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Ridley Scott's Prometheus - Official Trailer - YouTube

Awesome. Seems to be the story of the ship in Alien. (via @gruber)

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Meeting scheduling by mobile devices patented & enforced by Microsoft.

The Microsoft patent that Motorola was found to have violated is related to the scheduling of meetings from mobile devices, in which other participants are invited to attend and their electronic calendars are synchronized to reflect the meeting.

This is great news. Hopefully the patent extends beyond mobile and there becomes a need to add a surcharge to sending meeting requests in general.

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Ducksboard – beautiful metrics dashboard.

Seems like a really great service for 29 bucks a month.

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Top 10 Everything of 2011 - TIME

Top 10
Everything of 2011

In 54 wide-ranging lists, TIME surveys
the highs and lows, the good and the bad,
of the past 12 months.

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Tech company bans internal email.

CEO Thierry Breton of the French information technology company said only 10 percent of the 200 messages employees receive per day are useful and 18 percent is spam.  That’s why he hopes the company can eradicate internal emails in 18 months, forcing the company’s 74,000 employees to communicate with each other via instant messaging and a Facebook-style interface.

If I had to guess I'd say this is what Google intended with Wave.

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Indian snake charmer releases cobras in tax office protest

We've all wanted to do this when faced with bullshit red-tape. (via Time Newsfeed)

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Marketing is a reviled activity.

The carrier "does not use this diagnostic tool to obtain the content of text, email or voice messages, or the specific destinations of a customers' Internet activity, nor is the tool used for marketing purposes."

(via MSNBC on the Carrier IQ fiasco)

I think it's interesting that "marketing purposes" are lumped in with spying on text, email and voice messages.

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