4chan hacker holds rapper Soulja Boy MySpace account ransom -
28 August 2008, 7:30 pm
A miscreant from the sordid 4chan message-board community sent rapper and social media whiz-kid Soulja Boy a text message the other day, telling him to fork over $2,500 if he wanted control over his MySpace account back.
Mac Designer Andy Hertzfeld Looks Back at 25 Years of Mac -
28 August 2008, 7:00 pm
"Steve made zero technical contributions. He's not a technical person, so sort of his main contribution was setting the goal, setting a very high goal, and then being really passionate about exceeding the expectations, you know just trying to make every single conceivable aspect of the product as brilliant and creative and wonderful as possible."
Green Gym Uses Human-Powered Energy -
28 August 2008, 6:40 pm
Adam Boesel, the gym’s owner, doctored up spin bikes with weed whacker motors and truck alternators so that patrons can create energy to help power the 2,800 foot space.
Lego Batman Coming To iPhone? -
28 August 2008, 6:40 pm
The latest installment in the LEGO Thing franchise — LEGO Batman — could be heading to the iPhone, reports Pocket Gamer.There have been earlier Java midlet versions of LEGO games - notably Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, but it would be nice to think that theiPhone would get a proper conversion..
The Case for an Apple iNetwork: Welcome to the Social -
28 August 2008, 6:20 pm
There has been a lot of speculation recently about an impending update to iTunes. Version 8.0 is supposed to finally bring a recommendation engine to the digital media player application. While that's interesting from a music discovery perspective, it is even more interesting to consider what this could mean in terms of an iTunes+iPhone experience.