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Traditionally, designers fill their text boxes with dummy latin phrases—the famous Lorem Ipsum, written in 45 BC. But why use some classical Latin numbnuttiness by Cicero when you can use some Samuel L. motherf*cking Jackson? This page allows you to create dummy Samuel L. Ipsum text for all your design needs. Gems like: Uuummmm, this…
Forget the tigers and bears, I don’t want one of these big cats nomming on my skull. These eight tools will help you stay alive—and possibly even let you enjoy—your trip to Africa. [view as one page] https://gizmodo.com/8-tools-to-keep-you-from-being-eaten-while-on-safari-5841985 Pith Helmet Unless you naturally tan a golden bronze like I do, the sun in Africa is…
Wall Street has been a mess of bodies and police for the past few days as Occupy Wall Street protests have clogged up lower Manhattan. But there were some congestion problems online, too, as Yahoo was reportedly blocking emails attempting to organize the gathering. Starting yesterday, several members of the Occupy Wall Street group reported…
McSweeney’s always had a wonderful iOS app that acted as a mini-subscription to the engaging content that the publishing house tirelessly put out. But it used to cost money. Now? It’s free. Sweetney! So you get weekly stories, videos, interviews, art and more from McSweeney’s for free (think of it like a best of McSweeney’s…
Facebook’s ever-churning redesign mill just spat out some freshly ground News Feed—now it knows when you signed on last, and lets you talk about how totally fat Jennifer’s getting with friends in realtime via ticker. News, news, news! Essentially, the News Feed will now dish up photos, status messages, the like based on what you’ve…
I hate being a stereotype, but I hate, hate, hate, shopping even more. An Ikea in Sydney Australia recognized that I’m not alone in my hatred of all things commerce and recently tested the greatest thing to happen to shopping since the introduction of smartphones. The MÄNLAND play area. Tested for only four glorious days…
All Things D claims Facebook’s rumored Music hub won’t allow users to take tracks from services such as Spotify and directly play/control them as originally planned. Instead, you’ll be directed to an external site or player. https://gizmodo.com/music-needs-connective-tissue-and-facebook-wants-to-b-5836721 This is certainly a bummer for some, as music sites such as Soundcloud and Bandcamp allow some of…
All that pumpkin-y goodness that comes with the fall holidays—tech Jack O’Lanterns, delicious pumpkin pies—has been spoiled by the wild wreck that was Irene. Farmers along the east coast are now warning that we’re facing an extreme pumpkin shortage. https://gizmodo.com/ideas-for-tech-themed-halloween-pumpkins-5385756 The Great Pumpkin is Dead, Charlie Brown. For this harvest season, anyway. With the savage…
Cheesy photo filters. You know what I’m talking about. Those horrid, unusable, who-the-fuck-coulda-invented, one-button smears of digital feces that have infested Photoshop like cockroaches. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, Gizmodo readers mastered the tacky photo filter to create…art? WINNER: Bowling Aesthetic A friend brought his new fancy camera to a bowling outing this weekend. When…
Netflix is having themselves quite the week, and everyone’s favorite insaneo Chinese animators are here to show us how things really happened. Apparently it involved asteroids, disc-headed mutant siamese twins, laser pistols, and the Insane Clown Posse. Although in fairness, that mix of ingredients would have made more sense than what actually happened. [NMA]
Pancakes or waffles? I’m not even sure anymore actually. As a kid, I preferred the fluffy, cloud-like chewiness of pancakes but as I grew older and more daring, I wanted the crunch and rigid lines of a waffle. Waffles do have the perfect cutouts to hold syrup but there’s nothing more picturesque than a stack…
New York City is littered with filthy rats and it’s not unreasonable to want to kill ’em all with poison. Too bad it’s going to be a lot harder to do that because sellers of the best rat poison—61 times more powerful than normal—have been arrested in a sting operation. Apparently New York’s Chinatown is…
I found myself today at Sequoia Nation Park and I was already taking pictures trying to capture at least a little glimpse of how amazing the trees were. I took this photo with the intention of making an HDR file with it. I was able to merge the files into a nice HDR image. I…
I like the sound of backing up my entire hard drive in several minutes, instead several hours. With LaCie’s Little Big Disk, we might finally be able to do it: dual drives plus Thunderbolt. The Little Big Disk straps together two HDs in a RAID array (0 for extra speed, or 1 for extra data…
I went ahead and used my HTC EVO 4G for this challenge rather than my DSLR. I wanted to see if I could get a good effect that would pop, and actually say I didn’t use Photoshop. So I came across this dried rose at a desk at work. I whipped my phone and shot…
You don’t have a Nexus S 4G, or Sprint or the Citi Mastercard required for Google Wallet. But that doesn’t you mean you don’t wanna live in the future, using your phone to pay for stuff. Here’s how to do that right now, no matter what phone you’ve got. https://gizmodo.com/google-wallet-the-future-of-money-is-here-sorta-5841865 PayPal Mobile Availability: iOS, Android,…
So maybe the merger with AT&T’s on the rocks, but you know what that means for you, dear customer? T-Mobile’s going to twist your arm with huge one-day discounts on handsets to convince you to sign up for data plans. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-is-filing-against-the-doj-to-keep-the-t-mobile-acq-5839000 T-Mobile’s having what they call a “Yes, Every Phone’s on Sale” sale, and uhh,…
There’s a not-so-dirty little secret about NVIDIA’s upcoming Tegra 3 platform (which will soon find a home in plenty of mobile devices): the quad-core processor contained within has a fifth core for less intensive tasks. In a paper published by NVIDIA, they provided in-depth details about their Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP). Simply put, vSMP implemented…
Although Fukushima’s wrecked reactors aren’t melting down any longer, the entire complex is clogged with extremely radioactive water. The building’s also blown to hell ever since it, uh, exploded twice. So what could make things worse? This typhoon’s massive downpour. Extreme rain of Typhoon Roke combined with wind speeds over 100 MPH could be one…
According to Steve Swasey, VP of Netflix corporate communications, the company isn’t thinking about marketing for Qwikster just yet. Which makes me wonder, who is Jason Castillo talking to? https://gizmodo.com/could-qwikster-make-mad-bank-selling-his-twitter-handl-5841887 Swasey told me that they just announced the name of the new DVD-shipping site and they were, “Not getting into the minutiae of marketing,” and…
