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“Vikings” Land on Amazon’s Lovefilm in U.K., Germany
Amazon is exporting “Vikings,” the hit drama from A&E’s History cable network, to Europe, via its Lovefilm movie service. The axes-and-helmets drama, which started airing in the U.S. this year, will stream exclusively on Amazon’s Lovefilm Instant service later this month, bypassing cable and other outlets.
EMC Donates Big Storage to a Library Like No Other, the Vatican’s
Something new for something very old.And Eazy-E Invented the iPod
Wonder how long it’ll be before I meet a kid who thinks Dr. Dre is “that guy that invented headphones”
— Matt Haughey, via Twitter
And Facebook Was a Bar
236 years ago, Twitter was a dude yelling in a town square, Linkedin was just your last name, and you played FarmVille to survive.
— Aaron Levie, via Twitter