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Weekly Digest for March 20th

giblet — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:00:08 +0000

Shared @linuxbrit Could you please test this free Android App? Does it work ok on your phone? Grab It: http://t.co/aTsN4c3o.

My new favourite toy, the Galaxy S 2

Weekly Digest for November 1st

giblet — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:02:37 +0000

	Shared Remember those faster-than-light neutrinos? Great, now forget ‘em.
	Shared Volcano Casts a Giant Shadow Across Clouds at Sunrise.
	Shared Mona Simpson’s eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs.
	Shared Prince Charles exercises a secret veto over a wide swath of UK legislation.

Weekly Digest for October 25th

giblet — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:00:51 +0000

	Shared Time-Lapse Shows the Beauty of Iceland During Perpetual Golden Hour.
	Shared Transformer Prime gets official landing page, shows mostly bezel.
	Shared Motorola announces Motoactv, ‘the ultimate fitness device’.
	Shared Canon announces EOS-1D X: full-frame 18MP sensor, 14 fps, 204,800 top ISO, $6,800 price tag.
	Shared Advice to the 1% from Lemony Snicket.
	Shared Amazing "quantum levitation" superconductivity video.
	Shared Virgin Galactic launches world’s first commercial spaceport with performance by gravity-defying Project Bandaloop.

Weekly Digest for October 11th

giblet — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:00:38 +0000

	Shared Fine dining sign language.
	Shared Occupy San Francisco: eyewitness account.
	Shared This Too Shall Pass.
	Shared Daily Kos: 99%: A Warning to #OWS and the Rest of Us.
	Shared Bizarre Portraits Showing Parents and Kids with Swapped Heads.

Weekly Digest for October 4th

giblet — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:00:03 +0000

	Shared Kid learns who Luke’s father is.
	Shared Did You Know: The Word “Lens” Came from the Word “Lentil”.

Weekly Digest for September 27th

giblet — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:00:46 +0000

Shared 747s as flying Unix hosts: SCADA in the sky.

Weekly Digest for September 20th

giblet — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:00:41 +0000

	Shared Working.
	Shared Getting airfare bargains like a travel ninja.
	Shared The Relative Sizes of the World’s Largest Photo Libraries.
	Shared MetaWatch Hacks & Resources.
	Shared Incredible Time-lapse Shot from the International Space Station at Night.
	Shared Google+ Now Available to Everyone, No Invitation Necessary [Google+].

Weekly Digest for September 13th

giblet — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:00:54 +0000

	Shared Asus Eee Pad Slider up for pre-order at Amazon, starting at $480.
	Shared David Byrne’s giant globe inflated under the High Line.

Weekly Digest for September 6th

giblet — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:00:08 +0000

	Shared Samsung Galaxy Note has Super AMOLED & stylus on a super-big Android phone.
	Shared Photographer Captures Reactions to His “I’m Going to be a Dad” News.

My new favourite toy, the Galaxy S 2

Weekly Digest for September 4th

giblet — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:01:14 +0000

	Shared Google TV coming to the UK within six months.
	Shared Clouds Photographed Through an Open Plane Door 4 Miles Up.

Weekly Digest for August 28th

giblet — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:00:46 +0000

	Shared Depth Perception.
	Shared Public school teacher who called creationism ‘superstitious nonsense’ protected from lawsuit.
	Shared Grilled Cheese Martinis.
	Shared Fossil’s Meta Watch delayed once again, clearly has trouble keeping time.
	Shared Stop-Motion Inside a Stop-Motion with 500 People and 1,500 Photos.
	Shared The Queueing Theory.
	Shared Netherlands judge rules that Samsung Galaxy S, S II violate Apple patents, bans sales (updated).
	Shared Funny stickers on a London Underground subway train.
	Shared Bristol street art exhibition transforms Ballardian brutalist street.
	Shared Ford’s Theater Review.
	Shared How the first image of the whole Earth was taken.
	Shared Google’s Vic Gundotra, on getting a call from Steve Jobs on a Sunday: the Icon Ambulance.
	Shared Epic Time-Lapse of Lightning Storms Under the Milky Way.

Sitting in my new flat browsing the web thanks to my MiFi

Weekly Digest for August 21st

giblet — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:00:47 +0000

Shared Ugandan police firing pink-dyed water at protestors.

Weekly Digest for August 14th

giblet — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:00:11 +0000

	Shared London’s Heathrow Airport ULTra Personal Electric Transportation Pods Open to the Public.
	Shared Tea in Camden Town, London.
	Shared Riot psychology.
	Shared How Four Men with a Point-and-Shoot are Scooping Big News Outlets.

Weekly Digest for August 7th

giblet — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:00:19 +0000

	Shared Stephen Fry debating Ann Widdecombe on the worth of the Catholic Church.
	Shared What Murdoch’s media empire did: the big picture.
	Shared Average Home Sizes of the World Gathered in a Chart.
	Shared WIMM Labs introduces tiny wearable computer platform, we go hands-on.
	Shared Matt Damon explains non-financial motivations and the education sector.
	Shared Leadership Lessons from Ernest Shackleton.
	Shared A comic about the real scientific process.
	Shared Visualized: Boeing 747-8 makes its longest flight to date, writes name in the sky.
	Shared Gov’t asks FAA safety inspectors for a big no-interest loan.
	Shared RED EPIC scores a Canon EOS mount, Laforet gets some extraordinary footage (video).
	Shared Shell Finally Accepts Liability for Nigeria Oil Spills Requiring $1 Billion Clean Up.
	Shared Android app tethers handsets to Canon cams, live view fanboys rejoice (video).

Weekly Digest for July 31st

giblet — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:02:10 +0000

	Shared New leadership for Deutsche Bank.
	Shared Virgin Media testing 1.5Gbps internet for lucky Londonites.
	Shared 4 ways technology can enable your inner introvert.
	Shared Before and After Portraits of Joggers.
	Shared ASUS confirms Eee Pad Transformer will get Android 3.2 update tomorrow.
	Shared Daily Show episode yanked from UK TV because Brit law prohibits using Parliamentary footage in satire.
	Shared Lanes.
	Shared Why You Should Shoot Photos in RAW.
	Shared Shareholders take Vodafone to account for network shutdown during Egyptian revolution.

Bike riding

Weekly Digest for July 24th

giblet — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:01:09 +0000

	Shared Rumor: Apple close to ordering a 2048 x 1536 resolution iPad 3 display.
	Shared Amazon adds Kindle texboot rentals, leaves iBooks in the dust.
	Shared Brooks husband tries to reclaim mystery computer found in trashcan near home.
	Shared 360-Degree Panoramic Time-Lapses Shot with One Camera.
	Shared Google+ iPhone app now available on App Store.
	Shared Standards.
	Shared Apple introduces new Mac mini with faster processors, Thunderbolt, server option.
	Shared Six Photographers Test Their Right to Shoot in London.
	Shared Korea solves mystery of shaking skyscraper (spoiler: not an earthquake).
	Shared Senator Franken shames homophobic imbecile.
	Shared Time-Lapse Shot from the International Space Station.

Weekly Digest for July 17th

giblet — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:00:33 +0000

	Shared Fossil won’t ship the Meta Watch until August, Dick Tracy wannabes get antsy.
	Shared Beautiful Heat Maps of Flickr Photographs and Twitter Tweets.
	Shared AT&T becomes the first telco to use energy-efficient Bloom Box servers, will power 11 sites in California.
	Shared Paul O’Brien: "Asus: Apologies to anyone …" « Deck.ly.
	Shared Lightning over Puyehue-Cordon Caulle.
	Shared Video of hunter-gatherer tribe’s first contact with people from outside world.
	Shared Final space shuttle launch, as seen from booster camera (video).
	Shared The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist’s View.
	Shared Download SwiftKey X – The world’s first ‘Social AI’ keyboard.

Weekly Digest for July 10th

giblet — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:01:14 +0000

	Shared Google temporarily suspends Realtime search, thanks to expired Twitter deal.
	Shared Google+ to require that profiles be visible to all, will boot private profiles after July 31st.
	Shared Picasa, Blogger to get renamed: now with more Google?.
	Shared Skype comes to Facebook, and Facebook comes to Skype.
	Shared Official Google Blog: “Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android.
	Shared Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-135 crew, loading up for liftoff (photo).
	Shared The Google+ project: real life sharing, rethought for the web..

Bike riding

Weekly Digest for July 3rd

giblet — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:01:56 +0000

	Shared New York legislature says "I do" to same-sex marriage (big photo gallery).
	Shared What happened before the Vancouver riot kiss.
	Shared Google+.
	Shared Andy Hertzfeld, ‘former Macintosh wizard,’ designed the Google+ Project.
	Shared Video App Demo: Plane Finder.
	Shared Microsoft: European cloud data may not be immune to the Patriot Act.
	Shared Paul Adams: Seeing Google+ In Public Is Like Bumping Into An Ex-Girlfriend..

Weekly Digest for June 19th

giblet — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:00:03 +0000

	Shared A boat named "Zeus." (Photo from Boing Boing Flickr Pool).
	Shared Swype 3.0 gets Honeycomb support, intense promo video (video).
	Shared Starbucks rolls out mobile payment app for Android users, java junkies.
	Shared Top ten myths about introverts – Jerry Brito.
	Shared Volcanic ash on Lake Nahuel Huapi, Argentina.
	Shared The next Mars rover.
	Shared What’s up with the weather this year?.