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There’s a strange bug on Facebook where if you post @[xxx:0] in a comment (with the XXX being three random numbers), when you hit enter a random name will appear. For example: @[345:0] = Karina Scalise. Weeeeiiiiirrrrrd! It’s currently being passed around Facebook as a “enter in the last three digits of your phone number…
Holy Batman’s pants, check out this Bootmobile. These guys created a truck that is a boot that is a truck that is a boot. Pedal to the leather to the metal! I’m so excited I can go like this all day. So I will shut up and let you marvel at the wonder of the…
Yesterday the feds shut down MegaUpload. They’ve also seized an awful lot of the founders’ possessions, including Kim “Dotcom” Schmitz’s rather expensive car collection. Here’s what towing away his millions of dollars of cars looks like. Over at Jalopnik, there’s a full list of the cars that were seized, along with their rather hilarious number…
The Raspberry Pi project is trying to offer you a thumb-drive sized PC for $35, which is amazing. Only, it just got more amazing, because it can use AirPlay to stream video from your iPad to your TV. In the video, one of the Raspberry Pi developers hooks the mini computer up to an HDMI…
Last year, we showed you these awesome jerrycan speakers. But they cost over $400, which sucks. Don’t worry, though: here’s how you can make your own using, uh, some jerrycans and some speakers. OK, so the sound quality might not be that high — somehow, I suspect they aren’t quite heavy or rigid enough to…
This computer-generated cloud of color interacts with its soundtrack to produce a haunting, yet oddly cheerful, video. You have to watch it: it’s beautiful. It was created by Seiichi Hishikawa, and the brightly-colored graphic renderings perfectly track the sound-scape produced by Tatsuya Yamada. To be honest, it belongs in a gallery, projected on to a…
Just kidding. It’s not really, well, not for you. But amongst teenagers, sharing passwords is apparently the best way to demonstrate your love, trust and, uh, stupidity. The New York Times reports that the sharing of passwords for email and Facebook is becoming a growing trend amongst teens in love, as a way to demonstrate…
On Thursday, Apple’s value on the stock market reached an all-time high of $400 billion. That figure makes it worth more than Greece, Austria, Argentina and South Africa. And, come to mention it, quite a lot of other things, too. [CNN; Image: fdecomite]
It sounds a little like stealing someone else’s homework and then putting your name it, only slightly more expensive, but Nokia has convinced Microsoft to rebrand Bing Maps as Nokia’s own. In an interview with Pocket-lint, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced that the word “Nokia” will soon show up on maps from Microsoft, including those…
MegaUpload’s founder, Kim Dotcom, was arrested in New Zealand with at least three other MU employees as part of federal actions against the file-sharing website today. And The four had better get used to their cells, they’ll be there through the weekend as a North Shore District Court denies their request for bail. Dotcom, as…
Need to keep the riff-raff off the roof of your shiny new commuter train? Do what Indonesia’s state railway did and just sweep the little bastards off with a broom made of suspended concrete balls. Remember to duck. PT Kereta Api Indonesia, the country’s state railway company recently announced that it will be installing barricades…
Even industrial shipping containers wear out eventually. But rather than scrap them, Starbucks’ in-house architects upcycled the containers into a unique drive-through cafe. The new cargotecture structure is located in Tukwila, Washington. Stacked as they are, the four containers provide about 450 square feet of interior space. It’s a cozy fit, sure, but one large…
Look at these old cellular phones. You could probably shove 10 iPhones inside each of these puppies. That Motorola handset weighs only 30 ounces. Amazing! Those were the days. When every minute cost more than items on the value menu and there was a good chance you could knock a man out with your phone.…
You’ve got to be kidding me. The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Congress can remove works from the public domain and re-copyright them in order to bring the the pieces into compliance with international copyright schemes. Yeah, because that doesn’t run completely against the spirit of copyright law or anything. For one reason or…
Selling a book with Apple’s iBook Author program is now a one-way ticket to Apple being the only place you can sell the book. Maybe selling your book on iBooks isn’t such a great deal after all. Dan Wineman of Venomous Porridge went to publish his first book from within the iBooks Author application when…
The best thing at Wendy’s is the Frosty. Now you can get them for free for the rest of 2012, all while supporting a good cause (I think it’s a good cause, at least). But who cares: free Frosty! To get in on the free Frosty Jr. deal (Yeah it’s for the Frosty Jr. Do…
No one can escape time—not you, not me, not nobody. Especially not when you’re staring it right in the face with this stately and sturdy concrete Swedish clock. The Tidvis Grandfather Clock by Fosberg Form stands six-foot-four-inches (or one Jeff Goldblum) tall. That’s a lot of heavy concrete to drag into your house, but does…
We tend to think of corporations as monolithic, singular entities. But they’re not. They’re just companies, normal companies run by normal people—people that really, really loved downloading stuff from MegaUpload while on the clock. According to network data assembled by security vendor Palo Alto Networks, MegaUpload usage accounted for a full 25-percent of the corporate…
While we’re all up in arms over SOPA and PIPA, the government of Iran continues to monitor its citizen’s Internet access. The government has gone so far as to sentence a programmer to death for insulting the sanctity of Islam because of a piece of software used by a porn site. The Star reports that…
The demo kind of falls apart when they start poking around Windows, but Displax’s new 40-inch diameter Multitouch Globe looks like an absolute joy when it comes to navigating interactive maps. It’s just too bad it’s a bit impractical. Like any display that’s not a flat surface, Displax’s globe uses a projector with a fisheye…
