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 […]
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Actually, deviantart user viridis-somnio didn’t really name her lip art after the popular browser, but I took it upon myself to rename it in an appropriately geeky way. I hope she won’t hold it against us! [Source]
(Speech begins at 09:30 mark) “Geek culture transcends national culture.” So says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who notes that the geeks who are prepared to spend their time editing the online encyclopedia are generally “really sweet people.” Wales was speaking in my hometown of Bristol (England) as part of a series of events marking the […]
Twitter can be coo. Twitter can also be koo. But which it is depends on where you live. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have been using the microblogging site to learn more about regional slang. They analyzed 380,000 messages from the site during a one-week period from last March, an estimated 15% of the daily US […]
Apple and Microsoft have both suffered embarrassing starts to the new year, with iPhone alarms failing to go off and entire Hotmail accounts disappearing for several days. Microsoft says it has now solved a problem that began on New Year’s Eve with users finding their e-mail accounts partially or completely empty. There seems to have […]
This inspiring rendition of Queen’s head bangingly awesome anthem was performed by Joe Edmonds, enjoy!