The Fun Thread For 5/13/10: The 11 Terrible Hangover Cures
The 11 things people try to get over a hangover is almost so disturbing, the most sane one is this thing called Pickled Sheep Eyes . Here's a picture of it: NBC has given the Green Light to Olivia Nunn's series . The new Facebook with its old tendencies. You know, those tendencies that respected your privacy : As Facebook completes its Galactic Senate-to-Imperial Empire transformation , four enterprising NYU students thought the world could do with a social networking service that wouldn't treat your personal information like advertiser catnip. So they started building Diaspora. They conceive of it as the "privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network," one on which people share strictly on their own terms. Every user will have their own encrypted, customizable "node" on the Diaspora network, and personal data will reside on that user's computer, as opposed to a centralized hub. The team members, w...