- The Modern Day Matchmaker: Ep #9 “The Mind Of A Single ... In this Episode, the fellas discuss what men FIRST look at when they see a woman.
- Will Roethlisberger get the Michael Vick treatment? Article from The Grio – For the second time in less than a year, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has…
- Lupe Fiasco & Kenna “Resurrection” Official visuals for the Lupe Fiasco & Kenna Download To Donate "Ressurection" track produced by Mike Shinoda.
- The Denzel Principle — Are Brothers and Sisters at War? Article from BlackVoices.com — At a house party one time, I saw a honey-colored, really cute sista. In between swigs of…
- Daily News Feed 3.10.2010/Vocab: phantasmagoria Because We Matter: Why Ebony is Still Needed, Black Barbie sold for less than White Barbie at Walmart, FBI shuts down civil rights era investigations + More...
- Republican Tom Delay Believes Americans Want to be Unempl... If I were President Barack Obama, I would be break dancing in the Oval Office. Former Republican House Majority Leader…
- Daily News Feed 3.9.2010/Vocab: sachet Blacks motivated to vote in November, When do Black women get positive roles?, African American unemployment rate shrinks to 15.8% + More...
- Spring Cleanse – A Safe Way to Jumpstart Your Lifestyle... Remember about three months ago when you made those New Year Resolutions? Did you stick to them? Did you become…
- Teairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) “Sponsor” The latest video fromTeairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) "Sponsor".
- ASOS Presents ‘ASOS Africa’ Collection
Popular e-tailer ASOS.com has launched a new brand, ASOS Africa which falls under their new initiative, The Green Room – a new online marketplace…
- The Modern Day Matchmaker: Ep #9 “The Mind Of A Single ... In this Episode, the fellas discuss what men FIRST look at when they see a woman.
- Will Roethlisberger get the Michael Vick treatment? Article from The Grio – For the second time in less than a year, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has…
- Lupe Fiasco & Kenna “Resurrection” Official visuals for the Lupe Fiasco & Kenna Download To Donate "Ressurection" track produced by Mike Shinoda.
- The Denzel Principle — Are Brothers and Sisters at War? Article from BlackVoices.com — At a house party one time, I saw a honey-colored, really cute sista. In between swigs of…
- Daily News Feed 3.10.2010/Vocab: phantasmagoria Because We Matter: Why Ebony is Still Needed, Black Barbie sold for less than White Barbie at Walmart, FBI shuts down civil rights era investigations + More...
- Republican Tom Delay Believes Americans Want to be Unempl... If I were President Barack Obama, I would be break dancing in the Oval Office. Former Republican House Majority Leader…
- Daily News Feed 3.9.2010/Vocab: sachet Blacks motivated to vote in November, When do Black women get positive roles?, African American unemployment rate shrinks to 15.8% + More...
- Spring Cleanse – A Safe Way to Jumpstart Your Lifestyle... Remember about three months ago when you made those New Year Resolutions? Did you stick to them? Did you become…
- Teairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) “Sponsor” The latest video fromTeairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) "Sponsor".
- ASOS Presents ‘ASOS Africa’ Collection
Popular e-tailer ASOS.com has launched a new brand, ASOS Africa which falls under their new initiative, The Green Room – a new online marketplace…
- The Modern Day Matchmaker: Ep #9 “The Mind Of A Single ... In this Episode, the fellas discuss what men FIRST look at when they see a woman.
- Will Roethlisberger get the Michael Vick treatment? Article from The Grio – For the second time in less than a year, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has…
- Lupe Fiasco & Kenna “Resurrection” Official visuals for the Lupe Fiasco & Kenna Download To Donate "Ressurection" track produced by Mike Shinoda.
- The Denzel Principle — Are Brothers and Sisters at War? Article from BlackVoices.com — At a house party one time, I saw a honey-colored, really cute sista. In between swigs of…
- Daily News Feed 3.10.2010/Vocab: phantasmagoria Because We Matter: Why Ebony is Still Needed, Black Barbie sold for less than White Barbie at Walmart, FBI shuts down civil rights era investigations + More...
- Republican Tom Delay Believes Americans Want to be Unempl... If I were President Barack Obama, I would be break dancing in the Oval Office. Former Republican House Majority Leader…
- Daily News Feed 3.9.2010/Vocab: sachet Blacks motivated to vote in November, When do Black women get positive roles?, African American unemployment rate shrinks to 15.8% + More...
- Spring Cleanse – A Safe Way to Jumpstart Your Lifestyle... Remember about three months ago when you made those New Year Resolutions? Did you stick to them? Did you become…
- Teairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) “Sponsor” The latest video fromTeairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) "Sponsor".
- ASOS Presents ‘ASOS Africa’ Collection
Popular e-tailer ASOS.com has launched a new brand, ASOS Africa which falls under their new initiative, The Green Room – a new online marketplace…
- Do You Sleep Beside Your Baby? Is It Safe? Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a>
- The Guilt Factor After the birth of my first child, I began to experience guilt more than I ever had: when I didn’t pick her up right away because I was in the middle of doing something, when I popped in a DVD for her so I could finish making dinner, or when I let her cry [...]
- Disney Unveils New “The Princess And The Frog” Toy Line
On Monday Disney unveiled the highly anticipated “The Princess And The Frog” toy line. If you’ll remember there were a few hiccups early on in the movies production but Disney has attempted to iron out any wrinkles and has pressed on.
Tony Award-winning actress/singer Anika Noni Rose, the voice of Princess Tiana, unveiled the line [...]
- Encouraging Your Little Star To Shine Yesterday I was having a conversation with an actor that had a reoccruing role on a HBO drama. He explained how he’s been in the business since he was 8 years old. He started out as a hip-hop dancer, won the Apollo 5 times and has been pushing to make his dream come true ever [...]
- Gratitude I didn’t make any resolutions this year, but I have reinstituted a gratitude journal, in an effort to remind myself how blessed I am. At the end of the day, I take a few minutes to write down five things for which I am grateful. Most days the list is very simple: [...]
- The Real Stories Behind The Muppets
Ever wonder how the Muppet characters came to be in the first place? Well check out this article over on cnn.com that gives you the lowdown on some of your favorite characters. Here are a few examples:
Cookie Monster: Jim Henson drew some monsters eating various snacks for a General Foods commercial in 1966. The commercial [...]
- CNN: Is My Peanut Butter Safe?
With all of the concern and media attention given to the Salmonella outbreak that occured recently your kids may not have had a good, down home PB&J in weeks. Well CNN is here to help with a recent article they did on, “Is my peanut butter safe”? Here’s some of the info they provide below:
1. [...]
- What are the Top Toys to Say I Love You With?
Each Valentine’s Day parents try to think of a little something extra to show their kids just how much they mean to them. Toy Wishes Magazine has a list of top 10 “red” toys that are the perfect solution to make sure you get the “I love you” message across to your [...]
- Yes, My Child is a Genius Admit it, at one time or another, when your children were very young and they were learning words and repeating things you were saying, you thought he or she was brilliant. I fall into the same category of parents who thinks his child is a bona fide baby genius, based on the “big” words [...]
- Fascinated With The Fitted
For someone like me (Lamar) who can hardly seem to “stay in the moment” as they say because my mind is always racing ahead anywhere from 2 days to 2 years at any given time there is always one simple thing that stops me in my tracks. The fascination that any of my three girls [...]
- The Modern Day Matchmaker: Ep #9 “The Mind Of A Single ... In this Episode, the fellas discuss what men FIRST look at when they see a woman.
- Will Roethlisberger get the Michael Vick treatment? Article from The Grio – For the second time in less than a year, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has…
- Lupe Fiasco & Kenna “Resurrection” Official visuals for the Lupe Fiasco & Kenna Download To Donate "Ressurection" track produced by Mike Shinoda.
- The Denzel Principle — Are Brothers and Sisters at War? Article from BlackVoices.com — At a house party one time, I saw a honey-colored, really cute sista. In between swigs of…
- Daily News Feed 3.10.2010/Vocab: phantasmagoria Because We Matter: Why Ebony is Still Needed, Black Barbie sold for less than White Barbie at Walmart, FBI shuts down civil rights era investigations + More...
- Republican Tom Delay Believes Americans Want to be Unempl... If I were President Barack Obama, I would be break dancing in the Oval Office. Former Republican House Majority Leader…
- Daily News Feed 3.9.2010/Vocab: sachet Blacks motivated to vote in November, When do Black women get positive roles?, African American unemployment rate shrinks to 15.8% + More...
- Spring Cleanse – A Safe Way to Jumpstart Your Lifestyle... Remember about three months ago when you made those New Year Resolutions? Did you stick to them? Did you become…
- Teairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) “Sponsor” The latest video fromTeairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) "Sponsor".
- ASOS Presents ‘ASOS Africa’ Collection
Popular e-tailer ASOS.com has launched a new brand, ASOS Africa which falls under their new initiative, The Green Room – a new online marketplace…
- And now for something completely different (Official Goog...
Official Google Reader Blog:
And now for something completely different — Since I've been working on Google Reader, I've told a lot of my friends about how great it is. And while some of them try Reader and find it really useful, many of them aren't interested in taking the time to get Reader set up.
- New Gestures coming to an iPhone/iPad near you: triple ta...
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
New Gestures coming to an iPhone/iPad near you: triple tap and long press — On the surface, the latest iPhone 3.2 Beta 4 SDK didn't have much new information. Diving a little deeper however, we find some very exciting news. — In the gestures folder, you'll see two new types of commands …
- Google Reader Play: Fullscreen Playback of Popular/Recomm...
Lifehacker:
Google Reader Play: Fullscreen Playback of Popular/Recommended Reader Items — Google Reader Play is a new Reader feature that plays a slideshow of cool items from around the web based on the stories you star. It's like a 10-foot viewing experience for your newsreader.
- Apple iPhone targeted in patent lawsuit over sync, Blueto... Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple iPhone targeted in patent lawsuit over sync, Bluetooth — Apple — along with AT&T, Research in Motion and a number of other mobile companies — is the defendant in a new patent suit that covers a broad range of smartphone related technologies, including e-mail syncing and Bluetooth connectivity.
- YouTube calling: Now serving ads on the YouTube mobile si...
Aaron / YouTube Biz Blog:
YouTube calling: Now serving ads on the YouTube mobile site — Mobile phones are rapidly becoming essential tools for surfing the web, connecting with friends, and sharing and watching video online, and we're seeing these effects at YouTube. The YouTube mobile site is more popular than ever …
- comScore Reports January 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Mark... comScore, Inc.:
comScore Reports January 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share — Use of Social Media via Mobile Sees Considerable Gains in Past Three Months — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service …
- Amazon.com's 1-Click patent confirmed following re-exam (...
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon.com's 1-Click patent confirmed following re-exam — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is confirming Amazon.com's controversial 1-Click patent following a re-examination that lasted more than four years. — Amazon's 1-Click has come under a lot of fire over the years from critics …
- Get Satisfaction Turns To Facebook To Socialize Customer ...
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Get Satisfaction Turns To Facebook To Socialize Customer Support — Two years ago customer support startup Get Satisfaction turned its ear to Twitter to help its clients monitor Twitter for mentions of brands. Get Satisfaction makes a network of customer support forums where customers …
- Does HTML5 Really Beat Flash? The Surprising Results of N...
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Does HTML5 Really Beat Flash? The Surprising Results of New Tests — With the impending launch of the Apple iPad, the Cupertino-based company's shunning of Adobe Flash technology has been brought to the forefront of technological discussions. While it was one thing to forgo Flash on a small …
- HP Slate vs. iPad: Focus on Flash (Tony Bradley/PC World)
Tony Bradley / PC World:
HP Slate vs. iPad: Focus on Flash — With the iPad presale beginning in just a few days, and the clock ticking down to the much-anticipated Apple tablet finally hitting the streets, HP launched a renewed campaign for its Slate tablet PC debuted at the 2010 CES by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
- Digitizing and Geocoding Old Maps? alobar72 writes "I have quite a few old maps (several hundreds; 100+ years old, some are already damaged – so time is not on my side). What I want to do is to digitize them and to apply geo-coordinates to them so I can use them as overlays for openstreetmap data or such. Obviously I cannot put those maps onto my €80 scanner and go. Some of them are really large (1.5m x 1.5m roughly, I believe) and they need to be treated with great care because the paper is partly damaged. So firstly I need a method or service provider that can do the digitizing without damaging them. Secondly I need a hint what the best method is to apply geo coordinates to those maps then. The maps are old and landscape and places have changed, it maybe difficult to identify exact spots. So: are there any experiences or tips I could use?"
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- Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ...... ral writes "The human tongue can taste more than sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein. Researchers have added fat to that list. Dr. Russell Keast, an exercise and nutrition sciences professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, told Slashfood, 'This makes logical sense. We have sweet to identify carbohydrate/sugars, and umami to identify protein/amino acids, so we could expect a taste to identify the other macronutrient: fat.' In the Deakin study, which appears in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Dr. Keast and his team gave a group of 33 people fatty acids found in common foods, mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture. All 33 could detect the fatty acids to at least a small degree."
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- The Lost Film That Accompanied Empire Strikes Back An anonymous reader writes "'Alien' and 'Star Wars' art director Roger Christian was given £25,000 by George Lucas in 1979 to make a 25-minute medieval B-feature called 'Black Angel.' This spiritual tale of a knight on a strange quest was inspired by Christian's near-fatal fever when he fell ill in Mexico making 'Lucky Lady.' 'Black Angel' made a huge impression, not least because it shared the dark tone of 'Empire Strikes Back.' John Boorman showed it to the crew of 'Excalibur' as a template for how he wanted his film to look, and 'Black Angel' went on to influence films such as 'Dragonslayer' and 'Legend' throughout the 1980s and beyond. But it has not been seen by anyone since 'Empire' finished its theatrical run. Two weeks ago Roger Christian unearthed a print of a film that was thought lost forever, and in this interview he talks about 'Black Angel,' and provides the only picture from the film that has ever hit the Internet."
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- OpenSSH 5.4 Released HipToday writes "As posted on the OpenBSD Journal, OpenSSH 5.4 has been released: 'Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new "netcat mode," many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. The new release can already be found on a large number of mirrors and of course on www.openssh.com.'"
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- Amazon 1-Click Patent Survives Almost Unscathed Zordak writes "Amazon's infamous '1-click' patent has been in reexamination at the USPTO for almost four years. Patently-O now reports that 'the USPTO confirmed the patentability of original claims 6-10 and amended claims 1-5 and 11-26. The approved-of amendment adds the seeming trivial limitation that the one-click system operates as part of a 'shopping cart model.' Thus, to infringe the new version of the patent, an eCommerce retailer must use a shopping cart model (presumably non-1-click) alongside of the 1-click version. Because most retail eCommerce sites still use the shopping cart model, the added limitation appears to have no practical impact on the patent scope.'" Also covered at TechFlash.
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- 6 Smartphone Keyboards Compared Barence writes "A debate that crops up time and again is whether it's better to have a dedicated keyboard on your smartphone or whether an on-screen keyboard with text correction is adequate. Some phones with screen-based keyboards have started to provide tactile feedback, either using an ultra-quick spin of their vibration alert or, like the BlackBerry Storm2, using clever piezo-electric technology to simulate the feel of a button press. But which system works best? PC Pro's Paul Ockendon gathered six of the most popular handsets around and put them through a timed typing test to see which proved quickest and most typo-free."
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- Man Threatened Spam Attack In $200,000 Extortion Plot 52-year-old Anthony Digati was arrested for trying to extort $200,000 from an insurance firm by threatening to spam them with six million emails unless they paid up. Digati said he would use a spam service and his amazing talents as a "huge social networker" to drag the company "through the muddiest waters imaginable" and presumably unfriend everyone. He added that the price would increase to $3 million if they failed to pay up by Monday, according to federal authorities.
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- Code Bubbles — Rethinking the IDE's User Interface kang327 writes "As Java developers we are used to the familiar file-based user interface that is used by all of the major IDEs. A team at Brown University has developed an IDE for Java called Code Bubbles that makes a fairly radical departure from current IDEs — it is based on fragments instead of files. The idea is that you can see many different pieces of code at once. Fragments can form groups, have automatic layout assistance, wrap long lines based on syntax, and exist in a virtual workspace that you can pan. A video shows reading and editing code, opening different kinds of info such as Javadocs, bug reports and notes, annotating and sharing workspaces, and debugging with bubbles. They report on several user studies that show the system increases performance for the tasks studied, and also that professional developers were enthusiastic about using it. There is also a Beta that you can sign up for."
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- Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 SkinnyGuy writes "The only thing more remarkable than NewEgg shipping fake Core i7 CPUs to customers is getting your hands on one and checking it out. Apparently there are only a couple hundred of these things in existence and Gearlog somehow managed to get and unbox one. The images are fascinating."
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- Next-Gen Augmented Reality Rears Its Unreal Head andylim writes "Separate teams at Oxford university and Zentium, a South Korean company, are working on next-gen augmented reality solutions, which make it possible to fuse real and 3D computer-generated visuals on the fly using mobile phones. The team at Oxford university has named its solution Parallel Tracking and Mapping (PTAM) and it has licensed its technology to QderoPateo LLC, which has ambitious plans to grow the mobile augmented reality market and create an augmented reality search and gaming engine running for its 'Ouidoo' smart phone. Zentium's solution is called D-Track and is being used to develop the first markerless mobile augmented reality pet, called iKat. D-Track's mapping technology is very similar to PTAM and allows your phone to recognise the space in front of the camera and create an appropriate space for an augmented reality object or pet."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- The Modern Day Matchmaker: Ep #9 “The Mind Of A Single ... In this Episode, the fellas discuss what men FIRST look at when they see a woman.
- Will Roethlisberger get the Michael Vick treatment? Article from The Grio – For the second time in less than a year, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has…
- Lupe Fiasco & Kenna “Resurrection” Official visuals for the Lupe Fiasco & Kenna Download To Donate "Ressurection" track produced by Mike Shinoda.
- The Denzel Principle — Are Brothers and Sisters at War? Article from BlackVoices.com — At a house party one time, I saw a honey-colored, really cute sista. In between swigs of…
- Daily News Feed 3.10.2010/Vocab: phantasmagoria Because We Matter: Why Ebony is Still Needed, Black Barbie sold for less than White Barbie at Walmart, FBI shuts down civil rights era investigations + More...
- Republican Tom Delay Believes Americans Want to be Unempl... If I were President Barack Obama, I would be break dancing in the Oval Office. Former Republican House Majority Leader…
- Daily News Feed 3.9.2010/Vocab: sachet Blacks motivated to vote in November, When do Black women get positive roles?, African American unemployment rate shrinks to 15.8% + More...
- Spring Cleanse – A Safe Way to Jumpstart Your Lifestyle... Remember about three months ago when you made those New Year Resolutions? Did you stick to them? Did you become…
- Teairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) “Sponsor” The latest video fromTeairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) "Sponsor".
- ASOS Presents ‘ASOS Africa’ Collection
Popular e-tailer ASOS.com has launched a new brand, ASOS Africa which falls under their new initiative, The Green Room – a new online marketplace…
- The Modern Day Matchmaker: Ep #9 “The Mind Of A Single ... In this Episode, the fellas discuss what men FIRST look at when they see a woman.
- Will Roethlisberger get the Michael Vick treatment? Article from The Grio – For the second time in less than a year, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has…
- Lupe Fiasco & Kenna “Resurrection” Official visuals for the Lupe Fiasco & Kenna Download To Donate "Ressurection" track produced by Mike Shinoda.
- The Denzel Principle — Are Brothers and Sisters at War? Article from BlackVoices.com — At a house party one time, I saw a honey-colored, really cute sista. In between swigs of…
- Daily News Feed 3.10.2010/Vocab: phantasmagoria Because We Matter: Why Ebony is Still Needed, Black Barbie sold for less than White Barbie at Walmart, FBI shuts down civil rights era investigations + More...
- Republican Tom Delay Believes Americans Want to be Unempl... If I were President Barack Obama, I would be break dancing in the Oval Office. Former Republican House Majority Leader…
- Daily News Feed 3.9.2010/Vocab: sachet Blacks motivated to vote in November, When do Black women get positive roles?, African American unemployment rate shrinks to 15.8% + More...
- Spring Cleanse – A Safe Way to Jumpstart Your Lifestyle... Remember about three months ago when you made those New Year Resolutions? Did you stick to them? Did you become…
- Teairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) “Sponsor” The latest video fromTeairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) "Sponsor".
- ASOS Presents ‘ASOS Africa’ Collection
Popular e-tailer ASOS.com has launched a new brand, ASOS Africa which falls under their new initiative, The Green Room – a new online marketplace…
- The Modern Day Matchmaker: Ep #9 “The Mind Of A Single ... In this Episode, the fellas discuss what men FIRST look at when they see a woman.
- Will Roethlisberger get the Michael Vick treatment? Article from The Grio – For the second time in less than a year, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has…
- Lupe Fiasco & Kenna “Resurrection” Official visuals for the Lupe Fiasco & Kenna Download To Donate "Ressurection" track produced by Mike Shinoda.
- The Denzel Principle — Are Brothers and Sisters at War? Article from BlackVoices.com — At a house party one time, I saw a honey-colored, really cute sista. In between swigs of…
- Daily News Feed 3.10.2010/Vocab: phantasmagoria Because We Matter: Why Ebony is Still Needed, Black Barbie sold for less than White Barbie at Walmart, FBI shuts down civil rights era investigations + More...
- Republican Tom Delay Believes Americans Want to be Unempl... If I were President Barack Obama, I would be break dancing in the Oval Office. Former Republican House Majority Leader…
- Daily News Feed 3.9.2010/Vocab: sachet Blacks motivated to vote in November, When do Black women get positive roles?, African American unemployment rate shrinks to 15.8% + More...
- Spring Cleanse – A Safe Way to Jumpstart Your Lifestyle... Remember about three months ago when you made those New Year Resolutions? Did you stick to them? Did you become…
- Teairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) “Sponsor” The latest video fromTeairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) "Sponsor".
- ASOS Presents ‘ASOS Africa’ Collection
Popular e-tailer ASOS.com has launched a new brand, ASOS Africa which falls under their new initiative, The Green Room – a new online marketplace…
- Do You Sleep Beside Your Baby? Is It Safe? Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a>
- The Guilt Factor After the birth of my first child, I began to experience guilt more than I ever had: when I didn’t pick her up right away because I was in the middle of doing something, when I popped in a DVD for her so I could finish making dinner, or when I let her cry [...]
- Disney Unveils New “The Princess And The Frog” Toy Line
On Monday Disney unveiled the highly anticipated “The Princess And The Frog” toy line. If you’ll remember there were a few hiccups early on in the movies production but Disney has attempted to iron out any wrinkles and has pressed on.
Tony Award-winning actress/singer Anika Noni Rose, the voice of Princess Tiana, unveiled the line [...]
- Encouraging Your Little Star To Shine Yesterday I was having a conversation with an actor that had a reoccruing role on a HBO drama. He explained how he’s been in the business since he was 8 years old. He started out as a hip-hop dancer, won the Apollo 5 times and has been pushing to make his dream come true ever [...]
- Gratitude I didn’t make any resolutions this year, but I have reinstituted a gratitude journal, in an effort to remind myself how blessed I am. At the end of the day, I take a few minutes to write down five things for which I am grateful. Most days the list is very simple: [...]
- The Real Stories Behind The Muppets
Ever wonder how the Muppet characters came to be in the first place? Well check out this article over on cnn.com that gives you the lowdown on some of your favorite characters. Here are a few examples:
Cookie Monster: Jim Henson drew some monsters eating various snacks for a General Foods commercial in 1966. The commercial [...]
- CNN: Is My Peanut Butter Safe?
With all of the concern and media attention given to the Salmonella outbreak that occured recently your kids may not have had a good, down home PB&J in weeks. Well CNN is here to help with a recent article they did on, “Is my peanut butter safe”? Here’s some of the info they provide below:
1. [...]
- What are the Top Toys to Say I Love You With?
Each Valentine’s Day parents try to think of a little something extra to show their kids just how much they mean to them. Toy Wishes Magazine has a list of top 10 “red” toys that are the perfect solution to make sure you get the “I love you” message across to your [...]
- Yes, My Child is a Genius Admit it, at one time or another, when your children were very young and they were learning words and repeating things you were saying, you thought he or she was brilliant. I fall into the same category of parents who thinks his child is a bona fide baby genius, based on the “big” words [...]
- Fascinated With The Fitted
For someone like me (Lamar) who can hardly seem to “stay in the moment” as they say because my mind is always racing ahead anywhere from 2 days to 2 years at any given time there is always one simple thing that stops me in my tracks. The fascination that any of my three girls [...]
- The Modern Day Matchmaker: Ep #9 “The Mind Of A Single ... In this Episode, the fellas discuss what men FIRST look at when they see a woman.
- Will Roethlisberger get the Michael Vick treatment? Article from The Grio – For the second time in less than a year, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has…
- Lupe Fiasco & Kenna “Resurrection” Official visuals for the Lupe Fiasco & Kenna Download To Donate "Ressurection" track produced by Mike Shinoda.
- The Denzel Principle — Are Brothers and Sisters at War? Article from BlackVoices.com — At a house party one time, I saw a honey-colored, really cute sista. In between swigs of…
- Daily News Feed 3.10.2010/Vocab: phantasmagoria Because We Matter: Why Ebony is Still Needed, Black Barbie sold for less than White Barbie at Walmart, FBI shuts down civil rights era investigations + More...
- Republican Tom Delay Believes Americans Want to be Unempl... If I were President Barack Obama, I would be break dancing in the Oval Office. Former Republican House Majority Leader…
- Daily News Feed 3.9.2010/Vocab: sachet Blacks motivated to vote in November, When do Black women get positive roles?, African American unemployment rate shrinks to 15.8% + More...
- Spring Cleanse – A Safe Way to Jumpstart Your Lifestyle... Remember about three months ago when you made those New Year Resolutions? Did you stick to them? Did you become…
- Teairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) “Sponsor” The latest video fromTeairra Mari (Feat. Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) "Sponsor".
- ASOS Presents ‘ASOS Africa’ Collection
Popular e-tailer ASOS.com has launched a new brand, ASOS Africa which falls under their new initiative, The Green Room – a new online marketplace…
- And now for something completely different (Official Goog...
Official Google Reader Blog:
And now for something completely different — Since I've been working on Google Reader, I've told a lot of my friends about how great it is. And while some of them try Reader and find it really useful, many of them aren't interested in taking the time to get Reader set up.
- New Gestures coming to an iPhone/iPad near you: triple ta...
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
New Gestures coming to an iPhone/iPad near you: triple tap and long press — On the surface, the latest iPhone 3.2 Beta 4 SDK didn't have much new information. Diving a little deeper however, we find some very exciting news. — In the gestures folder, you'll see two new types of commands …
- Google Reader Play: Fullscreen Playback of Popular/Recomm...
Lifehacker:
Google Reader Play: Fullscreen Playback of Popular/Recommended Reader Items — Google Reader Play is a new Reader feature that plays a slideshow of cool items from around the web based on the stories you star. It's like a 10-foot viewing experience for your newsreader.
- Apple iPhone targeted in patent lawsuit over sync, Blueto... Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple iPhone targeted in patent lawsuit over sync, Bluetooth — Apple — along with AT&T, Research in Motion and a number of other mobile companies — is the defendant in a new patent suit that covers a broad range of smartphone related technologies, including e-mail syncing and Bluetooth connectivity.
- YouTube calling: Now serving ads on the YouTube mobile si...
Aaron / YouTube Biz Blog:
YouTube calling: Now serving ads on the YouTube mobile site — Mobile phones are rapidly becoming essential tools for surfing the web, connecting with friends, and sharing and watching video online, and we're seeing these effects at YouTube. The YouTube mobile site is more popular than ever …
- comScore Reports January 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Mark... comScore, Inc.:
comScore Reports January 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share — Use of Social Media via Mobile Sees Considerable Gains in Past Three Months — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service …
- Amazon.com's 1-Click patent confirmed following re-exam (...
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon.com's 1-Click patent confirmed following re-exam — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is confirming Amazon.com's controversial 1-Click patent following a re-examination that lasted more than four years. — Amazon's 1-Click has come under a lot of fire over the years from critics …
- Get Satisfaction Turns To Facebook To Socialize Customer ...
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Get Satisfaction Turns To Facebook To Socialize Customer Support — Two years ago customer support startup Get Satisfaction turned its ear to Twitter to help its clients monitor Twitter for mentions of brands. Get Satisfaction makes a network of customer support forums where customers …
- Does HTML5 Really Beat Flash? The Surprising Results of N...
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Does HTML5 Really Beat Flash? The Surprising Results of New Tests — With the impending launch of the Apple iPad, the Cupertino-based company's shunning of Adobe Flash technology has been brought to the forefront of technological discussions. While it was one thing to forgo Flash on a small …
- HP Slate vs. iPad: Focus on Flash (Tony Bradley/PC World)
Tony Bradley / PC World:
HP Slate vs. iPad: Focus on Flash — With the iPad presale beginning in just a few days, and the clock ticking down to the much-anticipated Apple tablet finally hitting the streets, HP launched a renewed campaign for its Slate tablet PC debuted at the 2010 CES by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
- Digitizing and Geocoding Old Maps? alobar72 writes "I have quite a few old maps (several hundreds; 100+ years old, some are already damaged – so time is not on my side). What I want to do is to digitize them and to apply geo-coordinates to them so I can use them as overlays for openstreetmap data or such. Obviously I cannot put those maps onto my €80 scanner and go. Some of them are really large (1.5m x 1.5m roughly, I believe) and they need to be treated with great care because the paper is partly damaged. So firstly I need a method or service provider that can do the digitizing without damaging them. Secondly I need a hint what the best method is to apply geo coordinates to those maps then. The maps are old and landscape and places have changed, it maybe difficult to identify exact spots. So: are there any experiences or tips I could use?"
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- Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ...... ral writes "The human tongue can taste more than sweet, sour, salty, bitter and protein. Researchers have added fat to that list. Dr. Russell Keast, an exercise and nutrition sciences professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, told Slashfood, 'This makes logical sense. We have sweet to identify carbohydrate/sugars, and umami to identify protein/amino acids, so we could expect a taste to identify the other macronutrient: fat.' In the Deakin study, which appears in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Dr. Keast and his team gave a group of 33 people fatty acids found in common foods, mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture. All 33 could detect the fatty acids to at least a small degree."
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- The Lost Film That Accompanied Empire Strikes Back An anonymous reader writes "'Alien' and 'Star Wars' art director Roger Christian was given £25,000 by George Lucas in 1979 to make a 25-minute medieval B-feature called 'Black Angel.' This spiritual tale of a knight on a strange quest was inspired by Christian's near-fatal fever when he fell ill in Mexico making 'Lucky Lady.' 'Black Angel' made a huge impression, not least because it shared the dark tone of 'Empire Strikes Back.' John Boorman showed it to the crew of 'Excalibur' as a template for how he wanted his film to look, and 'Black Angel' went on to influence films such as 'Dragonslayer' and 'Legend' throughout the 1980s and beyond. But it has not been seen by anyone since 'Empire' finished its theatrical run. Two weeks ago Roger Christian unearthed a print of a film that was thought lost forever, and in this interview he talks about 'Black Angel,' and provides the only picture from the film that has ever hit the Internet."
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- OpenSSH 5.4 Released HipToday writes "As posted on the OpenBSD Journal, OpenSSH 5.4 has been released: 'Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new "netcat mode," many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. The new release can already be found on a large number of mirrors and of course on www.openssh.com.'"
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- Amazon 1-Click Patent Survives Almost Unscathed Zordak writes "Amazon's infamous '1-click' patent has been in reexamination at the USPTO for almost four years. Patently-O now reports that 'the USPTO confirmed the patentability of original claims 6-10 and amended claims 1-5 and 11-26. The approved-of amendment adds the seeming trivial limitation that the one-click system operates as part of a 'shopping cart model.' Thus, to infringe the new version of the patent, an eCommerce retailer must use a shopping cart model (presumably non-1-click) alongside of the 1-click version. Because most retail eCommerce sites still use the shopping cart model, the added limitation appears to have no practical impact on the patent scope.'" Also covered at TechFlash.
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- 6 Smartphone Keyboards Compared Barence writes "A debate that crops up time and again is whether it's better to have a dedicated keyboard on your smartphone or whether an on-screen keyboard with text correction is adequate. Some phones with screen-based keyboards have started to provide tactile feedback, either using an ultra-quick spin of their vibration alert or, like the BlackBerry Storm2, using clever piezo-electric technology to simulate the feel of a button press. But which system works best? PC Pro's Paul Ockendon gathered six of the most popular handsets around and put them through a timed typing test to see which proved quickest and most typo-free."
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- Man Threatened Spam Attack In $200,000 Extortion Plot 52-year-old Anthony Digati was arrested for trying to extort $200,000 from an insurance firm by threatening to spam them with six million emails unless they paid up. Digati said he would use a spam service and his amazing talents as a "huge social networker" to drag the company "through the muddiest waters imaginable" and presumably unfriend everyone. He added that the price would increase to $3 million if they failed to pay up by Monday, according to federal authorities.
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- Code Bubbles — Rethinking the IDE's User Interface kang327 writes "As Java developers we are used to the familiar file-based user interface that is used by all of the major IDEs. A team at Brown University has developed an IDE for Java called Code Bubbles that makes a fairly radical departure from current IDEs — it is based on fragments instead of files. The idea is that you can see many different pieces of code at once. Fragments can form groups, have automatic layout assistance, wrap long lines based on syntax, and exist in a virtual workspace that you can pan. A video shows reading and editing code, opening different kinds of info such as Javadocs, bug reports and notes, annotating and sharing workspaces, and debugging with bubbles. They report on several user studies that show the system increases performance for the tasks studied, and also that professional developers were enthusiastic about using it. There is also a Beta that you can sign up for."
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- Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 SkinnyGuy writes "The only thing more remarkable than NewEgg shipping fake Core i7 CPUs to customers is getting your hands on one and checking it out. Apparently there are only a couple hundred of these things in existence and Gearlog somehow managed to get and unbox one. The images are fascinating."
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- Next-Gen Augmented Reality Rears Its Unreal Head andylim writes "Separate teams at Oxford university and Zentium, a South Korean company, are working on next-gen augmented reality solutions, which make it possible to fuse real and 3D computer-generated visuals on the fly using mobile phones. The team at Oxford university has named its solution Parallel Tracking and Mapping (PTAM) and it has licensed its technology to QderoPateo LLC, which has ambitious plans to grow the mobile augmented reality market and create an augmented reality search and gaming engine running for its 'Ouidoo' smart phone. Zentium's solution is called D-Track and is being used to develop the first markerless mobile augmented reality pet, called iKat. D-Track's mapping technology is very similar to PTAM and allows your phone to recognise the space in front of the camera and create an appropriate space for an augmented reality object or pet."
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