By Jessica Roy 5/29/12 7:33am

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Booting Up: Throwing Laptops at Mark Zuckerberg Edition

“I would never throw a laptop at someone, like it appears in the movie. Not even at Mark.” – Eduardo Saverin [CNET]

Was buying Skype for $8.5 billion worth it for Microsoft? [New York Times]

The headphones you use to block out the sound of your annoying coworkers may actually be harming your productivity. [Wall Street Journal]

Meet Flame, the terrifying spy malware spreading across the Middle East. [Wired]

The Museum of Endangered sounds includes–of course–the sound of dial-up. [Savethesounds.info via Hacker News]

Farewell, Yellow Pages. [PaidContent]

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 4/29/11 12:26pm

App for That

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Obtract Makes Procrastination Feel Like Work…So You’ll Do More Work

Stop maximizing that Excel worksheet whenever a coworker walks by your cubicle. Everyone already knows that you are looking at the J-Crew sale page while playing angry birds on the iPad in your lap.

Or if they somehow didn’t know, they will soon. Once you download School of Visual Art Interaction Design MFA candidate Eric St. Onge’s thesis project, trying to hide your shocking lack of productivity on sunny spring Fridays (but also, be honest, on rainy Mondays too) will be even more impossible. Read More