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Posted by SDflies 806 days agoThe biggest things last week: Foursquare and Salesforce
Posted by SDflies 806 days ago
One is a huge company that’s well known inside huge enterprises. The other is a startup with five employees that hardly anyone knows. But they both shifted the world last week in big ways. Note I didn’t put Google’s Chrome OS on this list. Why not? Because that’s largely vaporware at this moment. Next year when [.]
Hugo Chavez
Posted by Simone 807 days ago
Is Bruce Vilanch writing for Hugo Chavez now? 'Cause the Venezuelan leader's comedy material is pretty good lately: now he's a cannibalism apologist. In a recent speech, Chavez praised Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the late Ugandan dictator Idi "Butcher of Uganda" Amin. Said Chavez: "We thought he was a cannibal.. I don't know, maybe he was a great nationalist, a patri
U.S. military expands efforts to track satellites
Posted by SDflies 811 days ago
The U.S. military said last week that it is tracking 800 maneuverable satellites on a daily basis for possible collisions and expects to add 500 more non-maneuvering satellites by year's end.
Sunday Secrets
Posted by bboyzz 813 days ago
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. -----Email Message----- I worked for Reuters my entire life and was one of their most senior, valued employees. I was laid off last year when Thomson bought them over. Thank you so much for sending this in. If you can't join 'em, beat 'em. -----Email Message (pic)----- A design
Sell Your Mobile Phone
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Mobile Phone Free Sat Nav
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AFI Fest Review: Fish Tank
Posted by TigerWood 813 days ago
The movies' penchant for wish fulfillment often requires them to make their triumphs monumental, but the new film Fish Tank. makes a convincing case for modesty. The story of a teenage girl discovering herself in Great Britain's equivalent of a housing project, its very conception is steeped in understated humanity, but writer-director Andrea Arnold. refuses to indulge melodrama at every turn, cr
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