del.icio.us links for June 10, 2007 - part 1

Week 23 del.icio.us links for June 10, 2007 – part 1

1. ‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’ – New York Times – NYTimes.Com

   A long but funny story about how a mum got back at her daughter by getting a Facebook page

2. 300 Kansas Sex Offenders Found on MySpace – Mashable.Com

   The results from the requested MySpace lists identifying sex offenders that use the social network have been revealed, and there are about 300 registered sex offenders in Kansas alone.

3. Facebook Hammers MySpace on Almost All Key Features – Mashable.Com

   Recently Facebook has been gaining popularity – since it opened up beyond college users, it has enjoyed a flood of new users, boosted further by the launch of Facebook apps. It’s time these two social networks fought it out.

4. Apple’s iPhone Specs and Requirements – Mac Rumors.Com

   the official list of specs that Apple lists for the upcoming device

14 more articles after the Jump

1. Here’s To Hoping: Unconfirmed, The iPhone’s 12th App Is YouTube – Gizmodo.Com

   YouTube has been going crazy converting all their video to the H.264 codec. The iPhone supports H.264, as do iPods. Since Google Maps integration is already the premier offering of the iPhone, Apple is clearly comfortable promoting Google

2. iPhone may become king in cellphone chip ban – AppleInsider.Com

   regardless of the number of phones affected by the ban, the impact may be especially hard for cellphone creators whose new phones will launch at or shortly after the deadline. Motorola’s heavily promoted RAZR2 being one affected

3. iPhone sales book confirms minute details – MacNN.Com

   when in the presence of a Wi-Fi network, the phone can browse the web or check e-mail while handliing a call. The device will also sync contacts directly from Outlook as well as Address Book on Mac OS X

4. Apple building stockpile of 3 million iPhones for launch? – AppleInsider.Com

   If sources cozying up to BusinessWeek’s Peter Burrows are earnest, there are about 3 million reasons to believe that every iPhone line waiter will walk away from an AT&T or Apple retail store later this month clenching what they came for.

5. The 15 Geekiest Vacations – eWeek.Com

   Geeks need a break too, and from the National Computer Museum to a Star Trek bar in Vegas to Space Camp and Geek Cruises, the tech obsessed have plenty of geeky vacation options. or hiking in the mountains around Banff.

6. Yahoo! Releases Zurfer: Mobile Flickr World-Explorer – Radar.OReilly.Com

   Zurfer takes location input, or turns to ZoneTag’s location capabilities to determine your location. Based on that location, Zurfer shows recent photos from your area as well as automatically-computed “Local Highlights” (using TagMaps data).

7. First Look: From the Lab: MacBook Pro benchmarks – Macworld.Com

   The MacBook Pro processor speeds, now about 2- to 3-percent faster, did show some improvement, with the 2.4GHz model beating out the older 2.33GHz MacBook Pro in just about every test, including Photoshop, Cinema4D and Compressor.

8. Reserved for drunk Drivers – DoingItWrong.Com

   Car parking space with a tree in the middle of it

9. hellovader.jpg – DoingItWrong.Com

   Either Vader has a soft side or this is his wife?

10. vNES – vNes.Baikrich.Com

    vNES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator programmed in Java, allowing for cross-platform online use in a browser, preferably Mozilla Firefox. Please note that vNES is designed for computers, not for game consoles.

11. A Green Social Networking Site – Live Green, Do Good, Be Well – RiverWired.Com

    Another great Green blog

12. 20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches – DumbLittleMan.Com

    9 Numrange. This little-known feature searches for a range of numbers. For example, ["best books 2002..2007] will return lists of best books for each of the years from 2002 to 2007 (note the two periods between the two numbers).

13. Worst Ever – Il peggio del peggio in video – Vortexmind.Net

    12 of the best – worst ever videos found on YouTube – “Worst Movie Scenes, Training Scene, Bollywood Movie, Fight Scene, 2nd Worst Fight Scene, Splatter Film, Racing Game, Woman driver , burglar, commercial, Boxer, Nerdest video”

14. Music video by the people behind CollegeHumor.Com – CrunchNotes.Com

    “This is Connected Ventures, which is now part of InterActive Corp. Specifically, these are the teams from Vimeo, CollegeHumor, and Busted Tees.” – Apart from a serious lack of female staff it looks like a fun company to work for