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An interesting look at being busy from Rob Pegoraro.

GigaOm went on a road trip to investigate North Carolina’s big data centers.

I mentioned Canadian weather on Amplified the other day, which lead Dan Ruswick to make this funny page.

It’s an honest mistake, assuming that the Constitution only protects your own personal megachurch faith. But one Louisiana Republican is learning the hard way that religious school vouchers can be used to fund education at all sorts of religious schools, even Muslim ones. And while she’s totally in favor of taxpayer money being used to pay for kids to go to Christian schools, she’s willing to put a stop to the entire program if Muslim schools are going to be involved.

Erin Gloria Ryan:

Obscene images, hate sites and a game where people are invited to beat you up have been inflicted on Anita Sarkeesian.

Just terrible.

BuzzFeed:

I honestly can’t believe this was approved by such a major company as Toshiba (212,000 employees worldwide). This is 2012, right? Anyway, creatively, the videos are basically lame. The double entendres are lame. The ending jokes are really lame. If you’re going to be sexist morons, at least push the idea a bit. `

` Agreed. If you’re going to be sexist morons, at least put some effort into it. Thanks to Michael Gartenberg

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg talking about his speech at Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. […]

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Good Education:

Dying to become a master of Google’s search engine? If so, look no further than Power Searching with Google, a new, free class offered by the tech giant starting July 10th. The course promises to teach users “tips, tricks and tactics” that’ll help you “find exactly what you’re looking for, when you most need it.” Real talk: Even if you don’t spend your time dreaming about how to improve your searching skills, you should take Google up on their offer to teach you.Google’s education program manager Terry Ednacot writes on the Google Blog that no matter what your current searching ability may be—from those of us who have no idea you can use the search box as a calculator to folks who are already masters of Boolean logic—through the six 50-minute lessons of the class, you’ll learn how to use the search function to “solve everyday problems” and help you “find what you need faster.”

You’d be surprised at how much better your search results, whether for school, work or play, will become if you know how to use and access Google more efficiently.

Associated Press:

Tens of thousands of Americans may lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago.Despite repeated alerts, the number of computers that probably are infected is more than 277,000 worldwide, down from about 360,000 in April. Of those still infected, the FBI believes that about 64,000 are in the United States.Users whose computers are still infected Monday will lose their ability to go online, and they will have to call their service providers for help deleting the malware and reconnecting to the Internet.

It’s unlikely any of you are affected by this issue but it’s easy to do ao quick check. Go to The DNS Changer Working Group site and click on the “Detect” button.

This week, Dan and Jim tackle the latest rumors of a 7″ iPad. They also compare RIM’s BlackBerry 10 transition to Apple’s shift to Intel processors, and more.Sponsored by Zoompf, Sifter Stickers, and Dark Sky.

Industry analyst Ben Bajarin takes a look at the fluctuations in Apple’s stock.

Born in 1926 near Turin in the industrial north of the country, Pininfarina worked with top carmakers during his long career, designing the Ferrari Testarossa, Fiat 124 Spider and Maserati GranTurismo, among others.

There’s a lot of design talent in one man.

Marketcircle develops award winning business apps for the Mac, iPhone & iPad. Makers of Billings Pro & the totally redesigned Daylite 4.

Billings Pro is a time tracking & invoicing application for the Mac & iPhone that’s perfect for freelancers, lawyers, designers and more.

Daylite 4 is a productivity manager application designed to keep your entire business & team organized in a Mac, iPad & iPhone environment. Organize your contacts, schedule, tasks, business opportunities, projects, emails and more in a single app.

Learn more and download your free trial at Marketcircle.

Matt Gemmell takes a hard look at Google Play’s new review system which lets developers communicate with users, and says that it comes up short.

You have to love these pups.

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Elisha Marquez has been accepted to Ivy League schools and is on her way to Stanford in the fall. The 18-year-old has already nabbed an engineering internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and earned a scholarship through the Gates Millennium Scholars program.

But her GPA wasn’t high enough and she got beat. These parents need to chill out.

I loved Billy Mays.

There is a kickstarter-like page for people to donate to have Mosspuppet come out of retirement. He’s a funny little man.

Justin Michael made this incredible illustration after I joked on Amplified 12 that I wanted a kickstand on everything I owned.

Jim and Dan discuss the Podcasts app for iOS and the implications it has for both existing podcast applications as well as for podcasting as a whole, Sirius and the Google TV, Epic games success on iOS, when Apple fanboys attack, Orbitz, the Retina MacBook Pro’s financial affect on Apple, and more. Jim also offers his advice for getting back into the guitar by practicing Megadeth.Sponsored by Shopify (use code 5BY5 for 3 months free), Igloo Software (they’re giving away an Aeropress to a B&A listener), and MailChimp’s new Mandrill email service.

The one to Uncle Bryan is funny.

Orbitz admits that it shows Mac users pricier hotels than their Windows-using counterparts.

Byron Kutchera and Ian Fleming (my daughter’s longtime boyfriend) are premiering their DVD this Friday. They are having a Facebook event as well. Very talented guys.