August, 2011

6 Reasons The Guy Who’s Fixing Your Computer Hates You – [Cracked]

The 20 Most Annoying Things About Your Annoying Childhood Friend - [BuzzFeed]

New Participatory Meme – Stocking: Recreating Stock Photos – [Uproxx]

Skype Acquires Year-Old Group Messaging Service GroupMe – [TechCrunch]

Skype will acquire group messaging service GroupMe, a service that was born at a hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York in 2010. GroupMe was founded by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci.

GroupMe allows you to create on the fly private phone groups with others, and then send text messages throughout the group and set up free conference calls.

An Update On The Rebel Siege Of Tripoli – [The Atlantic Wire]

The Libyan rebels are continuing their rapid advance into the heart of Tripoli, as Muammar Qaddafistations tanks near his Bab Azaziya compound in a defiant last stand. Al-Jazeera is reporting that central Tripoli is still very dangerous because of “pockets of pro-Qaddafi resistance and the presence of snipers and artillery fire,” with loyalists still controlling about 20 percent of the city. But the rebels are increasingly taking control of state institutions, including, most recently, Libyan state television, which was still carryingpro-Qaddafi programs on Monday. BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes captured the intense fighting still raging in the capital when the convoy of rebels he was accompanying was ambushed by pro-Qaddafi forces this morning.

Related: AlJazeera’s Live Coverage

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Spotted at Penn State.

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The gag reel for one of the best animated movies Disney’s ever done, courtesy of the newly released Blu-ray edition.

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A kid treats a news report on the Kardashian wedding (let’s not pretend the groom has any say in anything going on) like the complete fucking joke it is.

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From Mail & Guardian:

With his flipped-round baseball cap and “Just Do It” T-shirt, Tareg Gazel looks like any other 19-year-old. But this teen’s job is to use cunning and guile to find and kill Muammar Gaddafi regime snipers.

His mother is from Belfast, his father is Libyan and, as if drawn from the script of a Hollywood movie, he is now using what he learnt hunting game in the desert to liberate Zawiyah, his city that lies almost at the gates of Tripoli.

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The latest from Freddie Wong:

After meeting Codemasters at E3 and demoing their new game, BodyCount, they asked us if we would like to make a video around the game! We told them that we would love to since we really enjoyed the game and they gave us access to their massive custom sound effects library.

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Corridor Digital brings out The Drop Squad.

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Every book the POTUS has read since the last campaign, by The Daily Beast.

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