Morrie the Toupee Salesman

Just for fun, I thought I’d make a list of “live-bloggers” at today’s WWDC: Gizmodo Engadget Techcrunch CNN/Money NY Times Ars Technica Twitter/Summize Cnet Silicon Alley Insider Macrumors Live I’ll add more, but right now I feel the sudden urge to get as far away from a computer as I can for an hour.

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In case you don’t actually spend time online, there’s a big apple event that started 12 minutes ago. The coolest thing is?…. Techcrunch has been down for all of those 12 minutes. Mike Arrington would not be pleasant to be around right now.

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Love this story. I hesitate to use “FTW” after using it 2 posts ago, so I’ll rephrase. Stock Picking FTL!

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It’s a poor strategy. I go to the nearest BestBuy and buy the most expensive model they have. I’ve done it four times now. Today’s is actually, maybe better, in that I can actually upgrade the head. What a great phrase those last three words are.

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A photo of mine is on the FoundMath section of the Mathematical Association of America. Thanks to Stan Wagon of MacAlester College for prompting me to submit. Reuleaux triangles FTW!

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It’s not hard to see what’s wrong with journalism in an article like this one: “Men, on the other hand, have no such pretenses. Often, “they try to show how clever they are by writing very cryptic code,” she tells the Business Technology Blog. “They try to obfuscate things in the code,” and don’t leave [...]

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I’m surprised all the pundits and “social media consultants” out there haven’t discovered this one, or maybe they want to keep it to themselves, or maybe there’s just no money in it, but there seems to be a very clear way to increase your odds of appearing on the digg front page. The stats below [...]

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“The federal Conservatives are set to introduce new copyright legislation as soon as this week that will include provisions to target users with a $500 fine for all illegal files transferred online, a move that legal experts say could see Canadians sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars if found guilty of infringement.” That’s the [...]

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This is a sum total of diggs on stories not promoted grouped by userid. In a sense, it’s “most penalized” users. Data is a random(-ish) sample from the last month: SirPopper 5659 msaleem 5262 KevinFederline 4490 badwithcomputer 3536 MrBabyMan 3480 mark076h 2716 jaybol 2473 oboy 2462 mklopez 2267 MakiMaki 2164 No real attempt at a [...]

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Top 10 Stories that didn’t become popular last week: Rainbow at Night l33tspeak Word of the Day FoxNews Jokes About Obama Being Assassinated 25 (More) Awesome Works of Art from Ordinary Objects [PICS] Funcom Tells Guild to ‘Stop Killing People in Groups’ Sears and Kmart Suck! Delayed Flights Wasted $1.6 Billion of Fuel in 2007 [...]

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