Literally. It is 103 here today.
I was in town for the last few days celebrating my mother’s 60th birthday, and today, my last day in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia breaks a record at 103. Whew.
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Apple’s policies of censorship for their app store are very well reported. There is no pornography approved for Apples App Store, and in missives sent directly from Steve Jobs himself, he claims that the benefit of the technology that his company produces is ‘Freedom from Pornography‘. In addition to this freedom, it appears that when it [...] The military spent $773,000 to renovate a building and place a combination KFC/Taco Bell on the base. Additionally, $683,000 was spent sprucing up a cafe where troops could buy ice cream and Starbucks coffee. Explained the base’s chief: Because GTMO is an isolated and remote duty location with no access to an off-base community, [...] Controlling Android phones with their front facing camera through hand gestures? Terrific. Eyesight Mobile Technologies is the company developing the technology. It’s a rather innovative idea, but a phone platform isn’t ideally suited for wide sweeping gestures. However, integrating the same idea into Android games could be a real winner. [GigaOM]
Looks like some of the outplaced Circuit City executives got jobs at Target. They are trying to pull the same shady business: toss the experienced employees, hire goobers. By scheduling the full-time employees for less than 32 hours a week, Target no longer needs to provide full-time benefits for these 8000 experienced workers. Apparently [...] Rep. Alan Grayson(D-FL) has introduced a bill (HR 4431 IH) that would tax corporate political donations at a staggering but fair 500%. The bill is called the “Business Should Mind Its Own Business Act.” This may be rather popular in light of the recent SCOTUS decision, but it might also be considered an abridgement of [...] A former PetSmart employee reports he was fired for theft of services after he brought his dog to work on an special overnight shift. He worked the shift as a favor to his store manager in preparation for a visit by representatives of Martha Stewart whose company was considering a product line for [...] SyFy’s new series Caprica has yet to air, but XLR8R, Pitchfork, and Create Digital Music, have put together a free, 13-track compilation as their vision of a soundtrack to the show free for download right here, Caprica premieres on the SyFy channel on 22-JAN at 9 PM For about five years I had a sweet deal at my blog hosting company. Free. Completely free. It was a publicity stunt they tried in 2005 to drum up business. They gave away a very generous web package, and the first few customers got to enjoy access without cost. In November it seems they realized that their [...] |
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