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Kid phones a school hotline an hour before someone phones in a bomb threat. Unfortunately, the school hadn’t adjusted for the new DST switch, so he got hauled into juvenile detention for twelve days. “County juvenile detention officials wanted to keep Webb in custody, Andrews said. “They wanted him to have a mental health evaluation because he wouldn’t admit to making the call.” ” Frightening.

“OK, here I go, I’m going to make this whole website right now on this dry-erase board.”

This looks like a format that’d be worth replicating in Boston. Informal meetups with scheduled 5 or 15 minute presentations, focused on cool web technology.

Fun Flashgame from Nintendo. Are they prototyping ideas for console games using Flash? This could easily be a great two-player DS game.

This cracked me up when I saw it at Fenway last night. The Dunkin Donuts billboard above the bleachers is in Japanese (reportedly, it says “Welcome to Fenway Park”). Dice-K mania hits Dunks!

Awesome retro blog design.

As we await Daisuke Matsuzaka’s first start as a Red Sox pitcher, here’s his new Nike advert playing in Japan. The shot of Wally the Green Monster in the middle is kind of disconcerting.

“The major labels wanted to kill the single. Instead they killed the album. The association wanted to kill Napster. Instead it killed the compact disc.”

IMAP or POP mail pushed to your cellphone for free. Works with S60 phones.

Know when Windows programs you have installed need updateing — Like VersionTracker or AppFresh, but for Windows.

CAPTCHAs to keep the internet looser(sic)-free. I would fully support this project.

“Pioneered at the University of NSW, the research shows the human brain processes and retains more information if it is digested in either its verbal or written form, but not both at the same time.”

T-shirts and stickers emblazoned with the likes of Richard Stallman, Donald Knuth and Bruce Schneier. I ordered a couple of the Schneier stickers for my laptops.

Firefox extension to enable GPG encryption/verification in GMail. Need to give this a shot.

This could come in handy for sanity checking syntax when writing PHP. Bizarrely, it’s mostly written in Python!

Limited to products released since the “personal computer”. I don’t want to imagine a world that didn’t have these products as stepping stones.

Digg for sports fans, with some interesting tagging and filtering options to limit it to the geographies/teams/players you care about.

Apple will be selling DRM-free music from EMI next month. Pitched as “higher-quality” (256kbps AAC) to justify the price increase. The interesting statistic once this launches is going to be the number of people who choose the lower-cost DRMed version.

Up-to-date list of the software I use on my Mac.

App which tracks what you’re browsing/reading/writing/working-on over time. Kind of cool to build up a picture of your day.