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We all know now about the AOL search debacle now, but there have been many more than that in the past century. Wired News has collaborated a list of them, many of which we don’t even think all that much of today. For example, the creation of the social security number is number 1 on [...]

I really like this idea, it seems like it could be very successful if executed properly. Several businesses need to have call centers, and this sounds like a relatively low cost solution to implementing one. It also provides the obvious advantage to being able to connect to the call center through Skype right from the [...]

It looks like the final PS3 development kit has been released to developers today. There aren’t too many details available on it at the moment, but apparently the folks at IGN really dug the lightness of the controllers (most likely due to the absence of the rumble feature that was present on the PSX and [...]

Are you working for a software company? Are you a freelance web developer? Are you a tech news reporter or blogger with nothing current to write about? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this application is for you. This application generates phrases that you can use in your latest sales pitch to [...]

Every once in a while, I like to find a little time waster to blog up. Well, I guess it’s more like all the time, but nevertheless, here is a time waster for you. It’s a Rube Goldberg chain game written in Flash that might waste all of 10 minutes of your time. That said, [...]

This guy did a funny writeup about some different commonly used web browser and what they say about their users. I use Firefox 1.5, which falls under this little segment of his writeup:

Firefox 1.x:
You are most likely a little bit geeky and proud of it. You are a strong supporter of the Open Source movement, [...]

IGN has done a good video of the PS3 userface here, ripped direct from the console instead of a crappy camera shoot. You can watch the Google Video version above, or the high resolution version on IGN weekly below (for the time being anyway).
High res version: IGN Weekly [IGN via Kotaku]

Amateur Illustrator is a new social networking website for upcoming artists. Now, before you write this off as a DeviantART clone, it has a number of features DeviantART doesn’t have, including:

Interviews: Illustrators can be interviewed by the site administrators and by other members. Interviews done by the site administrators will also be featured on the [...]

Stephen Speicher over at Engadget makes a good point. What good reason is there on the consumer end for the HD DVD vs Blu-ray battle to be kept up? None, I say. And there’s an easy solution to the whole problem, just like there was with the DVD format wars past: Just make a player [...]

Thanks to the monumental success of Dead Rising on the Xbox 360, Japanese investment firm NikkoCitiGroup’s forecasts for Capcom are up this year. According to them, 320,000 copies of Dead Rising were shipped since in it’s first week of availabilty. Based on that, their forecast for Dead Rising sales for the fiscal year (up to [...]