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Police Car Dashboard Camera Records Meteor Over Edmonton
A police car dashboard camera captured a meteor over Edmonton, Alberta yesterday. Here’s more on the meteor sighting from the Edmonton Sun and CBC. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS fee...
SonicLiving Partners With Custom Online Radio Service Pandora
guest post by RICK! I’ve been a fan social network event calendar sites like Going.com, but Jersey Oakland-based SonicLiving has been busy working on some cool features. The iTunes scanner goes through your music library. You can decide wh...
Saved By Zero, The Commercial That Kills
Here’s a brilliant mashup of the super annoying Toyota commercial “Saved by Zero” re-mixed with the American version of “The Ring”. via Videogum This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, sub...
Wonderful Collection of Classic “The End” Movie Title Cards
Here’s wonderful collection of classic “The End” title cards from movies. via Daring Fireball This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Wonderful Co...
cityboi replied to a question John O'Day asked in Circuit City
Question: Are the employees at Circuit City paid on commission? no we are not This reply was posted 1 day ago. See all replies
Ozzy Osbourne World of Warcraft TV Commercial
The latest TV ad for World of Warcraft features the original Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne. Blizzard also released another WoW ad featuring Steven Van Zandt who played Silvio Dante on The Sopranos. See Previously: - Mr. T & William Shatn...
Google SearchWiki, Customize Your Search Results
Google has just launched SearchWiki which allows you customize your search results. Today we’re launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single cli...
Customer Experience Pioneer Shaun Smith to Speak at IBM Innovation Center in Boston.
Shaun Smith, one of the founders of the Customer Experience movement, a respected author and foremost expert in CEM and brand loyalty, will speak at the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, MA on December 2, 2008.Shaun is an inspirational presenter w...
YARPP, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin For WordPress
We’ve recently started using the WordPress plugin Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) by mitcho to show possibly related posts on Laughing Squid blog. It works much better than most of the other related posts plugins we’ve used in...
Photojojo’s Urban Ruins Photo Safari on Treasure Island
guest post by Dave Schumaker This Saturday, November 22nd, fellow guest blogger Todd Lappin of Telstar Logistics, will be leading a free, public walking photo tour on Treasure Island that is being organized by the website Photojojo. A man-made i...
Tweetie, A Fast, Easy To Use, A Full-Featured Twitter iPhone App
I agree with John Gruber on this one, so far Tweetie is the best iPhone app for Twitter out there (I’m sure more are on the way). It’s meets most of my mobile Twitter requirements. You can download it for $2.99 from the iTunes Store. H...
Fanboys, The Ultimate Quest For Star Wars Episode I
“Fanboys” is a film that takes place 1998 where three friends, anxious for the release of “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, attempt to break into George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch to steal an advance print of the...
MC Hammer Hosts Dance Off at Digg Party In San Francisco
Tonight at the Digg Meetup at Mighty in San Francisco Jelly Donut and Two Touch rocked the mic, then introduced MC Hammer who took the stage and lead a big dance off. Here’s Jelly Donut and Two Touch doing a freestyle rap to random words th...
Teach your customers with online classes.
HP announced a series of changes to their online support offerings earlier today and one of those updates was the expansion of the free online classes they offer. HP’s offering is interesting because they don’t limit the classes to HP ...
Bill O’Reilly Defames San Francisco With Scare Tactics Video
Huffington Post is reporting on a San Francisco scare tactics video aired by Bill O’Reilly, yes the same asshat who wouldn’t mind if Al Qaeda attacked San Francisco. Bill O’Reilly is scared. As a daring crusader on the side of &#...
Santacon 2008, Global Santarchy Invasion Planned For December
Santacon 2008 events are currently being planned around the world in December as Christmas approaches. Over on santarchy.com I’ve been actively tracking the cities currently being targeted for Santarchy invasions. To get a better idea of wh...
Kvetch! Let It All Out on Twitter
After a 6 year hiatus, Derek Powazek has re-launched his website Kvetch!, which now allows people to post their grips and complaints anonymously via Twitter. You know all those things you wish you could post to Twitter but don’t want to say ...
Let Me Google That For You
The next time someone asks you a question that could easily by found on Google, send give them this link: letmegooglethatforyou.com Here it is in action with the question “What is Google?” See Also: justfuckinggoogleit.com [via Charles...
Eric Joyner Explores The World of Robots & Donuts
Eric Joyner knows that robots and donuts are a delightful combination, as evidenced by “Robot R&R” (2005) and many other paintings in his “Tin Robots” series. Eric’s work is also featured in the new limited edit...
Moving Beyond Campaigns to Conversations
By Jeff Sands and Ajit Maira The old tried-and-true push marketing campaigns just aren't going to work anymore. Customers now expect providers to understand their business, the issues they face, and the markets that they play in. They no longer ha...
Real World Guitar Hero Riding A Bicycle
Kevin of Ft. Wayne recreated a level of Guitar Hero riding his bicycle through the neighborhood. The song is “Prisoner of Society” by The Living End with the difficulty level set to “hard”. Of course it’s possible tha...
Why Obama let Lieberman go
A lot of people are upset that the Democrats didn’t go all vindictive on Joe Lieberman and boot him from his committee chairmanship. I have no love for Lieberman and detest his choice to stump for the Republicans this year. But I think I und...
LIFE Photo Archive Hosted on Google
Google is hosting the LIFE Photo Archive, featuring an amazing collection of photos and etchings dating back to the 1750’s. Each photo has it’s own page with additional information, including the name of the photographer, date and loca...
Life Is Just A Series of Events In Between Checking Email
“Life” on Techno Tuesday image via Techno Tuesday This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Life Is Just A Series of Events In Between Checking Email Re...
Exploring the Tenderloin National Forest
guest post by Dave Schumaker The Tenderloin District in San Francisco is one of the city’s most diverse, yet grimiest neighborhoods. However, there are still some special jewels to be found deep within the Tenderloin. One of them is locat...
Tweetsville, A Straightforward iPhone App For Twitter
I’m always on the hunt for the perfect iPhone app for Twitter and lately I’ve been using Tweetsville. I love how it shows up to 200 updates in the timeline. It also includes separate sections for Twitter search and Twitter trends, plus...
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
div#main{overflow:visible;} Robot Chicken has just released “Star Wars Episode II”, the long awaited squeal to their hilarious animated Star Wars parody “Robot Chicken Star Wars Special”. via The Official Star Wars Blog Th...
The Monty Python Channel on YouTube
guest post by Doctor Popular “For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off,” begins a recent Monty Python announcement “taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube.” Rather than firing off endl...
Cat Riding a Roomba
Not only do cats play the Theremin and flush toilets, they also like to ride roombas. via YesButNoButYes This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Cat Riding a Roomba...
Flattery Will Get You Everywhere
Earlier this month, Google announced a revamp of their help forums. The good folks at ReadWriteWeb quickly noticed that the new service behaves an awful lot like Get Satisfaction. Aww shucks! We’re really flattered … but more important...
Flattery Will Get You Everywhere
Earlier this month, Google announced a revamp of their help forums. The good folks at ReadWriteWeb quickly noticed that the new service behaves an awful lot like Get Satisfaction. Aww shucks! We’re really flattered … but more important...
Twitter Downtime Art: Fail Caterpillar & Anthropomorphic Ice Cream
Twitter has a new maintenance image to go along with the venerable Fail Whale. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Twitter Downtime Art: Fail Caterpillar &...
Thingiverse, Sharing Digital Designs For Physical Objects
Zach Hoeken and Bre Pettis have just launched Thingiverse, a place to share digital designs for physical objects. Fred Benenson of Creative Commons wrote about their various of licensing options, referring to Thingiverse as “Flickr for the M...
Track utilization of resources.
An average company will probably provide its employees with a plethora of resources (tools, guides, tutorials, etc.) they can use to do their jobs better. But do you really know which tools your employees are using and which ones they aren’t...
San Francisco’s First Tomatina, A Tomato Fight at Warm Water Cove
guest post by RICK! Sunday at Toxic Tire Beach Warm Water Cove marked the first of we hope to be many San Francisco Tomatinas. Based on the tomato fight in Buñol, Spain outside of Valencia, the food fight consisted of 15 participants and 15 peopl...
Digg Meetup at Mighty in San Francisco
Digg is hosting a Meetup in San Francisco this Wednesday, November 19th at Mighty, with music by DJ’s Mancub & Smoove and hot photo action in the Photoboof. Here’s video from the first Digg Meetup in San Francisco back in April. ...
Tweetwants & TweetFails, Tracking Wants & Fails on Twitter
Sean Bonner and Tara Bonner (Brown) have just launched two new Twitter sites, Tweetwants tracking stuff that people want and TweetFails tracking stuff that fails. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to th...
Super Obama World
Super Obama World by ZenSoft via Bonnie Burton on Twitter This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Super Obama World Related posts:- Laughing Squid Stickers G...
Boing Boing Launches New Gaming Blog Offworld
Boing Boing has just launched their latest blog Offworld, edited by Brandon Boyer, which focuses on the world gaming culture. Boing Boing Offworld is a hub for gaming culture that cultivates the joy of discovery, sense of wonder, and celebration o...
Survey Says…
How many people successfully get technical help online? Only 2%?! That is a slightly depressing number that comes out of a recently released Pew Internet survey. The survey is a little weighted in a few ways, so take it with a grain of salt. But ...
Survey Says…
How many people successfully get technical help online? Only 2%?! That is a slightly depressing number that comes out of a recently released Pew Internet survey. The survey is a little weighted in a few ways, so take it with a grain of salt. But ...
Improv Everywhere Welcomes Home Strangers Arriving at JFK
“Welcome Back” the latest Improv Everywhere mission featured 20 IE agents personally welcoming home complete strangers as they arrive at JFK airport. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the...
Great Expectations
This weekend, we emailed this around to each other (and to our friends) because it’s hilarious. And, it’s actually about customer service.
Great Expectations
This weekend, we emailed this around to each other (and to our friends) because it’s hilarious. And, it’s actually about customer service.
Brian Goggin & Dorka Keehn Unveil The Language Of The Birds
guest post by Simone Davalos Site specific sculpture artist Brian Goggin, with Dorka Keehn, is unveiling their new installation “The Language Of The Birds” on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008, at dusk (watch the sky, not the clock!) in San...
11 Easy & Cheap Homemade Gifts Sure to Make Mom Cry
Looking for a great, inexpensive gift for your mother or someone special in your life? Following are 11 sure-fire winners. The catch? You’ve got to channel your sensitive side and put a little time in, but the results will be a gift people can’t...
Black Rock Arts Presents Artumnal Gathering: Tribes and Treasures
Black Rock Arts Foundation presents the Artumnal Gathering: Tribes and Treasures this Saturday, November 22nd at The Bently Reserve in San Francisco. You are invited to an opulent gathering of tribes in celebration of our artistic treasures and v...
The Nerdcord Tour In Oakland + Nerdcore Rising In San Francisco
The Nercore Tour, featuring MC Frontalot, MC Lars and YTCracker, is back on the road having recovered from their big accident. They will be in Oakland this Wednesday, November 19th at The Uptown with special guests Rondo Brothers, The Marginal Pro...
Kaiju Big Battel Returns To Destroy San Francisco (Canceled)
Kaiju Big Battel, featuring epic wresting matches between Japanese city destroying monsters, returns to crush San Francisco (with special guests Busdriver and Rocktapussy) this Wednesday, November 19th at The Regency Center’s Grand Ballroom....
Clown vs. Mime Smackdown on The Streets of San Francisco
guest post by RICK! A smackdown between mimes and clowns took place Friday at Dirty Marina 16th and Valencia at 10pm. It was reported that a clown picked a fight with a mime in front of Kilowatt by smashing a pie in his face. Later the mimes and...