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Finally, a Silpat Baking Dish

Silpat is so awesome. They have great non-stick liners for cookie sheets that make clean up a breeze. And finally Silpat is offering a silicon baking dish. Want. Want hard. The 10- by 13-inch pan is $55, and although that’s a little steep for a pan, it’s worth it in that you spend less time…

A Bicycle Handlebar Bag For the Discriminating Cyclist

As the weather starts to (eventually) warm up, cyclists will inevitably begin coming out of the woodwork to enrage drivers and terrify pedestrians once again. But how, you might ask, does the cycling businessman about town distinguish himself from the fanny-pack-wearing hipsters on fixies? With fancy leather accessories like this Detroit Cargo Handlebar Bag, naturally.…

Here Are the Servers You Must Destroy to Kill Justin Bieber’s Twitter

He is the most popular person in the history of social media. He is Canadian. He is a swaggy bro. He is an Illuminati tween with hair made of undiscovered elements. And here’s how to unplug him, forever. https://deadspin.com/outtakes-from-my-four-hours-with-justin-bieber-the-swa-5910756 Yes, Justin Bieber has three entire servers dedicated to him on Twitter. The machine runs forever.…

Amazon Somehow Lost $39 Million Selling $61.09 Billion Worth of Stuff Last Year

The good news, if you’re Amazon? You just sold $61.09 billion worth of stuff in 2012. That’s roughly the GDP of Croatia! The less good for you but pretty funny for everyone else news? You somehow lost $39 million doing it. Business! While Amazon did turn a $97 million profit this most recent quarter, the…

Nine Cycling Jerseys That Are Totally Unacceptable

The secret word is “novelty cycling jersey,” (AHHHH!) and it’s inspired by this incredible PeeWee Herman bike riding outfit that is amazing in that it simply exists. You know what else is great? The vast amount of ridiculously nerdy pop culture-inspired suits available on the ol’ world wide web. Spidey sense tingling? Nope. That’s just…

We’ve Been Eating Chinese Takeout Wrong This Whole Time

Your heart fell out of your butt when you learned you’d been eating ketchup wrong. Prepare to lose it yet again, because we’ve been borking our Chinese food containers too. https://gizmodo.com/weve-been-eating-ketchup-wrong-this-whole-time-5930955 Let’s go ahead and call what we see in the GIF up top the Unfolding Principle. As with ketchup, simply open up the paper…

Here’s the Adorable Porn Site Super Bowl Ad That CBS Rejected

An elderly couple sits on a bench overlooking a snowy park. The woman looks up at her partner, lovingly, and he returns the glance with a grin. The piano music swells, and they go back to observing the park. This is, of course, an ad for porn. The ad, submitted by popular porno purveyor PornHub…

Emoji Storytelling Is Objectively the Best Use of Emoji

This is the Lord’s work and everyone with an iPhone needs to know about it now. You can make amazing, adorable picture stories with emojis. The trick is real, it works, and it just requires a little bit of creativity (and the emoji keyboard turned on). Look, here is Mr. Moon rising in the sky.…

Why Star Trek Phasers Don’t Exist Yet

The 21st century has been a real disappointment so far. Our robot servants top out at mediocre vaccums, self-driving cars are years away (and won’t be able to fly even when they do arrive), and we’re closer to inventing tricorders than phasers. A tricorder. Who wants a goddamn medical scanner when you could be blasting…

A Rare Discount On New iPods Are Your What-Apple-Tax Deal of the Day

Something strange is going on with Apple prices. There have always been a few small discounts on Apple goods, but rarely have there been so many on the newest models. During the Christmas season, Best Buy and Walmart had a price-matching war on the iPhone 5. Then, last week, there was an unprecedented sale on…

Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Movie Makeup Is Totally Unreal—He IS Jobs

Whoa. We’ve seen Ashton Kutcher in a scene from early in the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, and had an early review of the film as well, but this is the first we’ve seen of his makeup for the latter day Jobs. And man, it’s something. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-jobs-the-steve-jobs-movie-starring-ashto-5978671 That’s Kutcher on the left, if you didn’t notice.…

44 Gnarly Photos of Wood

Concrete and steel may be the cornerstones of modernity, but I have a feeling we’ll be building out of wood long after we develop transparent aluminum. It’s the most abundant, complexly beautiful thing. Here are 44 photos that celebrate it. WINNER: Elephant Eye For this shot I found a wooden fence and looked for the…

Wood Shooting Challenge

Camera: Nikon D200 Lens: Nikon 35mm F1.8 Story: The picture is of the side/corner of a cabin at the camp I was at this weekend. The light was late afternoon/early-evening, and really brought out the grain of the wood. It is a simple shot, showing the perception of depth of colors in an essentially monochrome…

Facebook’s Now Hiding Public Pages From Google’s Prying Eyes

As The Register learned, in part of an ongoing effort to turn Facebook into its own, closed little ecosystem, Zuck’s empire has closed off public events to, well, the public. Account-holding stalkers only, please. Once easily-accessible events listed as “public,” in addition to any other public pages, now require users to login before granting them…

3D-TV, Automated Cooking and Robot Housemaids: Walter Cronkite Tours the Home of 2001

Legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite’s regular half-hour CBS documentary program “The 21st Century” was a glorious peek into the future. Every Sunday night viewers of the late 1960s were shown all the exciting technological advancements they could expect to see just 30 or 40 years down the road. The March 12, 1967, episode gave people…

Stores Can Now Charge You Extra Just for Using a Credit Card

So here’s something you should probably know. Starting this past Sunday, January 27th, retailers can now charge up to four percent extra on purchases made using a credit card. The actual fee will vary, as it’s pinned to the cost of how much it costs the retailer to accept the card. That’s typically 1.5 to…

Convair Atlas, c1960

via San Diego Air & Space Museum.

500px Is Back in the App Store After All the Porn Bullshit

Holy crap, boobs! Apple last week excommunicated 500px, a photo-sharing app, from the App Store because apparently it made it too easy for people to find nudie pics. Looks like it’s been cleansed and baptized, though, because Apple has welcomed 500px back into the fold. https://gizmodo.com/apple-removed-a-photo-app-from-the-app-store-because-ar-5978202 The Cupertino Prude Brigade said in a statement that…

The Nexus 4 is back in stock in the Google Play Store. Grab one now before it’s too late!

Is Unlocking Your Phone Really Illegal?

Legal protection for people who unlock their mobile phones to use them on other networks expired last weekend. According to the claims of major U.S. wireless carriers, unlocking a phone bought after January 26 without your carrier’s permission violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) whether the phone is under contract or not. In a…