ANT-MAN - Official Trailer #2 (2015) Paul Rudd Marvel Superhero Movie HD
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Marvel’s Daredevil: Hallway Fight Scene (HD)
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Sesame Street: Game of Chairs - the ultimate battle for control of Jesteros.
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Rambo the Octopus Photographs Guests at the Kelly Tarlton’s Sea Life Aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand
Yeah, it’s a promo for Sony’s digital camera, but still pretty cool.
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Incensed Cat Pushes a Noisily Barking Dog into the Swimming Pool Beside Them
Cats: minions of Lucifer.
Fearful Dachshund Accidentally Falls Into a Lake While Fleeing an Errant Shopping Bag
I laughed at just the headline. Poor little thing.
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McQuarrie Monday - Classic McQuarrie poster art before the 1977 release of A New Hope.
AdwareMedic
“Removes all known adware from your Mac. It is very simple to use, and should clean up your system in less than a minute, from start to finish. Just open the app, click the Scan for Adware button, and remove anything that is detected. That’s it!”
Should we be concerned that in China they have developed a shape-shifting liquid metal?
Between the shape-shifting liquid metal in China, and the robots in Japan, it’s probably easy odds in Vegas that our robot overlords will be the fault of our Far East brothers and sisters.
Privacy Badger
“Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it’s like you suddenly disappeared.”
Unfortunately, not currently available for Safari.
HTTPS Everywhere
“HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.”
How to ditch Google for more privacy and fewer ads
How to ditch Google for more privacy and fewer ads
Nice workup on getting off the Google train. I still have a Gmail account, but never use it. If I didn’t have my own domains, and e-mail to go with them, I would be on FastMail. I have heard nothing but good things about the service, and US $40/year for 15GB of storage, plus all their other features, is a great deal.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo exclusively as my search engine for quite a while now. The service has gotten much better from its early days, when I still had to go back to Google some times to find the link I was looking for. My backup these days is Bing. Microsoft is slightly less scary than Google only because they are not interested (yet) in selling my search data to advertisers.
ifo Apple Store shutting down
The site isn’t going away, but Gary Allen is ceasing new updates on the best tracking site of Apple retail sites outside (and possibly inside) Apple itself:
After following Apple retail for 14 years, I’ve reached a happy ending, and am gracefully backing away from the crazy world of following the company and its stores. No more stories or analysis, or flying out to far-flung locations to join overnight crowds,waiting for the excitement of new store opening (NSO). I began this Web site as simply a way of celebrating the fun of grand openings and the close friendship of the people I met when I arrived in a new country or city.
Gary was kind enough to include this shot of mine, of the original Knox Street (Dallas) storefront, on the store’s original page on the site.
Gary still links to my full photo album of the Knox Street opening in the store’s listing (#52), and for that, I remain humbled and grateful for the inclusion of my photos in his grand work.