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November 2011
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Steve Jobs: Inside the Inbox of Apple's CEO →
Mark Milian released his e-book titled Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple’s Steve Jobs, which chronicles — among many things — the prickly side of Jobs that we all found so…
This Video Game Portrait Is Made Entirely of Salt... →
October 2010
4 posts
Now Streaming on Hulu: Full Episodes of Good Eats →
We’re big fans of the streaming video site Hulu, but we’ve been puzzled by the lack of food content there. Yes, there has been some video from Food Network, but only clips — never full…
Here comes Google TV →
(Cross-posted from the Google TV Blog)
It’s been almost five months since we introduced Google TV to the world at Google I/O, and today we’re happy to give you an update on our progress. For…
Birth Control Pills Shown to Alter Structure of... →
Oral contraceptives Photo by outcast104 via Flickr.
A new study explores the surprising cognitive effects of contraception
You aren’t yourself anymore. It’s a familiar complaint heard by…
Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials →
Hugh Pickens writes “Ever since television caught on in the 1950s, the FCC has been getting complaints about blaring commercials but concluded in 1984 there was no fair way to write regulations…
September 2010
18 posts
Netduino Plus earns you Ethernet and microSD, an... →
The two new Arduinos should spell good things for the Arduino heads out there, but meanwhile, on the other side of the tracks… Secret Labs is launching its .NET-friendly Netduino…
Google Warning Gmail Users On Spying From China →
Trailrunner7 writes “Google is using automated warnings to alert users of its Gmail messaging service about widespread attempts to access personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China. The…
Advanced Computer Worm Was Specifically Designed... →
Atomic Iran Iran’s quasi-official news agency released this image in an attempt to illustrate their nuclear intentions. The new Bushehr reactor is the country’s first nuclear power plant. …
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The Future Is Now!: Transparent Aluminum →
See-through metal, yo. What’s next, opaque gas? “Whoa GW, you’ve got a mysterious brown aura about you. Also *choking* — why’s it smell like somebody died in here?” IT WAS THE DOG, I…
xkcd Wedding Cake →
The artists at Pink Cake Box made a wedding cake inspired by the webcomic xkcd:
The top of the cake includes cutouts of the comic characters with a red heart on a wire between them. The…
Fire + Tornado = Oh Jeez →
So I’ve seen a tornado form, and, like an idiot, just stood there staring at it — until it started moving towards me, at which point I ran, and felt the wind pushing at my back, until I was about a…
Nungwi, Zanzibar, Tanzania →
Nungwi, Zanzibar, Tanzania
The New MACHETE Trailer Is Red With Blood, Blood... →
After taking a look at the new red-band trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s Machete I am left with only one question: Are there any kills left that we haven’t already seen. Zowie. There’s blood…
Vets Get Ecstasy to Treat Their PTSD →
A pair of psychiatric experts think they’ve got the answer to the soaring number of troops coming back from war with PTSD: have them undergo intensive psychotherapy — while they’re…
R2-D2 Hiding Inside of a Dalek →
“Robots in Disguise”, a new TeeFury t-shirt by Simeon Wells featuring R2-D2 hiding inside of a Dalek from Doctor Who.
This is a blog post from Laughing Squid, subscribe via…
DARPA's Transformer TX 'flying Humvee' project... →
Sometimes it feels like the Military-Industrial Complex only exists to keep us entertained with tales of laser weapons and robots that eat enemy combatants — not that we’d complain…
Looks Depressing: Swiss Drive-In Sex Booths →
Apparently prostitution in Zurich, Switzerland has gotten so out of hand the police have decided to install private drive-in sex booths so the less perverse citizens of the city don’t…
Scientific DNA Proof of Bigfoot May be Only Months... →
…highly respected DNA expert Dr. Melba S. Ketchum has found that some samples appear to have both human and animal characteristics. However, the research is ongoing. Dr. Ketchum believes that very…
Scientists Say They Can Now Test String Theory →
The idea of the “Theory of Everything” is enticing – that we could somehow explain all that is. String theory has been proposed since the 1960’s as a way to reconcile quantum…
PS3 homebrew jailbreak released into the wilds →
Poor, poor Sony. First PSJailbreak splayed wide the PS3’s security model, now PSGroove has arrived calling itself the “open source PSjailbreak.” The code must first be downloaded and…
Orbiter →
Resort uses augmented reality to pair virtual... →
You’ve heard of this Love Plus thing, right? This Nintendo DS-based “dating simulator” is apparently a big deal in Japan, giving Otaku the opportunity to chat up (and kiss) girls the…
MakerScanner, a printable 3D scanning rig →
Just add laser and camera! The MakerScanner is a completely open source 3D-scanner and the perfect complement to a MakerBot or other 3D printer. Every one of the scanner’s…
I, Uh, I Don't Know If That's What Nintendo Had In... →
It was only a matter of time: add-ons that turn Wiimotes into sex toys. Why? I don’t know, but the penis one definitely looks like a robot’s pincers. Thanks but no thanks but okay…
Loud Video: NASA Test Fires Largest-Ever Solid... →
The DM-2 Awaits Its Test Fire NASA
In Utah today, NASA completed a successful test of the world’s largest, most powerful solid rocket motor, the DM-2. For two minutes, the motor, designed…
August 2010
65 posts
Things That Are Not Steampink →
Every Asteroid Discovered In the Last 30 Years... →
Asteroids! No not the video game—I’m talking about all those old rocks floating around up in space. Here’s a mesmerizing video that tracks every single one of them that’s visited…
Angry Man Tries to Pay Property Tax With 33,000... →
Washington State resident Ron Spears was really mad that he had to pay a $330 past due property tax. In protest, he decided to pay the whole thing in pennies. This did not go over…
US Army Finds 3D Printing + Shipping Container =... →
Images via Clegg Industries 3D Printing is a great way to reduce inventory shipping costs and make good design accessible to anyone anywhere; PSFK writes that the US Army has been…
DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY coming to... →
Word is that BBC4 will be airing a 60 minute pilot come autumn/winter which is based in part on Douglas Adams first novel in the Dirk Gently series. Written by Howard Overman (creator of Misfits…
New marketing trend: "Unbranding" →
Simon Doonan at New York Observer says that celebrity swag has become anti-swag in the case of some downmarket sub-lebrities. Using Jersey Shore’s Snooki as an example, Doonan says that…
Watch This: Kodak Tests Color Film Footage in 1922 →
The Internet gets a lot of grief for being a repository for porn, incorrect information, and pointless memes designed solely to waste the time of people who should be working — but it’s…
25 classic science fiction movies that everybody... →
Science fiction has rocked cinemas for a century, and the genre has produced many undisputed classics during that time. But which movies are essential viewing for anyone interested…
Aerial Surveillance Drone Launched from a Mailbox →
The ScanCam 200 is the eagle eye you would want for surveillance security of your property. Out of all of our helicopter projects, this one has the most stylish launching mechanism. The…
Mysteriously, Solar Activity Found to Influence... →
The Sun NASA
How’s this for spooky action at a distance? The sun, at 93 million miles away, appears to be influencing the decay of radioactive elements inside the Earth, researchers say.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Series →
It’s happened! The BBC officially announced an hour-long special based on Douglas Adam’s Dirk Gently mysteries. The show begins production next month and will air on BBC 4. The good…
4chan Founder explains the "Rickroll" to a Federal... →
“And the term “rickroll” you said it tries to make people go to a site where they think it is going to be one thing, but it is a video of Rick Astley, is that right?”
The Very Real Odors of New Jersey [Solutions] →
Fact: New Jersey smells terrible. So officials from the Middlesex County Landfill have devised a plan to neutralize putrid methane gas odors—spray hundreds of gallons of a…
Time Lapse Video of Earth from Space →
This time lapse footage was taken by astronaut Don Pettit — of Saturday Morning Science and the Zero-G coffee cup fame — during his time on the International Space Station. It shows
GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal →
jnaujok writes “The Ninth Circuit court has declared that attaching a GPS tracker to your car, as it sits in your driveway, or by extension on a public street, and then using it to monitor every one…
Tesla-style through-ground magnetic wave... →
Interesting article over at AAAS’s ScienceNOW about MagneLink, a short-range wireless communications system being developed by Lockheed-Martin that uses magnetic fields, rather…
An Airbag for Equestrians →
Competitive horseback riding can be a dangerous sport, killing or maiming athletes. Some riders have begun wearing jackets that inflate when they are thrown off their mounts:
The two-pound…
Deadly Deliciousness: Ninjabread Cookies →
Ninjabread Men are ninja-shaped cookie cutters from Fred & Friends so you can stage little cookie fights in your highchair while mommy fixes dinner. Just don’t knock over your sippy…
Golden Girls Nesting Dolls →
Artist Ginger Williams makes matryoshka — nesting dolls. She’s been inspired by pop culture to create nesting dolls for The Golden Girls, The Karate Kid, Guns ‘N’ Roses, Saved by the…
Michael Ian Black's Tirade Against a Racist... →
Michael Ian Black is a fantastic comedian and a supporter of President Obama. When a person at his show compared Obama to Hitler, MIB lashed out at him with a tirade of “fucks”…
Narco-Blogger Beats Mexico Drug War News Blackout →
An anonymous reader writes “An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can’t get elsewhere — an inside view of their country’s raging drug war. Operating from behind a thick…