Cheezburger's $30M Gets the Taiwanese Animator Send-Up

Next Media Animation depicts Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh as an evil stealer of memes, over-worker of cats and receiver of Internet flames. It’s pretty funny.

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Foursquare's Newest Badge: For Getting Your "Baggage" Handled.

Just in time for the busiest travel days of the year, Foursquare has released a badge for the select few who get to enjoy a TSA pat-down over the holidays–or at least for those who check in at any airport and shout, “TSA,” “grope” or, according to AboutFoursquare.com, “Don’t touch my junk, bro!”

Don't Miss the Annual GadgetFest at Churchill Club Thursday, Featuring Facebook Celeb Geeks

This Thursday, my All Things Digital partner, Walt Mossberg, and I are hosting–for the seventh year running–the annual “What’s Hot and What’s Not in Personal Technology” program for the Churchill Club. This year, our guest “tech geek” celebs–drawn from the gadget-mad players of Silicon Valley–are Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Mike Schroepfer, the social networking site’s VP of Engineering. Let the gadgeting begin!
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D7 Tech Demo: What’s in Greg Harper’s Bag?

In this session of D7, Greg Harper, president of Harpervision and co-founder of Gadgetoff, always sure to bring the novel and the wacky, will present a plethora of gadgets the technophile has collected. Harper says that in total, he brought “$20,000 [worth] of portable tech gadgets” with him. (Note to the Four Seasons Aviara: Increase security.) He’s known for doing these demos, at which he pulls out one interesting product after another from his cornucopia of gadgetry–to the astonishment of the crowd! Papa Harper’s got a brand new bag, and we’re about to find out what’s inside….
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Things That Are Comcastic

Threat-Level Change: Hard Drives Containing TSA Data Are Not Permitted Through Airport Security Checkpoints

How is it that the federal government loses so many computers? Seriously, in the past few years it has lost enough laptops to start its own “One Laptop Per Child” program. From 2002 to 2005, the FBI lost 160 laptop computers, including 10 that contain highly sensitive classified information, according to an inspector general’s report, [...]