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You know Apple’s 1984 commercial. You’ve seen Apple’s 1984 commercial. Heck, it’s widely accepted that the 1984 commercial is one of the best ads of all time. But did you know it was almost cancelled by Apple before it ever aired? Of course, it wasn’t almost cancelled by Steve Jobs, who loved the ad. It…
On Super Bowl Sunday, 55 IT specialists will huddle together in a dark room to keep their company’s website afloat on the biggest day of its entire year, since it’s going to be bombarded by millions of ravenous fans. But the company they work for isn’t the NFL. It’s freaking Domino’s. Here’s how Domino’s social…
If you haven’t seen The Hustler yet, one of the best movies in the history of cinema, please don’t delay it anymore. This movie will leave you in awe from beginning to end. And while you are at it, have a whiskey or two. Being one of Paul Newman’s best performances ever—if not the best—is…
Photographer Bobby Neel Adams’ Age-Maps are as fascinating as they are spooky. He combines a person’s childhood portrait with an adult one, resulting in these weird hybrids. Some of the results are hilarious. Others freak me out. Correction: all of them freak me out. [Bobby Neel Adams via Visual News via Petapixel]
A workplace with constant access to the internet can be a knife in the face of productivity, and a total nuclear disaster for any actual deadlines. Here are a few tools to help you stay on track and on time. Think (Productivity App) You’re very easily distracted by pretty much everything on your computer. That’s…
It’s game time. You’re hosting, which makes you the quarterback of the party. Your friend blitzes you with a six-pack of warm beer. Don’t let this blitz get in the way of getting blitzed. Here are two tried and true fast beer-cooling techniques… and one harebrained scheme. It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it through the…
This is a fascinating video. It shows how the US Navy destroys its old ships, one scrap of metal at a time, recycling every component to make new parts. The ship is the USS Savannah, a Wichita-class tanker almost as long as two football fields and ten floors high. This thing was huge and heavy:…
Tom Brady—Patriots QB, NFL boy of gold, Gisele’s hubby and Uggs slanger—is in the Super Bowl this year so he doesn’t have to worry about where to watch the game. Last year though, Brady didn’t play in the Super Bowl and had to watch it at home like the rest of us. What did he…
Managing content on your Android gets to be a pain pretty quick. How much music can I put on here? Did I sync all those photos to my computer? Is this document the most up-to-date version? This week’s app picks help make managing those things a snap. Oh, and we’ve got a pretty sweet game,…
If you want to be ripped like those NFL guys you’re going to have to workout. Like all the time. You shouldn’t even be reading this post. Quit your job and download an NFL player’s workout app. Or if you’re in Canada, go after a hockey puck. Forget it, I know we’re all just gonna…
Using the internet is only worthwhile if you can show off the perverse and wonderful things you’ve found on it. So, now that we’re always online and always in touch, we’re constantly sharing links. But what if you’ve seen it already? Lie. You’ve probably encountered this already: most of your friends are bored all day,…
Google’s pissed at the Samsung Galaxy Nexus LTE about something because it just effectively stripped away the Nexus title of the Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy Nexus LTE no longer shows up on Google’s Nexus developer pages which seems to mean that Google no longer thinks the Galaxy Nexus LTE is a true reference Android device.…
Tiny apartments are miserable for a lot of reasons, but the most frustrating is when you can’t make the most of your space without a clutter of furniture everywhere. Consider my coffee table problem: It doesn’t take up too much space, but if there’s more than one person hanging out, it’s too small. The REK…
Back in my day we would edit videos on a large table with razor blades, white gloves, and grease pencils. Ok, I’m not that old. But, if you told me 15 years ago you could edit video on a phone, I’d have called you a witch and burned you at the stake. Well, today we…
I’m trying to download a couple of games that are 5-15GB each and also back up my entire hard drive and holy Christ it is taking forrrrreeeeeverrrrr. Even with the relatively quick broadband available in New York City—relative to much of the country anyway—it’s all very, very slow. I’m waiting 5 hours for a game…
A new analysis suggests North Korea clandestinely tested two nuclear weapons in 2010. If it’s true, it would double the number of known tests hailing from the country and could mean serious nuclear warhead development is underway. Remember when North Korea made that bizarre claim in May 2010 that they had achieved nuclear fusion? This…
In a private market auction yesterday, Facebook was valued at $94 billion, which is squarely in the ballpark of the $100 billion valuation that financial pundits have been tossing around. Don’t read much more into it than that; there’s plenty of time for the valuation to change slightly before the actual IPO (sometime in May),…
The lights. The pretty lights. I can’t stop looking at the lights. A few hours ago I thought I was hungry, then the lights came on. They lulled my hunger away. Maybe the lights are trying to tell me somethings? I have to find the pattern. The light pattern will be the answer to everything.…
A Wisconsin woman is facing 31 felony counts of theft and forgery for selling and trading up to a million dollars of fake Facebook stock. So much for not getting rich off of the Facebook IPO. https://gizmodo.com/reminder-the-5-billion-facebook-ipo-wont-make-you-ric-5881223 Marianne Oleson convinced several victims that she had bought around $1 million dollars of Facebook stock prior to…
Jawbone, Motorola, Plantronics—any company that thinks it’s good at making hands-free devices might as well give up. Gojo Hands Free has just blown this industry wide open. For 10 bucks. No, call now and it’s Five. No, wait, how about $2.50? Just pay separate postage and handling. With your soul.
