I seem to recall that speaker enclosures should be rigid and massive, generally speaking, but there’s no denying the cool factor in this build-it-yourself project from Quebecois industrial designer Samuel Bernier. [via nerdstink]
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From Lifehacker: How to Make Skype Play Nicely with Google Voice
Landlines are so 1990s. If you’d rather not use your cellphone at home but don’t want to pay for an expensive landline, you can use Google Voice and Skype to set up a cheap home phone system that won’t require everyone learning a new number. Here’s how. More »
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From Gizmodo: How to Beat a K-Cup With Simple Coffee Gadgets [Video]
Friend-of-Gizmodo Tonx.org has a cute little comic today bemoaning Keurig K-Cups—the little coffee pods designed to brew single servings of coffee. They’re convenient, but they’re ridiculously overpriced, and don’t make very good coffee. You can do better. More »
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From Gizmodo: Open WebOS 1.0 Coming in September [WebOS]
When HP kinda, sorta killed webOS as a money making endeavor, they promised to keep it alive as an open source project, but offered little in the way of concrete details. According to The Verge they’ve partially pulled back the curtain, revealing that Open webOS 1.0 should arrive in September. More »
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From Gizmodo: Google-Approved Motorola Lawsuit Trying to Block iPhone 4S and iCloud [Motorola]
In the words of Jack Nicholson acting as the president from “Mars Attacks”…
- “Why can’t we all just… get along?”
Oh well… now the war is heating up even more!
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The days of Apple and Google sitting down for a nice cup of tea are long gone. Now they’re staring across the battlements, just waiting to lawyer bomb each other into the Stone Age. Motorola’s new lawsuit against Apple—which Google had to approve—is the latest stop on the road to the inevitable clash of titans. More »
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From Business and financial news – CNNMoney.com: Federal student loan rate set to double
Uh oh… now we are REALLY in for trouble if this becomes a reality… it’s bad enough that the tuition rates have been climbing incredibly in recent years but to have the student loan rate DOUBLE?! Are we really crazy and that stupid?!!
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Attention college students: The interest rate on federal student loans is scheduled to double this summer unless Congress acts soon.
From Gizmodo: How the Government Used a Con Artist to Catch Google’s Criminal Activities [Google]
Oy?! One of my favorite shows, “White Collar”, is now a reality… o.O That’s … weird…
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Last summer, Google had to pay $500 million to avoid criminal prosecution by the US government. Using a convicted con artist, the feds caught Google aiding illegal online pharmaceutical drug sales. The operation—as described by the Wall Street Journal—is movie material. More »
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