Cody Taylor

Akin to the FAIL blogs and the many imitations of the icanhascheezburger websites out there, comes a site (that’s been around for quite some time apparently) that solely features actual photographs of signs and notices of quotes being used in ways that are quite hilarious.

App Store wars getting heated… The developers of NJection Mobile are claiming that the people or developers from Trapster are posting invalid and fake reviews, as well as searching for reviews on websites, spamming them and writing phony, bogus reviews of the competing application.

Palm shows off its new Pre smartphone, and its webOS platform is the coolest thing we’ve seen since the iPhone. But is this enough? Palm just might survive. The company’s new webOS platform is the coolest thing I’ve seen since the iPhone. The card-based usage metaphor,

An anonymous reader writes “New York magazine has a story about some of the flashy new ideas that are coming out of the labs of the New York Times. The piece prompted Peter Wayner to dig up some of the old Java applets he wrote to explore whether more promiscuity really stops AIDS and whether baseball can do anything to speed up the games. He notes that these took a great deal of work to produce and it’s not possible to do them on a daily basis. Furthermore, they’re cranky and fragile, perhaps thanks to Java. Are cool, interactive features the future of journalism on the web? Or will simple ASCII text continue to be the most efficient way for us to mingle our thoughts, especially when ASCII text won’t generate a classloading error?”

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An anonymous reader writes “A spate of broken cables has brought disruption for many of the world’s Web users in 2008 — and the Med has been at the center of the problems. For political reasons, the Mediterranean Sea is an Internet bottleneck through which the majority of traffic between Europe and Asia is squeezed. That traffic must run the gauntlet of earthquakes and heavy maritime traffic to reach its destination. Better and stronger cables are urgently needed to avoid a re-occurrence of the 2008 outages.”

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For years now, the little blue “E” has been gracing the desktops of Windows users around the world (though many might say it’s doing just the opposite!). Internet Explorer, notorious for its many security holes and being slow to patch them, continues to be one of the top choices for web browsing…