Archive for: January, 2010

AT&T doing the impossible? There’s an updated app for that

Jan 30 2010 Published by Kyle Buis under Pen & Links

This post originally appeared at the Pen & Links blog

A few months ago AT&T introduced an app for the iPhone to mark trouble spots for data and send the information back to the telecom provider. The first question I had was how could you send data to mark where there is no data, where there is no data.

Where most people’s eyes would glaze like I just asked “What is the sound of one hand clapping,” AT&T was bold enough to say it had a magical setup that would send the problem when you got back into better reception.

Well apparently that didn’t work so well and now there’s an updated app for that. Under the instructions:

Mapping Function: Pending Problem Locations
The application is now storing problems that were not successfully submitted as pinned locations.

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One extra click, $150,000 gone

Jan 29 2010 Published by Kyle Buis under Pen & Links

This post originally appeared at the Pen & Links blog

Double click on desktop folders and they open. Single click on Internet links and they open. Double click on the wrong button in stock trading software, your algorithm stifles Wall Street and your bank is out $150,000.

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Up, up, down down, etc. Palm Pre rooted

Jan 29 2010 Published by Kyle Buis under Pen & Links

This post originally appeared at the Pen & Links blog

The Konami code is everywhere, even in the Palm Pre. No 30 lives though. You’re still stuck with the just the one you have.

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Background so deep, the photographer is in the dark

Jan 29 2010 Published by Kyle Buis under Pen & Links

This post originally appeared at the Pen & Links blog

I haven’t heard many stories about people whose lives get flipped around so quickly by literally being in the background of a project, but here’s one on the photographer who shot the background image for the iPad and didn’t know it.

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Rule 34: There is porn of it, no exceptions.

Jan 29 2010 Published by Kyle Buis under Uncategorized

There are many amazing things on the Internet to learn to do and to play with. Then there’s the dark side which I will simply describe by saying “Once you’ve seen it, you can’t unsee it.”

Random searches online can find all sorts of unsettling images that’ll poison your mind for years to come. No amount of drinking or therapy can undo them.

The rules of the Internet are easy enough to find. I won’t link to them because it’s strictly NSFW (Not Safe For Work), but one of them is in the title of this post.

Why the long preamble? To brace you for the impact of realizing not only is there Simpsons porn, but a second man in Australia was arrested for possession of it.


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