Buzz Andersen on the difference between Tweeteorites and other Twitter favorite aggregators:
As I’ve used it, I’ve found I like Tweeteorites better than
the Favrd leaderboard for the same reason I like Foursquare but
not Yelp; or the reason I like the Last.fm page that shows what my
friends are listening to, but [...]
I did not know this: You can set up a single account in Apple Mail with multiple “alias” email addresses.
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Check out the second YouTube comment on the winning video in the “make a commercial for Psystar” contest — the guy who made the video now “despises” Psystar. (Via Cabel Sasser.)
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Six-minute version of the fictional Nazi propaganda film from Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, directed by Eli Roth.
Which movie (i.e. Inglourious Basterds), I’ll add, I finally got around to seeing this week. Watched it twice already. So good. Seemed to get decent reviews when it was released, but I found it remarkably entertaining. Mark me down as [...]
Edovia and Sebastiaan de With offer you Warships, a new twist to the classic battleships game. Stunning graphics, easy gameplay, no superficial mumbo jumbo. Play against three levels of AI or against your friends directly between two iPhones or iPod touches. Available on the App Store for a limited time for only 99¢.
Nate Silver:
You could board 20 flights per year and still be less likely to be the subject of an attempted terrorist attack than to be struck by lightning.
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Nice scoop by MacRumors: Apple registered for the islate.com domain name and filed for a trademark on iSlate, through a shell corporation named Slate Computing.
I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions that this is the name of any actual upcoming product, though. I assume that Apple has secured the rights to dozens of various iWhatever names. [...]
Julio Ojeda-Zapata (twincities.com) reports that the iPod touch “has taken classrooms by storm” in several Minnesota K-12 schools, increasing student enthusiasm and engagement and offering new ways to teach children with special needs.
