Old news at this point, but on Saturday Microsoft pulled their offer to purchase Yahoo!. The offer is rumored to have gone a few dollars higher than the original $31 per share, but Yahoo! wanted $37. Feeling that valuation was too hight, Microsoft took its balls and went home.

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Went to the Maker Faire on Saturday, it was an entertainingly nerdy experience as last year. In only its third go ’round, I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of new stuff I hadn’t seen before.

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Two sex-obsessed, loser high-school seniors try to score booze for a party. Hilarity ensues.

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How I Reviewed 300 Bad Movies And Earned $900 This fellow found a loophole in the Web 2.0 site Helium and got user-generated content to work for him. Some of his reviewed titles are hilariously obscure.

Apple Basic Interpreter in JavaScript I had a great time futzing around with this. I wrote some really simplistic Choose Your Own Adventure type games in Apple Basic way back when.

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Biography of Edith Piaf, popular French singer who rose from poverty to worldwide fame.

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Interesting thought floating around whether these social aggregators like FriendFeed will ever go “mainstream.” Of course, that begs the question - what is “mainstream,” exactly?

I personally have a pretty high bar for “mainstream.” Here’s some of my criteria:

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Sixty years ago, a martial-arts monk (Chow Yun-Fat) is appointed guardian of a mysterious scroll with life-prolonging powers. In the present day, the monk has chosen Kar (Seann William Scott) as a new guardian and apprentice. Meanwhile, evil people search for the scroll, seeking to possess its mystical powers.

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Paul (Jason Lee) is about to marry Karen (Selma Blair) but wakes up in bed next to Becky (Julia Stiles) - Karen’s cousin. Paul begins to reconsider his relationship with Karen.

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Apple just announced the availability of more movies in the Apple iTunes Store, many on the same day as the DVD release. It shows the studios may finally be loosening their grip on digital downloads. But despite this great news, I won’t be handing Apple any more money than before.

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Callie forgives Chief for attacking her and says she loves him. On Caprica, the humans fight off toasters and mortars, when the attack suddenly stops - and Brother Cavil appears. He says the Cylons have abandoned New Caprica and humanity is spared. But since he’s also on Galactica - he must be a Cylon.

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