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mostrodellanotte: Ram Bomjon is a 16-year-old boy born and...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:53:46 -0400

Ram Bomjon is a 16-year-old boy born and living in the village of Ratnapur who allegedly is in the process of transforming into the next incarnation of the Buddha. It has been claimed that the so-called “Buddha Boy” has been sitting under a pipal tree in uninterrupted meditation since May of 2005. According to the set of people who surround and control access to Ram Bomjon, he asserted just before sitting down that he was entering into a six-year meditative state in order to attain enlightenment, a la the original Buddha Siddhartha Gautama. According to the same set of people who surround and control access to Bomjon, he:

has not stirred from his meditation since May 2005,

has had nothing to eat since May 2005,

has continued meditating even after being bitten by a snake,

and has caused two mute people in proximity to him to begin to speak.

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directorscuts: Meme THIS.

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:51:56 -0400

directorscuts:

Meme THIS.

benw: Would this really be so bad? Checkboxes, bitches. When...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:50:08 -0400

benw:

Would this really be so bad?

Checkboxes, bitches.

When you create an app, it should declare which permissions it actually requires to function (disabled, ticked checkbox) and which it desires by default (ticked checkbox.)

Everything not required is optional/user definable.

Permission to posting a tweet is separate from other, private profile writing operations, since it’s so socially destructive.

Apps would never be allowed to require posting permission (if denied, they fall back to generating a URL the user can use to manually post through the Twitter website.)

I think this also makes the permissions/capabilities copy clearer. Bonus.

Edit/Update: A little discussion between OAuth contributors broke out on Buzz in response to this.

Inside Breaking News: Introducing our new Breaking News iPhone app

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:49:21 -0400

Inside Breaking News: Introducing our new Breaking News iPhone app:

breakingblog:

We’re excited to unveil a brand new Breaking News iPhone app (iTunes) with customized feeds, real-time mapping and a faster, cleaner display. This is our biggest update since we launched the app, adding many of the features that you’ve requested over the last several months.

(On Android or…

Inside Breaking News: 7 biggest Breaking News stories of 2011

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:49:12 -0400

Inside Breaking News: 7 biggest Breaking News stories of 2011:

breakingblog:

It goes without saying, but it’s been an incredible news year. Here at BreakingNews, we’ve compiled the biggest breaking stories of the year — the stories that drove the biggest traffic spikes, the most @breakingnews retweets, the fastest stream of updates, the most social media reports and…

breakingblog: Steve Jobs news rockets across the social web:...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:49:03 -0400

breakingblog:

Steve Jobs news rockets across the social web: Early yesterday evening, we started seeing several Steve Jobs rumors floating around Twitter. But when Breaking News editor Stephanie Clary (@sclary) saw the sad news confirmed in an Associated Press alert, she published a six-word tweet seconds later, sparking shock and disbelief across Twitter.

In fact, that tweet was RT’d more times than any other tweet in @breakingnews history: nearly 11,000 times, according to Twitter analytics. Subsequent tweets were shared thousands of times, as well. And @breakingnews added over 10,000 new followers yesterday alone.

We also simultaneously published the news on Facebook, Google+ and Tumblr. In each case, the story was one of our most-shared and commented ever. We collected some of the reaction on BreakingNews.com.

The social outpouring exemplifies how Steve Jobs touched so many lives in a profound way. We’ve heard from several people who first discovered the news on their mobile devices, either via Twitter, Facebook or by a “push alert” from apps by Breaking News and other news organizations. Then quickly, they shared the news with their friends — sometimes with their own memories of Jobs — propelling the story around the world.

President Obama said it best. “There may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his pass on a device he invented.”

#RIPSteveJobs

(Post by @corybe. Photo by Robert Galbraith / Reuters)

breakingblog: BreakingNews expands overseas with UK launch: In...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:48:54 -0400

breakingblog:

BreakingNews expands overseas with UK launch: In our first international expansion, we’re excited to announce we’re rolling out a United Kingdom edition of BreakingNews in partnership with MSN UK. BreakingNews.com along with MSN UK’s redesigned site now feature real-time updates from the UK. We’ve also launched a new Twitter account, @breakingnewsUK, which complements @breakingnews with UK-focused updates.

Our new London-based team of Dave Wyllie (@journodave) and Tom McArthur (@TomMcArthur) are powering the new service. From the riots to the News of the World scandal, the UK has experienced a tremendous year of news so far. Our London team will help strengthen BreakingNews’ overall global coverage, including the European debt crisis and continuing unrest in the Middle East and North Africa.

MSN UK is our first editorial distribution partner to publish BreakingNews coverage around the clock. With a new focus on real-time news, MSN UK rolled out a full-scale redesign today. On the MSN home and news pages, we’re providing a continuous stream of updates and direct links to news organizations — and eyewitnesses on social media — who are first to break original stories.

About 350,000 people in the UK already follow @breakingnews on Twitter — the most for any country after the US. In addition to our relationship with MSN UK, Twitter analytics played a considerable role in informing where we launch our first international edition.

BreakingNews’ 24/7 editorial team uses social media tools to discover, verify and link breaking stories from news organizations and eyewitnesses in real time. For news organizations in the UK that frequently break original stories, the new BreakingNews edition will provide a new burst of referrals.

In fact, if you’re a publisher interested in learning more about getting your stories quickly in front of our editors, please take a look at our Twitter hashtag fast-track program. Over 160 publishers are adding #breaking and @breakingnews to their tweets, tipping our editorial team moments after the tweet is sent.

(Post by Cory Bergman, @corybe)

mnmal: Rule 11

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:48:29 -0400

mnmal:

Rule 11

: The sexiest way to blog!

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:48:06 -0400

: The sexiest way to blog!:

myTumblr
is a gorgeous Tumblr client for Mac OS X
and the sexiest way to blog without a browser.

The Mac way.

myTumblr makes it EASY!

Just open myTumblr and start to blog.
Drag a photo from your Desktop, iPhoto or Safari
- crop, enhance it, or even add annotations and upload and…

fascinated: Pretty Hype Machine, Zoya Feldman 2011 While...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:45:39 -0400

fascinated:

Pretty Hype Machine, Zoya Feldman 2011

While chatting at my apartment recently, we realized that we all have a tremendous appreciation of the first major release by Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine, from 1989 (22 years ago!).

The more we talked about it, the more we wanted to pay homage to the album on our site. Recreating the unique analog style was quite difficult (Rob Sheridan will agree), but nothing worthwhile is easy.

This is as much a tribute to the record as to Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznor overall. He has innovated relentlessly over the past 20 years, inventing some of what we now take for granted as music fans. The incredibly produced live shows, being the first major artist to run a remix contest & subsequent community (whole companies have been built on this idea later), among the first to do paperless concerts with Ticketmaster, and more things I can’t think of right now. Oh yeah, The Social Network soundtrack was great too.

There are many great artists, but few continuously pay attention to all facets of their output with as much attention and creativity, even after reaching multiple levels of success.

Thanks for making a ton of great experiences, Trent.

Listen to Nine Inch Nails on Spotify or Rdio, get this image as a desktop wallpaper, enjoy it on the site for the next few days.

Brian Beck’s Text Adventure: Node.js Cures Cancer

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:44:50 -0400

Brian Beck’s Text Adventure: Node.js Cures Cancer:

exogen:

I apologize for the title. But it’s no less accurate than this embarassing, poorly-reasoned article by Ted Dziuba. It’s flamebait, but I couldn’t resist. Sigh…here we go.

First, Ted takes issue with this claim on Node’s homepage:

Almost no function in Node directly performs I/O, so the…

breakingblog: Fast-tracking Twitter tips to BreakingNews: We’re...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:42:32 -0400

breakingblog:

Fast-tracking Twitter tips to BreakingNews: We’re excited to announce a new feature that allows news organizations to fast-track news tips straight to BreakingNews.com and potentially, @breakingnews on Twitter.

Here’s how it works. Once we’ve whitelisted a news organization’s Twitter account, appending @breakingnews or #breakingnews anywhere in a tweet will pop it in front of our editors on this page. If it’s a breaking story with national or regional interest — and it’s the first we’ve seen of it — we’ll publish it on the BreakingNews.com home page, our three mobile apps and potentially on Twitter and Facebook, too. The bigger the story, the more places it goes.

For the news organization, that means a burst of traffic and perhaps a few new Twitter followers. For us, it helps BreakingNews find stories faster (we receive a daily avalanche of Twitter replies and mentions) and give credit where credit is due. All we ask is that the tips stick to original breaking stories that have a regional or national interest. Our goal is to link the source of breaking stories, not rewritten copies of it.

Nearly 40 local TV stations (of all affiliations) and newspapers have opted into the program. If you’re a news organization that routinely covers breaking news of regional interest, send us a note (to the editor) with the Twitter handle on this contact form.

breakingblog: Happy Holidays everyone! If you’re getting a...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:42:23 -0400

breakingblog:

Happy Holidays everyone! If you’re getting a snazzy new device this holiday season, remember you can get our Breaking News apps for free for real-time updates from hundreds of news organizations around the world.

Download our just-updated iPhone app, Android app and Windows 7 app.

And have a blast over the holiday break!

breakingblog: Fast-tracking Twitter tips to BreakingNews: We’re...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:41:59 -0400

breakingblog:

Fast-tracking Twitter tips to BreakingNews: We’re excited to announce a new feature that allows news organizations to fast-track news tips straight to BreakingNews.com and potentially, @breakingnews on Twitter.

Here’s how it works. Once we’ve whitelisted a news organization’s Twitter account, appending @breakingnews or #breakingnews anywhere in a tweet will pop it in front of our editors on this page. If it’s a breaking story with national or regional interest — and it’s the first we’ve seen of it — we’ll publish it on the BreakingNews.com home page, our three mobile apps and potentially on Twitter and Facebook, too. The bigger the story, the more places it goes.

For the news organization, that means a burst of traffic and perhaps a few new Twitter followers. For us, it helps BreakingNews find stories faster (we receive a daily avalanche of Twitter replies and mentions) and give credit where credit is due. All we ask is that the tips stick to original breaking stories that have a regional or national interest. Our goal is to link the source of breaking stories, not rewritten copies of it.

Nearly 40 local TV stations (of all affiliations) and newspapers have opted into the program. If you’re a news organization that routinely covers breaking news of regional interest, send us a note (to the editor) with the Twitter handle on this contact form.

dealbreaker: theidiotking: WORLD PREMIERE! Two years in the...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:40:40 -0400

dealbreaker:

theidiotking:

WORLD PREMIERE! Two years in the making, a show about two co-workers who hate each other, hate the coffee shop they work at, and hate the superpowers they’ve mysteriously developed.

Swift and French

Written by/Starring Erin Gibson & Dave Horwitz

with Marisa Pinson and Billy Merritt

Directed by Tyler Gilette / Special Effects by Chris VanArtsdalen

Pass it around if you like it, will ya?

Watch Dave make goo goo eyes at Marisa! Also he can fly in this!

mojomagazine: Preview all the tracks from our latest covermount...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:40:15 -0400

mojomagazine:

Preview all the tracks from our latest covermount CD - New Order’s 1983 masterpiece Power, Corruption & Lies covered + Blue Monday 12” Revisited + bonus tracks. Available exclusively with the February 2012 issue of the magazine - on sale now.

evan: zoya: Cannot get over just how awesome our Musical...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:40:05 -0400

evan:

zoya:

Cannot get over just how awesome our Musical Landscape map is. Drag around! Zoom in on the brushstrokes! Click names to play music!

Hype Machine teamed up with the creator of Perry Bible Fellowship to make the coolest top-bands-of-the-year list EVER.

evan: jenna: Some lovely folks from EyeEm came out to last...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:39:07 -0400

evan:

jenna:

Some lovely folks from EyeEm came out to last night’s meetup in Berlin and posted a little recap over on their site. We had a swell time and I would love to see them move their corporate blog over to Tumblr :D

The Berlin Tumblr meet-up was amazing. It was great to catch up with Patrick, chat with Severin from EyeEm, see a demo of whiskie.net from Alex, and meet a ton of other wonderful Tumblr users!

officialbeastieboys: SO PSYCHED FOR KNICKS...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:21:03 -0400

officialbeastieboys:

SO PSYCHED FOR KNICKS BASKETBALL !!!

oh yea… Merry Christmas.

officialbeastieboys: oh also….this is a picture of Jay Z...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:20:55 -0400

officialbeastieboys:

oh also….this is a picture of Jay Z (playing U Don’t Know) at his and Kanye’s show

in Atlanta on Saturday night. that shit was awesome !

did i mention that i had backstage passes and watched the show from the front row while drinking a nice glass of merlot from the dressing room..?

i did ? oh shit … well happy birthday to me.