Hidden Tracks | No one’s Spotify playlist is safe from persecution—not even Nick Denton’s.
https://kotaku.com/the-terrible-secret-of-nick-dentons-playlist-5819588
Olympus PEN EP-3: Micro Four-Thirds Is Starting to Get Good. Real Good.
Micro Four-Thirds cameras have long promised to bridge the quality of DSLRs with the size of point and shoots. The Olympus PEN EP-3 is the fullest realization of the Micro Four-Thirds dream so far, even if it’s not quiiiiiiite perfect. More »
https://gizmodo.com/olympus-new-pen-e-p3-dual-cores-in-a-camera-yes-pleas-5816928/
Is WebOS Hosed?
https://gizmodo.com/is-webos-hosed-5820180
Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, the guy who resurrected Palm, is leaving HP’s Palm unit (no longer called Palm, to boot). Taking over is Stephen DeWitt, HP’s U.S. More »
8 Tools to Help Recreate Your Home Theater on the Road
https://gizmodo.com/8-tools-to-help-recreate-your-home-theater-on-the-road-5819984
Vacation season is kicking into full gear now, and though you may be racking up the ground/air/sea miles, you’ll inevitably have some downtime. Why not watch a movie? More »
iOS 5 Is Getting Closer: Here’s What’s New in Beta 3
https://gizmodo.com/ios-5-is-getting-closer-heres-whats-new-in-beta-3-5820067
Apple has seeded iOS 5 beta 3 to its devs. The third iOS 5 beta should mean that a final release is nearing: iOS 3 saw five betas before going final, and iOS 4 had four. More »
This Angry Bird Cake Is Monstrous Beyond All Reason
https://gizmodo.com/this-angry-bird-cake-is-monstrous-beyond-all-reason-5820024
This cake is Angry Birds taken too far. It’s like, what compels someone to want to make a photo-realistic interpretation of bird-on-pig violence anyway? More »
Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military Email Accounts in Latest #AntiSec Attack
https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-leaks-90-000-military-email-accounts-in-lates-5820049
Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they’ve got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked. More »
Nation’s Oldest Planetarium Now Has World’s Most Baller Digital Theater
https://gizmodo.com/nations-oldest-planetarium-now-has-worlds-most-baller-d-5819459
Old and busted: Grainger Sky Theater at Chicago’s Adler Planetaruim’s 1970s Zeiss relic analog star projector. New hotness: $14 million system making it the world’s highest resolution digital theater. More »
The Best Back to School Laptops
https://lifehacker.com/the-best-back-to-school-laptops-5819323
To find out your best back-to-school laptop options no matter what your budget, we checked in with Laptop Magazine and Laptopmag.com, who oversee 140+ notebook and netbook reviews every year. Best Under $400 Acer Aspire One 722 Don’t call it a netbook. More »
Tajikistan Watched the Lunar Eclipse in All Its Glory
Last month’s lunar eclipse was truly a sight to behold. Unfortunately, most people couldn’t see it without some help. But if you, like Jean-Luc Dauvergne, happened to be in the Pamir region of Tajikistan, you sat in the world’s front-row seat. More »
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-watch-todays-lunar-eclipse-from-your-computer-5812173
Yes, the Blue Angels Are Absolutely Fanta-Frikkin-Crazy-Blow-Your-Underpantas-tically Nuts
https://gizmodo.com/yes-the-blue-angels-are-absolutely-fanta-frikkin-crazy-5819930
There can’t be many things more exhilarating than flying with a Blue Angel or any other acrobatic aviation team. This awesome image shows why. You can get the 4,914 x 3,399 pixel version for your desktop here. More »
Boston’s Big Dig: The Deadly Engineering Gift That Keeps On Giving
https://jalopnik.com/bostons-big-dig-the-deadly-engineering-gift-that-keeps-5819754
The Big Dig, a Boston engineering boondoggle that’s national news mostly because you helped us pay for it, is basically a death trap. It’s killed people already, and some precariously perched lights were preparing to off a few more. More »
