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A couple weeks ago my iPhone developed a permanent vertical line down the right side of the screen. I have a Squaretrade extended warranty on the phone so I filed a claim. Squaretrade responded less than 12 hours later to request pictures. It is difficult to capture with a camera, but I did the best I could. I emailed Squaretrade these pictures at 9pm. The next morning I already had a response in my inbox saying my claim was approved and they would be overnighting a (refurbished) replacement phone. It was an incredibly easy process and Squaretrade was a pleasure to deal with. I also did not have to pay any form of deductible since it wasn’t considered accidental damage (i.e. cracked screen, phone in toilet). ...

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Why SOPA endangers America’s Internet leadership

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This is bittersweet news since Thrice is one of my all time favorite. At the same time it brings me great joy so musicians with integrity who truly put their children and their families ahead of everything else, even their love of music. If you never listened to this band, you need to fix that. officialthrice: Thrice is not breaking up. If nothing has broken us up by now, I doubt anything ever could. However, we will be taking a break from being a full-time band, and the upcoming tour in the Spring will be the last one for the foreseeable future. Playing music for the past 13 years with… ...

Hackers Attack Illinois Water Plant

A new Gmail app made by a 3d party just came out. Its actually native and performs a lot better than the Google’s official web wrapper. Here’s the link to it in the app store. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sent/id475577298?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 3rd Party NATIVE Gmail on iPhone

The Rolling Stones are one of my favorite bands and one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. Keith is a very unique player with a sound all his own. If you dig his playing, or even if you’re just a vintage gear nut, check out this run down on his guitars and amps. The dude’s Fender Twin is serial #00003!! Keith Richards’ Guitar Tech on His Guitars ...

This is bad for music and will be bad for a lot of bands on those labels. Universal Buys EMI

I hope you will reflect on what you’ve done with your talent and energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you work to address the world’s deepest inequities, on how well you treat people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/idolize_bill_gates_not_steve_j.html?cm_mmc=email--newsletter--weekly_hotlist-_-hotlist110711&referral=00202&utm_source=newsletter_weekly_hotlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hotlist110711