Friday, February 05, 2010

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Huffington Post: REVEALED: New Palin Emails Suggest Todd Was Intimately Involved In Governing



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TVGorge Brings Dozens of Location-Blocked TV Shows to Users Around the World [Television]


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TVGorge Brings Dozens of Location-Blocked TV Shows to Users Around the World [Television]

If you're outside of the US and sick of not being able to see good TV online or just tired of waiting for Hulu to get your favorite shows, you'll want to check out TVGorge and its huge archive of shows.

TVGorge breaks through international barriers by bringing fresh American TV content to viewers outside of the United States and other approved viewing areas. Want to see the season premier of LOST without waiting several months for it to be released in your viewing area? You can watch LOST as well as 125+ other popular television shows like Dexter, Dollhouse, Entourage, and Archer.


How does TVGorge bring in such fresh content? They use an indexing engine to scan for the online content offered by other sites and then organize the content with episode guides and other information, all repackaged for the enjoyment of people inside and outside the reach of traditional streaming services like Hulu. Will they survive the phalanx of lawyers likely sharpening their spears as we speak? Maybe not, but in the mean time you can finally watch the premiers of your favorite shows without waiting a year for rebroadcasting in your locale.


Have a favorite site for catching up on shows and movies online? Let's hear about it in the comments.










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Mozilla Warns of Two Firefox Extensions Containing Trojan Malware [Security]


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Mozilla Warns of Two Firefox Extensions Containing Trojan Malware [Security]

The official Mozilla Add-ons Blog has issued a security notice to Firefox users regarding two experimental add-ons that made their way onto the Firefox Add-ons pages containing malware. The extensions in question—Sothink Web Video Downloader and Master Filer (neither of which had we even heard of)—target Windows users and have been removed. Mozilla reassures users:



AMO performs a malware check on all add-ons uploaded to the site, and blocks add-ons that are detected as such. This scanning tool failed to detect the Trojan in Master Filer. Two additional malware detection tools have been added to the validation chain and all add-ons were rescanned, which revealed the additional Trojan in Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader. No other instances of malware have been discovered.



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Mischievous Raccoon Wreaks Havoc On International Space Station | The Onion ...

 
 

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MOSCOW—A devious little raccoon chewed through the power cord of the starboard truss, turning the space station over in orbit.

 
 

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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Houstonist Flickr Photo of the Day - Just waitin for a train

Just waitin for a train

Just waitin for a train
by matt.harding

Photographer's Description:

OK. This is is where I got in a little trouble with the Metro Police. It seems that taking pictures is illegal from the train platform. It is also illegal to be on the platform without a ticket.

I ended up getting a formal (written) warning. Everything ended well and I went on my way - straight away from Main Street to avoid the cop. Well the day was very cold and almost no one was on the streets. The next thing I knew I had basically walked a circle around the blocks and was back at the intersection where the platform was. It turned out the cop was still there. And to my surprise he had his bomb sniffing dog out and was sweeping the entire platform. Whether he was doing this because of me or just because he had to, I don't know.

It's a shame that these platforms are off limits for photography. Houston really doesn't have many places for street style photography. So few places that I am tempted to do it again - except from a distance ;-).

How do you feel about public photography. Is there a real reason to keep photographers off platforms, was the cop really doing his job or just hassling a photographer?




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