America’s enemies include those who are “trolling social networks, blogs and forums,” a new Army document claims. But don’t worry: leaving snarky comments won’t get you an early hours visit from the Green Berets. Trolling in this sense refers to foreign operatives reading through such sites for information that could compromise military security. The warning […]
The Internet has finally run out of addresses. Well, sort of. As we noted last year, the issue involves public IP addresses, which points to a physical computer or server that stores a website, rather than the domain names (such as geeksaresexy.net) that most human users type in. The current system, Internet Protocol version 4 […]
Haha, I just love how they used Bob “happy little trees” Ross to depict 4chan. [College Humor]
Amazon is reportedly set to challenge Netflix’s dominance of online movies by offering an all-you-can-stream package. After several rumors along those lines (which were slightly muddied by contrasting rumors that Amazon wanted to buy out Netflix), one Engadget reader has produced a screenshot of what appears to be a case of Amazon letting the cat […]
This video popped up on YouTube last month, but has been making the blog rounds in the past few days. It’s a clip from a 1994 episode of The Today Show, featuring Brian Gumbel trying his best to wrap his head around this “Internet” thing (and that weird little @ symbol). “What, do you write […]
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The upcoming Facebook game Blingville is still in beta testing and already the folks at Zynga are pulling out the legal guns. They sent the creators a cease-and-desist letter, claiming that the new game’s title is infringing Zynga’s trademark in the “ville” franchise of Zynga’s Farmville, Cityville, Fishville, etc. Blingville is already fighting back though, […]
You might have noticed that Tumblr has been going down with some greater frequency lately – and their “we’ll be back shortly” page certainly wasn’t anything to write home about, especially compared to Twitter’s adorable fail whale. Well, The Oatmeal had a suggestion for a new Tumblr downtime mascot, and it looks like Tumblr has […]
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Most of you won’t really give a crap, but here it is, the new logo representing the next major revision of the HTML standard: HTML5. It stands strong and true, resilient and universal as the markup you write. It shines as bright and as bold as the forward-thinking, dedicated web developers you are. It’s the […]