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To me, the answer to the question of when you should use emoji is an emphatic always. But I get it, if you’re texting something important to a humorless prick, a top hat with a lipstick kiss and prayer hands might not be well received. So follow this flowchart created by artist and friend of…
Not only is the Xbox One’s graphics powers getting better, the CPU in the Xbox One is now going to be faster than what was announced. The Xbox One’s CPU will now clock in at 1.75GHz which beats the 1.6GHz speed we originally thought we were going to get. Free hertz is always a win.…
Naked and Famous Denim is the Willy Wonka of the fashion world. Seriously, the Canadian jeans shop puts out glow in the dark jeans, thermochromic pants that change colors, raspberry scratch n’ sniff denim and so much more crazy. You’re not wearing pants as much as you are wearing the realized dreams of your childhood.…
John McCain. United States Senator. 2008 Republican Presidential Nominee. American Hero. iPhone Poker Player during a fairly important Senate hearing about the use of force in Syria. Yep, The Washington Post captured Senator John McCain fooling around on his iPhone during a three hour hearing about Syria. McCain caught word that he’d been, well, caught…
If you want to disappear from the internet or just nuke some of your web accounts quickly and—mostly—painlessly, here’s a good solution: Just Delete Me, “a massive list of the most popular web apps and services with links to delete your account from those services.”
After comparing herself to Madonna and Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus’ first statement after her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards says that she and Robin Thicke have made history. She added: “now we’re three days later they’re still talking about it.” Read and cringe.
Well, would you look at that. In Google’s unveiling video of the new Kit Kat statue of Android, a mysterious Nexus phone appears in the hands of a Googler taking a picture of said Kit Kat statue. It doesn’t look like any Nexus phone we’ve ever seen, the Nexus logo is horizontal, the camera seems…
The world may still be in crisis, but not Kazakhstan—a big exporter of oil and uranium. “President” since 1990 Nursultan Nazarbayev keeps wasting the country’s money in ridiculous megalomaniac projects like their 2017 Expo. Naturally, there’s plenty of shameless Western architects eager to sell out their principles to become his very own Albert Speer+Partners. Look…
John Ptak recently posted an interesting 1916 cover from Illustrated World magazine showing the futuristic “Electric Titan” robot fighter. Though rarely in humanoid robot form, the multi-soldier death machine of tomorrow was a surprisingly common idea during World War I. Why so outlandish? Because the military predictions of the time were rarely made by the…
Now, there’s only so much you can really do as far as shortcuts go on an (non-jailbroken) iPhone. But if you’re set in your ways and still want some of the saved seconds a neat and tidy app launcher could afford you, Push Launcher is about as close as you’re going to get. What does…
“I’m writing this for everyone who struggles with addiction, but I really want men with eating disorders (diagnosed and undiagnosed) to read this,” writes comedian Jamie Kilstein in Jezebel. Actually, everyone should read this heartbreaking tale.
Believe it or not, that beloved 1960s relic that once cast a warm, unnatural glow on hippies everywhere is officially 50 years old today. And even though you may still see lava lamps churning away in basements scattered across the country, they are a very much a product of their time. The original lava lamp—and…
Do you hear that? That’s the sound of your Christmas shopping getting ever so slightly easier this year thanks to Andrew Capener. The creator of the original stunning Scrabble Typography Edition is back with an improved second edition that will have your friends or family happy to give up their Words With Friends addictions should…
President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, mere hours after John Wilkes Booth inflicted the mortal gunshot wound, but his body had to survive a 19-day train ride across the country before being laid to rest in Springfield, Ill. And thanks to a recent discovery by a Union surgeon, the president looked as serene…
The giant mammal bones on display at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History are impressive approximations of creatures that once walked the earth (and in some cases, those that still do). But equally if not more amazing? How those displays were actually assembled. We recently ran across a collection of rare, archival photos…
The tragedy of Parkinson’s, which progressively robs patients of their physical abilities, is that while certain drugs, therapies and devices can restore some quality of life, so far we haven’t found a way to stop brain cells from dying. Now, researchers in the UK and Norway have found a drug that could keep brain cells…
Amazon has officially announced their latest and greatest e-reader, and you can pre-order yours right now starting at $120. As an owner of the first generation Paperwhite, I can tell you that all the praise the product line has received is completely warranted. [Amazon] Keep up with Shane Roberts on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Tumblr,…
There are lots of factors that come to mind when weighing the environmental and social responsibility of a product, like where it’s made, what it’s made of, and the conditions of those who made it. Designers are starting to pay closer attention to the manufacturing methods, too, to ensure the least possible waste at the…
At the height of his career as the architect of the Third Reich, Albert Speer was already imagining what his buildings would look like as ruins. In fact, by the mid-1930s, Speer was designing based on “ruin law,” his term for what a building would look like once it decayed. Today, Nuremberg city officials are…
