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October 31 2011
NIKEiD Air Force 1 Returns With Wool Option
Fast on the heels of the Nike Air 180, another celebrated model is making its triumphant return to NIKEiD. The venerated Air Force 1 is launching at midnight ET tonight on Nike’s customizing platform. As a post-Halloween treat, the first 750 pairs will feature a wool material option. But be quick — once those 750 pairs are sold, the wool option disappears. From the initial images provided by Nike, we can see that the Air Force 1 will be come in both low and high-top styles, and that a suede overlay and translucent outsole will also be available. Click through for more looks.
Release Date: November 1st, 2011 (Tonight, at 12 am ET)
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Regal Shoes x Mr. BATHING APE Wing Sta Bapesta | Available Now
Hand crafted accordingly like any other brogue wingtips by Japan’s Regal Shoes, the Mr. BATHING APE Wing Sta Bapesta does include something quite distinctive – a BAPE Shooting Star appliqué on the shoe’s lateral edge. Luxurious calf leather with glove leather lining along and leather sole, each part of a limited collection now available at end clothing of UK.
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Yet Another Appalling NYPD Tactic: Send The Aggressive Crazies To Zuccotti Park
The NYPD seems to have crossed a line in recent days, as the park has taken on a darker tone with unsteady and unstable types suddenly seeming to emerge from the woodwork. Two different drunks I spoke with last week told me they’d been encouraged to “take it to Zuccotti” by officers who’d found them drinking in other parks, and members of the community affairs working group related several similar stories they’d heard while talking with intoxicated or aggressive new arrivals. The NYPD’s press office declined to comment on the record about any such policy, but it seems like a logical tactic from a Bloomberg administration that has done its best to make things difficult for the occupation — a way of using its openness against it.And now we know the true source of all those triumphant "on the scene" reports from Fox News.
“He’s got a right to express himself, you’ve got a right to express yourself,” I heard three cops repeat in recent days, using nearly identical language, when asked to intervene with troublemakers inside the park, including a clearly disturbed man screaming and singing wildly at 3 a.m. for the second straight night. “The first time I’ve heard cops mention our First Amendment rights,” cracked one occupier after hearing a lieutenant read off of that apparent script.
New iPhone 4S Commercials
These are some of the best ads I’ve ever seen. I love how in the Siri spots, the only faces entirely in the frame are the kids. Note too, that the narrator never says “Apple”.
Rumors have been buzzing for weeks about the New York debut of Portland, Oregon's Pok Pok, a James Beard Award-winning Thai street food shop, and now it has been confirmed that Pok Pok Ny will open at 127 Columbia Street. The space used to house 5 Burro Café.
In Thai, “ny” can be roughly translated to “in the city.”
Chef and owner Andy Ricker also plans to set up a smaller shop (which will most likely open first, according to Grubstreet) on Rivington Street in the Lower East Side.
Grubstreet reports that the Brooklyn outpost will be a “full sit-down restaurant” with a small dining room and a large backyard that Ricker hopes to be able to use year-round.
Pok Pok gained a large following in Portland with their staple menu offerings, such as Vietnamese Fish Sauce Wings.
Mac OS 10.8 users already doing external testing
Mac OS 10.8 testers both inside Apple’s HQ and in the surrounding area of Silicon Valley have been spotted in Web Logs by MacRumors. Indeed, looking at our own logs (above), 10.8 users have been hitting our servers since mid-August, though only in numbers that probably could have been faked.
More recently, however, 10.8 testing has grown more abundant, with testers hitting our site every day including on weekends from non-Apple IP addresses throughout October.
Similar patterns emerged in testing OS 10.7 which leads us to conclude that this is still very early testing and it is likely more than a year before we’ll see even public betas of the OS.
Still, very nice to see Apple’s already working on the next big cat.
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- Apple looking to bring AirPlay Mirroring, iMessage application to Mac OS X (9to5mac.com)
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- Refurbished Apple PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8GHz Desktop for $265 + $4 s&h (9to5toys.com)
October 30 2011
With great power comes boorish behavior
These two stories seem related to me and I can't figure out which is the more disturbing. First up, at last year's company Halloween party, the employees of the law firm of Steven J. Baum dressed up as homeless people who the firm had brought foreclosure proceedings against.
Let me describe a few of the photos. In one, two Baum employees are dressed like homeless people. One is holding a bottle of liquor. The other has a sign around her neck that reads: "3rd party squatter. I lost my home and I was never served." My source said that "I was never served" is meant to mock "the typical excuse" of the homeowner trying to evade a foreclosure proceeding.
And then Friday in Queens, hundreds of off-duty police officers turned out to applaud sixteen police officers accused of fixing tickets and other more serious crimes.
As the defendants emerged from their morning court appearance, a swarm of officers formed a cordon in the hallway and clapped as they picked their way to the elevators. Members of the news media were prevented by court officers from walking down the hallway where more than 100 off-duty police officers had gathered outside the courtroom.
The assembled police officers blocked cameras from filming their colleagues, in one instance grabbing lenses and shoving television camera operators backward.
The unsealed indictments contained more than 1,600 criminal counts, the bulk of them misdemeanors having to do with making tickets disappear as favors for friends, relatives and others with clout. But they also outlined more serious crimes, related both to ticket-fixing and drugs, grand larceny and unrelated corruption. Four of the officers were charged with helping a man get away with assault.
Siri hack now fully working on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch [video]
Siri has now been fully hacked onto an iPhone 4 and iPod touch and it now communicates with Apple’s servers to provide a 100% working solution. We told you a few weeks back that developer Steve Troughton-Smith was working on hacking Siri onto an iPhone 4 but had run into one or two hurdles. Well the main hurdle involved getting the hacked iPhone 4 to talk to Apple’s servers. That has now been overcome and it is now looking like a real possibility.
Talking to 9to5Mac, Steve Troughton-Smith revealed that the hack works across devices but requires files from an iPhone 4S that are not legally available to distribute. It also requires a validation token from a live jailbroken iPhone 4S. The whole hack involves around 20 steps to complete. Because of this, Steve Troughton-Smith doesn’t want to be involved in distributing the Siri port and has only done it to prove it can be done.
We don’t know at this point if others will take on the distribution and risk the wrath of Apple’s legal team, we will have to wait and see. In the mean time take a look at the two videos below. The first one shows the iPhone 4 running Siri side by side with an iPhone 4S and the second video shows Siri running on an iPod touch.
Source: 9to5Mac
October 29 2011
Instagram Started as a Location Check-In Service
Naomi Zeichner interviewing Kevin Systrom, one of the founders of Instagram:
How did you develop the idea of the Instagram filter? It started off as a mobile check-in app that let you post pictures and videos. People ended up liking the photo posting more than the checking in, so we built in camera functionalities and made the focus photos, not check-ins.
One question Zeichner didn’t ask: how does Instagram plan to start making money?
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October 28 2011
Kids Say The @#$%est Things
(Grocery Store | New Jersey, USA)
(A customer comes through my line with a small child.)
Me: “Aww! How old is your son?”
Customer: “He’s 4. Isn’t he adorable?”
Me: “He is.”
Customer: “Say hi to the nice lady.”
Son: “F*** you.”
Me: *shocked*
Customer: “Isn’t he just precious?”
Facebook Thread of the Day
Facebook Thread of the Day: Meanwhile, on the Mountain Dew Facebook page, Extreme Suicide Prevention.
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My. God…
Something tells me you don’t…
After an autistic girl and her service dog were wrongly kicked out of a discount clothing store owned by TJ Maxx, the district manager profusely apologized and gave them a $25 gift card to pick out anything she liked. When she returned and tried to use the gift card, store staff kicked her out for having a service dog again. Looks like someone didn't get the memo.
Three months after the nine-year-old girl, Emily, was kicked out of "Winners," a chain owned by TJ Maxx, she and her mother came back to the store to pick out something nice using the gift card the district manager gave her.
"We were asked to leave the store," Emily's mother told CBC News. "My child's service dog was not permitted in their establishment anywhere. And if that's true, then that includes my child because there is no separation between the two of them."
"I was disappointed that I didn't get anything from the store, even my dress that my mom picked out nicely for me," Emily told CBC News.
The mother said she didn't think the store's apology was sincere because while the manager had made the perfect "putting out of the fire" gesture, the store hadn't bothered to educate their staff on the proper protocol.
Parent company TJ Maxx said that it's standard policy for service dogs to be allowed in stores. "We are looking into the particulars regarding this customer's experience and will reach out to her directly, as well as take whatever actions we believe are appropriate," Doreen Thompson, a TJX spokeswoman told CBC News.
Edmonton store bars girl's service dog twice [CBCNews] (Thanks to Neil!)
This is Spinal Tape
iPhone - The Siri button gets the same functionality as the space button while typing quickly.
/via Peter Robinet
Those who toil away on free-to-play Facebook games may have built up a false sense of security as they blindly click on all the permission buttons in order to get to the good stuff. But an ad that claims to offer Facebookers access to a free Mario Kart game is a trap, like one of those upside down question blocks in the real version of the game.
Sophos Naked Security reports a scam masquerading as access to the non-existent game is popping up as status updates and messages, tricking users into filling out a seemingly endless stream of online surveys and possibly asking users to install dubious software, as well as an offer to attempt to win a non-existent "iPhone 5."
If you run across this offer as a message or post, you'll probably want to delete it to stop it from spreading.
Mario Kart on Facebook? Fast-spreading scam hits many users' accounts [Sophos Naked Security via Kotaku]
Another Follow Up of the Day: Parents Lose Custody Of Adolf Hitler
Another Follow Up of the Day: The mother and father of three children with Nazi-themed names have reportedly lost custody of their kids, despite claiming that a court in New Jersey ruled that no abuse had taken place.
Adolf Hitler, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie were placed in foster care nearly three years ago after a ShopRite reported Heath and Deborah Campbell’s request to decorate a birthday cake for their three-year-old son, who happens to share a name with an infamous dictator.
The couple’s claim that the children were removed solely because of their names was disputed today by a New Jersey appeals court, which ruled that sufficient evidence of abuse and parental incompetence existed to justify their placement in foster care.
The case was sent to New Jersey Family Court for further examination. According to the Campbells, a judge is set to rule in December on the status of their custody.
[nbc10 / myfoxphilly.]
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October 27 2011
Porsche Design P9981 BlackBerry to Sell for $2000
Easily the best-designed new phone of 2005.
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