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So, our favorite venture capitalist Bill Gurley has helped quite a few people make more than $2,290 per week working from home—but not with whatever is linked here. I hope nobody thinks this is actually some great business idea. Nobody click that link (duh). Sucks, Bill, but it happens to the best of us.
Hey, if you’re a published webOS developer, Microsoft’s gonna give you whatever you need to be a Windows Phone developer, like free phones and dev tools. So says Brandon Watson, who runs Windows Phone’s Developer Experience program. At least you know Windows Phone will last longer than stocking. Probably. [Brandon Watson/Twitter] https://gizmodo.com/stocking-is-the-new-best-stupid-internet-photo-fad-5832710
According to the Population Reference Bureau, 74-percent of the world will live in urban centers by 2025. You know what that means? Apartments, with galley kitchens instead of that fancy sprawling Julia Childs action. Limited space. And tools like this. You ever try to fit a whisk in a drawer? Impossible. Unless you have awesome…
Planking? So earlier this year! Anyone can lie down on something. I do it every night on my bed. And I’m unconscious the whole time. But stocking—recreating the bizarre, hilarious world of stock photos—takes serious talent. Thanks to Stocking Is the New Planking, a great Tumblr with a terrible name, we can all take part…
Anil Dash brilliantly arguing against the “falsehood that liberal values are somehow in contradiction with business success,” describing the leader of the most valuable technology company in the world, Steve Jobs: He’s the anchor baby of an activist Arab muslim who came to the U.S. on a student visa and had a child out of…
When I was 13 I was smoking cigarettes I’d found on the ground and playing Super Nintendo like it was my life’s work. This kid discovered a way to draw 20-50% more power from solar cells. He is way cooler. 7th grader Aidan Dwyer was walking in the woods during the winter, and looking up,…
In this week’s app roundup: searches, made quicker; the spinning globe, re-realized; notifications, turned charmingly annoying; drums, played outside your phone; textbooks, sold; alarm clocks, re-imagined; helicopters, controlled; pictionary, with LEGO and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps 4 Eyes: It’s a quick search tool for your iPhone. You know how in your…
Pops: Notifications on Android are totally useful, which is totally great, right? I mean, notifications should be non-intrusive, seamless and get you to where you need to go. Pops isn’t that. Instead it makes notifications ridiculous. You can flip your email, SMS, Twitter, Facebook, etc. notifications into VIDEO or ANIMATED notifications. Nyan Cat, Android Robot,…
The World by National Geographic: It’s a ‘maps’ app in the sense that the bulk of what you’re looking at is maps. But it’s also a spinning globe app that allows you to twirl around our little blue planet to your heart’s desire (rich people: pick your next vacation!), a photos app that shows you…
4 Eyes: It’s a quick search tool for your iPhone. You know how in your desktop web browser you can program search shortcuts like ‘wiki’ for a wikipedia search or ‘yt’ for YouTube, 4eyes captures the same idea. You hit pre-programmed typing shortcuts to search the specific service you want to be searching. No more…
Save this one for next winter or in case you get lost in the tundra without a lighter: Pick up some ice from a creek and polish it until you make a lens capable of igniting some foliage. [The Daily What]
Holy mother of Gandalf! Some amazing guy called Arthur Sacek has built this 3D milling machine entirely out of Lego. Be sure to watch the video till the very end, when he reveals the resulting model with a vacuum cleaner. It may be slow and it may be using foam as its raw material, but…
Um, epic nom nom time? Totes! Awks, but did you peep her hooking up? FML. Today suuu-uucks. Total fail! Just wanna get wasteyface tonight. This will probably be incoherent in the near future, because most slang dies young. But why? Slate explores the complex linguistic evolutionary tree behind words like groovy (embarrassing to use!), cool…
I’ve never thought of my allergies as a big deal. Sure, my peanut allergy has caused an emergency room visit here and there, and my dad used to pick me up from sleepovers because of my emphysema-like wheezing around cats. No big thing, right? But a few years back it seemed about time I went…
No, someone else isn’t playing Ratatat at work (anywhere), that’s your phone ringing. But where is it? Under the napkins? Beneath that stack of TPS reports? Who knows. A problem with our ever-shrinking cellphones is that they’re getting harder to find. So how do you keep your cell in plain site while maintaining a properly…
We just tried to send everybody home for the day. It’s just Joe, Barry, Jesus and me. And it’s Friday. So fuck it. Apple You totally care more about design and user experience than any other major tech company in the world, and, by and large, make the best products for real humans. That’s great!…
Man, things just are not looking good for Netflix: Universal is experimenting with movie rentals on Facebook. First foray? The Big Lebowski, which you can rent for 30 Facebook credits—that’s $3—right now from the film’s fan page. Sorry about your business, Reed Hastings. It really tied the room together.[ZDnet] UPDATE Giz commenters are smart! tonyn84,…
Friends, the iPad just got 80% less B-list-in-a-bikini-pretty. Maxim’s last HD issue, made especially for tablets, came off the digital presses in June, meaning you won’t be able to fork over four bucks to read about what a guy’s girl that pretty lady with two lines in that Judd Apatow movie trailer is. But! Praise…
What does it mean when the world’s largest PC manufacturer quits? Some say it’s the death knell for PCs. That may be the case, but only because companies, like HP, are turning tail and running rather than fighting back. Don’t. HP announced yesterday that not only will they stop making WebOS devices, but they’re considering…
August is nearing its completion. Did you hit all your goals? Find sunshine romance? Take a dip in the pool? Roast some meat? Dance in a backyard? Chug some beers? Maybe! But a vacation? Sigh. Here’s how to fake it. Sunlight Desk Lamp You know what the opposite of a vacation is? Being stuck at…
