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  BeautifulPeople.com's Final Solution: Breed Out the Uglies

  JP 10:20 am on June 23, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  You may remember awful Net clique BeautifulPeople.com and its purge of overweight members back in January. To refresh your memory, Beautiful People is a social network that votes members in (and out) based on their attractiveness, as determined by other members. When those allegedly svelte surfers got rid of 5,000 “fatties” who were deemed too un-sexable to remain on the site, they were met with no small amount of criticism.

  But, fine, it’s a vapid network of self-obsessed jerk-holes that, besides bruising the egos of members who were obviously so emotionally wrecked by their body image that they would join the site in the first place, has otherwise done no harm. Now, though, Beautiful People is launching an egg and sperm donation bank to be filled with its members’ statuesque genetic material for furthering a race of chiseled chins and pore-less skin. Hey, you guys ever heard of this thing called eugenics?

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  BeautifulPeople.com’s Final Solution: Breed Out the Uglies originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  0.facebook.com Offers Free Mobile Access to Emerging Markets

  JP 1:47 am on May 22, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Facebook has taken a lot of heat recently for its revamped privacy policy and invasive Instant Personalization service. The company may have gotten a much-needed PR boost, though, thanks to a new service aimed at helping some of the world’s less connected populations.

  As the social networking site announced on its blog yesterday, users in 45 different countries and territories will now be able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, without having to worry about hefty data charges. The site, called 0.facebook.com, offers all the rudimentary features of Facebook’s mobile app, like updating statuses, sending messages and commenting on posts. The only difference, however, is that if you want to browse through photos on your phone, you’ll have to pay normal data fees.

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  0.facebook.com Offers Free Mobile Access to Emerging Markets originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 19 May 2010 10:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  0.facebook.com Offers Free Mobile Access to Emerging Markets

  JP 1:48 am on May 21, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Facebook has taken a lot of heat recently for its revamped privacy policy and invasive Instant Personalization service. The company may have gotten a much-needed PR boost, though, thanks to a new service aimed at helping some of the world’s less connected populations.

  As the social networking site announced on its blog yesterday, users in 45 different countries and territories will now be able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, without having to worry about hefty data charges. The site, called 0.facebook.com, offers all the rudimentary features of Facebook’s mobile app, like updating statuses, sending messages and commenting on posts. The only difference, however, is that if you want to browse through photos on your phone, you’ll have to pay normal data fees.

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  0.facebook.com Offers Free Mobile Access to Emerging Markets originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 19 May 2010 10:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Denny's Denies Distress Over Taiwanese Twitter Twin

  JP 12:51 am on February 25, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  We couldn’t imagine there’s much of a shared demographic between Denny’s and Twitter, but the ubiquitous breakfast joint doesn’t seem to be working too hard at growing one, either. Although Denny’s does administer two Twitter accounts, and although its menus do list a Twitter URL, there’s one slight problem. That URL — twitter.com/dennys — doesn’t belong to Denny’s. It does belong to Dennys Hsieh, best known to the world as “that Taiwanese dude with the Dennys Twitter account.”

  According to CNET, the chain isn’t terribly worried about all this. Allan Miller of Filter Creative Group, which handles Denny’s social networking business, told the outlet that the menu misprint hasn’t misled the followers of Denny’s actual accounts: twitter.com/dennysallnightr and twitter.com/dennygrandslam. (Sure, Allan.) Unfortunately for Mr. Hsieh, the misprint hasn’t helped him much, either; his account still claims a paltry 145 followers.

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  Denny’s Denies Distress Over Taiwanese Twitter Twin originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Typo Takes Out Internet for Swedes

  JP 1:28 pm on October 17, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Monday night, all of Sweden lost access to the Internet, thanks to a problem that arose during routine maintenance of the country’s top-level domain, .se (like .com or .us in the U.S.).

  The root of the issue was an improperly configured script (or set of commands) used to update the .se zone. When Sweden’s Internet Infrastructure Foundation investigated the cause, it found that the error in the configuration was a simple typo; someone had left a period off the end of a DNS record. DNS is the system responsible for turning Web names like Switched.com into a machine-readable IP address.

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  Typo Takes Out Internet for Swedes originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Caught on Video: Thieves Ransack Apple Store in 31 Seconds

  JP 11:39 am on September 5, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Apple Store (6), Apple Weblog (4), Christian Science, com, Eddy, macbook (8), Mary Baker, metal gates, nbsp (1,601), New Jersey (11), Pennsylvania (10), Philadelphia (9), print (3), Read (1,390), unofficial apple weblog

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  In about the time it takes to send a tweet, five masked men cleaned out a Marlton, New Jersey Apple Store in the wee hours of yesterday morning. It took about 31 seconds for the men to shatter a plate-glass door, sprint inside the store, and collect 23 Macbook Pro laptops, 14 iPhones and 9 iPod touch handhelds, according to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW). The only way they could’ve pulled off the heist any faster would be if they’d driven a race car through the store.

  There was a security guard on duty during the robbery, but the thieves knew how to work him, too. They motioned at him as if they were holding guns, and, judging by the above video from WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, the guard just cowered in the corner. Who can blame him? Those devices aren’t worth his life. Besides, shouldn’t Apple install some metal gates in front of those doors? The store front might not look as sleek or hip, but it’d be a lot safer. [From: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)]

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  Weirdest Techie Heists and Scams

  Burglars Break Into Restaurant, Steal HDTV, Leave Money / Food Behind
  Around Halloween of last year, a truckload of thieves drove into — that’s right, into — a Pennsylvania Mexican restaurant, where they — apparently uninterested in the cash register — stole a mid-grade 47-inch HDTV and fled the scene. We’ve all heard about how this generation is lacking in ambition, but this generation’s thieves, too?

  Death of Print

  Elle Girl
  In April 2006, Elle Girl’s print edition was closed down, but the Web site lives on at ellegirl.com.

  CosmoGirl
  Though it will be folded into Seventeen magazine, the teen version of Cosmopolitan will publish its last print issue in December 2008. It will live on at CosmoGirl.com.

  Christian Science Monitor
  Founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, this venerable paper will move all its daily content to the Web starting in 2009, though it will still publish a weekly print version.

  Radar Magazine
  Was it too snarky for its own good? We’ll never know, but this modern-day successor to ’80s-era Spy magazine shut down in October. AMI, owner of the National Enquirer, bought RadarOnline.com, however, which will focus on celebrity gossip a la TMZ.com.

  US News and World Report
  Once a serious competitor to Time and Newsweek, US News and World Report is now best known for its College guides, which it will continue to publish. The weekly newsmagazine, however, will be turned into a monthly, and all daily operations are moving to the Web at usnews.com.

  Caught on Video: Thieves Ransack Apple Store in 31 Seconds originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Späte Strafe für Kriegsverbrecher - RP ONLINE

  JP 1:58 am on August 12, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Späte Strafe für Kriegsverbrecher RP ONLINE VON JULIUS MüLLER-MEININGEN – zuletzt aktualisiert: 12.08.2009 – 02:30 Als einer der letzten lebenden Beschuldigten, die Gräueltaten im Zweiten Weltkrieg begangen haben sollen, ist der Ex-Wehrmachtsoffizier Josef Sch. wegen Mordes an zehn italienischen … Ein Urteil mit SymbolkraftMerkur Online NS-Kriegsverbrechen Er ließ Rache üben an BauernFAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Lebenslange Haft in Münchner NS-KriegsverbrecherprozessAFP Deutsche Welle -FOCUS Online -tagesschau.de Alle 218 Artikel »