The World's Greatest Con Man: Helg Sgarbi
I assure Sgarbi I am not here to hurt him, that I have met with his lawyer. He cuts me off: "You spoke to my lawyer about my case?" he says in English. "I did not give permission." In fact, Sgarbi's attorney offered to broker an interview—for a few [...]
The World's Greatest Con Man: Helg Sgarbi
I assure Sgarbi I am not here to hurt him, that I have met with his lawyer. He cuts me off: "You spoke to my lawyer about my case?" he says in English. "I did not give permission." In fact, Sgarbi's attorney offered to broker an interview—for a few [...]
Max Linsky and Aaron Lammer have a plan to get you to read more long-form journalism
"The early inspiration for the site was a passionate, slightly one-upmanship-based search for amazing long-form stories that went on over the last couple years, since myself, Max, and a few others … got iPhones," says Lammer, a writer and Web [...]
Profile: Dermot Desmond – Times Online
Frequently described as charming in person, Desmond struggles to project a winsome public profile. In a rare speech at an event at the Royal College of Surgeons several years ago, the tall, handsome, mustachioed Kaiser seemed more like a tremulous schoolboy. He was so nervous, it was almost touching.
“His charisma [...]
BenPaper v1.0 Application for Android | Tools
An offline reader, a bit like InstaPaper for the iPhone. Given an RSS feed, it downloads all the linked pages to the device and reformats them for a small screen.
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Amazon.com: All You Need Is Kill (9781421527611): Hiroshi Sakurazaka: Books
There’s one thing worse than dying. It’s coming back to do it again and again…When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only [...]
Grab a document with images from the web « Python recipes « ActiveState Code
This is a way to grab a web page containing images and save this page and selected images to the same directory.
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Scrapy | An open source web scraping framework for Python
Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, [...]
WTF LOL OMFG detail on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Idea that's been cracking around in my head for a while. Today was the day for it, I guess. Possibly one in a series.
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android-delicious-bookmarks – Project Hosting on Google Code
This application allows you to save bookmarks to Delicious social bookmarking service from the Android web browser.
The [...]
Graduated response now de facto law in Ireland
The most remarkable thing about the judgment is the fact that the Data Protection Commissioner, whose questions to the High Court formed the basis for the judgment, did not appear at the hearing because of cost concerns.
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Ringing multiple phones with one extensions | FreePBX
Set up a follow [...]
Tweet Tweet Boom Boom
Go to a party for an �old� media company, and there can often seem to be a cloud of doom hanging over the proceedings. It can seem like half the guests have been laid off and the other half fear they still could be. The talk is of cutbacks and making do [...]
AudioBoo
We are a mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to record and upload audio for your friends, family or the rest of the world to hear.
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Twicca for Android | Mobility Site
Free and easy to use, twicca’s capabilities include attaching photos and videos from other files or directly from a phone’s camera, searching [...]
sipdroid – Project Hosting on Google Code
Adds native SIP/VoIP to Android's dialer/contacts. Make and receive calls over Wifi, 3G, and EDGE with perfect voice quality and lowest delay. For optimal standby/compatibility/calling Skype™ register with pbxes.org and your SIP accounts from there. Basic accounts are free. Premium accounts allow calling regular phones while streaming live video [...]
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Guide – Configuring Exchange Active Sync on HTC Hero Android Device
A little further digging and I discovered that this was down to a security setting I use on my Exchange server which forces mobile ActiveSync users to specify a PIN number on their phone [...]
TechWire: Review: HTC Legend Android smartphone
Last year, I called the HTC Hero the 'phone of the year'. Taking into account its pricing and its features, the Legend may already be in the running for that title this year. It’s a superb device, with the only main drawback being its modest camera capability.
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The Question: Why [...]
Lemelson Center: Archives: Computer Oral History Collection
Series 1: Transcripts, 1969-1973, 1977
Series 2: Supplemental Documentation, 1922-1974
Series 3: Patents, 1940-1973
Series 4: John Vincent Atanasoff's Materials, 1927-1968
Series 5: Audio Tapes, 1967-1974, 1977
Series 6: Video Tapes, 1968-1972
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It Won’t Be THAT Bad, Jeff
Carl Crawford is almost certainly not going to be a Ray next season. He might not even [...]
Spark | CBC Radio
Spark is a blog, radio show, podcast and an ongoing conversation about technology and culture. Spark is an online collaboration. Leave your thoughts, stories, and ideas here, and together we'll make a radio show.
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US telecoms firm may abandon €50m deal – The Irish Times – Mon, Apr 12, 2010
A US-based telecoms [...]
Review: Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives by David Eagleman | Books | The Observer
The questions posed by Gauguin in his painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? are profound distractions: the real question, Eagleman indirectly reminds us, is how to live. This is what makes his book greater [...]
Finding a Way Out
When I tell co-workers it's immoral to leverage their offspring with debt in order to continue a lifestyle of the present, I often get a cold shoulder. When I tell people that further Government concessions would have to be paid for by the most vulnerable members of Irish society, I'm castigated as [...]
YouTube – Dennehys Cross Ericsson ARF Crossbar Telephone Exchange
The closing down of Dennehys Cross Telephone exchange 3/2/1999. The exchange had been in service since the 1970's and was replaced by an AXE exchange also supplied by Ericsson.
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Publications – ComReg
Response to Consultation 09/80 and Decision: Amendment to General Authorisation – New General Authorisation conditions in [...]
Henry Rollins – KCRW
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Da Button Factory – Create pretty buttons online, quickly!
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Telecom Infrastructure – boards.ie
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Your Weekly "Lost"-cap: Happily Ever After
Coffee shop – Interestingly enough, there isn't a coffee shop on Sweetzer and Melrose, but there is a hotel. An English bungalow style hotel in West Hollywood called…..wait for it…..The Charlie Hotel.
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