It's the tofukelele at Elderly Music 1
No word on whether the lego bricks it's constructed from are actually made from soy oil or the standard petroleum
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From shooting elephants to hideous sites to support for war from the CEO, I bailed… 1
From shooting elephants to hideous sites to support for war from the CEO, I bailed on GoDaddy some time ago in favor Havor.com. They made transitioning totally painless as long as you go there first and just put in your GoDaddy info. A few days later the domain transfer was complete. Plus private registrations are the default.
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So, GoDaddy is backing away from SOPA (though I haven't seen them renounce the also-odious Protect IP bill.
I still don't respect GoDaddy, for lots of other reasons. I got my domains out of there a while back, and recommend you do the same.
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From the annals of public relations failures.
From the annals of public relations failures.
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I got offered money to blog about LG Electronics. I asked "What gives?" Here's what happened. http://wp.me/pg9un-dsu
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Volkswagen, seeking greater work-life balance for SOME of its German employees, is…
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Volkswagen, seeking greater work-life balance for SOME of its German employees, is turning off BlackBerry email to them when they're off-shift. Of course, this doesn't apply to senior management . . . who likely will have to deal with the issues raised after hours by their minions not getting email.
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Volkswagen says ‘nein!’ to after-hours email for some employees
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As much as I love Android, this sort of bullshit from manufacturers is just so aggravating…. 4
As much as I love Android, this sort of bullshit from manufacturers is just so aggravating.
If Touchwiz (or Sense or Blur) is so wonderful, don't bake it into the OS, build it as an app that can be installed just like other launchers such as Launcher Pro and ADW. If users actually like it, they can install and use it. This way, base OS can be upgraded almost as soon as Google posts it.
For Samsung to claim that the original Galaxy S can't have Android 4 because it doesn't have enough memory to support their proprietary Touchwiz interface is totally disingenuous.
My 16 year old son has a Samsung Fascinate (the Verizon branded version of the Galaxy S) and wanted Android 4. I did a bit of searching on the forums and found a fresh build of Ice Cream Sandwich that is pretty much fully functional and built from the open source code. I backed up the original firmware and flashed ICS and it works great. Battery life is better than before and the new ICS user interface runs smooth as silk.
Please Samsung, just offer a vanilla version of ICS for Fascinate owners as an option. Since this phone has already been superceded, it won't lose any sales and loyal customers will be rewarded. Those that prefer Touchwiz, don't have to upgrade or they can buy a Galaxy S2 when it gets an ICS build with touchwiz.
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Samsung: no ICS upgrade for Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab because of TouchWiz
Samsung has just distributed the worst news of this Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade cycle: the popular Galaxy S smartphone that sold 10 million units last year and the 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablet won't be upgraded to Android 4.0. The company's argument is that they lack sufficient RAM and ROM to run the new OS alongside TouchWiz and other "experience-enhancing" software. This will come as a massive blow to the great many users of the Galaxy S, who would have rightly expected the 1GHz Hummingbird proc…
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Companies that support SOPA – you still want to give them your money?
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Companies that support SOPA – you still want to give them your money?
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Official list of SOPA supporters includes the X-Men, bible publishers & country music
The U.S. House judiciary committee responsible for the Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA) has released a list of companies (PDF) that have publicly expressed their support for the legislation.
SOP……
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I totally agree with MG on this one, channels that are currently only available through… 1
I totally agree with MG on this one, channels that are currently only available through cable need to break out and start offering their service a la carte via streaming. If just a handful of channels including HBO, Starz and BBC would disintermediate the cable companies, I would pay for them and cancel my comcast TV service.
After all, we watch most of what we want to see via on-demand or the DVR anyway, so we don't need broadcast.
More importantly, I don't want to subsidize the NFL, NBA or Major League baseball any more. The fees that the networks have to pay to carry big league sports reportedly account for as much as 20% of our cable TV bills. No one in my household watches football, basketball or baseball so why should we pay to support athletes getting $5, 10, or 15 million a year?
I'm happy to pay for what we watch, but I only want to pay for what we ACTUALLY watch. Get with the program HBO and others!
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It's either got to be them or ESPN to lead here.
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Dear HBO First and foremost, I love your content. You’ve produced several of my favorite shows over the years, and the hits keep on coming. I’d love to watch Game of Thrones now, but I can’t. You see,…
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If you are going to pay someone to be an editor, you might want to get someone that… 3
If you are going to pay someone to be an editor, you might want to get someone that can actually edit!
In a first drive review of the new 2013 Chevy Malibu, this paragraph should never have been published:
Throw in a dash of underbody cladding and the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco is good for a .30 coefficient of drag. For reference, the Chevrolet Corvette is only slightly slipperier at .29 – a figure the standard 2013 Malibu will reach in part thanks to its more aerodynamic wheel and tire package. GM tallied the pros and cons of greater fuel efficiency by decreased drag or decreased rolling resistance courtesy of the Goodyear Assurance rubber found on the Eco, and the 17-inch alloy wheels and low-rolling rubber won out against the slicker 18-inch option. GM says that the standard Malibu will feature a coefficient of drag that's within spitting distance of the .28 of the Chevrolet Volt – a figure that vehicle shares with the 2012 Toyota Camry.
It's very awkwardly worded and I'm not sure it's factually correct. It doesn't seem right that an 18-inch tire/wheel would have lower aerodynamic drag than a 17-inch. If the problem is the wheel design they should have used a different wheel for the Eco.
Since the Eco is supposed to be the most efficient version of the Malibu, and they make extra effort to lower drag with thermostatically controlled shutters behind the grille and underbody panels, using higher drag wheels makes no sense. Copy editing is important, and all too often neglected online.
But an editor on an automotive site (or any outlet for that matter) should have enough knowledge of the subject to ask whether some content is accurate. That's why the traditional buff books have technical editors like Frank Marcus, Dennis Simanaitis and Don Sherman. These guys know the ins and outs of how a vehicle works.
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Meeting The Next-Generation Chevrolet Mid-SizeIt's been a very long time since the midsize market went easy on American automakers, and recent years
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It's past time to start cracking down on police abuse of American freedom 2
It's past time to start cracking down on police abuse of American freedom
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A little something to sleep on, America. This is what we've become.
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It's been said that timing is everything.
The downside to announcing a product almost a year before production is that unless you are truly jumping ahead of the pack, someone else might take the time to do something even better.
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