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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.

Games journalism is in a sorry state these days, but is TechCrunch really the publication to point that out to the world?

Amazon.com Inc. posted a loss of $274 million, or 60 cents per share, in the July-September period. That’s down from earnings of $63 million, or 14 cents per share, a year earlier.

And this is what happens when you sell your shit at cost.

Carroll Shelby represents everything that is a muscle car. I want this.

A new study from the makers of the Opera Web browser indicates that iOS is the most effective mobile advertising platform; Blackberry was number two, and Android was even further behind.

Well, there you go.

Lawsuits and now the Department of Justice.

Classic.

I don’t believe Surface is perfect, but it’s a platform I can believe in. What I’m most excited about is to see what happens after a second or third rev of the design.

A very detailed and mostly positive review.

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Advertising Age:

You may never be able to try lembas — a fictional bread that Frodo subsisted on through part of his journey to Mordor in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy — but Denny’s thinks it might have the next best thing. The company is about to roll out a Middle-Earth-inspired menu as part of a tie-in with “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”Menu items include 11 breakfast, lunch and dinner items such as “Hobbit Hole Breakfast,” “Frodo’s Pot Roast Skillet,” “Gandalf’s Gobble Melt” and the “Build Your Own Hobbit Slam,” which includes limited-time items such as “Shire Sausage.”

I don’t eat at Denny’s now. I sure won’t be going in for this.

It’s $20, but for me it’s worth it.

Having lived in the South for a period of time, I can tell you that this video is not the least bit surprising or unusual.

There was once a time when the launch of a new Windows operating system was a huge deal for the technology departments in many businesses. Not anymore. Microsoft Corp’s release of Windows 8 on Friday is likely to be a non-event for most companies — and some experts say many may never adopt it.

Microsoft has lost the confidence of its customers — business and personal. You can’t release as much shit as they have over the last decade and expect your customers to keep forgiving you.

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