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Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes Yahoo Pipes—or, officially, Pipes by Yahoo!, a rare switcheroo of the company’s name—was a service that offered all that and more in a single platform. Individual “Pipes,” as it were, were both personal and public—the service seemed like a portent of the future that techno-utopians were then predicting. But like many great products and services of its time, it never quite came to pass....

Media Types | IANA … Media Types (formerly known as MIME types) and Media Subtypes will be assigned and listed by the IANA.

Spot on! 🙂 Android (n.) : A mobile operating system, generally seen as inferior to iOS. See iOS iOS (n.): A mobile operating system, generally seen as inferior to Android. See Android (via Tao of Mac ) Source: The New Devil’s Dictionary

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Everybody is somebody else’s monster. Greg Knauss (via An Entirely Other Day: The Empathy Vacuum )

Trolls will always have the last word. What you can do is have the best one. Hugo Ferreira

How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big-Budget Flick | Underwire | Wired.com Now, in response to The_Quiet_Earth’s question about time-traveling marines, Erwin started typing. He posted his answer in a series of comments in the thread. Within an hour, he was an online celebrity. Within three hours, a film producer had reached out to him. Within two weeks, he was offered a deal to write a movie based on his Reddit comments....

The Internet, where men are men, women are men, and kids are FBI agents. Anonymous (via Mariano Guerra )