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Have you ever come up with a great idea only to find out that someone used it after you? It’s frustrating and the reason why Apple is suing HTC for infringing on 20 patents.

Here’s a breakdown of the patents.

The reasoning behind the Somalian Pirates, US schools being more segregated today than in the 1950s, and the fast track oil exploration project in the Amazon.

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In a nutshell:

Move your iTunes folder to your Dropbox folder. This will probably take a really long time. For me it took about 8 hours.

Launch iTunes while holding the option key (shift on Windows).

Click choose library and choose your iTunes library folder in your Dropbox.

Another goodie from samsoff.es →

We’ve had a couple of feet of snow in the past few days, so a flash mob of bored people gathered on the streets of DC for a snowball fight.

“You can criticize it for being immature . . . but it was pretty safe,” said Matthew Bradley, 28, an amateur photographer who showed up to shoot pictures. “It seemed like everything was what you’d expect.”

Then a maroon Hummer pulled up and was hit by snowballs. A man in plainclothes got out with a gun in his left hand.

According to witnesses, the man did not identify himself, and at least one reveler threw a snowball at him. Most witnesses said the man kept the gun at his side. But some witnesses said the detective holstered the gun and then charged into the crowd, pushing at least one snowball fighter with his finger and threatening to haul others to jail. [Matt Zapotosky of The Washington Post]

A video can be found here and on the Post’s website.

Point of the talk was, when you’re lucky enough to create a smash hit product — when the stars align, and the hardware is great and the ecosystem is great and the apps are great and the whole experience is great, and everything you do just makes everything else better, and you’re totally on a roll and can do no wrong — when that happens, you do not go out and try to fuck it all up by discouraging people who love your product. What you do, instead, is you fix your fucking shitty ass network you fucking shit-eating-grin-wearing hillbilly ass clown! [The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs]

Worth reading.. twice.

And now here we are. Right here in your own backyard, an American company creates a brilliant phone, and that company hands it to you, and gives you an exclusive deal to carry it — and all you guys can do is complain about how much people want to use it. You, Randall Stephenson, and your lazy stupid company — you are the problem. You are what’s wrong with this country.

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In New York, Beck sold 17 tickets. In Boston, another 17. And in Washington, D.C., the hotbed of political activism, his tearful film drew only 30, Raw Story has found. [the raw story]

Get up off that high horse.

“A character named “Little Gray” on the Wrathbringer server has completed all 986 of the game’s ‘cheevos, killing 390,895 creatures and finishing 5,906 quests along the way.” [Joystiq]

I was under the impression that it couldn’t be beat and this isn’t work of The Onion. It really makes you wonder: How many hours did he invest into this game?

The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine. [Stuart Fox of Popular Science]

Seriously interesting that this isn’t coming from The Onion.

A quick peek inside the Apple Microsoft store. Seriously, it’s hard to note the differences – even the cheering and clapping is the same.

He’s got balls.