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SCV = Space Construction Vehicle

I was browsing for info on the wildfire when I saw this headline: The 10 Places to Visit in the SCV Before You Die StarCraft fans understand why this is amusing. SCV is the Terran unit in StarCraft and stands for Space Construction Vehicle.

Insane Facebook Requests

This is just crazy:

Facebook on the iPhone

I hand my iPhone to a friend and invite her to try the web browser, Safari. What’s the first site she visits? Facebook, of course. When I was at the movie theatre, and I wanted to tell people where I was, what was my only choice? Facebook, of course. Unfortunately, the Facebook interface is not…Continue Reading…

iPhone Chinese Clone

This is simply amazing. Popular Science reports that cloning operations in China have already created a fake copy of the Apple iPhone. “The country’s ability to produce indistinguishable replicas of any moment’s must-have item is legendary: Manufacturers have serviced knockoff air conditioners as if they were their own; stores have refunded bootleg purses without batting…Continue Reading…

Starting a Startup

I’m starting to remember why I wanted to take a semester off from school. It wasn’t really to work longer at Google (though I love it), or even to travel the world. I can (and will) do those things after I graduate. It was to start a startup. I went to Startup School in March…Continue Reading…

Unintentionally distributed badware “may harm your computer”

Here’s an interesting blog post about a website which was hacked to distribute malware. This has also happened to me on my sites, and it’s a really insidious problem. More and more websites on the internet are dynamic. This typically means that they’re user collaborative. Social sites like Facebook and others are quickly expanding and…Continue Reading…