Opt-Out Required to Prevent Your Yahoo! Mail Contacts From Being Used for Social Network

Earlier this week, Yahoo! announced a plan to try to leverage its Yahoo! Mail users' contacts into a social network of friends who will receive your Yahoo! Updates. Once the most visited website in the world, Yahoo! now ranks fourth worldwide, reaching about ( Read more... )

Today I'm going to be picking up one of those new-fangled cable boxes (or, in reality, old-fangled) from Comcast that have a DVR in it, like TiVo. Finally, I will have the power to record 2 things at once. Eeeeexcellent. That means I can actually start recording Supernatural, which always loses the "which one show gets to be recorded" contest in ( Read more... )

Earlier I mentioned that if you scroll down to the footer in gmail there is a tiny link that says "turn off Buzz." However, I just found out that that doesn't actually turn it off completely. People can still see things. To get rid of Buzz completely forever and ever (I think...hopefully), click on Settings at the top, then go to the Buzz tab and ( Read more... )

1. Geek Heroes Sing "We Love Xkcd", the webcomic parody based on the Discovery Channel promo. (Neil Gaiman! Wil Wheaton! Hmm, I feel that Felicia Day should be here. ♥)

2. Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites
Only one tape drive remained in the world that could read the Ampex two-inch media. Plus, the original Nimbus ( Read more... )

Trying to help someone, but I am Mac-ignorant. Where would you find the DivX folder on a Mac so you can turn off the watermark/logo default setting ( Read more... )

So, have you guys heard of the concept of a space elevator? It's something I've been following. A contest was just held: The 2009 Space Elevator Games
(AP: A winner in Space Elevator Games)

Elevator to the Top: Space Elevators Climbing Towards Reality
Rather than using a rocket to reach orbit: The basic concept of a Space Elevator is rather simple ( Read more... )

The Internet: 40 Years of Breathtaking Innovation

A possible tv show based on the 1997 movie Gattaca. (A movie I loved, btw!) Huh. I would watch that show.

The Swedish film Let The Right One In is being remade in English, titled Let Me In. (Noooo. Why???)

TNT is going to air Southland. They will air the first season plus the new episodes of ( Read more... )

• 7 years after Firefly: Where are they now?
  
  
• How Felicia Day Recruited Millions for Her Guild
  
  
• Atlantis' Ronon to play a new fantasy warrior king
  Jason Momoa cast in a new HBO series. Article contains spoilers for the SGA series finale.
  
  
• Torchwood: The Musical
  Torchwood fans have been hosting auditions with a view to staging a musical production of ( Read more... )

1. I just finished watching the "Genealogy of Vidding" 24/7 DIY Video Summit presentation made by Laura Shapiro and Francesca Coppa (with intro by Henry Jenkins). I'd heard all about it, but hadn't actually ever sat down to watch it. In short, it is WONDERFUL. Here it is on YouTube, and here is its DIY 24/7 page, where you can also download it ( ( Read more... )

You may have heard that imeem is going to suck completely now remove videos in order to "simplify the site." Umm, yeeeah. Ok, then!

Starting next Tuesday, June 30th, we will no longer offer the imeem community the ability to access user-uploaded videos and photos. Any photos or videos that you have uploaded to your profile, or to groups you’re a ( Read more... )