Google Reader Shared Post - Source URL The Consumerist
AT&T knows it needs to step up if it wants to be taken seriously these days as a wireless provider, so it's been beefing up 3G coverage, rejiggering data plans, and of course ramping up the speed at which it leaks your private data to strangers. In fact, according to multiple reports from AT&T customers, the company has managed to pull off the neat trick of logging customers in to strangers' accounts today during the iPhone 4 pre-order fiesta. See? You no longer have to wait until you've got the device in hand to worry about privacy issues.
"iPhone 4 Ordering Process May Have Exposed Your Data To Other People" [The Next Web]
Google Reader Shared Post - Source URL Hacking NetFlix
Wonder-Tonic has created on of the most unusual single-use Netflix API applications: Cageflix. With one click you can add up to 49 Nicolas Cage movies to your queue with one click.
This hack makes me smile.
via @Netflix, @BradPlumer, & @Animatou.
Google Reader Shared Post - Source URL There, I Fixed It - Redneck Repairs
Happy Thursday Fixers! This week, what with the gulf being one lightning storm from Armageddon, I thought we could look at when ocean accidents turn into something beneficial.
Way back in the day, January of 1992 to be exact, a freighter in the middle of the Pacific Ocean accidentally spilled it’s precious cargo into the sea. What cargo was that? 29,000 rubber duckies. I have scoured the Internets to bring you this dramatic reenactment photo:
Photo Courtesy Of: Tony Crescibene
Once oceanographers realized the runaway ducks were caught in the Subpolar Gyre, or ocean current as we would call it, they decided to use them to learn more about how currents flow and how far and fast the effects of ocean pollution travel. Since then, the ducks have been spotted all over the world and as of 2003 have completely circumnavigated the globe. Take that Magellan. The ducks have even earned a degree of fame with their journey being turned into a children’s novel by Eric Carle; author the The Hungry Caterpillar.
If you’re interested in the details of the ducks’ journey, or would like to know the best place to keep an eye to the sea for a wayward duck, I got my information from Rubaduck.com
Google Reader Shared Post - Source URL NPR Blogs: Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!
Google "world cup" and you get this:
Google, it's hard to fear your relentless thirst for global domination when you keep being so dang cute.
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