ITwhirled
by Amy Bennett

A tribute to the weird, funny, twisted, technology-driven world we live in.

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"Unfriend" is the word of the year

Competition for the title was tech-heavy, and included "netbook" and "sexting."
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MIT geeks seek "ugliest man on campus"

Warning: Research not conducted with expected amount of intellectual rigor.
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Twitter feed gets CBS deal

@SuitableForPrimeTimeStuffMyDadSays
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Cat's death offers cautionary tale on e-rumormongering

Oh, you mean THAT Margaret Thatcher.
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UK parliamentarian admonished for reading from his smartphone

Members of the British parliament often read letters from their constituents aloud, just not (gasp!) from an "electronic device."
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Catholic Church keeping up with the times

Holy water may carry a priestly blessing -- but it could also carry the H1N1 virus.
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Man finds alibi on Facebook

Well-timed status update requesting pancakes saves the day for the "Facebook kid."
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Large Hadron Collider disabled by baguette-toting bird

Is the LHC cursed?
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Cheap mobile phones transforming society in Somalia

Somali courtship used to be an elaborate process in which clan elders decided on pairings and the prospective groom was required to pay a hefty bride price to his betrothed's father. But now, with dirt cheap cell phones available everywhere couples can elope much more easily.
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Japanese headsets promise Terminator-style real-time information

A subtitled world could be yours for a mere $80,000.
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peer-to-peer

Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly

claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century

pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin

Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?

sjvn
64-bits of protection?

jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith

mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive

 

Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann

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