makimaki
891 Karma Points
Philosophy student.
You can find me at the following sites too:
Digg: http://digg.com/users/makimaki
Toronto, Canada
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Top Digg User Zaibatsu Banned - Reactions from Both Zaibatsu and Digg Management view story
94 votes- Submitted by makimaki
- about 1 month ago
- (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archi...)
There's more user unrest in the community of popular social news site Digg, after the all-time number 3 ranked user Zaibatsu, a.k.a. Reg Saddler, was banned for alleged multiple violations of the Digg TOU. That decision is "final and irreversible."
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UK ISP Threatens Illegal Music Downloaders with Internet Ban view story
55 votes- Submitted by makimaki
- 4 months ago
- (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008...)
BT, the UK's largest broadband provider, has begun threatening subscribers with disconnection from the internet if it is told they are sharing copyright music over peer-to-peer networks.
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Interview with Twitter Co-Founder, Biz Stone view story
79 votes- Submitted by makimaki
- 5 months ago
- (http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=106)
While the stability debate is intense, I got back to basics with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about what’s on the radar in terms of features, battling bots, community engagement — and why he isn’t afraid of a “Twitter killer”:
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Science is a Dick: The 5 Most Evil Robots Ever Invented view story
64 votes- Submitted by makimaki
- 5 months ago
- (http://www.cracked.com/article_16...)
Science is a Dick: The 5 Most Evil Robots Ever Invented. And you thought Data was an asshole.
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Top McCain Adviser Blatantly Lies About Obama’s Tax Proposals view story
49 votes- Submitted by makimaki
- 5 months ago
- (http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/...)
On Fox News today, Carly Fiorina, who is a top economic adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), blatantly distorted Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) tax proposals.
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Great Tits Cope Well With Global Warming view story
58 votes- Submitted by makimaki
- 6 months ago
- (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scienc...)
Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds. At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.
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The ASCII Tree: Beautiful Design for a Curtain view photo
64 votes- Submitted by makimaki
- 8 months ago
- (http://www.nsybrandy.nl/html/ZTmV...)
There's something organic and beautiful about using ASCII to develop a motif for a curtain.
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Tips from a SuperMixxer view story
143 votes- Submitted by makimaki
- 8 months ago
- (http://www.reemabeidoh.com/social...)
Greg Davies has graciously agreed to speak with me about best practices and how to promote solid content on Mixx.
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Mixx Gets Credibility Boost From NYTimes view story
150 votes- Submitted by makimaki
- 8 months ago
- (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03...)
The New York Times tonight added Mixx bookmarking buttons on its site, which is an important milestone for the company. Facebook, Digg and Yahoo Buzz are the only other third party social bookmarking services that are offered.
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The Underground Tunnel Beneath Niagara Falls [PICS] view photo
80 votes- Submitted by makimaki
- 8 months ago
- (http://vanishingpoint.ca/tailrace...)
Imagine a tunnel more than ten storeys underground, a hundred years old, bricklined, wet, and completely inaccessible save by descending through a narrow slit in its ceiling thirty feet above the floor, and then returning up the same rope you came down.

