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- Daring Fireball: Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline – Today, though, Microsoft is increasingly left only with customers whose priority is price.
Posts Tagged: windows
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Aug 09
Daily Links for July 30th
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May 09
Daily Links for May 5th
- Twapple? Let’s Recap a Dozen Other Apple Acquisitions That Aren’t Going to Happen | Technologizer – Other rumored "Apple is going to buy X".
- Facebook: On The Beat With Facebook’s Pornhounds – Newsweek reports that of the 850 employees Facebook has on its payroll, 150 are part of its User Operations division, which is charged with tracking down user-submitted violations of the site's code of conduct, which disallows nudity, porn and drugs. Fully exposed butts, visible crackage and nipples give your photos a one-way trip to Deletionville. Also, no calling anyone a "jerk." Seriously, that's also a code violation.
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Jan 09
Daily Links for January 9th
- Online Threat to Kill Obama Leads to Arrest | Threat Level from Wired.com – Bagdasarian is not accused of actually plotting against Obama, and he was released last month on a $100,000 real estate bond. Bagdasarian's attorney did not return a phone call Friday.
The post in question showed up on a Yahoo Finance board on Oct. 22, about two weeks before the election, under the handle "californiaradial." The message was titled "Shoot the nig."
"County fkd for another 4+ years, what nig has done ANYTHING right???? Long term???? Never in history, except sambos."
"Fk the niggar, he will have a 50 cal in the head soon," the message concludes.
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Dec 08
Daily Links for December 14th
- Seizing the white space – SlideShare –
- Supermarkets’ emergency plans to keep shelves full | Business | The Observer – Fears that scores of supermarket suppliers will go bust next year have led the country’s major chains to draw up emergency plans to replace them, The Observer can reveal.
Separately, on the high street, bailiffs are getting ready for their busiest Christmas ever, with a slew of retailers expected to go into administration.
- 20 Greatest Celebrity Courtroom Sketches –
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Nov 08
Daily Links for November 16th
- Cartype : Carbon Motors – Carbon Motors Corporation is a new American automaker that is developing and will manufacture, distribute, and service the Carbon E7, the world's first purpose-built law enforcement patrol vehicle.
- Voter turnout didn’t set record: Democrats’ passion wasn’t matched by GOP – Turnout in last week's election increased from four years ago but fell far short of some forecasts largely because many Republican voters either stayed home or left blank the presidential section of their ballots.
In states won by President-elect Barack Obama, turnout was more than five percentage points higher than in states won by Republican John McCain, according to a Globe analysis of data compiled by a pair of researchers who study voting patterns in US elections.
