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  • Operation Chokehold will blow up AT&T on Friday

    Operation Chokehold will blow up AT&T on Friday

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Fake Steve is rustling some feathers this week with his Operation Chokehold, a planned bit of corporate disobedience against AT&T. He's telling iPhone users to go nuts with the data on Friday, December 18, just to show AT&T's CEO De La Vega, the man who suggested education would encourage users not to use his network so much, what uneducated users really can do to his preciously twee airwaves. The call to action:
    Subject: Operation Chokehold On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees. The goal is to have every iPhone user (or as many as we can) turn on a data intensive app and run that app for one solid hour. Send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their substandard network and sick of their abusive comments. THe idea is we’ll create a digital flash mob. We’re calling it in Operation Chokehold. Join us and speak truth to power!

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  • MojaMix, a web service that lets you make your own cereal and granola

    MojaMix, a web service that lets you make your own cereal and granola

    Posted on November 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Back in the olden days, long before the advent of electric light, our forefathers dreamt of a better place. They dreamt of running hot and cold water in their wash rooms, wireless telegraphy, and the rise of the horseless carriage. They dreamt of threshing machines that could tie down an acre of millet an hour [...]

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