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24 January 2012 at 10 : 30 AM
What the Google Privacy Policy Changes Mean to You
The internet is a bit up in arms again, as Google has announced its new privacy policy. This new policy takes over 60 different privacy policies and combines them into one new one, written in easy-to-understand, plain English. The funny part is that Google has actually changed little. The main difference here is that they are now telling you in plain ...
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23 January 2012 at 10 : 12 AM
Who Needs Rock Climbing When You Have Urban Freeclimbing?
Some people get a thrill from rock climbing, you know, in the mountains. That's fairly normal. They usually use safety lines and such. This guy is not one of those people. Instead of climbing mountains or cliffs, he decided to get into climbing buildings… without any safety gear. He just puts on a helmet cam and begins climbing really tall ...
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23 January 2012 at 10 : 09 AM
See 10 Popular Misconceptions Debunked
Most of us fall for at least one or two misconceptions, and some of us less fortunate (or less blessed in the IQ and knowledge departments) fall for all kinds of them. Here are 10 popular misconceptions held by millions of people, debunked one at a time in a really funny manner. Now, the next time one of your less fortunate friends or relatives ...
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20 January 2012 at 10 : 00 AM
Here’s Why Everyone Protested Yesterday
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. First off, PROTECT IP, SOPA, and PIPA are all basically variants of the same bill. They're all bad, and they all need to be stopped. The same way we stopped COICA last year, we need to stop these this year, and whatever awful laws the lobbyists cook up next year. It's absolutely ...
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19 January 2012 at 10 : 39 AM
SOPA Postponed, Internet Temporarily Saved
Yesterday, we saw an amazing thing. The entire U.S. internet united as one single force against a common foe - the U.S. government and its planned censorship laws. Websites all over blacked out their home pages in protest of two awful bills that would destroy freedom of speech, due process, and the integrity of the internet by censoring content on the ...
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17 January 2012 at 10 : 29 AM
Surfing the Apocalypse: A Video
What's the first thing you think of when you think of the Apocalypse? Aliens? Zombies? Plagues? Famines? I bet you didn't think of surfing. That's what these guys did. But they took it several steps further and actually went out on a gloomy day to go surfing - and make an Apocalypse movie! Props for creativity! They actually used digital compositing ...
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