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Off topic: Movie posters, Morgan Freeman’s roles, magnetic cows, map preferences, L.A. in cardboard

Have you seen this movie (poster) before? (via Flavorwire) Speaking of movies: From playing God to driving Miss Daisy, Morgan Freeman's chain of command. In case you missed it, an update on cows and Read More →

Have the tablet wars already been won?

Are the tablet wars already over? A DigiTimes report says the major PC companies that produce tablets -- Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer and Asustek -- will phase out their products in the next year. That would leave Read More →

Are SOPA critics gaining upper hand? Plus Pandora seeks ad money, porn sites sue over .XXX

A few news items of note this morning: •The wave of outrage this week from Silicon Valley may have paid off -- The Wrap reports that the Stop Online Piracy Act is unlikely to win House approval under its Read More →

Quoted: Farewell to S.F.’s Yahoo billboard

"It could be seen from the downtown police station apparently, so we laughed about people being thrown in jail for the night looking up and seeing 'You look cute today.' We thought about changing it to 'You look Read More →

Off topic: ‘Star Wars’ ads, walkable roller-coaster, sarcasm and ‘Buffy’

A walkable roller-coaster? (Oh, those wacky Germans!) The science of sarcasm. (Yeah, that's an excellent use of scientists' time.) "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" comics are finally going digital. And a British electronics store has Read More →

Rumors of an Amazon smartphone

Is Amazon getting into the smartphone business? A Reuters report today quotes two Citigroup analysts who predict Amazon will step up its competition with Apple and Google and release a phone by next Christmas. “With the clear success of Read More →

Android malware, Facebook fends off spam, Samsung tweaks Galaxy design

Updates on a few stories we've been following this week: •It's a good news/bad news situation for Google and its Android mobile operating system. On one hand Android is clobbering the competition, grabbing 52 percent of the Read More →

Quoted: Garlinghouse quits AOL

"Hard decision as I'm leaving a bunch of awesome people -- working on some very good stuff -- but decided it was time." -- Brad Garlinghouse, who the Los Angeles Times reports has resigned from AOL. Garlinghouse was hired Read More →

Off topic: Ugliness in Miami, pizza=veggie, slap-happy teddy bear and unfriend your friends

Somehow the Miami Marlins found something stupider than Rusty, the Giants' short-lived home-run-celebrating robot. To the delight of 9-year-olds and college students, pizza is now officially a vegetable. Tired of snoring? This Read More →

Silicon Valley tech giants unite against piracy bill

Google and some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies are leading the charge against the Stop Online Piracy Act currently making its way through Congress. The bill, which counts the Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Industry of Read More →
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