Posted on 20110503

PSA: Choosing A Secure Password That Is Usable

via lalawag

Password security has been brought to the forefront again after the recent hacks and theft of passwords from Sony’s PlayStation … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110503

Samsung’s Hottest Android Phone Is Already Clobbering The iPhone 4 (AAPL)

via SAI: Silicon Alley Insider

Samsung saw huge success with its Galaxy S II launch in Korea last week, selling over 200,000 phones as pre-orders between … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110503

Why did Penn Jillette create a fake Martin Luther King Jr. quote yesterday?

via Salon

Osama bin Laden’s death had people retweeting a message of peace from MLK. Only problem? It wasn’t real Read More >>

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How two people’s heartbeats become synchronized, even when they are far from each other [Mad Science]

via io9

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Posted on 20110503

Who is Osama bin Laden?

via Boing Boing

Screengrab from Sean Bonner. But this is not a joke! In a company blog post today, Yahoo reported that two-thirds of people … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110503

Sculpture embodies lossy copying using much-copied house-key

via Boing Boing

Artist Daniel Bejar had a key copied and then a new key copied from it, and so on, until the information embodied in the … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110502

Empty ~ Los Angeles

via LA TACO

We’re late to the party and only today discovered Photographer Matt Logue’s 2010 EMPTY LA book. He spent years … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110502

Too Many ‘Likes’? Designer Proposes Alternatives for Facebook

via TAXI Daily News

Designer Leonard Savage created a tongue-in-cheek series of alternatives to Facebook’s ‘Like’ icon:

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Posted on 20110502

World’s Largest Wooden Structure Opens in Spain

via TAXI Daily News

A sprawling four-storey wooden structure that is believed to be the largest of its kind just opened in Seville, Spain in … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110502

Flash in the Pan

via TechCrunch

The news from NBC/Universal/Comcast is that the cable giant has finally made deals with both ABC and Fox to carry selected … Read More >>

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