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Viral Video: Biz Stone Talks Turkey (And Will Be Partying With Them Too!)

Kara Swisher in Media on November 11, 2011 at 11:11 am PT

Happy Thanksgiving — this time for turkeys and not the people who want to eat them.

Viral Video: "Zookeeper"

Kara Swisher in News on November 19, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

Simply put, since BoomTown first enjoyed the television stylings of “Mr. Ed,” I love me some chitchatting animals. For those so inclined, here are a bunch from the upcoming movie “Zookeeper.”

Say You, Say (Google) Me–When Will the Search Giant Get Social Graces?

Kara Swisher in News on August 25, 2010 at 8:16 am PT

We all want to be something else, don’t we? And so it is with Google, the robotic, algorithmic, black-box search behemoth girding the globe with datacenters stacked up to heaven. As it turns out, all it really wants is to be our friend. The big question is when it is going to do that, by introducing a social strategy that actually works, even as perceived rival Facebook barrels ahead.

Viral Video: Sloth-tastic!

Kara Swisher in News on July 14, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

BoomTown is feeling rather warm and fuzzy today, so it’s the perfect time to trot out the sloths. As in, from this viral film shot at a Costa Rican sloth sanctuary. Like too many living creatures in peril today–thanks, BP!–these super-adorable animals are under siege from man’s incursions against nature.

Is Apple Finally Worried About Amazon’s Music Store?

Peter Kafka in Media on March 2, 2010 at 3:14 pm PT

Amazon’s MP3 store hasn’t done much to weaken Apple’s grip on the digital music business. But that doesn’t mean Apple isn’t paying attention. Translation: Good luck buying big new albums at a discount via Amazon’s “Daily Deal.”

Merry!

Peter Kafka in Media on December 24, 2009 at 1:12 pm PT

It’s almost the night before Christmas, which means that many of you are doing something other than looking at the Web right now. And those of you that are on the Web probably aren’t looking for something terribly heavy to ingest. So here you go.

“Soggy Pork”: The Other White Meat

John Paczkowski in News on December 1, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

“Fifty years hence, we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” Winston Churchill made that prediction in 1932 and now, some 78 years later, it’s beginning to come true. Scientists in Holland have taken muscle cells from a living pig and cultured them into a “soggy form of pork” in the lab.

Honey? Is the Mammoth Meat From That Exotic Animal Buffet Still in the Freezer?

John Paczkowski in News on November 4, 2008 at 9:05 am PT

Looks like the Alcor Life Extension Foundation may be able to do something with the cryogenically frozen remains of Ted Williams after all. By injecting nuclei from mice frozen for 16 years directly into unfertilized mice eggs, a team of Japanese geneticists was able to create healthy clones of the dead animals.