June 2009
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Jun 13th
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Weekend Maintenance
bitly: We’ll be conducting maintenance on our database servers on Saturday, June 13th, 2009 at 4AM Eastern.  During this period of time all redirects will continue to function normally, however shortening will be temporarily unavailable.  The maintenance window should last less than one hour.  We apologize for any inconvenience. Frack!! So much for the illegal, after-hours URL-shortening party /...
Jun 12th
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Jun 12th
Jun 10th
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Jun 10th
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Jun 9th
Tiller and the Ticking Bomb Scenario →
retropolitics: A gun-toting religious fanatic, swept up after a brazen act of terrorism in a church calls reporters from prison claiming knowledge of a forthcoming campaign of mass murder. Forget the politics of abortion for a second, this is the quintessential “ticking time bomb scenario” that advocates of torture always use to justify going medieval on jihadis. The chief suspect in the murder...
Jun 9th
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WatchWatch
I love this video of Obama “sneaking” out of the White House to pick up burgers for himself and his team.
Jun 4th
Search Evolution
thegongshow: In light of Google Squared launching today and all the buzz over M$FT’s Bing, I was delighted by @marcoarment’s tweet today where he said: “Want to see where real innovation needs to be made in web search? Pick a product you need to buy. Search Google for ‘[product name] review’.” Product reviews are totally broken on Google. I’d love to compile a list of other broken searches on...
Jun 4th
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Jun 4th
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