Monthly Archives: July 2009

Jul 17

Ben Stein, predatory bait-and-switch merchant

When Ben Stein isn’t worshiping the festering corpse of Richard Nixon, he’s making commercials for “free” credit reports that actually cost $29.95. Of course, given his asinine financial advice, perhaps he can’t tell the difference. When he appears on the … Read More

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Jul 16

What if?

What if the Apollo program hadn’t been cut back? New Scientist imagines a very different 2009 than we ended up with.

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Jul 16

Hey Palm!

If you’re going to use a hack to impersonate another device you need to be prepared for that hack to be broken at anytime. Especially since there are ways to sync to iTunes without using that hack. Everyone saw this … Read More

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