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Since our brethren and sistren at Deadspin are dropping in on the gathering of the Juggalos, we found ourselves wondering, how do magnets work, anyway? https://deadspin.com/dropping-in-on-the-demented-utopia-of-the-gathering-of-5831225 Quoth the Insane Clown Posse, “Water, fire, air and dirt / Fucking magnets, how do they work?” Good question! Here’s the answer. Technically, a magnet is any object that…
War dogs, just like war people, get shot at. And when they’re hit—like this brave fighting pooch, Cujo, they get the exact same state of the art C-17 medical treatment as a human, KitUp’s Glenn Anderson reports. https://gizmodo.com/the-navy-seal-team-6-dog-is-a-bigger-badass-than-you-5798745 Cujo caught a bullet in the paw while working alongside some homo sapiens in Afghanistan, and was…
Skitch for OS X has been around for so long you might have it on your computer and not even know it. But that doesn’t change the fact that it pretty much murders the standard OS X screenshot snapper. What’s it do? It’s a screenshot taking app (or video recorder) for OS X. And though…
We knew what the front would look like, and now we’ve got the rear. And I can’t help but think they got the entire thing completely backwards. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-biography-expected-november-21st-and-will-c-5831224 The front of the jacket, a black and white portrait taken for Fortune mag two years ago, is pretty generic by Jobsian standards. It’s the man we—and…
Search the news for “copper theft” and look through the headlines. LOOK. Why are there so many stories? Stealing wire to sell the copper? From a cell tower? What is this, the Great Depression? Reports from the Department of Energy estimate that copper theft is responsible for $1 billion worth of damage every single year.…
According to University of Illinois professor May Berenbaum, men “have a deep-seated instinct to aim at targets” in the urinary sense. Logically, sticking a picture on the back of a urinal will cause men to aim for it like lemmings. This is where the Thermal Urinal Fly comes in. These Japanese creations are thermally-sensitive, so…
Apple just released OS X Lion 10.7.1, the first update to the operating system since Lion was released in July. The update clears up bugs with video playback in Safari, audio playback, and transferring settings to a new Mac. It also improves Wi-Fi connectivity. [BGR]
The next time someone complains about the volume of your music, point them to this video. They’ll realize it could be a lot worse—at least their hair isn’t flying all over the place in a atomic shockwave mess. Also: great to practice safety. Plugging your ears is surely a great means of protecting your head…
The main virtue of Google+ is that it lets you cut who you want out of the loop. And it looks like that’s exactly how folks are using it. A new analysis of the platform says that 48% of Google+ users have never made a single public post. https://gizmodo.com/the-problem-with-google-is-that-its-work-facebook-5827429 There’s certainly more activity going on…
Normally we don’t like to give much credence to PR stunt surveys, but Hunch polled 15,000 people—FIFTEEN THOUSAND—and found some surprising results. Did you know that iPhoners eat rice crispies, and Android-droids prefer Cheerios? Other questions were asked of the large pool of people too: apparently iPhone users are 50 per cent more likely to…
A curious father strapped a GoPro camera onto his daughter’s head to see what her life was like. Unsurprisingly (or surprisingly!), it was completely random, sometimes shrieky, borderline drunk, mostly unbalanced but oh so incredibly fun. [Reddit] You can keep up with Casey Chan, the author of this post, on Twitter or Facebook.
Over at the Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany, Sony just stated that they will incorporate both Skype and Foursquare into your new Playstation Vita come early 2012. They were cagey with specifics, but this is a good thing for the console. The additions bring the Vita, with it’s beautiful OLED touchscreen and 3G option, more…
The sun sinks. The air, warm. You’re with the guy or girl of your dreams. Or maybe they’re just the best thing at the moment. The time to fornicate is nigh—but where? How about this cockpit? Or closet? Sometimes you don’t always have access or a bed. Or, hell, you don’t want to get it…
We already know that Apple’s upcoming spaceship campus is going to be out of this world gorgeous. We also know it’s going to be gigantically big. But how big? Well, the Empire State Building ain’t got nothin’ on Apple. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-high-resolution-renders-of-apples-next-campus-a-5830633 MacObserver compared it to other well known, larger than life buildings and objects and found…
Caffeine has previously been correlated with a reduced risk of cancer. But the latest research-aided theory coming out of Rutgers University is that putting caffeine into sunscreen will reduce that risk even more. The Guardian UK says that when combined with sunscreen, caffeine, which inhibits a gene crucial to melanoma growth, will actually promote the…
More proof that March’s crisis persists: the Japanese government’s found deadly cesium isotopes near the Fukushima district courthouse—that’s over 60 miles from the plant. What’s worse, the radioactive gunk contained over 20 times the “safe limit” of cesium. For perspective, that scattered contamination is 20 miles more than the distance between DC and Baltimore. This…
Here’s something unexpected: An Engadget tipster claims Apple’s installing LTE equipment in its stores. The gear was allegedly installed by AT&T, and only supports the 700MHz and AWS bands, which will fall in AT&T’s LTE network if the T-Mobile merger goes through. Yesterday we heard rumors about an LTE iPhone currently in carrier testing, although…
If you could travel through time, what would you do? Where would you go? When would you go? Would you attempt to test the validity of the so-called Butterfly Effect? Would you make millions by buying stock in Apple circa 1997? Or would you travel thousands of years into the future and attempt to wrap…
The iPad isn’t all that terrible for a built-in tablet speaker, but if you find yourself needing more sound in a small package, Logitech thinks they have the perfect speaker for you. Their Tablet Speaker clips onto the back of most tablets and plugs into the 3.5mm audio jack. The battery provides up 8 hours…
Like most days, there was a protest in San Francisco yesterday where people said silly things. But atypically, this one was semi-organized by hacker collective Anonymous. Also unlike most San Francisco protests, there was sort of a point to it. Monday’s protest was a reaction to BART cutting off cell phone service during a previous…
