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• — Crazy coffee shop lets anyone on the web gently torture its customers (Yahoo! News)

     (Friday, 10 February 2012 11:54)

  Yahoo! News - Imagine this: You're quietly sipping coffee when your seat suddenly shrinks, your table shoots upward, and the music switches from soothing jazz to screamo in a heartbeat. That's the usual scenario inside the Kauko coffee shop in Helsinki, Finland, where you can …

• — Review: Netflix and Hulu's new scripted originals (AP)

     (Friday, 10 February 2012 11:49)

  AP - Within just over a week, Netflix and Hulu are both debuting their first stabs at original scripted programming.

  
  

• — Gun-Toting Facebook Dad Needs Therapy, Not Thank-Yous (ContributorNetwork)

     (Friday, 10 February 2012 11:22)

  ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | A video response from a hurt dad posted on YouTube has gone viral. The video was shot after the dad discovered a disrespectful post left on Facebook by his daughter about how she was treated more like a slave than a child in the home. At the conclusion of the video, the disgruntled Facebook dad takes a 45-caliber handgun and destroys the child's laptop to prove a point. Responses to the video are outrageously supportive, but I can't find one reason to support a father who chooses violence over intelligence when disciplining a child.

• — Sony's Hirai to extend PlayStation strategy (Reuters)

     (Friday, 10 February 2012 11:22)

  Reuters - Incoming CEO Kazuo Hirai aims to re-shape Sony Corp by linking hardware and software through online networks -- a model he used at its PlayStation unit -- dismissing any suggestion the battered brand would revert to a gadget-centered strategy under his management.

• — Catholic leaders to use Internet against pedophiles (Reuters)

     (Friday, 10 February 2012 11:21)

  Reuters - Roman Catholic Church leaders unveiled an Internet teaching project on Thursday to help clergy around the world root out pedophiles in their ranks and protect children from potential abusers.

• — Trouble in iParadise: Protesters target Apple, hackers target Foxconn (Digital Trends)

     (Friday, 10 February 2012 11:13)

  Digital Trends - Following the recent rumor that Apple will unveil its highly anticipated successor to the most popular tablet ever in less than a month, the cacophony of iPad 3 buzz has grown deafening. Yet at the same time, a very different sort of cry is developing—one that the tech Goliath (at the time of this writing valued greater than Microsoft and Google — combined) is less experienced in dealing with.

• — Is the Polygamist Leader Preparing His Flock for Doomsday? (Time.com)

     (Friday, 10 February 2012 10:15)

  Time.com - At one point, he seemed to be on death's door, but now Warren Jeffs appears to have recovered enough to issue edicts and orders to thousands who remain faithful

• — Android@home could rival Apple AirPlay (Appolicious)

     (Friday, 10 February 2012 09:16)

  Appolicious - One area in which Google has yet to catch up with Apple is home entertainment. That may soon change, as Google is reportedly working on an Android-based home music system called Android@home. Such a system would likely be among the first products to come out of Project Tungsten, which Google demonstrated at their I/O conference last spring. There, Google showed a tablet that could manage various aspects of the home, including turning lights on and off, sending music from the Internet to a hi-fi, and speakers laced with an NFC chip to initiate music play.

• — Not the DIY type? Tips to find a tax preparer (AP)

     (Friday, 10 February 2012 08:25)

  AP - If your financial life is simple and you have basic computer skills, using do-it-yourself software is an "EZ" way to file your tax return.

• — Apple tells developers they’ll need to submit Retina screenshots, which could signal 3GS’ end (Appolicious)

     (Friday, 10 February 2012 07:52)

  Appolicious - Apple is telling developers making apps for its iOS devices that screenshots they submit for app listings in the App Store need to be at least Retina resolution or above. Could that herald the beginning of Apple phasing out the iPhone 3GS?