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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

BuzzFeed FWD: The Worst Possible People At Obama's Inauguration And More!


The Worst Possible People At Obama's Inauguration

Unforgivable.

What A Difference Four Years Makes

The smartphone presidency.

The Internet Reacts To The Inauguration

This is supposed to be a respectful and solemn day for the country, so can we please try and take this seriously for just two seconds?!

What's A Tweet Anymore?

Not 140 characters.

What Google's Smartphone Glasses Look Like In Real Life

Sure, Google co-founder Sergey Brin looks a little awkward here. That said, this is only roughly the 15th weirdest thing you'd see on a given morning on the NYC subway.

How To Fake A Great Night Out

An answer to the question: If you go out and no one's around to see it on Foursquare, did you really go out?

A Short History Of iPhone Jailbreaking

Jailbreaking used to be a thing — the iPhone was capable of far more than Apple permitted it to do, and jailbreakers liberated it. But as the iPhone's official capabilities expanded in number and scope, the reasons to jailbreak for most people have diminished, even as Apple's efforts to stomp out have made it an increasingly difficult enterprise.

The Problem With Indexing Every Tweet Ever

"Effectively searching this mass of unstructured data, this barnyard of straw, will be more difficult than people may think. Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and “favorite” tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google’s algorithms so potent"

The Real Surface

Two things about Microsoft's Surface Pro: It's surprisingly cheap, at $899 with a type cover. And after using Windows 8 daily on a desktop for a couple weeks, I do not know if having the real Windows 8 is in fact going to immediate solve Surface's software problem; the Windows Store is still something of a ghost town.

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