Here’s a quick look around the internet in 1 minute 90.
The New Digg .. Says Bye Bye to Spammers
” .. complaints from spammers and marketers is encouraging for those who are rooting for Digg’s return to glory. “The fact that these folks are pissed off is a good sign,” said one source in the aggregation industry. Rodriguez and Rucker, specifically, are “shady online marketing scum who tried their best to ruin the organic internet through dirty tricks,” he said. As one commenter wrote on Hacker News, “The spammers and the clowns paid to spam digg for SEO lost all their work. That’s quite possibly the best part of the new digg, especially if they can be kept out.”
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Palm trees grew on Antarctica
Scientists drilling deep into the edge of modern Antarctica have pulled up proof that palm trees once grew there. Analyses of pollen and spores and the remains of tiny creatures have given a climatic picture of the early Eocene period, about 53 million years ago. The study in Nature suggests Antarctic winter temperatures exceeded 10C, while summers may have reached 25C. Better knowledge of past “greenhouse” conditions will enhance guesses about the effects of increasing CO2 today.
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My thoughts on the Palm Trees? .. “And as we read on in the article, we find that nowhere is mentioned plate tectonics. Could it be that the Antarctic landmass once resided at the equator? — The argument for manmade global warming has seemingly failed once again, as this article shows. The guys that write/study this stuff are way too two dimensional, in that they fail to take into account how the earth really works”
Bye Bye Baby
The extension’s description says it all: “A Chrome extension that deletes babies from your News Feed permanently — by replacing them with awesome stuff.” Oh, is that not enough? Yeah, I can see how “awesome stuff” can be very vague. The default setting changes baby photos to pictures of cats. You can, however, customize it to pull pictures from any image-based RSS feed.
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25% drop could confirm Hastings’ 3Q fears
As we continue our trip Around the internet in 1 Minute 90 — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings anticipated the company’s second-quarter earnings call last week that the Olympics could suppress both subscription and streaming levels in the upcoming quarter in the U.S. NBCUniversal has been offering live streams of many different Olympic events via NBCOlympics.com throughout the Summer Games from London. Netflix my have felt the downturn most acutely on Sunday because it proved to be the most active day yet for streaming the Olympics in the U.S., which Procera noted increased in volume by 100% over the first two days.
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Twitter traffic gets the blame for Olympic cyclists’ transmitters not sending signals
London 2012 had billed itself as the “first social media Olympics,” and while that may be true, there have been some social media snafus. There has been some speculation that Twitter crashed last Thursday because of an excess of Olympic-related traffic, while rehearsal footage of the opening ceremony also found its way to YouTube prior to the big show — directly contradicting the ceremony director’s plea to “#savethesurprise.”
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Commodore 64 turns 30
BBC News invited Commodore enthusiast Mat Allen to show schoolchildren his carefully preserved computer, at a primary school and secondary school in London.
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Apple still wandering around out there — somewhere
“There’s no warning in either the browser itself or Apple Software Update on either [Windows or Snow Leopard] that Safari likely won’t be updated,” Long wrote. “Users have no way of knowing that their browser has at least 121 unpatched vulnerabilities and is no longer safe to use.” According to Apple’s own documentation regarding the security updates, almost all those vulnerabilities expose users to attack by maliciously crafted Web pages, to which users of Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard would presumably also be susceptible.
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