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Lenovo is preparing a version of its ThinkPad laptop running Google’s Chrome OS.

Jim and Dan discuss the article put out by the Wall Street Journal “devaluing” Apple and speculate on Dell’s plans with private-equity firms.

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Seth Godin:

If you go to work and do what you’re told, you’re not being negative, certainly, but the lack of initiative you demonstrate (which, alas, you were trained not to demonstrate) costs us all, because you’re using a slot that could have been filled by someone who would have added more value.

So true.

And this is why people are flying Virgin.

Oh Google.

Rene Ritchie outlines what an LG smart home would look like and wonders how Apple will fit into that future.

The Bad Lip Reading guys are back with a hilarious send-up of NFL footage.

That looks cool.

“Apple needs to adapt to a very different world,” Sculley said. “As we go from $500 smartphones to even as low, for some companies, as $100 for a smartphone, you’ve got to dramatically rethink the supply chain and how you can make these products and do it profitably.”

Seriously? The guy that kicked Steve Jobs out of Apple and then ran the company into the ground is giving advice to Tim Cook, a supply chain guru. What’s Bloomberg got on tap for tomorrow, an interview with a car full of clowns and a skateboarding dog?

The Atlantic:

Astronauts can, certainly, tear up — they’re human, after all. But in zero gravity, the tears themselves can’t flow downward in the way they do on Earth. The moisture generated has nowhere to go. Tears, astronaut Andrew Feustel put it, “don’t fall off of your eye … they kind of stay there.” NASA spacewalk officer Allison Bollinger, who oversaw Feustel’s EVA, confirmed this assessment. “They actually kind of conglomerate around your eyeball,” she said.

In other words, yep: There’s no crying in space.

Even worse? According to the article, “space tears” actually can hurt.

As a Canadian, I have to say that #2 is very popular.

The bloggers at the official Star Wars Web site had a bit of fun with the Obama administration’s response to a petition asking them to build a Death Star.

Facebook is trying to give Google a run for its money, with a new product called “Graph Search.” It turns some of the personal information people have shared on Facebook into a powerful searchable database.

Who gives a fuck.

Matt Gemmell gives us the tools he uses to write. I especially like “something to throw.”

Om Malik is at the event if you’re interested in what’s going on.

Take that! […]

Kyle Baxter:

With the proliferation of powerful and cheap microprocessors and sensors for mobile devices, along with wireless technologies and the web, we have the potential to completely re-create what a computer is. Let’s do so in such a way that makes our lives better, and not just filled with more glowing screens.

Some interesting thoughts.

CNET News:

…we were told that we must use the official statement and that we must follow corporate policy to defer all press requests to corporate communications.

We were in an impossible situation as journalists. I could have quit right then. Maybe I should have. I decided that the best thing for my team was to get through the day as best we could and to fight the fight from the other side.

Going forward, I will do everything within my power to prevent this situation from happening again.

Anyone else want to join me in calling bullshit on her statement? She didn’t do “everything within my power” to stop it this time. What makes us believe that she will next time?

VL Automotive is making a version of the Fisker Karma hybrid luxury car with the engine from a Corvette instead.

I must admit there is a lot going on there. Maybe FIFA should back off of the requirements and let the artists be artists.

Only Merlin Mann could find this.

He quit over the whole CBS interfering in CNet editorial decisions with the CES awards. At least there is one honest person at CNet — too bad he’s gone.

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Emily Willingham looks at the danger of sensationalistic reporting in science journalism. Lessons apply to tech journalism too.

Ever thought that a particularly nasty comment trolls can “poison the well” for an otherwise good article? There’s now science to reinforce that opinion.

Jason Fried:

The only answers that matter are dollars spent. People answer when they pay for something. That’s the only answer that really matters.

So true.

It shouldn’t be about stealing someone else’s content or blindly reposting a rumor. Think about what you are writing. Your readers will appreciate the effort.

The New Yorker: In the January 7th issue of the magazine, Adam Green profiles the pickpocket Apollo Robbins. In this video, Apollo demonstrates some of his tricks and techniques, using Green as his victim. Amazing to see Robbins work. You … Continued

io9:

Since June 2010, Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta have been filming a shot-for-shot live-action remake of Pixar’s Toy Story, using human actors as the human characters and real toys for Woody and the gang (and the original Toy Story audio track). The toys move with a combination of stop-motion photography and good old-fashioned puppet strings and wires.

Do yo have far too much time on your hands? Then you might want to do what these guys did!

The southern grasshopper mouse eats scorpions and tarantulas, then howls at the moon in a bload-soaked frenzy afterwards.