| Turn Your Facebook Timeline Into an Actual Book With Likebooks | | Friday, May 31, 2013 7:35 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| These days, your Facebook Timeline can serve as a digital scrapbook of your life: birthdays, graduations, weddings, trips to Disneyland and, yes, the time you got a puppy. A new service wants to help Facebook users move those memories from the cloud into a permanent, physical keepsake. Likebooks will convert content from your Facebook Timeline and print it in a physical book, as shown in the video above.
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| Samuel L. Jackson Just Trolled the Internet | | Friday, May 31, 2013 3:54 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Samuel L. Jackson followed through with his promise on Friday, after asking Reddit users to submit a 300-word monologue for him to read out loud. But not without punking the Internet in the process. Here's the beginning of his much-anticipated monologue: Hi, I'm Samuel L. Jackson. I'm sorry to disappoint you, Reddit, but I've decided to break the rules of my own competition, and I will not be reading a user-submitted entry as my monologue.
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| Little Vegetarian-in-the-Making Explains Why He Won't Eat Animals | | Friday, May 31, 2013 2:35 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Little Luiz Antonio didn't want to eat his octopus. Not because he was being a typical toddler with a picky palate — he explained to his mother that "these animals ... you gotta take care of them ... and not eat them." Luiz's mother teared up as she answered questions about how animals end up on the dinner table.
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| Beautiful Women Eat for Free at Fast Food Restaurant | | Friday, May 31, 2013 1:56 PM | Neha Prakash |
| They say there's no such thing as a free meal but, if you're beautiful, you can eat for free at this Brazilian chain of fast food restaurants. It may sound like an offensive concept at first, but it's actually quite the opposite.
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| Internet Falls in Love With Freida the Throw Away Kitty | | Friday, May 31, 2013 12:38 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Say meow-llo to Freida the Throw Away Kitty. The tiny feline might sound unwanted, but she's quickly becoming "the most awww-triggering cat on the Internet." Freida was rescued from a ditch in rural Maine on April 10, her long hair painfully matted to her emaciated 2-pound body. Frieda's wide, golden eyes told her story: she needed help and fast.
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| Billions of Geotagged Tweets Visualized in Twitter's Amazing Maps | | Friday, May 31, 2013 12:06 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Ever wonder what it would look like to plot every single geotagged tweet since 2009 on a map? Twitter has done just that. Twitter posted these maps of Europe, New York City, Tokyo and Istanbul on its blog Friday. They use billions of geotagged tweets: Every dot represents a tweet, with the brighter colors showing a higher concentration of tweets.
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| Istanbul Police Unleash Tear Gas on Anti-Government Protestors | | Friday, May 31, 2013 11:10 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Police in Istanbul unleashed tear gas and water cannons Friday in an effort to disperse thousands of protestors demonstrating against the government. One onlooker captured the chaos from a vantage point above the fray and uploaded the footage to YouTube, seen above. At least 100 people were injured in Friday's clashes, per Reuters.
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| How to Get Started With New Twitter Lists | | Friday, May 31, 2013 10:12 AM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| Now that Twitter Lists have gotten a major upgrade, we're excited about the prospect of better organizing our Twitter feed into easily viewable categories. Previously, you could only create 20 lists. Now, you can make up to 1,000, and those lists can contain as many as 5,000 accounts — a big improvement on the prior cap of 500 accounts.
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| Pepsi's 'Like Machine' Rewards Facebook Fans | | Friday, May 31, 2013 9:47 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Coca-Cola and Pepsi used to compete via huge advertising campaigns, but these days, the battle seems to be over vending machine technology. Pepsi's latest weapon is the "Like Machine," which dispenses the company's soft drinks to fans who Like the brand on Facebook. As this video shows, you can either Like Pepsi on your phone or use a touchscreen on the machine to log your Like — and you'll be rewarded with a free drink of your choice.
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| Google Pays Tribute to Julius Richard Petri With Animated Doodle | | Friday, May 31, 2013 9:07 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Today's Google Doodle is a cute animated tribute to Julius Richard Petri, the bacteriologist credited with inventing the Petri dish. Born in 1852 in Barmen, Germany, Petri received his medical degree from Berlin's Kaiser-Wilhelm Academy for Military Physicians in 1876. For the following two years, he worked in the Imperial Health Office in Berlin, where he became an assistant to Robert Koch.
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