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14 last-minute gift ideas for the tech-loving weirdo in your life
Here's a list of very, very strange gift ideas for the very, very strange techies that you love.
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Twitter's newest enemy: Netflix?
It might not be obvious, but Netflix and Twitter have two very different, competing views of the future of watching TV
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What TV shows are we livetweeting?
An in-depth look at the most tweeted television programs of the last two months
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The greatest show on earth
Amazon ringleader-in-chief Jeff Bezos does it again — this time, with futuristic, flying drones
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Doctored Feelgood
On the modern web, many viral videos and stories are uplifting, until they aren't
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Kinecting the dots
Apple just paid $350 million for the company behind the first Xbox Kinect. Why?
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In-flight cellphone calls about as good an idea as in-flight karaoke
Please, FCC, do not allow cellphone calls on airplanes. Please.
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JFK, in 140 characters
How the media covered Kennedy's assassination in 1963, and how it would be covered in the age of Twitter
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I spent a day reading nothing but native advertising
I spent a day reading nothing but native advertising. Here's what I learned.
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The bizarre, macabre complaint that Twitter's Event Parrot is 'too slow'
Twitter's breaking news service is speedy enough, Rob Walker says.
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Rather is a new service that blocks all of your friends' most annoying Facebook status updates
Because hell is other people, especially on Facebook
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Procrastinaut: Ten things to waste your time with this weekend
From "killer" shoes to the art of greasy Italian food packaging, fly on in for the newest installment of the Procrastinaut weekly roundup.
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Blockbuster is closing all of its video rental stores. Good riddance.
Blockbuster stores were garish, overpriced and understocked. No one should miss them.
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Forget the blockbuster: Netflix is making itself indispensable to everyone, niche by niche
Standup comedy, documentaries and more! Rob Walker on Netflix's highly-targeted content plan
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Why does Twitter drive everyone so crazy?
A conversation with Nick Bilton, author of a new book about the founding of Twitter
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Aziz Ansari on his new Netflix special, his upcoming book, and why he doesn't do online dating
Rob Walker talks to the standup comedian on the occasion of "Buried Alive," a new standup special premiering on Netflix
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No, the U.S. government is not 'bad at tech'
Rob Walker on the strange idea that the American government "never gets tech right"
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Sexcams without sex, literal radiohead and a wallet that screams at you and calls your mommy
It's the Procrastinaut, back with more time-wasters!
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Samsung just got busted for posting fake reviews online. Is there any good reason why they shouldn't do it again?
Rob Walker on the low-risk, high-reward strategy of posting fake online reviews
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The Jogging, a Tumblr at the intersection of BuzzFeed, 4chan and weirdo experimental art
Rob Walker on one of the most intriguing, provocative and befuddling blogs going.