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Well, this is awkward. Rick Sanchez just got fired from CNN for anti-Semitic ranting, so that twitter handle of his, @ricksanchezcnn, yeah, that’s gonna have to change. http://gawker.com/5653552/rick-sanchez-fired-from-cnn-after Rick, I pinged some of my friends and colleagues and came up with a few names that you could use—free of charge. Consider it an olive branch…
Brad Cooper’s Zippo stopped a bullet that could have killed him. Brad Cooper is a very lucky guy. Also, Brad Cooper is crazy. It happened when he found a burglar in his backyard. The guy pointed the gun at Cooper, telling him to stop. But Cooper didn’t care: He says that he kept walking towards…
Theoretically, with enough ribbon and buttons and graph paper, you could make a physical version of this iPhone game. But why would you want to, when the game’s only $2 and so much fun? [iTunes and Lite Version]
Strange, radical, and just plain ugly gadgets are commonplace today—and the same was the case a century ago. The Daily Mail shares a gallery of oddball devices that, for whatever reason, didn’t survive the test of time. This envelope sealer, for example, perhaps failed to grab the public because it aimed to replace a human…
beejiveIM: Beejive, the best instant messaging app on those other smartphone platforms, has finally made its way to Android and though it costs 10 bucks, it’s as nice and feature packed as IM clients go (it has a conversation drawer!). Beejive supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk and other clients while allowing file transfers between…
There are Jell-O shots. And then there are the shots from My Jello Americans: Cory Kete, Moe Sheehan, and Megan Booth have elevated the Jell-O shot into an art form. An art form that gets you wasted. I sat down with these titans of gelatin in our internet office. Okay. What possibly possessed you to…
Gizmodo’s contributing illustrator Sam Spratt has created plenty of crazy photoshops and illustrations for our posts, but now he’s going to do something different: He’s going to draw one of you! Here’s how to be the lucky guy or girl: https://gizmodo.com/meet-our-contributing-illustrator-sam-spratt-5620127 All you have to do is head over and join our official Facebook page…
Coca Cola Heritage Timeline: I’m a Coke guy through and through. Every other soda can disappear for all I care. I also love to learn about the things I love and Coke has put out a snazzy iPad app that tells Coke drinkers the history of their bubbly cocoa syrup. It covers the 124-history of…
Kenny Powers’ Home Run Fiesta: Deep Inside Mexico: I’m Kenny Powers and you’re fucking out. Yeah, fine. I’m not Kenny Powers but I think Eastbound & Down is awesome. So how’s Kenny Powers’ official iPhone game? Fucking awesome. It’s a 16-bit inspired, home run derby game that’s FREE on your iPhone. Owen, from Kotaku, says:…
Dark Nebula Episode 1 is a marble game, true, but it’s a marble game with objectives other than get the ball into the hole. The video explains what’s going on. To summarize, you pilot your marble ship around and through obstacles, trying not to die. A good deal at 99 cents. [iTunes]
Nobody cares about most of the blahblahblah in Twitter. Almost three out of four tweets gets no reply whatsoever. 23% of all tweets get a reply, while a ridiculous 6% gets a retweet. And then there’s Justin Bieber. [Mashable]
A porcelain pot with a perforated stainless steel cylinder that slides into the center, George Sowden’s SoftBrew immersion coffeemaker is a close cousin to the teapot. He says it’s less “violent” than a French press. It’s pretty, at least. [NYT]
Being a flight attendant isn’t always exciting. The crew at Cebu Pacific Airlines, however, found a way to spice up a normally mundane safety demonstration: by setting it to Lady Gaga and Katy Perry songs, and dancing their asses off. [Vulture]
Microsoft announced today that they’re going after Motorola for patent infringement. Specifically, nine patents that Microsoft says Motorola’s Android smartphones infringe on. Given that Microsoft’s already gotten HTC to roll over based on similar claims, this could get very interesting. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-licensing-mysterious-patented-tech-to-htcs-an-5526078 Of course, everybody’s always suing everybody in the mobile business, so in some ways…
This is an actual plastic surgeon’s business card. Now, someone create an American Psycho parody video where Patrick Bateman and Luis Carruthers exchange these booby and LEGO business cards, please. [Scary Ideas via @JackSchofield]
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A group of brazen and possibly lucky thieves made off with $1.2 million worth of Western Digital hard drives. The master plan behind their daring heist? They just got in the delivery truck and drove it away. Someone’s getting fired! The cargo truck, loaded with 524 boxes of hard drives, was sitting unattended in a…
I do love the dreamy, lo-fi effects a pinhole camera creates. This lens cap turns a regular camera into a pinhole camera, used for sun photography and long exposure shots. But for $50, I think I might just holepunch a lens cap myself and call it a day. It’s Canon and Nikon compatible. [Photojojo]
Even though the iPhone 4 is for sale in China through legitimate channels, there’s a short enough supply that smuggling the devices in from Hong Kong is still big business. Especially, it seems, for these two ladies on a subway. There are dozens of iPhone 4s being sorted here, distributed among backpacks for easier, less…
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