TSA Pats-Down Six-Year-Old Girl

post from Daring Fireball on 12 April 2011 08:04:04 PM. © Daring Fireball

Keeping us safe.

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http://www.boston.com/travel/blog/2011/04/video_shows_you.html

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TSA Pats-Down, Drug-Tests, Six-Year-Old Girl

post from Daring Fireball on 12 April 2011 06:04:36 PM. © Daring Fireball

Keeping us safe.

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Photo-Lettering

post from Daring Fireball on 12 April 2011 06:04:36 PM. © Daring Fireball

New headline-setting web service from the typographic aces at House Industries.

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http://www.photolettering.com/

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Acorn 3.0

post from Daring Fireball on 12 April 2011 05:05:28 PM. © Daring Fireball

Lots of new features, now available in the Mac App Store, and limited-time price of just $30.

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http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/

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Bond Mixology

post from Daring Fireball on 12 April 2011 04:04:20 PM. © Daring Fireball

iPhone-optimized website based on the data from the now-defunct Atomic Martini’s list of all drinks consumed by James Bond in the movies, replete with recipes.

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http://www.bondmixology.com/

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Media 100 Suite Version 2 Now Available

post from prMac on 12 April 2011 02:14:00 PM. © prMac

Media 100, a leading provider of advanced editing systems for the corporate, broadcast, post production, and new media industries, announced that Media 100 Suite Version 2 is now available. The new Version 2 release introduces support for RED Camera workflows including 4K and 2K video formats, REDCODE media, and the RED ROCKET hardware for accelerated rendering. In addition, Media 100 Suite Version 2 integrates the new Boris RED Version 5 plug-in for text, transitions, and advanced composites.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-24186.htm

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Indulge in Roman Era Trading with Mobillionaire

post from prMac on 12 April 2011 01:26:00 PM. © prMac

Dexetra, a burgeoning new application developer focusing on mobile software solutions, has announced the successful launch of Mobillionaire 1.0, a cross platform multi-player strategy game for iOS and Android. Travel back to an era where values such as honor, pride and integrity defined men. As a king deposed of his throne by Emperor Houdini, you are determined to free your subjects from Houdini's oppressive rule. Trading is a tricky proposition and is affected by many factors.

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Windows App Store Screenshots Leak

post from Daring Fireball on 12 April 2011 01:06:06 PM. © Daring Fireball

MG Siegler, at AOL/TechCrunch:

I swear this looks familiar?

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http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/11/windows-app-store/

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The End: Cisco Shuts Down Flip, a $590 Million
Mistake

Ryan Kim:

Cisco is giving up on its barely two-year-old $590 millionpurchase of Pure Digital Technologies, announcing today that it isclosing its Flip business unit and cutting 550 employees aspart of a larger restructuring. The move comes after clear signsthat the outsized deal was not paying off for the technologygiant, which is in the midst of refocusing its business on itscore networking business.

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http://gigaom.com/2011/04/12/stick-a-fork-in-flip-smartphones-killed-the-video-st
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Dave Winer: AOL Is Doing Layoffs the Wrong Way

Dave Winer:

You prepare for the layoffs quickly and quietly. Then one morningyou do them. All of them. And then have a company meeting and youtell the people that that was it. No more layoffs. You’re on theteam. And then have a good story about how you’re going to leadthem to prosperity. […]
And what you don’t want to do is what AOL is doing. Week afterweek cutting off limbs. So that everyone inside the company isthinking they’re next.

Right. Who’s left at an AOL-owned site who isn’t looking around for a new gig?

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http://scripting.com/stories/2011/04/12/aolIsDoingLayoffsTheWrongW.html

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