Monthly Archives: April 2011
Samsung Gets Stupid With WiFi-Only Galaxy Tab
From an owner Comment at the Circuit City site listing for the WiFi-only Samsung Galaxy Tab: Samsung in their infinite wisdom, decided that we don’t need to pair a bluetooth keyboard or mouse with the device and disabled it. Bluetooth … Continue reading
Filed under Android, Other Hardware, Stupid
Samsung Galaxy Tab Jacked To Prepaid Boost Mobile
I was doing some research about the Samsung Galaxy Tab today and found out there’s a thriving business hacking it to work with Boost Mobile’s prepaid data plan. If the prices are to be believed, the monthly data plan is … Continue reading
Fort Breendonk
Fort Breendonk In the camp punishment consisted of beatings, torture in a specially designed chamber, hanging or execution by firing squad, either in the camp or nearby. The camp commander Lagerkommandant Phillip Schmitt was known to set his German Shepherd … Continue reading
Read A Lost du Maurier Story For Free!
The Doll Lost for more than 70 years, this dark story of a man’s obsessive passion for Rebecca, a mysterious violinist, hasn’t been published since it appeared in a small collection in 1937 This is probably the only time you … Continue reading
Filed under Writer
Anonymous At It Again
UPDATED: Anonymous Hits Chamber! As we speak I’m sitting on a mile high pile of data released about the US Chamber of Commerce. Thousands and thousands of docs released a few hours ago. Wanna help read through the docs and … Continue reading
Filed under Infowar
Two Of Thirty-Eight
38 Lessons I’ve Learned in My 38 Years 2. Possessions are worse than worthless — they’re harmful. They add no value to your life, and cost you everything. Not just the money required to buy them, but the time and … Continue reading
Filed under Reference
Those Who Change Things
The Complete Guide to Not Giving a F**k FACT NUMBER 4. Those who don’t give a fuck change the world. The rest do not. Yes.
Filed under Reference
Google’s Grunt Workers: ScanOps
Workers Leaving the Googleplex However, a fourth class exists at Google that involves strictly data-entry labor, or more appropriately, the labor of digitizing. These workers are identifiable by their yellow badges, and they go by the team name ScanOps. They … Continue reading
Filed under Google
The Inadequacy Of The Book
The “book” is dead IMHO you are not losing money to piracy, you are failing to make money due to the inadequacy of the book as a medium for technical data. I’ve been wondering for several years when the big … Continue reading
Filed under Books: General, Books: Internet, Digital Overthrow, eBooks: General
Gas Jumps Ten Cents
Photo taken today, Saturday April 30, 2011: Note that’s the Cash Only price. If you do the Rob Me Now And I’ll Pay You Later via plastic, that $4.39 is $4.45 at the pump! Previously here: Gas Jumps Four Cents … Continue reading
Filed under Collapse, Pottersville
