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Marco Arment has sold The Magazine to Glenn Fleishman,

Analog Camera – the fastest and easiest way to take, process and share photos.

Nice looking app.

The Sweethome is the sister site of The Wirecutter, our electronics leaderboard. It’s a list of the best home gear, each item chosen mindfully and with many hours of research, interviews with the world’s most knowledgable experts and testers, all in service of backing up our own testing and opinions. It’s not a blog. We don’t do news and we don’t post multiple times a day–we just want to help you pick out great gear and get on with your life.

The Wirecutter is a great site and it looks like The Sweethome will follow in its footsteps.

For the record, having food stuck in your beard is not a con.

Hiroko Tabuchi for The New York Times:

Although Sony sells hundreds of products as varied as batteries and head-mounted 3-D displays, it so happens that Sony’s most successful business is selling insurance. While it doesn’t run this business in the United States or Europe, Sony makes a lot of money writing life, auto and medical policies in Japan.

Its financial arm accounts for 63 percent of Sony’s total operating profit last year. Life insurance has been its biggest moneymaker over the last decade, earning the company 933 billion yen ($9.07 billion) in operating profit in the 10 years that ended in March.

I’m happy that Sony is making money in one portion of its business, but I find it really sad that the maker of the iconic Walkman is selling insurance.

The national treasury released a new plastic bank note in November 2011, and they have received hundreds of emails from residents who are convinced that the bills have an added fragrance.

’They all have a scent which I’d say smells like maple? Please advise if this is normal?’ wrote one concerned citizen.

Canadians are so cute.

The Wall Street Journal can’t help but post stupid shit about Apple.

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We posted about cat beards, so it only seems fair.

Apple has operated almost tax-free in Ireland since 1980, welcomed by a government keen to bring jobs to what was then one of Europe’s poorest countries, former company executives and Irish officials have said.

That’s the opening to a Reuters story where they try to convince people they dug up this dirt on Apple. The only problem is that Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer are the ones that revealed this during the senate hearings earlier this week.

Reuters assholes.

These tips for taking wedding photos are hilarious.

Don’t get photobombed by death. LOL!

Cat bearding.

A 73-year-old Japanese artist uses Excel to produce beautiful traditional artwork.

Radio Shack’s close ties with Maker Faire and Make magazine promise to bring hobbyists back in the doors, but is it enough to save the ailing electronics store?

Jim and Dan talk about Tim Cook’s senate testimony and discuss the issues involved in owning a company in the US but manufacturing your products abroad. Later they delve into Google’s new 3D maps, a very young musician’s incredible rendition of Van Halen’s Eruption, the new Xbox one, and more.

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Square, the payments startup that’s competing with major credit card companies, is now open for business in Japan.

This looks like a promising app from Luc Vandal. You will also need to download and install an app on your Mac.

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I wonder what all those people that heckled Apple Maps will say when they see this.

While remodeling his newly purchased home in Elbow Lake, Minn., David Gonzalez noticed something unusual amid the old newspapers that had been used as wall insulation.

It was a copy of Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, the very first comic to feature the granddaddy of all superheroes, Superman.

I’m going to rip apart my house.

Cody Brown writing on how the New York Times sent him a cease and desist for showing how to replicate “Snow Fall” and then demanded he not even mention their name on his site.

A fellow gets thirsty.

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Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley on the belief that Yahoo bought his Tumblr blog:

In the meantime, whatever I want: mine. You want to talk excitement? That’s excitement. I just Amazon Primed a fucking speedboat.

LOL!

No surprise they’re in Dubai.

Reading this will give you a good idea of what’s going to happen tomorrow. It’s going to be messy.

Coming soon to Google Glass.

According to numerous sources, Mayer determined quickly in her research that the fast-growing content site, turbocharged by mountains of user-generated content, was just the kind of property that Yahoo needed to make it both “cool” and relevant to new audiences.

I agree with that strategy.