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Feminists cry foul over Fat Princess – Video Game Feature – Yahoo! Video Games: She’s Fat Princess, the star of Sony’s upcoming video game of the same name. Debuting at last week’s E3 expo, the colorful Fat Princess is a capture-the-flag game with a twist: you can thwart capture attempts by locking the once-thin princess [...]

Coca-Cola to begin using hybrid trucks in Florida: While other companies are shying away from the considerable costs involved, Coca-Cola announced Monday it is rolling out 10 heavy-duty hybrid trucks in South Florida, part of a national campaign to put 142 of these so-called green trucks on the road in North America in the next [...]

A lot of people are noting the various issues with cuil.com’s design and server overload problems, but the main issue I see is that their page ranks suck. Much has been made of the fact that a search for “george washington” returns no results, but even a search for “sam adams” returns a full [...]

Google Gmail Adds Secure Session Option:
Google has plugged one of the biggest security risks associated with using its free hosted Gmail mail service, still in beta after four years. You can now select an option in your account preferences to make every session require an encrypted Web connection.
(Via TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of [...]

CalDAV support comes to Google Calendar: Well, fortunately, Google has just quietly introduced CalDAV support to Google Calendar. CalDAV is the protocol that iCal uses to transmit data over the web. Although some other mail and calendar programs support CalDAV, right now Google Calendar is only compatible with iCal. Finally, iCal and Google Calendar can [...]

Law.com – High Court Justices Go Digital to Access Founding-Era Documents: U.S. Supreme Court justices on both sides in the landmark D.C. v. Heller gun rights case resorted to original documents in making their case about the meaning of the Second Amendment. But they used a little-known digital resource to get there, a project whose [...]

Google to face charges over Down’s syndrome video – Times Online: “Google is to face criminal charges in Italy over a video which appeared on one of its sites showing a disabled teenager being taunted by his peers.”
This is the part that seems odd to me:
Google is understood to have removed the clip from the [...]

Today @ PC World Esquire First to Newstands with E-Ink Battery-Powered Cover: “Newsstands across America will come to life this September when men’s magazine Esquire rolls out the first magazine cover ever to use E-ink.”
(Via JCAtom @ Newsvine.)
How cool is that (at least for the novelty)? However, I can’t see it lasting long-term. [...]

Crossing the line on Steve Jobs’ health | One More Thing – CNET News.com: “One clear sign that this is an unseemly exercise: if those who keep pushing the issue feel they have to repeatedly apologize for seeming insensitive, they’re probably being insensitive. Yes, Jobs is the CEO of a $135 billion company that has [...]

Staff Blog / New upload rules: “The Vimeo staff has decided that we are no longer going to allow gaming videos on Vimeo. Specifically, we are no longer going to allow game walk-throughs, game strategy videos, depictions of player vs player battles, raids, fraps, or any other video gaming videos that simply depict individuals playing [...]

Seeded at Newsvine:
“The .Mac to MobileMe transition was a lot rockier than we had hoped but everything is now up and running,” Apple spokesman, Bill Evans, told Macworld.

Seeded at Newsvine:
On Tuesday, Computerworld published a story about so-called security flaws in Mac OS X that affect the enterprise. The six arguments actually amount to a collection of shibboleths.

Seeded at Newsvine:
Macs are immune from security threats, right? It’s Windows we have to worry about. That water-cooler wisdom needs to be flipped on its head, security experts and IT managers warn.

Several months ago, I ran across a review in MacWorld entitled The real paperless office, a brief explanation of setting up a paperless office. Quoth Wikipedia:
The paperless office is now considered to be a philosophy to work with minimal paper and convert all forms of documentation to a digital form. The ideal is driven [...]

Seeded at Newsvine:
And ultimately, this is my biggest problem with these types of syntax exploits, in the quest to get more visibility, programs are harder to find.

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The Department of Justice on Friday ended its probe into Apple’s backdating of stock options. The Wall Street Journal reports that no charges are being brought against the company or any of its current or former executives.

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Here are our Top 5 iPhone Gripes. If yours isn’t on the list, please let us know.

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No, they shouldn’t. At first glance the decision to open links in new windows or not depends on the given site and the preferences of its visitors.
For the most part, I completely agree with this article (including the caveats it lists). A link that forces a new window to open is almost [...]

Seeded at Newsvine:
WordPress 2.6 will be more secure out-of-the box including better support for running the admin over SSL and changes to disable the remote publishing protocols by default.

Seeded at Newsvine:
Changes in Rogers Communications Inc.’s cellphone plans are coming within the next two weeks as the company gears up to release a slew of new data-heavy mobile devices.

It’s a house cat! It’s a tiger!
Meet the Toyger, America’s next superpet By Kenneth Miller
In an oak-shaded backyard 30 miles outside of L.A., Judy Sugden is conducting a tour of her secret genetics lab. The well-kept facility consists of several cabins built of plywood and fencing in which dozens of domestic cats nap, wrestle, prance, [...]

The Blotter: “Cell phone users, beware. The FBI can listen to everything you say, even when the cell phone is turned off.
A recent court ruling in a case against the Genovese crime family revealed that the FBI has the ability from a remote location to activate a cell phone and turn its microphone into [...]

Chicago Tests Rubber Sidewalks – Travel: “CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s green initiative is gaining ground yet again — this time with two new infrastructure technologies.
Cheri Heramb with the Chicago Department of Transportation said the aim of the initiative is to become the ‘greenest city in the world.’
Chicago is taking one more step [...]

If you get this, you’re a geek:
It’s the second day of fall classes. I must be a little punch-drunk, what with all the obscure humor going up today, so forgive me.

(Via Pharyngula.)
Oh c’mon. It was pretty good.

Graphing Pharyngula:
Here’s a applet that traverses the html of a web page and turns it into a pretty graph. There is an online explanation and examples, too
(Via Pharyngula.)
It’s kind of neat to see the graphic build up, but it’ bogs down pretty quickly. Here’s my blog’s graph: