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I didn’t know, but the Kurile Lake—in the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia—is known for being the largest red salmon run in the world. People and bears go then to catch them, both on pictures and for eating. I don’t blame them. That salmon looks both beautiful and delicious. [English Russia]
The official site of cat videos, YouTube will be introducing thumbnail navigation to its videos. Soon you’ll get to skip right to the guy getting hit square in the crotch with a mallet. If you’ve moved the video playhead in Netflix or Hulu you’ve seen this type of navigation. Basically it shows a tiny picture…
Apple for the first time (to its credit!) released a list of suppliers today along with a compliance report that shows only 38-percent are abiding by rules on work hours limits. According to Apple’s audit, at 93 facilities more than 50 percent of people worked more than its limit of 60 hours per week. At…
The ever-addictive word game cherished by word fiends and Alec Baldwins everywhere has a new star on its sleeve: it prevented a heart attack, sort of! Australian Georgie Fletcher was randomly matched up with Missouri woman Beth Legler for just another game of Not Scrabble, Ozarks First reports. Unfortunately, Fletcher started to experience symptoms of…
A man named Chris Laporte beat me at Street Fighter five times in a row. The stakes were that if he won, I would write a post about him. I might have been a little (a lot) drunk when I entered into this agreement—especially because I don’t really think there was a prize in it…
It’s the product that will never be. Like that sixth season of The Wire, we hope that it happens, but we know deep in our hearts that it won’t. Intel’s Nikiski ultrabookand its see-through-trackpad-display falls into that category. The beautifully odd Nikiski touts a keyboard-wide see-through glass trackpad. The trackpad recognizes your palm to keep…
If you’re used to shooting with an everyday DSLR, the Nikon D4 is like holding fully-automatic machine gun for the first time. Pulling the trigger on the D4 is wonderfully satisfying. When you’re shooting in continuous mode, frames peel off super-fast thanks to Nikon’s new EXPEED 3 processor, which gets you up to 11 fps…
Sam already posted a video of his antics involving booth babes and a giant iPod dock. But a pack of admirers over at one Kanye West fan forum were so impressed with his, um, skills, that they GIF’d and meme’d to their hearts’ content. You can find all the goodness right here. [Kanye To The]
The Daily is reporting that Microsoft is currently working on a Kinect-enabled set top box that would work without the Xbox. It would be a new product separate from the Xbox Kinect and offer streaming media content like Apple TV, Roku, etc. with the benefit of using Kinect’s stellar voice and motion UI. According to…
We’re at an artistic crossroads, says the documentary Press Pause Play. Technology means it’s never been easier to create, to push out a little piece of oneself and share it with the world. But that ease has created a landscape where the haystack is gigantic and the needles still relatively sparse. The idea that technology…
I’m sure whatever booth Robbie checked out at CES is great, but the best booth at CES didn’t come from an ultrabook or smart TV manufactuer. Nope, it came from Audi. I am steadfast in my belief that it is BETTER. Like OMGDONTEVENTRYTOARGUEWITHME better. What makes it so great, exactly? Um, have you looked at…
The most dangerous day on the roads in 2010? Saturday October 16, when 204 vehicles were involved in 90 crashes. Compare that to a low of 41 crashes on Monday 22 March—and to the rest of that year, with this illuminating visualization. There were 45,777 vehicles involved in fatal crashes in the US during 2010,…
What would it look like if the candy kingdom of happy elves launched a thermonuclear assault against us? Probably something like this. Fortunately for this, this isn’t a technicolor mushroom cloud. It’s photographic trickery. The image is actually a composite photo of a carnival swing, shot many times, and blurred. The photo is part of…
At CES we saw Intel’s first serious attempt at mobile processing, Medfield, being used in a handful of devices. Intel thinks it could give ARM a run for its money. ARM think differently. Reuters report that ARM CEO Warren East isn’t impressed by Medfield, saying: “[Intel] have taken some designs that were never meant for…
Every artist has their preferred medium: charcoal, oil paint, maybe even an iPad if you’re David Hockney. But for Federico Pietrella, there’s nothing quite like the squish of rubber stamp on paper. The Italian artist, born in Rome and now based in Berlin, builds up layer-upon-layer of ink using date stamps to create surprisingly intricate…
This tumblr is genius, in a disturbingly macabre way: Jean-Marie Delbes and Hatim El Hihi are photoshopping dead band members out of famous album covers. The results are oh-so-perfect and weird. Eternity was never so ephemeral. From John Lennon to Joey Ramone to Elvis to Nick Drake to Joe Strummer, all of them gone forever.…
We’ve all taken pictures where we’ve accidentally focused on the wrong person: who the hell was that dude in the background, anyway? But facial recognition baked into Canon’s new cameras should mean that doesn’t happen again. This week at CES Canon announced its new ELPH series cameras, along with the hotly anticipated PowerShot G1 X.…
There was a storm over Düsseldorf’s airport last week. Things got rough, with strong crosswinds that made landings pretty hard—and even caused some missed approaches. I get all wimpy looking at them, but I can’t stop watching. Maybe because I will never forget the “landing” at the peak of the snow clusterfuck in New York’s…
I’m not crazy into watches, usually. I wear a Casio digital watch, which is a fair sign I rate function over form on my wrist. But this time piece, powered by pistons, bellows and liquid, made me stop and take notice. This is the HYT H1, and it uses a liquid-filled chamber to display the…
This is the USS Ronald Reagan—the ninth of the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarriers—cruising the Pacific Ocean. But instead of having combat jets all over her deck, it’s packed with cars facing a single F-18. Why are they doing there? Those are sailor’s vehicles. The ship is now changing port, going to Naval Base Kitsap—a U.S. Navy…
