internet
Design
USB Sofa Allows People To Share Files While Resting Their Butts
4:55AM Jesus Diaz | I like these USB sofas with 14GB of storage. They are designed to be used in public spaces, to let people share all videos, photos, music and any files. You know, like an internet you can sit your butt on. More »
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Wikipedia’s Brain Drain
3:40AM Matt Buchanan | The decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors – its braintrust – fleeing in droves, even as traffic at the world’s fifth most-popular website keeps growing. More »
Random Stuff
The Internet Weighs About 1,098,868,920,000 Pounds
1:40AM Mark Wilson | How did Crave UK ever come up with that number? Multiplication and addition, of course. More »
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5:00PM Rosa Golijan | Wired writer Evan Ratliff spent 27 days in constant fear of getting caught as a small army of amateur and professional investigators hunted him. He had a bounty on his head and the internet nipping at his heels. More »
How Do You Hide From The Internet?
5:00PM Rosa Golijan | Wired writer Evan Ratliff spent 27 days in constant fear of getting caught as a small army of amateur and professional investigators hunted him. He had a bounty on his head and the internet nipping at his heels. More »
QOTD
Do You “Get” The Chrome OS?
10:20AM Sean Fallon | Today we got our first glimpse at Google’s Chrome OS and learned what it’s all about. So let’s start a discussion about some of the big issues. More »
Random Stuff
“Unfriend” Declared Word Of The Year
3:36AM Brian Lam | The New Oxford American Dictionary declared “Unfriend” the word of the year. It beat out hashtag, netbook and sexting, among other nominated words. More »
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Wire Your House With Ethernet Cable For Better Home Networking
9:00AM Rosa Golijan | I’ve finally started watching TV on my computer, but my big annoyance since then is that my — ahem — mostly legally downloaded episodes take ages to transfer wirelessly from laptop to media centre PC. Thankfully Lifehacker’s got a DIY wiring solution for my troubles. More »
Networks
Leaked: ISPs Worldwide To Become Copyright Cops?
11:20PM Danny Allen | New negotiations for an international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) kick off today, and this round focuses on a secretive internet piracy plan drafted by the US government. No text has been released, but secret copyright treaty details have surfaced. It’s not looking good. More »
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Atheros Wireless N For Phones Uses Less Power Than Slowass G
2:36AM Matt Buchanan | Wireless N in mobile phones — it’s happening next year: Atheros’s AR6003 802.11n/Bluetooth chip for mobile phones is tiny, has serious range and uses less power than their current wireless G chip, which is in the Zune HD. It’ll hit phones around the second half of next year. Such a long wait. [PC Mag]
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