{"id":8448,"date":"2011-06-16T23:19:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T04:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2023-12-16T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T20:02:06","slug":"noisecast-roundup-tournament-edition-2-turbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/06\/noisecast-roundup-tournament-edition-2-turbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Noisecast roundup: tournament edition 2 turbo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That title isn&#8217;t actually relevant to any of today&#8217;s news stories. But you know, whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"guile theme goes with everything @ microsoft e3 2010 conference (kinect dance central)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iTYtH28esTg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I could listen to that song all day, but we&#8217;ve got news to get to.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>IBM turned 100 years old, today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2387099,00.asp\">Here&#8217;s a look at what the computing giant has given us over the past century<\/a>. Personally I&#8217;ll always remember them for their clackety, nearly indestructible, keyboards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We here at the Noisecast aren&#8217;t usually fans of releasing sensitive personal information of others, but following the shameful display in Vancouver yesterday,<a href=\"http:\/\/publicshamingeternus.wordpress.com\/\"> I fully support this endeavor to out this jackasses for the cocks that they are<\/a>. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.identifyrioters.com\/\">another website as well<\/a>. You were supposed to be better than this, Canada. \u0ca0_\u0ca0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do feel kinda bad for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=bbb_1308214844\">this guy<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cable companies are starting to realize that maybe their current business model isn&#8217;t exactly a good thing when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/06\/14\/us-cableshow-idUSTRE75D6IA20110614\">an increasing number of customers can&#8217;t afford it<\/a>. I&#8217;d be more than happy to give up cable tv completely if it wasn&#8217;t a bundled deal with my internet access. And that&#8217;s exactly how they get you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past if you wanted a phone that looked like an iPhone but ran Android, you&#8217;d have to hand out in shady shops in a Chinese back alley&nbsp; (or visit Samsung, hey-oh!). Well no longer, my friends! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/gadgetreviews\/sears-sells-android-powered-iphone-as-universe-implodes-on-itself\/25627\">Sears has got you covered<\/a>. Or at least <em>had<\/em> you covered. Looks like it&#8217;s been pulled already. How unfortunate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may recall the little thing on Monday about Rebecca Black&#8217;s Friday being inaccessible on Youtube for a little while. Well today they&#8217;ve officially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/06\/16\/rebecca-black-friday-video-removed_n_878333.html\">pulled the plug and it has been removed completely<\/a>. And nothing of value was lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RIM claims to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/06\/16\/rim-announces-q1-earnings-says-its-shipped-500-000-playbooks\/\">shipped half a million Playbooks<\/a>. That may be true, but I wonder how many of those are sitting unsold on store shelves. I would remark how I have yet to see one in the wild, but I hardly leave the house these days and my be a poor test case. Have you guys seen any around?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you feel like some kind of weirdo because you spend a lot of time on the internets? Well maybe you shouldn&#8217;t be. A new study suggests that social networks like Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/web\/news\/2011\/06\/internet-users-now-have-more-and-closer-friends-than-those-offline.ars\">lead to an increase in the number of close friends a person has compared to their unplugged peers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you thought the Segway was goofy looking, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/06\/16\/tilto-personal-transporter-looks-like-seated-segway-does-donuts\/\">get ready for the Tilto<\/a>. The name is even ridiculous. At least Segway implied getting from one place to another (and improper spelling), but Tilto just sounds like a crappy carnival ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and a very unfortunately named politician resigned today following a scandal involving a picture of his penis. I guess that&#8217;s tech related. Barely. 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