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Though there may be plenty of hurdles when it comes to getting self-driving cars
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The Decline of Wikipedia
by Tom Simonite, …
Today, I RickRoll’d myself. Not that I duped myself into watching the video or anything, since you can’t really trick yourself into doing something, you know?
But as I resized the preview image for the parody video and saved the link, my brain automatically began to sing the first few lines of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
Not the same version as the one in this parody though, because this one’s done up in Klingon. So if you’ve ever wanted to RickRoll somebody or get back at someone who did, then now’s your chance to do so in the most unusual way possible.
Go on. I know you want to do it to your Trekkie pals. Just text them the video link and tell them it’s a preview for the next Star Trek movie.
[via Geekologie]
What does it take to become a Kickstarter success? First you need a great product. Then you need a plan for the future. Luckily, Austin-based Moniker Guitars had both.
We first covered Moniker back in March when founders Dave Barry and Kevin Tully had already created a small guitar shop and wanted to expand into custom git-fiddles. They built a unique guitar customizer to allow buyers to add colors, designs, and logos, and hundreds of sales later they’ve moved from Kickstarter darling to actual startup.
Since launch, the company has sold and built 43 guitars through Kickstarter and they have built a growing and expanding manufacturing business. In fact, they’ve built “several hundred” guitars since launch, including a special TC model in crazy green.
“Kickstarter has been a huge boost in growing our business,” said co-founder Tully. “In addition to providing crucial funding to make several of our product lines possible, Kickstarter has been one of the better marketing decisions we’ve made as a business; which was a little unexpected.”
The company has used crowdfunding as a platform for customer acquisition and fan-base building. They were also able to build new product lines.
“It was enough to launch our line of semi-hollow body guitars,” said Tully. “However, we still need to be aggressive about getting our product out in front of people and letting them know we’re here. I learned that everything is going to cost twice as much and take twice as long as I thought it would. But patience is a virtue, and we’re seeing the results of our hard work and patience and it’s incredibly fulfilling.”
Germany is sending intelligence officials to the U.S. capital today, to discuss this week’s allegations
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This article was written on August 08, 2006 by CyberNet.
AOL has a lot of making up to do after they released search data from more than 500,000 users. The first thing that they have done is released a free antivirus program to protect your computer. Their software, called Active Virus Shield (yeah, kind of a stupid name), is powered by the Kaspersky Labs which is extremely reputable. Here is the set of features you will find in this release:
Active Virus Shield won’t hog all of your system’s resources and the update files are generally less than 10KB. So it is free, efficient, and can easily be updated but are you willing to install AOL software on your computer? Ever since the days of dial-up AOL has been tagged as spyware and malware by an enormous amount of users. They made it nearly impossible to completely remove the software from your computer but have they gotten any better? I’m not sure if I want to find out 😀 .
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You know the saying "a man’s home is his castle?" Some folks out there take it very seriously — setting out to build their own medieval fortresses. Carlos Zahumenszky from Gizmodo en Español
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This set of bookends takes me back to the classic era of Doctor Who. I mean, there is a large tentacle monster, the TARDIS, a bunch of pipes and some barrels, all in a creepy castle-like room. This is like having an instant adventure on your shelf, holding up your collection of Doctor Who books.
There is good news and bad news regarding these bookends however. The bad news is that awesome as they are, these particular handmade bookends have been sold, but the good news is that its creator – Theophilus Saxe’s Emporium will make pretty much anything you want so if you ask, they could probably make another one for you.
[Pinterest via Nerd Approved]
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