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Badass Bible Verses
The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses | Cracked.com
If the Bible had been written by King Leonidas and the rest of the Spartans from 300, it would probably read pretty much the same as it does now.
It turns out, the Bible is already chock full of ass kicking. Here are the verses that make us want to take to the streets and put some unbelievers to the sword.
Posted in Entertainment, Text.
Aim For The Starts
Is the title of a film about the rocket physicist and astronautics engineer Wernher von Braun. I haven’t seen it but I like the suggested subtitle:
I Aim For The Stars (But Sometimes I Hit London)
(originally via Joao)
Posted in Entertainment, Movies, Text.
iPhone AppStore Secrets - Pinch Media
iPhone AppStore Secrets - Pinch Media
(slidshare presentation)
if you’re thinking of making a life as an iPhone App Dev this is probably “required reading”.
24hours BEST Engineering Competition
Seriously, if you don’t know BEST Engineering Competitions, get to know them. They are incredibly fun. I’m not the “build stuff” kind of guy, my usual approach to “hardware” involves smacking stuff - the caveman approach. But I tried it for a bit and found it surprisingly fun.
The 24hours BEST Engineering competition will be held next weekend. You can participate if you’re a student @ FEUP or FCUP.
Here’s the promo video (flash)
Go to the website for more information (Portuguese)
Endgadget: Ten reasons why Windows Mobile 6.5 misses the mark
Editorial: Ten reasons why Windows Mobile 6.5 misses the mark
1: It’s exactly the same as Windows Mobile 6… er, 5.
2: The interface improvements are still way behind the curve.
3: The UI tweaks are mostly just skin deep, and third-parties have already gone way deeper.
4: It doesn’t support capacitive touchscreens.
5: It’s not due out until “later this year.”
6: You probably can’t upgrade your phone.
7: No Zune integration. Not even a new Windows Media Player.
8: Where’s the keyboard?
9: The browser is still weak.
10: It doesn’t innovate in any way.
Rambus Wins Submarine Patent Case
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away the Federal Trade Commission’s bid to impose antitrust penalties that would have limited the royalties collected by memory-chip technology company Rambus Inc.The justices, without comment, left intact a federal appeals court decision favoring Rambus, which gets more than 80 percent of its revenue from royalties. The lower court threw out FTC findings that Rambus undermined competition in the $20 billion market for dynamic random-access memory chips by scheming to get secretly patented technology included in industrywide standards.
While I dislike submarine patents as much as anyone else, imo JEDEC should’ve had rules to protect its standards against it. They didn’t so they got suckered by Rambus - sure consumers end up paying the bill but it’s money that could’ve gone to all JEDEC members instead of just Rambus.
Website Number
Biden Forgets Recovery.gov’s “Website Number”
This morning Vice President Biden went on the CBS early show to promote Recovery.gov, the website that will detail where all of the money in The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be going. Unfortunately, he forgot the actual address of the site during the interview, explaining that he was embarrassed that he didn’t have the “website number”. And thus, we have a new internet meme in the making, as Biden follows in the footsteps of Senator Ted Stevens’s Series of Tubes and President Bush’s reference to the “internets”.
(Youtube Video)
Posted in Entertainment, Videos.