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The Ars and Giz WWDC Party Was a Good Time

5:44AM Brian Lam | Things went well last night at the Giz and Ars WWDC party. So well, I woke up a little late this morning. If you came, thank you for making it an event full of wonderful, beautiful people. Yes, you too, mysterious ponytail man wearing an Apple shirt! All 7 of you. I met lots of great devs, but there were some people I saw who I didn’t get a chance to say hello to like Leah Culver of Pownce, iJustine and Jordan Golson and Megan McCarthy, of ValleyWag fame. Here are some photos, courtesy of commenter BossKev and his amazing Nikon D3 DSLR. (WANT.) Jacqui and Clint from Ars have some photos up on their page, but If you’ve got extra photos, let me know and I’ll put em in the gallery. Nutbastard: thanks for covering my bar tip and making the drive to hang out. [Ars and more from Flickr user Cirne] More »
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Have a Drink on Giz and Ars Technica at WWDC 2008

6:59AM Brian Lam | Hey there. We’re throwing a WWDC party with our BFFs at Ars Technica next Tuesday night. So if you’re going to be at WWDC as a reader, developer, journalist or just another fanboy, I’d like to invite you to come have a beer on us. Hope you can make it. AU: If any of you guys are lucky enough to be in San Fran next week – it’s free beer! More »
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Conde Nast Buys Ars Technica

1:38PM Brian Lam | Conde Nast and Wired bought Ars Technica for a rumoured US$25 million. More details are coming on Monday but I’m happy to see friends at both Wired and Ars get together in this deal. [Techcrunch, Thanks Arn] More »
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Let Giz and Ars Technica Buy You a Beer at Macworld 2008

8:40AM Brian Lam | CES is in full swing. But if today’s new Mac Pro and Xserve announcements are the news Apple can spare from the keynote, Macworld is going to be huge. To celebrate, I’d like to buy you a beer if you’re going to the show. Just come on over to this party Giz and Ars are co sponsoring. More »
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New iMac Benchmarked, Adequate Improvements

10:00AM Ben Longo | While we poked and prodded our new iMac trying to answer all of you’re questions, Ars Technicha went their traditional route and benchmarked the hell out of the poor iMac. How did it do? Gains all around, especially when compared to the aging Core Duo iMac. Informal tests, like seeing how long it takes to rip a DVD to Mpeg-4 using Handbrake, clocked in 20 minutes and 16 seconds (20-inch 2.4ghz 1Gb Memory). It even consistently beat out the 2.4ghz MacBook Pro on most tests, however this was most likely due to the MBP’s slower 5400rpm hard drive. [Ars Technica] More »