The Wall Street Journal, which has been doing great work on Internet privacy, has a disturbing piece today on the way online data companies build “profiles” of your intimate life — even if you try to stop them by deleting browser cookies. The disclosures are not entirely new — Wired, for example, has done good reporting on it before — …
New Comics for 9/22/10
Don’t go to your local comic shop unprepared. Bring a list. Be a person with a plan. Stroll those racks with presence of a comic shopper that knows the score. So study up, and check back later in the week for the featured pull list, the Panel of the Week and the Comic Book Club.
(A ♠ marks my projected pull list.)
Marvel
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Top Ten Monday Tech Deals
TomTom XL 350TM GPS with lifetime traffic: $119.95 (Newegg)
This 4.3-inch TomTom GPS features lifetime traffic and map updates for just $120. Newegg also throws in a free Memorex GPS case for good measure, which will save you another 10 bucks. Free shipping, too.
Oral-B SmartSeries 4000 electric toothbrush: $38.85 (Amazon)
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Peek 9 E-mail Device Promises Everything But Voice and Web
The first Peek device launched two years ago. At its very core, it resembled a thin BlackBerry that only did e-mail—no web surfing, no calls, just e-mail. It was priced relatively aggressively at $100 and commanded a $20-per-month service plan, though no long-term contract was required.
The newest version of the device, the Peek 9,
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Daily Dose
Friday, September 17, 2010 –
Quote To Live By:
“I spent large segments of each day picturing you choking on food, and I recently contacted an exotic animal dealer because I had a very satisfying dream that I once shoved your face into one of those pink-inflamed monkey butts.” Sue Sylvester from Glee
Up Front:
Details Of The Google …
The Playstation and Me: Ted Price, part 3
I wasn’t expecting the kind of immersion that I got from that demo. But these guys have studied how to use 3D and how it can enhance the gameplay experience and not hurt it. They’re setting a great example for the rest of the developers out there in terms of how to use 3D. I’ll give you another example from mainstream. I think that …