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How To Defeat Your Enemies on the Internet

The internet began as a pure place, free of malice and bad manners. Today, rudeness and horror abound. From friends you know and people you’ve never met, abuse comes in many forms. Maybe it’s a nasty comment on a Facebook photo. Maybe it’s an insulting tweet. Maybe it’s writing “FUCK U SLUT” on your wall…

This Hot Wheels Elite Ferrari 412 T2 Is Your Vroom-Vroom Deal of the Day

I had a decent Hot Wheels collection back in the day. Even had one of those garages with the little plastic trays for storing them. Hundreds of cars easily collected and thrown around the room. My own personal use for them usually evolved beyond the race track to alien cars that could speak and fight…

Assemble This Strikingly Spartan Lamp Any Way You Want To

There’s elegance in simplicity, and with this DIY, multi-configuration lamp, you can decide what kind of elegant simplicity is just right for you. Dino Sanchez’s lamp kit aims to give you that pleasure of putting things together with your hands without having to sift through a bunch of non-nonsensical IKEA-like instructions. With just a Phillips-head…

Samsung thinks kids call the iPhone Home Button a “Bellybutton.” What the hell is going on in that courtroom? [Twitter]

Built-In Cutting Board Drawer Is a Secret Place To Slice and Dice

When it was time for Serena Thompson—a contributing editor at Country Living Magazine—to upgrade her farmhouse kitchen, she wanted to find ways to maximize the space while still keeping it functional. Which led to the creation of this fantastic cutting board drawer that sits atop a second bag-lined drawer for catching food scraps. You will…

Home on a Hairpin Turn: Needs More Hazard Lights

Peru’s 2.8x Architects took on a challenge with the Mirador House—how do you build something beautiful when the land you have to work with is an uneven plot situated on a steep bend? The design they went with is a airy terraced home perfectly positioned into a difficult piece of land just east of Lima.…

Zombie HP TouchPad Gets Android Jellybean Before Almost Every Android Tablet

Unless you’ve got a Google Nexus 7, you’re going to be waiting a while for the official release of Jelly Bean for your tablet. Which is why it’s a little surprising—and dare we say funny—that it’s already popped up on HP’s aborted TouchPad If you’re the proud owner of a TouchPad you can get Jelly…

After the iPod’s success, Apple SVP Phil Schiller says people wanted the company to make a car. Huh? [Twitter]

Samsung’s New TV-Phone Brings Antennae Back To Mobile

If limited data plans are getting you down, there’s a new alternative that makes use of some old tech. How about picking up good, old-fashioned broadcast TV? For the most part, MetroPCS’ Samsung Galaxy S Lightray, is a pretty standard 4G-capable phone with a 1GHz processor, 4.3″ display, and 8MP camera and whatnot. But on…

Renaming Windows Metro: A Few Unsolicited Suggestions

Taking a cue out of the playbooks of famous name-changers like Ron Artest, Cat Stevens, and Prince, Microsoft isn’t calling its UI design Metro anymore. Although that’s the official title MS has been using for years, it’s reportedly making the shift due to legal reasons—ever heard of a German company called Metro? Neither have we.…

Is This a Half Spoon or Just a Small Spoon or Just Ridiculous?

Instead of just being smaller than a regular tea spoon, this stupid creation promises to be an easy way to reduce your calorie intake by half—with a design that looks like the utensil has been literally sliced in half. It’s kitchen clutter at its worst, and even as a sight gag it’s really not that…

HTC One X After 4 Months: Weird Batteries and Wimpy Gorrillas

We’ve been using the One X for three solid months, and this is a truly awesome phone. But we’ve got a few gripes: • Mo’effer gets really hot. Yesterday I put the phone in my pants, took my pants off (don’t ask), then put my pants back on again, and noticed—not for the first time—how…

Video Shows Alleged iPhone 5 Display Isn’t Just Longer—It’s Stronger

A Chinese site claims to have the leaked iPhone 5 screen. It shows a much longer, more durable display, but bear in mind that this could be complete and total bullshit. If you don’t want to watch a very detailed clip where a guy who appears to have condoms on his fingers does a side…

How Humans Learned To Live Under Water

Every American knows the names Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. At the dawn of the space age, another frontier was under exploration, too—although it never had the fanfare or funding that the astronauts received. Deep in the ocean, aquanauts, imbued with their own sub-aquatic strain of the Right Stuff, began building the undersea version of a…

Finally, a Showerhead That Looks Like an Old Timey Phone

If you randomly asked people what their morning shower is missing most, there’s a good chance they’ll probably lament the fact that their showerheads don’t look like retro phone handsets. A complaint that’s now rendered moot thanks to this novelty showerhead. Instead of relaxing features like massage or pulsating modes, the only functionality this ‘Off…

Portable Pivoting Power Adapter Maximizes Your Hotel’s Outlets

Even fancy new hotel rooms with flat screen TVs and iPhone alarm clocks catering to our gadget-laden lifestyles never seem to have enough outlets for charging all your toys. So a portable power bar is the most important thing you can travel with, particularly this folding model which can handle even the bulkiest of wall…

Is the iPhone 5 Out in the Wild?

Somewhere, maybe even right now, someone is already using the iPhone 5. At least that’s what this screenshot would have you believe. TechCrunch says an anonymus developer noticed an “iPhone 5,2” device pop up on their server logs, which means the next Apple handset is being tested as we speak. Which makes sense, as it’s…

A Wi-Fi NEX Camera Would Be Fine and All But Sony Needs to Chill Out

A purported leak reported by Sony Alpha Rumors has outed the latest incarnation of its Sony’s mid-range mirroless, interchangeable-lens camera beast, the NEX-5N. Well, it’s two cameras really; the Sony NEX-5R and Sony NEX-6 will supposedly be announced in September. The cameras were discovered on the product listing of an Indonesian company. According to Sony…

Embed All the Pirated Video You Want Because It’s Totally Legal

A few months back, porn studio Flava Works and the MPAA launched a legal campaign against site myVidster to outlaw the embedding of videos that weren’t uploaded with the permission of the copyright holders. Specifically Hypothetically, you could be punished for posting an old N*Sync video to you blog that wasn’t uploaded by Vevo (or…

Folding Origami Whiteboard Puts a Conference Room In Your Pocket

Because you never know when inspiration will strike, this portable whiteboard is broken up into 27 smaller segments so that it can be folded up and carried around in a generously sized shirt pocket—essentially turning any space into a collaborative conference room. Even though it’s considerably smaller than your traditional whiteboard, it’s still large enough…