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Read about the lengths these guys went to in order to keep all of the sites online. Remarkable.

The OLPC folks gave Ethiopian kids tablets, then sat back and watched what happened. The results are pretty spectacular.

I thought the letter was brilliant.

Twelve South has introduced a new brushed metal stand that lifts your MacBook up to six inches from the desk.

Good for Om for asking what the deal was between them (twice).

Launching in the last week, Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Windows Phone platforms are already the subject of legal complaints, after a Portland-based OS development company called SurfCast sued the company for allegedly infringing on its patents with the use of Live Tiles in its desktop, tablet and mobile software.

I wonder if they were in touch with Microsoft before the release or waited until it was publicly available.

Today we are launching AMBER Alerts coordinated by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the Google Public Alerts platform. Public Alerts are designed to bring you emergency alerts when and where they’re relevant to you, and AMBER Alerts aim to help bring abducted children home safely.

Good move, thanks Google.

Google did a great job with this.

iMessage is apparently down for some users, while others report the outage also affects iTunes Match, Game Center, and the App Store. Everything is fine with all of my services.

The Atlantic:

With Hurricane Sandy, the nation’s eyes are turning to its largest city. Photos of storms and flooding are popping up all over Twitter, and while many are real, some of them — especially the really eye-popping ones — are fake.This post, which will be updated over the next couple of days, is an effort to sort the real from the unreal. It’s a photograph verification service, you might say, or a pictorial investigation bureau. If you see a picture that looks fishy, send it to me at alexis.madrigal[at]gmail.com. If you like this sort of thing, you should also visit istwitterwrong.tumblr.com, which is just cataloging the fakes.

I’ve been hearing similar things.

Not as crazy as the first ad Ballmer did. […]

Adam Lashinsky for CNN:

I also heard that Forstall refused to sign the letter apologizing for the mapping fiasco, sealing his fate at Apple.

Lots of speculation going around tonight.

Om Malik may have the best line of the day on Scott Forstall being fired.

My buddy Bill Lonero and his band are heading out on a 25 city tour across the United States with original Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno starting on December 21st and ending January 20th. Bill setup a page at Indiegogo to help raise some money for the tour. Help him out if you can.

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Wall Street declared Apple’s latest quarter a miss, even though the company reported some great quarterly numbers. […]

BroBible:

There’s a lot of really cool webcams on which to watch the impending doom of Sandy. Quartz found around 30, and we’ve highlighted 10 that we think will be worth watching tonight and tomorrow. Consider these your chance to watch a massive, historic storm roll in without having to see Anderson Cooper bravely squint in a camera while rain whips around him.

The Coney Island cam looks like it will provide some dramatic images.

Gizmodo:

If you had any doubts about the scale of frankenstorm Sandy, check out NASA’s latest image to see its size compared to the entire planet. It was taken by NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite this morning, October 28 at 9:02AM EDT.

Hoping everyone on the east coast of both the USA and Canada stay safe during this incredible storm.

Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the company’s new Palo Alto retail store during its grand opening on Saturday.

George Canellis sent in this picture from the Microsoft Store at the Walt Whitman Mall. Even though nobody showed up, Microsoft employees were only letting a few people in at a time. […]

I’m typing this with gritted teeth. My 24 hours with the half-baked Surface have been a frustrating challenge, a mix of love and hate. I want want want this to work, but one problem after another have led me to come to the conclusion – a temporary one at least – that this thing just isn’t ready to ship.

Why do I get the feeling this will be happening quite a bit.

He can’t.

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Wired:

The Nexus is particularly important to Google because it is the company’s flagship smartphone…Google, and every other tech company, desperately wants to keep these sorts of details secret for competitive reasons until they’re ready to announce them.But, on the night of Sept. 20, Google wasn’t fighting the internet. It was up against a bartender, and Brian Katz, global investigations and intelligence manager at Google (according to his LinkedIn profile — “Google does not discuss the actions of its security team,” a representative says) was headed to the 500 Club.

Sounds ridiculously familiar. Google can’t help but copy Apple, can they?

Don’t lie – half of you are trying to figure out ways to scare your kids with this trick.

Much respect granny.