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Submission + - Top 10 Internet Moments of the Decade (cnn.com)

Alcohol Fueled writes: From Napster to Wikipedia, to Google and Craigslist, the Internet has had its share of big moments. CNN has a chronological list of them, courtesy of the Webby Awards. The events are not listed by any sense of importance because David-Michel Davies, the executive director of the Webby Awards, says "that depends on who you are and what you're interested in." What are some other Internet moments of the decade that you'd consider important, that perhaps didn't make their list?

Comment Re:Projector? (Score 2, Informative) 140

True, true. And actually, it sounds like it might make for a perfect movie viewing device if you're over at a friend's place. I found a little more information about the projector here: http://www.gadgetvenue.com/fujitsu-f04b-dual-keyboard-projector-phone-11123400/. 2 hours of video at the highest brightness? Yes please!

Comment Projector? (Score 1) 140

From TFA: "Fujitsu also plans to offer an optional projector unit that can be clipped onto the bottom of the phone in place of the keyboard to project images on a nearby flat surface." Really? Doesn't this seem a bit much for a phone? Or is there a demand I don't know about to have a projector on your phone? I guess it *could* be useful for someone making a presentation of some sort, but I'd think a computer or an actual projector would be better..

Comment Re:Too easy... (Score 3, Insightful) 170

But who's really going to pay the price of a Blu-ray disc to play the game demo, even if they REALLY want to? I mean sure, if its on the same disc as a film you'd buy anyway... but to buy Terrible Parody Movie 9 to play the demo of the ohmygodsweetjesusawesome Halo (or any other highly popular game) game coming out the next spring... no.
News

Submission + - LHC Shutdown Again - By Baguette Dropping Bird? (popsci.com)

Philip K Dickhead writes: "Is Douglas Adams scripting the saga of sorrows facing the LHC? These time-traveling Higgs-Boson particles certainly exhibit the sign of his absurd sense of humor! Perhaps it is the Universe itself, conspiring against the revelations intimated by the operation of CERN's Large Hadron Collider? This time, it is not falling cranes, cracked magnets, liquid helium leaks or even links to Al Qaeda, that have halted man's efforts to understand the meaning of life, the universe and everything. It now appears that the collider is hindered from an initial firing by a baguette, dropped by a passing bird. "The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine." One cannot rule out time-traveling mischief makers, however improbable, once credulity has been so rudely affronted by this latest story."
Microsoft

Submission + - Bing to search Twitter, Facebook (goodgearguide.com.au)

angry tapir writes: "Microsoft has reached collaboration agreements with Twitter and Facebook to get their members' public status updates and messages indexed and presented in useful ways on the Bing search engine. The partnership with Twitter has it working with Microsoft to optimize how Bing crawls and indexes "tweets." Microsoft in turn will apply search algorithms to the Twitter messages, so that Bing users will not only be able to see a real-time feed of "tweets" but also rank them by how relevant they are to their query, Mehdi said."
Google

Submission + - Google partners up with Twitter for search (indiblogger.net)

An anonymous reader writes: According to the Google blog, it has partnered up with Twitter to bring tweets into its search results in the next few months. While this is an exciting news, how the feature is going to present itself is a huge question. Indiblogger presents a comprehensive list of how it should be. Quotting from the article, the points discussed are: relevance of tweets with the search term, twitter and Google advertising, even a Google-Twitter API.

Submission + - How your brain creates the fourth dimension (newscientist.com)

jcgam69 writes: Perhaps the most fundamental question neuroscientists are investigating is whether our perception of the world is continuous or a series of discrete snapshots like frames on a film strip. Understand this, and maybe we can explain how the healthy brain works out the chronological order of the myriad events bombarding our senses, and how this can become warped to alter our perception of time.

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