Archive for November, 2009

The last few days, due to the holidays, we’ve been posting light on the main blog.  This has lead to somewhat of a vacuum in our addiction to blogging, so naturally we’ve been satisfying our urge to blog by hanging out over on the /SAbackchan. Here’s some of our topics of conversation. The threads are all From /SABackchan: #crunchpadfail, Evil Mashable, and Sponsored ... Full story

If you’re suffering the black screen update problem that is reportedly striking some Windows systems … you probably aren’t reading this. Kidding aside, reports have come in that some Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems are suffering “black screens of death” for some reason after the latest Windows security update.  Here is the explanation Article originally published by StarterTech.comWindows Systems Suffering Black ... Full story

Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards! For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "CobWEBs Daily Edition: It’s FTC Eve, have you ... Full story

Yes folks it’s Monday and there for the start of another week of the most excellent podcast starring Sean P. Aune and myself in tonight’s show. In light of tomorrow being the first of the month we figured Full story

In a move that I am sure will have the PETA faithful orgasming all over themselves researchers in the Netherlands announced that by the end of five years they will have worked all the kinks out of their ability to create artificial meat. The current hold back? Well how about taste and texture. You know those two things that Full story

The much talked about CrunchPad from technology blog TechCrunch has officially been killed off according to the latest news. Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, and the man who first envisioned the CrunchPad tablet computer, posted today that the project Full story

In July New Zealand’s National Business Review (NBR) decided to jump the curve and put all its content behind a paywall – the same thing that people like Rupert Murdoch and other news media moguls are recommending. NBR it seems was betting on the idea that their content was unique enough that people would be willing Full story

The holiday shopping season of 2009 may end up being remembered as “The War of the E-Readers” as Amazon and Barnes & Noble begin butting heads to grab the most attention. We all knew this was Full story

I’ve lost all hope for humanity. As if The Twilight Saga: New Moon having the third biggest opening weekend in movie history, and the biggest single day ever, it remained number 1 at the box office this week, and has surpassed the domestic and international box office totals for the first film in the series already. It SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New Moon Is Still #1 At The Box ... Full story

Black Friday 2009 went pretty smoothly … Black Friday 2010 won’t. Mind you I only went to my local Walmart for Black Friday and I hadn’t been to one since 2006, but I know 2007 & 2008 were just nuts as they had always been.  After the death of a Walmart employee in Long Island, NY SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Black Friday 2010 Won’t Go Smoothly", url: "http://www.seanpaune.com/2009/11/29/black-friday-2010/" ... Full story