Monthly Archives: July 2009

This looks fun: In-line skates on an 860-meter roller coaster

Posted on 7/22/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Ausgezeichnet! Check out this video:

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DiggBar: First signs of Digg losing relevance to the realtime crowd

Posted on 7/22/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Digg has bait-and-switched its entire userbase by first offering the DiggBar as a URL-shortening service, but now redirecting all DiggBar created links to the Digg URL for the story, rather than to the root story and the word on the … Continue reading →

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Review: Layers

Posted on 7/21/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Layers—$4.99 Released: July 18, 2009 Developer/Distributor: Gotow.net/J. Benjamin Gotow Genre: Entertainment Version 1.0 tested on 16GB iPhone 3GS I am a huge fan of applications that let me draw while on the go. My favorite app to do this to … Continue reading →

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Beastie Boys tour cancellations and album release delayed due to Adam Yauch cancer surgery

Posted on 7/20/2009 by C.K. Sample III

I just received an email from the Beastie Boys (I’m a fan) with the subject line “HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM”, linking to their site where Adam Yauch and Adam Horovitz announce that they have to cancel sections of their … Continue reading →

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Sample The Web’s Top tech stories for the week of July 12th-18th, 2009

Posted on 7/19/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Reminder: this list is largely culled from taking a look at my 500+ feeds in Fever’s Hot section for the past week. Amazon wirelessly removed Kindle Editions of George Orwell books from people’s Kindles. The entire internet exploded in alarmist … Continue reading →

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