Somehow the original photograph looks far more… cute and innocent, not to mention human.read more | digg story

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Filed under: Hardware, Cult of Mac, Apple

Donationware app MacTracker is great for those times when you need to look back at the history of Apple’s products or the stats of one particular machine. If you’re interested in more of a visual history, however, this picture from art director and designer Edwin Tofslie should satisfy your [...]

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Cory Doctorow:
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a web “contract” — that is, the ridiculous “terms of service” that you agree to just by looking at a web-page — can’t be changed without notice, something that’s standard in most of these “agreements.”

This is a rare, overdue moment of sanity from the [...]

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Score one for humanity. After four grueling sessions of human vs. computer poker, the human players managed to outlast and outwit the bot. It was by no means an easy task, as the computer performed strongly on day one. But, by the second day, the human players seemed to have a pretty [...]

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About a week ago there were only about 200 of my Facebook friends who were sharing feeds on Google Reader. Today about 900 are, out of about 3,600 total. You know what changed.
This app has already helped me find some great new feeds. It’s interesting to see what you all are reading and sharing through [...]

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Mark Frauenfelder:

A company called Custom Receipts sells phony ATM receipts so you can trick people into thinking you have a lot of money in the bank. A one-year supply (52 receipts) costs $15. Creepy. Link (Thanks, Hudson!)

(Via Boing Boing.)

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I was very pleased to see Google publicly wade into the upcoming FCC auctions for the 700MHz spectrum that will occur early next year. Should all go well, the new spectrum could be used to create a new open-access wireless broadband “pipe” into people’s homes and devices. If things go less well, the existing wireless [...]

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