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Posted on 20110803

California judge: trolling with someone else’s Facebook is identity theft

via Ars Technica

From time to time, we will be running posts from Eric Goldman’s Technology & … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110802

Video: “Pour” painting

via Boing Boing

This mesmerizing video shows how Brooklyn artist Holton Rower created a series of paintings appropriately-titled … Read More >>

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Pocket Digicam Has a Real Tilt-Shift Lens

via Gadget Lab

Forget about those faux tilt-shift effects. When a special effect is baked into almost every consumer digicam out there, it has … Read More >>

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Custom Cup for Ultra-Efficient Cookie Dunking

via Gadget Lab

The Taça solves that age old problem: how to dip a giant cookie into a tiny cup of milk? The traditional solution has been to … Read More >>

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Localize It: Podponics Grows High-Tech Organic Produce In Shipping Containers

via Fast Company

Founded by a former software engineer, the company–which just received almost $1 million in funding–is working on ways to … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110802

Chegg Rival CampusBookRentals.com Closes $20 Million Financing Round

via TechCrunch

CampusBookRentals.com, a company that lets customers from nearly 5,600 college campuses rent textbooks online, this morning … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110802

Amazon’s Appstore: You’ll Make $0 When We Give Your App Away, And You’ll Like It

via TechCrunch

Apparently Apple isn’t the only company running an App Store with a penchant for secrecy.

In a blog post this morning, mobile … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110802

Pittsburgh Signs Project: appreciation of the glorious signage of Pittsburgh

via Boing Boing

Earlier this summer, a nice group of people approached me at my signing at the CMU bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA and handed me a … Read More >>

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Ultimaker: high-speed, low-cost 3D printer

via Boing Boing

MAKE:’s Jon Kalish looks in some depth at Ultimaker, a MakerBot-style 3D printer that runs at higher resolutions and … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110802

Skype for iPad is finally out (hands-on!)

via Engadget

A native Skype app for the iPad has finally appeared, opening up your Apple slate for voice and video chatting with others … Read More >>

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