We know that Zack Snyder isn't too keen on cutting down his live-action adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen. But two hours and 50 minutes is too long for even the strongest of bladders to sit through. News is coming out now that Snyder is indeed cutting Watchmen down to two hours and 35 minutes, which is saying a lot when you take into consideration the painstaking OCD treatment that each frame was given. But still can we whittle away another 10 and save us all the mad dash to the restroom? [Sci Fi Wire]...
Earlier in the year you may remember Twitter “accidentally” deleting a large portion of a majority of their users’ followers and having to spend days restoring those from tape backup due to their mishap. Well, it would appear that Twitter has done it again. This time may not be as obvious to users. On SocialToo.com I was noticing we were getting “Rate Limit Exceeded” errors for our whitelisted @socialtoo user. Such errors shouldn’t be happening for whitelisted users so I looked into it. Sure enough, on the Twitter development mailing list I noticed an email from the founder of...
Earlier in the year you may remember Twitter “accidentally” deleting a large portion of a majority of their users’ followers and having to spend days restoring those from tape backup due to their mishap. Well, it would appear that Twitter has done it again. This time may not be as obvious to users. On SocialToo.com I was noticing we were getting “Rate Limit Exceeded” errors for our whitelisted @socialtoo user. Such errors shouldn’t be happening for whitelisted users so I looked into it. Sure enough, on the Twitter development mailing list I noticed an email from the founder of...
One of these days, some contrite starchitect's going to call for a return to "timeless" rather than "iconic" designs (we're looking at you, Gehry). Or maybe not. Someone, anyway, thinks buildings are trying way too hard to be loved these days: "Clients have encouraged their architects to go to greater and greater lengths to design buildings that are unusual, surprising, even shocking. But the shock will inevitably wear off, and 100 years from now, all those iconic wannabes will resemble a cross between a theme park and the Las Vegas strip." [WSJ]...
When the Ruby on Rails framework was first introduced a few years ago, nothing helped put it on the map more than the now famous “Creating a weblog in 15 minutes” screencast. In it, Rails originator David Heinemeier Hansson created a blogging engine using Rails in just 15 minutes. That demonstration was so powerful that it helped launch Rails into a major framework in the web development world, one for which programmers remain in demand for high paying jobs. The demonstration was such a hit, that a number of other web frameworks emulated the Rails screencast and released their own...
Link: http://flickr.com/photos/vinu/sets/72... A series of photos taken 15 minutes after one of the bombings in Bombay. These are immediate and horrifying. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »...
Why. That's all I have to say. Why is Joey Fatone at the opening of the Charmin's Deluxe Public Restrooms in Times Square? Why is ANYONE famous at this "event"? Who on his publicity team thought this would be a classy thing to do? Do they realize that in about 15 minutes, this bathroom is going to smell like vomit and be covered with STD juice? I'm not sure I even need to tell you this Joey, but here are four signs that you just smeared your career all over a wad of (albeit incredibly soft) toilet paper, threw it...
Filed under: Internet, Windows, Freeware, Social Software Until about 15 minutes ago I was a big Digsby fan. When I fired up the installer on my clean Vista x64 machine today, I was greeted with an unpleasant sight.First off, you don't even download the actual installer from Digsby.com anymore - it's a downloader application. While I'm not a fan of downloaders in general, this one in particular got me all riled up.Apart from half a dozen crapware install offers, the final screen before anything actually happened asked to change my homepage and switch my default search provider to Yahoo. I'm...
Global-Laptop-Batteries.com features a few excellent tips for customers that have purchased the 9-cell battery for the MSI Wind. The 9-cell battery, rumored to get 8 hours+ of life, currently sells for US $79.80. They’re also selling 6-cell Acer Aspire One batteries for US $68.60. Check out their tips to get the most out of your battery: Your new 9 cell MSI wind Battery comes in a discharged condition and must be charged before use (refer to your computer manual for charging instructions). Upon initial use (or after a prolonged storage period) the battery may require two to three charge/discharge cycles before...
All you New York makers can stop reading this right now. However, if you're a maker who grew up with real NY pizza, then moved to a place lacking it, like, say, Los Angeles, this site is for you. Jeff Varasano, a New Yorker in Atlanta, has spent years figuring out how to replicate the dough, get his home oven up beyond 800 degrees F, and perfect his sauce and toppings. His mile-long webpage chronicles it all in glorious detail so you can learn to do it yourself. I cannot look at his pizza photos without wanting to curl up...
Here’s the video of Web 2.0 Summit host John Battelle interviewing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a few weeks ago, in which Battelle floated a rumor that the social-networking site might be interested in buying Twitter. If you want to see the exchange, it starts at 22:15 minutes, when Battelle asks: “Is Twitter just a feature of Facebook?” Awkwardness ensues from there until 23:07 minutes, with no direct question about an actual acquisition effort asked. Thus, Zuckerberg does not have to fib in front of the Web 2.0 crowd about talks that were just then winding down between Twitter and...
We've all been hearing about the migration of television viewers online for years now, but the shift of TV watchers to the Internet is not yet a reality. Television viewership is now at an all time high, according to Nielsen. In its “A2/M2 Three Screen Report” released Monday, Nielsen found that usage on all three screens — television, Internet, and mobile — increased in the last year. Furthermore, television viewership is up to 8 hours and 18 minutes a day — the highest it has been since Nielsen began documenting viewership in the 1950s. Rising attention spans for entertainment...
