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Did Microsoft Use Linguists For Zune?

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According to a recent article in Infoworld, the name of Microsoft’s new digital music player “Zune”, “Sounds like a vulgarity, specifically the ‘f’ word in Hebrew.”

Thanks to Valleywag for pointing this out, as well as noting the FCUK branding wasn’t a bad move by French Connection.(Love the title Valleywag gave the story; I suspect it will catch on real quick)

Speaking of Microsoft…..who said their developers were not clever?

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Google Or Microsoft?

Check out Microgoog!

Art Project Has Many A Computer Nut Hooked

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Line Rider by ~fsk, over at deviantART did a project for illustration class.

The artist explains it is not a game - there are no goals and no score.

Oddly enough, anyone who touches it gets lost in it for hours.

Comments on improving it are welcome, particularly about sharing tracks.

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The irony…

Passed on to me by the coolest and cutest computer geek around.

Go to www.google.com

Enter “search”

Press “I’m feeling lucky”

What are the odds?

Cute Google Gadget

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I’m not quite sure who speaker219 is. I know his name is Charlie, he is based in
Florida, and his website has the cutest little Google gadget.

Go here, type in your name and it will generate a Google page with your text.

Great for all of those who love to see their name in lights, or should I say, in Googlese.

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