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Want an iPad but are a dummy? Try the iPadDummy.

Jun 22, 2010
For $49 bucks you can get something that looks like an iPad but just doesn't do anything. Here from the wonderful FAQ:...

$1000 iPhone app is selling well

Jun 22, 2010
BarMax is an app specifically designed to prepare you to take the California bar exam. It's a massive piece of software (probably because bar exams...

Susan Orlean's smart search app review

Jun 22, 2010
Susan Orlean, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Orchid Thief and other wonderful books, joined our show on Monday.  We've received...

Getting rid of ugly people one baby at a time

Jun 22, 2010
The site BeautifulPeople.com is helping people have beautiful children.  It's a dating site with a new feature: a sperm bank where people can...

Preserving virtual worlds

Jun 21, 2010
Ars Technica has an interview with a University of Illinois professor who's trying to preserve a dozen video games from the last several decades....

MySpace collapses some more

Jun 18, 2010
It wasn't that long ago that MySpace defined social media. You could customize your page, make friends who weren't really your friends. Yes kids,...

Mark Zuckerberg faces the death penalty

Jun 18, 2010
No, not for his privacy policies. Pakistan's deputy attorney general is pursuing charges against the Facebook CEO because someone on Facebook...

For public good, not for profit.

Email going away, says person who would profit by email going away

Jun 17, 2010
Grab several grains of salt, a whole shaker even, when you hear it but Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that email is going the way of the...

HuffPo buys comment moderation company. More interesting than you think.

Jun 17, 2010
It's another business story that reveals something human the more you look at it. Huffington Post, which a lot of people think may be about to be...

Chinese labor movement aided by technology

Jun 17, 2010
The New York Times has a really interesting article about factory workers and labor unrest in China. Workers are often poor, migrant workers with...