OPEN TOTALLY WINS

Since Android is so infested with Malware, users feel the need to protect themselves. It makes sense that the No. 1 paid app is Virus Shield, except:

Unfortunately for the buyers, Android Police has discovered that all the app does is change a red "X" graphic to a red "check" graphic. Literally. The 859kb app doesn’t protect, secure, or scan anything.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

This app costs $3.99, has been on the Play Store for just under two weeks and has already had 10,000 downloads with a 4.5 star review from 1,700 people. 2,607 people hit the Google "recommend" button.

Priceless.∞ Read this on The Loop

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Statement from the Brewers Association on FDA Proposed Rulemaking on Spent Grain

As part of the Food Safety Modernization Act, the FDA has proposed extensive regulations governing use of spent grain for animal feed. The Brewers Association recently issued a statement on the FDA animal feed proposal.

via Brewers Association http://www.brewersassociation.org/pages/media/press-releases/show?title=statement-from-the-brewers-association-on-fda-proposed-rulemaking-on-spent-grain

∞ Your Mac’s built-in screen recorder

Not sure when this feature got added, but since this was new to me, thought this was worth sharing.
Launch QuickTime Player (it’s in your Applications folder). Now select New Screen Recording from the File menu, or type control-command-N.

via The Loop http://www.loopinsight.com/2014/01/08/your-macs-built-in-screen-recorder/

True Stuff: The Internet According to 1995

One of my recurring fascinations is reading pearl-clutching editorials over the menacing march of technological advance (such as the telephone, the printing press, or writing itself). So I loved this 1995 column from Newsweek by astronomer and Klein-bottler Clifford Stoll: After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of […]

via Wondermark http://wondermark.com/true-stuff-1995/