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Android Market has no “Update All” button. It takes four taps to update one app. So if you have seven updates, 28 taps to install them all.
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First thing I do with a new calculator app: attempt divide by zero.
2nd: Ask myself why I have a list of things to do with new calculators.
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Easy tip to make the whole web look better on your Mac: Turn off Arial in Font Book.
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Carlos Slim now #1 on list of richest people in the world. He's been #1 on list of coolest names in the world ever since Steve McQueen died.
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How big a cliché is it to name your SSD boot drive “Executor”?
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Liquid Plumr is some seriously scary-ass shit.
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My apologies to everyone similarly afflicted by a shadowless arrow cursor but who'd never noticed it before.
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Does anyone else have this thing where after they wake their Mac up, the arrow cursor no longer has a shadow? Like it’s OS 9 again.
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““Peeling a carrot.””
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I'm not being sarcastic. I greatly enjoyed "The Hurt Locker" and have long been a Bigelow fan, and I teared up when she won.
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So proud that a woman has finally won Best Director and Best Picture, and that the movie she made featured huge explosions.
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Me: John Lasseter looks happy.
Her: John Lasseter is looking for a sandwich.
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The question was: Is that the fattest person ever at the Academy Awards?
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Melanie Griffith has been replaced by a robot.
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Protip: If you lose one of those tiny screws while re-assembling your MacBook, drop another from same spot. Now you've lost a nice even two.
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"Alice in Wonderland": like a two-hour trailer for a movie, rather than a movie itself.
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Philip Stone — Delbert Grady in The Shining and Alex's father in A Clockwork Orange — is SPECTRE #5 in Thunderball.
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Found a store that sells bound printouts of e-books. Is this legal?
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How sure are we that *all* the laughter on The Tonight Show isn't from a laugh track? Would explain a lot.
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Twitter: The Criterion Collection: http://vimeo.com/9917412
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Implementing and understanding linked lists is a basic first-year computer science problem.
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Ming-Jen Wang got a patent for the concept of a linked list in April 2006: http://bit.ly/aCp7R0
(Via @hackernewsbot )
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I'm not arguing that Bill Clinton should go on the $50. He's not dead. But neither is Reagan: http://onion.com/7HmLkp
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Lazyweb: thanks all, got what I needed.
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Lazyweb: Looking for a photo of the slide from Jobs's Jan 2007 iPhone debut keynote showing what then-existing smartphones all looked like.
