A former IT manager has created a website with 12,000 “secret” codes for making your way through automated call center menus. Amazingly it appears to be entirely his own work rather than crowdsourced. The Please Press 1 site was created by Nigel Clarke and reportedly took seven years to compile. Although some firms have provided [...]
Astronaut Chris Hadfield returns to Earth today, but he’s left quite an awesome record of his journey. He not only had one of the coolest Reddit AMAs ever, but he’s been a prolific tweeter, taking awesome pictures and gathering over 800,000 followers along the way as well as kudos from the likes of William Shatner [...]
The owners of domain names such as dacebook, facegbook and faacebok thought they’d make a fortune from fat-fingered Facebook users. In fact they’ll be paying Facebook around $2.8 million. Facebook has become one of the first high-profile winners under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, a 1999 law that offers limited protection to firms against people [...]
The Pirate Party movement has reached new political heights with the election of three members to Iceland’s parliament. It’s the first time multiple Pirate Party members have been part of a national legislature. The first electoral success for one of the numerous national Pirate Parties came in 2009 when the original Swedish group earned 7.1 [...]
The internet was one of the greatest disasters to befall mankind. Now its survivors share their experiences of the tragedy. [The Poke]
If you (or your loved ones) are currently playing Electronics Arts/Maxis games on Facebook, make the most of any cash you’ve spent on it. Come June 14th that money will be worthless. In a move that’s hardly going to dampen down claims that it is the “worst company in the country”, EA has decided to [...]
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Over the past few years, we’ve become accustomed to the tech world presenting plenty of April Fool’s Day gags, many of which involve brilliant-sounding products that turn out to be too good to be true. This year thought, it seems many firms have decided Facebook advertising is the best way to spread the gags. It’s [...]
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For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has the RVBX: Ten Years of Red vs. Blue Box Set on Blu-Ray for just $59.99 plus free shipping. That’s 67% off the box set’s recommended retail price of $179.95. Available for the first time on Blu-ray! On April 1, 2003, the first episode of RED [...]
Believe some media sources and yesterday saw the entire Internet ground to a crawl by a spectacular cyberfight. It’s a story that’s been overhyped, but the incident does highlight a technical flaw that’s very open to abuse. The story involved a sustained attack of Spamhaus, an organization that maintains a blacklist of servers believed to [...]
That’s it, I’m going to cry now. No more Google reader starting July 1st. I felt like I should do something to say Goodbye to Google Reader so I decided to make this song. Hope you enjoy it :) [Hitreach | Via MUO]