IT Director for a non-profit in Washington, DC. Man About Internet.
Just in case you missed it. If you remember this site, you will know all about the story of the stolen sidekick. However, last week the police finally listened to the public outcry and arrested the cellphone thief. The NYTimes has the complete story.
Ever wonder how those models look so perfect on the covers of all of those magazines you see in the checkout line at the grocery store? Check this tutorial out.
Check this out to whitness the horrible injustice firsthand.
Hey Ryan I joined a church
Apparently Folgers thought that the jingle, "the best part of waking up is folgers in your cup" was SOOO '90s that they had to update it a bit:
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So I think you all remember last fall when I went apeshit about Sony & their rootkits and tried to tell everyone I could about how stupid they were and generally how most of the savvy internet were up-in-arms about their stupidity. Well it ain't over....it seems that due to the law suit and settlement, you were able to submit a claim and for however many cds you bought with this rootkit they would send you 3 new albums or allow you 3 free album downloads from various music download services. So this one man has chronicled the last 230 days worth of email exchanges with himself and Sony over trying to file his claim. I can't believe Sony has let this go on for this long: Click here to be horrified.
This news comes to you courtesy of BoingBoing.
Daily Show host Jon Stewart had some sort of mishap with his laptop, but the staff at one of the two Apple stores in New York City was able to save his hard drive's data, and with it the baby pictures that resided exclusively on said hard drive.
A grateful Stewart had a score of free tickets for tonight's Daily Show taping sent over to the Apple store in question; staff is on their way over there right now. Nothing malicious to report here -- just the age-old feel-good tale of one good turn deserving another.
