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Chat Roulette: everything you ever wanted to know

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.
This video came my way via David Pogue, my favorite tech writer from the New York Times. Catch David on Twitter: @Pogue.

Clueless Woman Calls Tech Show When Her Stolen Wi-FI Disappears [VIDEO]

Mashable posted this hilarious story and video:
“Meet Jennifer, she had been unwittingly yoinking Wi-Fi for more than a year and a half when the gravy train ran out, after which she called into Leo Laporte’s Tech Guy radio show in a state of utter confusion.”
via Clueless Woman Calls Tech Show When Her Stolen Wi-FI Disappears [...]

Google Hacked the Chinese Hackers Right Back – China – Gizmodo

Google Hacked the Chinese Hackers Right Back – China – Gizmodo.

And my favorite comment:
EpiphyteCorp. 11:01 AM
Giz reader #1: Hey, did you hear Google hacked the hackers who had hacked them?
Giz reader #2: Shut the hack up!
Giz reader #1: No man, I’m not hacking with you!
Giz reader #2: No hacking way! That’s unbehackinglievable!
Giz reader [...]

Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Is Life After Death Possible?

Without the ear, there is no sound. Without the eye, there is no color. Without the brain, there is no . . . Cool, trippy article!
“It was the 18th Century Irish philosopher, George Berkeley, who posed the question, “If a tree fell in the forest and there was no one there to hear it, would [...]

A List Apart: Articles: Getting to No

“Five red flags
Years ago, when I first started noticing these signs, I’d often ignore them or say, “They won’t be this way when we start working together.”
Oh yes they will. Bank on it.
Be on the lookout for these classic signs that can lead to Costco-sized bottles of antacid.”
via A List Apart: Articles: Getting to No.

Google Analytics Blog: Rapid Fire Web Analytics Q and A with Avinash and Nick

Cool video from Google Analytics gurus Avinash and Nick:
“This week, Avinash and I sat down to do a rapid fire Q&A to answer your questions. Rather than do a dry text Q&A version, we chose to do a video, and we think you’ll find it educational and entertaining.
In this episode we discuss:
* How is bounce [...]

Essay – The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate – NYTimes.com

The Higgs boson can’t exist, so when we create it, time boomerangs backwards to undo the misdeed. Yikes! Dennis Overbye of the New York Times writes a dazzling piece:
“More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and frigid helium shut it down, the world’s biggest and most expensive physics experiment, known as the [...]

De-Icer: USGS report details “recent dramatic shrinkage” in U.S. glaciers, matching global decline « Climate Progress

In case you’d forgotten about climate change in all the hubbub and uproar about our president being a Nazi. Here’s what global warming has wrought:
De-Icer: USGS report details “recent dramatic shrinkage” in U.S. glaciers, matching global decline « Climate Progress.
Just sayin’ …

BBC – dot.life: Teenage hackers: Making a better world

Read the story:
BBC – dot.life: Teenage hackers: Making a better world.

Back to School: 10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for Students

Back to School: 10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for Students.
Great collection of awesome Firefox apps! Zotero absolutely rocks! I’ve been using Zotero for at least a year. It saves PDFs of web pages, as well as links and all bibliographic info. I had a Firefox meltdown once and had to reinstall from scratch. My bookmarks were [...]