January 2010
Gizmodo Liveblog
via live.gizmodo.com At long last, the iPad Posted via web from Firesaw | Comment »
Apple announces special event for January 27 | The...
via loopinsight.com The next Apple event is days away, with much of the tech journalists and bloggers frothing at the mouth over an anticipated new product launch. Will it be the oft-rumored Apple Tablet? We’ll see. Posted via web from Firesaw | Comment »
Say It Ain't Sore! Tips for Preventing RSI →
Here’s how to prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI), a common ailment among geeks and tech professionals.
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BIKINI MACHINES →
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Hindsight Is Always 1080p, and Other Updated... →
A bird in the hand is worth … wait a minute, who in this day and age actually catches birds by hand? Here are 10 idioms updated for the technological age.
Take-out Without →
TakeOutWithOut is a new online campaign to get restaurants to reduce their waste. They have three principles they’re trying to promote: They want people to refuse unnecessary packaging, they…
Oral Sex and Dictionaries: Not In California →
The paranoid style of American politics is at work again—this time in Riverside County, California, which recently banned Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition, from its…
Reserve Collection Coffee Package Labels « Beast... →
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Saving Money by Cutting Traffic →
America is known for its car culture—but we haven’t designed our daily commutes from home to work to be easy. In fact, they’re getting longer. Meanwhile, time spent, fuel wasted, and costs…
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iPhone app helps you set up your home theater →
Are you totally one of those home theater geeks? Do you have $29.99 to burn? Then get yourself to the appery and buy the SIM2Calc app. The app allows you to tune your high-end projector…
Dispatches from Jury Duty: Los Angeles County →
Serving on a jury is—aside from paying taxes—the most tangible connection that our citizens have to their government. We asked people to share their experiences as temporary civil servants….
2009 Trends article on LogoLounge.Com →
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Awesomeness!! →
What happens when Michael Jackson’s long-time choreographer Travis Payne and dancers Daniel Celebre and Dres Reid, visit the Cebu inmates and teach them numbers from THIS IS IT? Professionally…
Don't Wait—Hustle When You Want to Learn New... →
Programmer and blogger Matt Nowack tasked himself with learning seven new things of varying degrees of complexity last October, and just a few months later, he’s come a long way and learned one…
Space Shuttle Destroyed in Orbit, At Least in This... →
An amateur special effects creator going by The Faking Hoaxer on YouTube has been uploading some seriously realistic videos of events such as UFO visits and the destruction of the Space…
Do You Use Ambient Sounds to Concentrate, Boost... →
Last year we shared the best sounds for getting work done with you and the science behind using them. Today we want to hear about whether not you use ambient sounds when you work.
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HipChat Takes On Campfire And Yammer As It... →
HipChat, a private business chat service that’s similar to Yammer and 37signals’ Campfire, has just launched to the public. You can find our full overview of the service’s private beta here
Always Play Amongst Friends →
Announcing our first printed edition: Always Play Amongst Friends! 100 sets of 4 letterpress prints for a friendly price of $40 dollars. Add to cart.
In Photos: Charlie Brown TIE Fighter →
Question: Why make a TIE Fighter out of Charlie Brown’s head? Answer: Because it’s possible.
The photo’s caption reads as follows:
“This is a kit bash sculpture I did with an old…
Cast-Iron Skillet the Key to "Serious" Homemade... →
Earlier this month we pointed out a clever idea for using your cast-iron skillet to cook pizza. Today, The Atlantic goes in-depth on cast-iron pizza cooking, crowning it the “secret to serious…
Juice Design →
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Five Questions With Panera Bread iMac Man... →
Unwittingly snapped by a sandwich shop paparazzo, Panera Bread iMac Man took center stage of our corner of the internet for one day in December. More pictures surfaced, but our questions…
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Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow →
Because Studio Letterpress Design →
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Because Studio. is the independent design practice of Loz Ives, a young chap from the north of england who has a keen eye for…
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Rethinking Randomized Clinical Trials for CER →
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How to Make a Plaster Mask →
Half mask in plasterWhether you’re headed for a masquerade (a masked ball), acting in a play or you’re just out trick-or-treating, a plaster mask is an inexpensive costume option with tons of…
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Möbius Strip Ampersand by Dave Bailey →
China Accuses U.S. of Cyberwarfare →
China responds to a recent speech by Sec. of State Hillary Clinton by accusing the United States of hypocrisy and of cyberwarfare in Iran.
iPhone App Store developers find ways to profit... →
Faced with a large number of users stealing their applications, iPhone developers have found ways to earn money even from those who pirate App Store software.
NASA's Next Space Suit Offers Some Badly Needed... →
With all of the plans NASA has for the moon and Mars, it’s about time they developed a suit that didn’t make astronauts look and feel like Randy from A Christmas Story. Their new suit will…
Artificial muscles let cadavers (and someday... →
The above contraption, aside from looking really uncomfortable, is the latest advance in electroactive polymer artificial muscle technology. Using soft acrylic or silicon layered with…
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Launching a Beta Product →
I mentioned I would talk about this, and with Star Trek Online launching, I figured it was as good a time as any.
The MMO side of the industry has had the nasty habit of launching their products in…
For Better Productivity, Try Communicating Less... →
You might think that involving a bunch of people in every company meeting and email keeps everyone on the same page. In reality, it’s a productivity killer that hinders rather than helps…
Factery Labs Launches Fact-Based Search Engine →
Just the facts, ma’am. That’s the premise behind Factery Labs, a service that scours through web content to pull out just the factual bits of information, allowing you to get the gist of an…
AMD's Fastest Dual Core Processor is $99 [Amd] →
AMD’s making a strong budget play today, releasing its 3.2GHz Phenom II dual core desktop processor for under $100. It comes as part of a broader release that also includes the Phenom II X4…
Vanity Remover quickly finds and removes empty... →
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One of my resolutions this year was to stick to a regular system maintenance plan. I’ve got CCleaner set up to purge garbage files and prune my…
The United States of Roughly Equal Population →
This map, via Matt Yglesias, shows what it would be like if we divided America into “states” that had roughly equal populations. If each territory had two representatives in the Senate, rural…
Access Mature Hulu Content on Boxee [Boxee] →
If your excitement about being able to watch Hulu on Boxee was dampened by your inability to access mature content, this simple hack will let you watch movies and television shows with a mature…
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Rocketbox Lifts Off With Better Email Search For... →
I’ve been a fan of Apple’s Mail.app for quite some time, even though we’ve had our ups and downs, it’s gotten the job done. One of my biggest beefs with Mail.app is searching through past…
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ISO50 Blog - The Blog of Scott Hansen » Blog... →
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