TECH BUZZ – The creators of I Can Has Cheezburger? have launched their sixth comedy site where readers juxtapose celebrity faces with their unlikely doppelgängers. Oh, those LOLcat guys really know how to help you waste more time at work.

The Best Links:

1. LOLCat Creators Just Want Their Projects to Be FUN
2. Totally Looks Like - The Site
3. Christopher Poole (Creator of LOLcat) - Featured on BuzzFeed
4. My Favorite Pics from the Site
5. Cheez, President of I Can Haz Cheezburger, To Attend ROFLThings! (He Looks Like an Asian Man)

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TECH BUZZ – The Unbreakable Umbrella doubles as a walking stick or cane, yet whacks just as hard as a steel pipe. The entourage of the Philippine president all carry one. At first, I thought maybe this umbrella had a taser in it or something, which would be REALLY cool, but alas, it’s just really heavy.

The Best Links:

1. The Unbreakable Walking-Stick Umbrella - The Homepage (It’s Kind of Hilarious)
2. These Are Some Bad-Ass Umbrellas
3. YouTube - Watch a Man Smash a Watermelon with This Umbrella
4. $180 Umbrella Splits Watermelons, Defends Presidents

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TECH BUZZ – The classic arcade game you can now play in a tiny favicon. Not recommended for people with bad vision or who hate staring at small spaceships as they attack a city. For the rest of us though, this is actually a fun little game.

The Best Links:

1. Defender of the Favicon: The Classic Game in a Favicon

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TECH BUZZ – Our favorite iPhone app: using the phone’s mic, Shazam can listen to any song and tell you what it is. How many times have you been in the Gap and wondered, “What’s that awesome song they’re playing in here?” Wonder no more! With the magic of Shazam, you’ll never be left out of the game again. Just hold your phone up to the music for a few seconds and it will name that tune.

The Best Links:

1. Get Shazam Here
2. Works Even On a Busy Street
3. The Software is Beautifully Designed and a Joy to Use.
4. Shazam — Identify Music Anywhere
5. Hmmm, It’s Free For Now, But It Looks Like There Will Be a Monthly Fee Down the Road

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TECH BUZZ – Julia Allison’s NonSociety project has inspired a wide variety of satire. The launch of the project — timed perfectly with Allison’s appearance on the cover of Wired — has stirred up the inevitable backlash from bloggers, who’re already tired of Allison’s particularly noxious strain of ubiquity (of course, they could always just not look).

The Best Links:

1. Nonsociety As One Big Valtrex Ad
2. NonExciting: Live Boringly.
3. NonSociety.net: Parsing The Bizarre
4. NonSociety Fanpage: “Goofbal and loveable, sass but serious when needs!”

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TECH BUZZ – Wii’s next big sports title will also take advantage of the new “Motion Plus” Wii Remote. It’s like they took a Wii Remote and made it better! Wii Sports Resort will be the first game to feature the new technology — look for it early next year.

The Best Links:

1. “Motion Plus” Remote Is An Added Bonus of Wii Sports Resort
2. Of Course They Were Going to Make a Follow-Up to Wii Sports
3. It’s A Fun Day At The Beach
4. Vacation Photos From The Wii Sports Resort
5. Nintendo Announces Wii Resort, Wii Music

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TECH BUZZ – An amazing panoramic shot of Yankee Stadium from the gigapan project, which allows users to upload and zoom in on gigapixel panoramas in brilliant detail. It’s a robotic device that attaches to any standard consumer digital camera. I smell a photo contest! Start experimenting now with the technology by playing with this photo of the Yankee Stadium taken on July 4th.

The Best Links:

1. Zoom in On an Amazing Panoramic View of Yankee Stadium, Including Alex Rodriguez
2. Gigapan Official Site: Upload, Share, and Explore Gigapixel Panoramas
3. Expected to Cost Around $200 or Less
4. You Can Even See the Empty Seats in the Stadium
5. WOW - An Amazing and Clever Project
6. Check Out My Melbourne Gigapans
7. Charmed Labs Teams up with Gigapan
8. YouTube - Get a Better Idea of How It Works
9. “I’m in the GigaPan Beta!”
10. Make the Most of Google Earth with Gigapan

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TECH BUZZ – The world’s oldest blogger died at age 108. What a charming old lady. And she knew HTML better than I do!

The Best Links:

1. Olive Riley, Unofficially, But Probably, the World’s Oldest Blogger, Died On Saturday at the Age of 108
2. World’s Oldest Blogger’s Last Post EVER!!!
3. YouTube - Olive Sings in a Green Hat
4. A Blog about Olive
5. World’s Oldest Blogger, Olive Riley, Dies At Age 108
6. YouTube - Olive Riley Returns to Broken Hill
7. “The stories from her life are fascinating.”
8. “All About Olive” Documentary Aired on ABC Australia

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TECH BUZZ – A Guitar Hero-like game is quickly becoming one of the most popular apps for the iPhone. It helps that it’s a free download. The two-player mode seems especially intriguing.

The Best Links:

1. Tap Tap Revenge In Action (2 Player Mode!)
2. Download Tap Tap Revenge From the Apps Store
3. A Quick Look at Tap Tap Revenge
4. What Make Tap Tap So Popular?
5. Tapulous Thinks Its Got A Hit On Its Hands

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TECH BUZZ – Mischievous geeks are manipulating Google Trends to make offensive words appear to be hot search trends. First the number one result was a swastika symbol. Then the words “fuck you google” flipped backwards to get past the spam filters. Some say the 4chan bulletin is causing the problem by picking offensive words and getting the whole community to search for them — thereby creating a self-fulfilling Google trend. Personally we would never do anything like that because we think sʞɔoɹ spuǝɹʇ ǝlƃooƃ.

The Best Links:

1. Google Trends Hacked Again!
2. Blogger On Google Trends Hack
3. Please Don’t Click This Link!!!
4. Google Trends Site (Trends In Real Time Plus The Occasional Hack)
5. Flip Text Here (How They Created The Flipped Text)
6. “Google Bombing” Is A Classic Hack Focused On Search Engine, Not Trends

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