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If you’re watching Monday Night Football tonight, you’ll probably see a flawless production that balances highlights, game footage, stats, commentary and so much more. How do they do it! A huge team of people, cutting edge technology, some note cards and a whole mess of wires, apparently. In the above video (more of a slideshow,…
Oh, Comic Sans. You’re so approachable, so childlike, so human and… so disgustingly awful. As an eye gouge for many, the favoritest font of horrible rich people and vision vomit for the rest of us, Comic Sans should die 2136 times and then be wiped from our memories. OR SHOULD IT!? The Comic Sans Project…
Looking like it’s slowly melting into a puddle on the floor, you might think this chair is made from liquid mercury. Philipp Aduatz’s Melting Chair does a great impression of the T-1000, but still provides a presumably comfortable place to sit. With a high polish silver coating that’s made scratch-resistant with a polyurethane lacquer, the…
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Design 101 in a Well-Designed Video If you’re going to design a video about design, that video…
Star Wars and Star Trek very probably have the most rabid fans known to geekdom. But they’re constantly trying to one up each other! What’s better! Who’s more awesome! Even the stars—William Shatner and Carrie Fisher—have gotten into it with each other. STOP IT. NO MORE. There’s a bigger enemy out there: Twilight. George Takei…
Remember when the best free phone you could get was monochrome candy bar phone? And you were thankful because that Nokia phone had Snake on it. Things are better now—you can get an actual smartphone from a carrier for free (with the usual two-year contract). But which is the best one from each carrier? Let’s…
If there was ever such thing as a country ran by Grinches, North Korea would be that country. Why? Well, according to the BBC, North Korea has warned neighboring South Korea of “unexpected consequences” if South Korea decides to light up Christmas trees near their border. North Korea’s biggest beef with the Christmas lights is…
Were he still alive today, I’m betting Van Gogh would have been happy he cut off his ear instead of his tongue so he could thorougly enjoy photographer Kelly McCollam’s recreations of his works using salts, spices and food coloring. From Starry Night to Mulberry Tree to Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, not a single drop…
What do you think about that restaurant? More importantly, what you do think about that spoon over there? Or, maybe that plant next to the door. Seriously, that plant is starting to piss me off. Thankfully I can tell the world what a huge ass that plant is with the Jotly app. Use the app…
Well, I suppose this was inevitable: the FBI, via a Freedom of Information Act request denial, inadvertently admitted to involvement with Carrier IQ. And it won’t say how. The government transparency wranglers at MuckRock filed for a FOIA release on the FBI’s use of Carrier IQ, and by saying no, they almost said it all:…
On March 28, 2007, Texas’ Republican rep K. Conaway said LOL. It’s the one and only time. Thanks to the Sunlight Foundation’s new Capitol Words tool, you can search everything Congress has said since ’96. Let’s have fun. Capitol Words is incredibly deep, offering wonderfully organized snapshot of a word (or phrase), broken down by…
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This very rare video was recorded in the 1980s. It shows Steve Jobs talking about the origin of Apple. It’s fascinating to see how he hints at the Next Big Thing, back when the Macintosh was still a secret project in development. It’s also funny to see how this man never changed his tune. Back…
AirPlay is an awesome, if not 100% bug-less means of beaming music and videos from your Apple devices to speakers and TV. But there are very, very few things for your Apple devices to beam to. Will Bluetooth fix everything? MacRumors relays the claims of small Japanese Apple blog Macotakara, that the company is getting…
This Schlitz beer ad from the August 3, 1908 Galveston Daily News (Galveston, TX) shows an American doctor and a German doctor talking about the health benefits of beer. The American doctor even prescribes Schlitz beer to his patients! Doctors of Two Nations Agree as to the Benefits of Beer American Doctor: To what, Doctor,…
Major League Baseball MVP Ryan Braun reportedly tested positive for steroid use on Saturday, a shock for a game whose marquee players had largely overcome their collective reputation as a tainted bunch of juicers. Now Braun’s claiming that highly unusual circumstances caused his irregular results. A false positive, perhaps? Maybe. But that’s exceptionally rare. Here’s…
The legal odyssey of Hellenic proportions between AT&T, T-Mobile, and regulatory authorities looks to have fizzled to a close, with both merger and lawsuit withdrawn. So how does one recount an experience so non-harrowing, dull, and anti-climactic? With seventeen syllables. Spring’s pink German snack for blue was poison for us. Cold by Fall. Thanks, gov.…
It’s just a few blasters short of battling Jedis, but if you’ve ever chased a runaway ball down the street you’ll appreciate Kåre Halvorsen’s MorpHex sphere which can transform into a six-legged crab and simply walk back to you. The bot is still under development, but in its current form it’s brought to life with…
Like all its documentaries, the BBC’s Frozen Planet is fascinating and exquisitely filmed. Their crew has captured amazing things, including the creeping ice tornado. Unfortunately, they cheated on their viewers when they faked a crucial polar bear scene in a zoo. The fourth episode of Frozen Planet—which took four years to film—follows the life of…
When I got my wisdom teeth pulled I was in some serious pain. I’m fairly certain the doctor braced his feet on my face for leverage and just yanked like crazy. This resulted in me being on some rather serious pain-killers for something like ten days. That whole period was a blur. I watched virtually…
