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Despite Motorola's best intentions to the contrary, the Droid X has been making steady progress toward viable custom ROMs, first with root access, then with a recovery method... and now, at long last, we're starting to get the first few glimpses at legit cooked firmware. The two options we're seeing so far are Sapphire -- originally designed for the Droid of old -- and a so-called "FlyX" ROM from longtime contributor Birdman. In both cases, the benefits of eschewing Motorola's standard builds are pretty obvious: you get Froyo, root, and a host of apps and capabilities preferred by the superuser crowd like surcharge-free mobile hotspot access. The process is a little involved to get these bad boys installed at this point, but with time, we're willing to bet it becomes a pretty painless endeavor. Follow the break for a quick video of Sapphire booting into stock Froyo on the X -- a tantalizing sight, indeed. [Thanks, Clift]Continue reading Custom Droid X ROMs starting to break loose, eFuse be damnedCustom Droid X ROMs starting to break loose, eFuse be damned originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.PermalinkBGR, Droid Life | Android Central, Steven Bird |Email this|Comments

For me, Million Dollar Baby. It seemed predictable. Boxing movie...whatever. Besides, I rarely watch a movie twice. For some reason, Million Dollar Baby entertains me whenever it is on. I had it on Tivo for a while and watched it over and over. submitted by General_Specific to AskReddit [link] [233 comments]

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Certified zombie expert Robert Kirkman talks to Wired about AMC's TV adaptation of his Walking Dead comic book series.

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The venerable Oxford English Dictionary isn't even one-third finished with what will be only its third revision in 80 years. But already there is talk that the multivolume work, which has informed scholars and fussy linguists, may eschew print entirely when the new edition is completed in about decade.

The brand new Digg is under fire on its first ever Monday from both its most loyal users and the competition at Reddit. Launched last Wednesday, Digg power users have launched a Digg Revolt today, some calling it "Quit Digg Day," and the Reddit community has embraced the feud. Reddit links have been dominating the Digg.com Top News feed throughout this morning. At one time, six of the top seven stories were from Reddit. On top of that, Digg's traffic has plummeted 33 percent overnight, according to Alexa.com. Said one Digg power user, @0boy, "Since @Digg and @kevinrose haven't listened to their core users, I hate to say it but they deserve this mess." Reddit is taking advantage of the controversy. It posted a "self-announcement" on its homepage for those "new around here" and even altered its logo to include a shovel (see below), an apparent shot at Digg. Many of Digg's power users have been offended by the redesign SocialBlade reported after its launch: This hardworking detailed Digg community feels as though they have been short-handed with the new launch of Digg v4 since its decision to allow auto-feeds, the demise of power Digger's and the obliteration of their history on Digg, almost nullifying their existence. Some Digg power users have taken to Twitter to share their disgust with the new site, and the #diggrevolt hashtag is going strong. In addition to the above, @0boy also tweeted, "The saddest part: hundreds of avid @digg users saw this coming, clear as day. @mrbabyman @msaleem @thenextweb @ltgenpanda 100+ more." Digg CEO Kevin Rose was silent for much of this morning, as Reddit began flooding Digg, but finally tweeted this afternoon, "Digg update: As mentioned on TWiT yesterday, we're working hard to fix the source diversity part of the digg algorithm, more news soon."

Earlier making Digg FrontPage used to be a big deal and specially when this new Digg layout and system is under controversy, Reddit another rivalry social bookmarking site, gamed the system and made 7 of its stories on Digg FrontPage. Here is image proof of Reddit hitting Digg homepage: Its going to be interesting to see Kevin reaction with this new buzz which made every loyal digg users stunned. Meanwhile here are some comments from Digg user on those Reddit stories which are promoted to Digg FP: Right now, I am digging all reddit submissions as fast as I can. Kevin Rose killed Digg, now WE WILL BURY IT! Digg didnt deserve this, but Kevin Rose sure does. He will pay through his website. The only reason I stayed around since V4 started was so I could bury anything self-submitted and promote anything bashing V4. Now Im getting so many errors its not even worth sticking around to do that. Im leaving. How do I delete my account? No, seriously. Is it under settings? I looked but couldnt really find anything. One thing which every digger is hating the auto submission from RSS feeds. As with this feature digg is no more a user generated community and becoming more like Twitter and Facebook, more followers more popularity. Whats your take about new Digg? Reddit Game the New Digg by Pushing 7 Stories on Digg FrontPage is a post from: CallingAllGeeks Blog Network Shoutmeloud | CallingAllGeeks | WordPress Hosting review | WordPress Premium Themes Services Blogspot to WordPress Migration | WordPress SEO | Thesis Theme Customization Related posts:New Digg Added Known Issues page Share Your Stories with Twitter Tales Digg iPhone Application Review Apple iTV to launch in September Social Networking, Sounds familiar? How about some Social Bookmarking WordPress plugin for DiggBar haters Facebook Redesigned Shared Feed link Stories WordPress iPhone Application got Geotagging Feature

Frustrated with the dramatic changes that have hit the social news site, longtime users are expressing their dissatisfaction by attempting to carpet-bomb the front page with links to rival site Reddit.

If you own a big tech firm, you aren't Microsoft, and you weren't named in the patent lawsuit filed this week by Paul Allen's Interval Licensing, well... you're probably looking deep into your soul today and asking where it all went wrong. If you aren't a defendant - which includes AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! - why not? After all, the technology in dispute is, according to Interval, "fundamental to the ways that leading e-commerce and search companies operate today." Dammit, you say to yourself. Maybe you aren't one of those leading e-commerce and search companies. Sponsor Wait: most of your work is with open-source software. Like Java! Maybe that's why you aren't being sued by anyone. Aw, dammit. Ah, well. Maybe it's for the best. Not everyone can be on the A-list or in land of corporate jets, gargantuan mergers and stratospheric lawsuits. Hell, if it weren't for those of us on the B-list (or, in my case, somewhere way down in the YYs), there wouldn't be an A-list. So chin up. With a little more work, a few game-changing innovations and - yes - some luck, someday you, too, could be on the receiving end of a lawsuit big enough to alter global currency markets. Good luck with that! More Noise to Signal. Discuss

Today we’re providing every publisher, big or small, with a chance to invite their readers to the new Digg, before our GA launch. If you are a publisher, you now have 1,000 invitations to share.

This is a timelapse of me making Metagun, a game for Ludum Dare 18. You can play the game here: http://www.mojang.com/compo/metagun/ The song is called Battery, and was made by me some nine years ago.

You want to know what news sends chills down the spines of the world’s governments?

A senior Microsoft executive has admitted that the company's previous criticism of open source software was 'a mistake'

Web video database Clicker.com has launched its iOS app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Clicker also claims to have It’s not just about browsing and watching the videos, either.

Apple claims ownership of magic, demanding that Copperfield immediately cease using the word, and seeking $4.2 million in punitive damages.

We should have known the dry erase girl was ***** -- but we just wanted to believe too much - or so says the co-owner of the Chive. The next time they pull this type of thing, they say we won't see it coming. Again.