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Smash-and-grab robbers.

If you can’t laugh at yourself…

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue documents what people in the early 19th century used to describe sex acts.

Misleading? Bullshit!

On this week’s episode of Amplified, Jim and Dan discuss the upcoming Apple event and whether or not it will be exclusively iPhone, the Samsung Mob!lers program and IFA 2012, Apple’s addition of the Galaxy S III to its complaint, app development and the “Sparrow Problem”, the VOX JAMVOX, headphones, guitars, and more!Sponsored by Hover (use coupon DANSENTME for 10% off), Sourcebits, and Squarespace (use coupon DANSENTME9 for 10% off)

Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, the Web Index is the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web’s growth, utility and impact on people and nations. It covers 61 developed and developing countries, incorporating indicators that assess the political, economic and social impact of the Web, as well as indicators of Web connectivity and infrastructure.

Studiometry, the project management and time billing software from Oranged Software, gains more than 150 new features in its newest major upgrade.

The majority of those polled in a recent survey think “cloud computing” involves the fluffy white things in the sky.

Samsung is accused of making workers in Chinese factories work up to 100 hours per week, and employing children.

How Doctor Who producers put together a heretofore unseen number of Daleks for the new season premiere.

Now, according to a Yahoo executive involved in hiring, Mayer is actually doing it.She literally looks at every serious candidate’s resume.

Much respect to Marissa Mayer. She wants the talent she feels will improve the company and she’s making sure she gets it.

PCWorld:

Is it time to give Java the boot? Experts say yes.Java, the programming language designed to make the web fun and interactive, has become one of the weakest links in a PC’s and Mac’s defenses against external threats.The risks don’t outweigh the rewards, security experts say. “I’d say 90 percent of users don’t need Java anymore,” says Dominique Karg, the founder and chief hacking officer of AlienVault, a security software company. “I consider myself a ‘power user’ and the last and only time I realized I had Java installed on my Mac was when I had to update it.”

When was the last time you used Java on your Mac?

Savant is a Cape Cod, Massachusetts-based maker of home automation systems that strongly feature Apple hardware and software.

One of the most famous gangsters of all time.

Are you a guy worried about losing your hair? Get over it, ya pussy.

A distinctively different kind of weather app for iPad and iPhone with stunning Retina-quality visuals and a refreshingly fun and touch centric UI.

Weather 2x is the perfect balance of aesthetics, intuitive functionality and the right amount of detail.

Check out the latest version with great new features including iCloud sync, Twitter & E-mail sharing, local weather detection, and images of Jim’s igloo for when it reaches those sub-zero temperatures.

I’ve been using Weather 2x since it first came out and love it.

An incredible story that our own Peter Cohen has been living.

My only question is how he didn’t drink the beer. […]

An Indian blogger says Samsung threatened to leave him high and dry after he refused to be their booth bunny at the IFA trade show in Germany.

Nick Barber writing at Macworld:

Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Camera, introduced at this week’s IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, takes clear, colorful images but is buggy and slow.

App Cubby developer David Barnard posted an interesting piece on pricing apps.

But at some local restaurants, the hospitality appears to be wearing thin. At least two eateries admit they allow servers to add an automatic gratuity on the bills of diners who appear to be Québecois. Why? Because Canadians are presumed to be bad tippers. A few local servers even have a nickname for the surcharge: They call it the “Queeb tax.”

It’s not just Vermont. Quebecers are notoriously bad tippers, even in Canada. Slap the tax on them.

There’s a question for you.

Shawn Blanc put together a few tricks he’s come across for OmniFocus users.

Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week.

Pixelmator – beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X.

About 10 million pounds of syrup was stored at the site, at a value of more than $30-million.Anne-Marie Granger Godbout, executive director of the federation, said the organization is still trying to determine how much is missing and declined to offer an estimate. But a spokesman from the Sureté du Québec said the loss was significant.

Only in Canada.

I don’t care, I want some of that.

Earlier this year, I made a few bold CAPScalls. Of course, as with many moves one might consider “bold,” you can find yourself boldly wrong.I put red-thumb, underperform calls on Apple and Netflix, two stocks that have long been among individual investors’ favorites. This was despite the fact that I had previously called out both stocks with “outperform” ratings in the Motley Fool’s CAPS database for years.

Good to admit when you’re wrong.

Cool Material:

For some inexplicable reason, dessert has never been seen as a man’s game. Yeah, we’ll eat it, but baking never seemed to be nearly as manly as tossing a steak on the grill. If you’re ready to put your ego aside (at least partially) here are some desserts you could whip up that have a bit of macho in them.

“Chocolate-Dipped Beer Marshmallows”? “Bourbon Marshmallow Bacon S’mores”? “Beeramisu”? Well, there goes my diet.