April 2008
How to Kid-Proof Your Home Theater →
Toddlers and delicate HDTVs don’t often mix well, but they can peacefully coexist in the same living room. Follow Wired’s guide to child-proofing all of your home entertainment components.
YouTube RickRolls Users →
If you aren’t familiar with RickRolling - it’s when someone puts a link on website to something, but it actually takes you to a music video of Rick Astley’s “hit” song Never Gonna Give…
Google brings offline access to Docs and Apps →
Google is rolling out a much-awaited feature for its hosted applications: the ability for people to use them even when they aren’t connected to the Internet.
Prefab Pioneer Ralph Rapson 1914-2008 →
Architect Ralph Rapson was a pioneer of prefab, did a classic case study house, and was still designing ‘till the day he died, on March 29. His son described him to the Minneapolis / St. Paul…
Getting Kicked Off Google Hurts! →
Last week, I recieved the following email from Google:
Dear site owner or webmaster of allfinancialmatters.com,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were…
Vintage cocaine party photos →
Here’s a fun Flickr set of found photos from the 1980s showing a group of friends doing some blow and having a blast. Flickr user foundphotoslj writes: “I found these in a red photo album…
Russian doomsday cult in cave →
Seven members of a Christian cult in Russia have left the cave they had holed up in since Novemeber. Apparently more than two dozen cult members are still inside the cave, located 400 miles southeast…
In The Year of Living Biblically, AJ Jacobs... →
In The Year of Living Biblically, AJ Jacobs followed all the rules in the Bible as literally as he could.
The book that came out of the year has several layers.
- An exploration of some of the…
March 2008
Revision3 Acquired By Fox News, Says Kevin Rose →
Episode 143 of Diggnation: Hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht announce the sale of Revision3 to Fox News at about the 2:05 mark. Rose says “Well, ah, we basically have a big announcement for…
FriendFeed, The Centralized Me, and Data... →
It’s definitely FriendFeed month in Silicon Valley. The company, founded by ex-Googlers, let you aggregate information and activity streams from all of the various services that you use…
Forgotten Architects →
[Image: A spread from Pentagram Papers 37: Forgotten Architects]. Earlier this month, Pentagram released a pamphlet called Pentagram Papers 37: Forgotten Architects. In the 1920s and…
Dolphins and tuna can swim so fast that the... →
Dolphins and tuna can swim so fast that the water around their tails cavitates. When the bubbles [formed by cavitation] collapse, they produce a shockwave, which eats away the metal in…
FCC fends off "fleeting Pokemon" waffle attack →
Fleeting or not, if you emboss yourself onto an Eggo waffle during a children’s TV show, you’re going to get fined by the FCC.
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To Save or Not To Save →
There is one basic difference between those who save and those who don’t.
We Savers (if you’re reading this you likely fall into that category) spend much of our free time reading and perhaps even…
Circuit City does $12K worth of damage to a car... →
If you’re thinking of getting Circuit City to install your new GPS in your car, think again — this poor guy had $12,119 worth of damage done to his Civic by the Circuit City contractor (Honda’s…
Hacker Club Publishes German Official's... →
A number of readers let us know about the Chaos Computer Club’s latest caper: they published the fingerprint of German Secretary of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble (link is to a Google translation of…
Graveyard game: walk around until you die →
Here’s a video-game that sounds like hours of bittersweet fun:
The Graveyard is a very short computer game designed by Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. You play an old lady who visits a…
Monster-trucking on the moon in a newfangled $2... →
New York Times writer John Schwartz took a joyride in a new NASA lunar vehicle that sounds like it ought to come with a Garth Brooks CD:
IT turns on a dime and parallel-parks like a…
Police Investigate Clairemont Cigar Shop Robbery -... →
Police Investigate Clairemont Cigar Shop Robbery NBC Sandiego.com, CA - 14 hours ago SAN DIEGO — San Diego police said three people robbed a Clairemont cigar shop on…
Sony BMG Sued For Using Pirated Software →
An anonymous reader sends us to ZeroPaid, which seems to be the only site in English to have picked up a story out of France involving Sony and piracy. Except this time the shoe is on the other foot….
Lawmakers got freebies large and small in '07... →
Lawmakers got freebies large and small in ‘07 San Diego Union Tribune, United States - 4 hours ago By Bill Ainsworth SACRAMENTO – Dinners with liquor company executives,…
Pube Grooming Kit Makes Your Muff Best In Show... →
Anyone into heart-shaped boxes need look no further than the Just Kittyng Kit. In it is all the gear you need to turn your girlfriend’s lady-garden into something more, shall we say,…
Frontier Airlines Insists Man Who Missed Flight... →
Matthew is the center of a Hitchcockian mystery over at Frontier Airlines. He missed his flight from New Mexico to Texas with a connection through Denver (there was a total of 4 segments to…
[Dumbass] Pfizer VP arrested for downloading child... →
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[Interesting] Cool: California couple plans... →
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Prostitution on Craigslist "unacceptable" to... →
If Craigslist, the Internet’s sketchiest swap meet for sofas and sex, is an unwise place to launch a career in prostitution, you certainly couldn’t tell from all the ads. After yet another…
[Asinine] 3M agrees to pay $700,000 settlement to... →
Minneapolis Star Tribune
[Amusing] Man caught having sex with a picnic... →
First Coast News
Starbucks CEO Thinks Pesky "Laws" Don't Apply To... →
In the state of California it is illegal for supervisors to share in employee tips. Starbucks recently lost a lawsuit brought by an employee who said he was forced to share a portion of his…
Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually... →
tonyreadsnews writes “Usually, ‘thinking of the children’ is a starting point to impose limitations on video games and internet in general. For once, a study requested by UK’s Prime Minister seems to…
Sisters rescued from horrific circus sideshow →
Two sisters, 19 and 16, were rescued from an Italian circus where they were forced to swim with piranha and have snakes draped across them. The Bulgarians sisters, and their parents, were allegedly…
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison →
Tree131 writes “The New York Times is reporting that sound recordings pre-dating Edison’s made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian typesetter and tinkerer, were discovered by American…
State Department makes bank by outsourcing... →
Ross sez, “The State Department is making a profit on every passport ordered by a US citizen because it has outsourced printing to Asia, including a Thai company that has had had problems with…
Drum kit as table →
The Musical Rumba Series tables contain interchangeable percussion instruments that are played by banging on the table top. As someone who must resist the annoying urge at Chinese…
Civil Libertarians See a Hopeful Dawn in 2009 ...... →
After years of secret wiretaps and Bush administration cloak-and-dagger, some civil libertarians and openness advocates dream of sweeping change in 2009. But history and bureaucratic momentum suggest…
One million dollar bond set this week for man who... →
In 1990 Gary Weaver of Ohio was alleged to have bought $21.64 cents worth of merchandise from a store, using a roll of dimes to pay for part of the bill. After he left, a store employee discovered…
Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico →
Hundreds of punk rockers and metalheads have taken to the streets of several Mexican cities to attack emo kids in a wave of violence that is drawing police and government intervention.
Woman told to remove nipple rings for Texas flight →
A TSA agent told a woman she would have to remove her nipple rings if she wanted to pass the security checkpoint. The woman has retained Gloria Allred as her attorney. A woman was forced by the…
Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday'... →
smooth wombat writes “In what can only be considered a bizarre court case, a former nuclear safety officer and others are suing the U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab, the National Science…
Creationism Takes a Hit: Complexity Not Bad For... →
Creationists say that as creatures get more complicated, evolution gets harder. Now, new research by evolutionary biologists appears to refute that assertion.
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Adobe Launches Web-based Photoshop Express →
Adobe launched the public beta of their Photoshop Express web service today at https://www.photoshop.com/express/.
The site requires Flash Player 9 and offers an entirely web-based image editor. …
South Park To Be Available Online Free and Legal →
garnetlion writes “South Park is coming online, free and legal. My brief research has not indicated if it will use DRM, require some silly Windows-only software or be otherwise substandard. According…
Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with... →
Ryan sez, “We have a medical transcriptionist on staff who has been using the same keyboard for the last 8.5 years. My co-worker replaced it yesterday, and when he first showed it to me I thought…
City looks at green building standards →
Hoping to do its part in reducing global warming, the city of Chula Vista is considering mandatory “green” building standards for new homes and businesses.
Apple releases Aperture 2.1 →
Apple released Aperture 2.1 with a new plug-in architecture.
Iraqi astronomer goes on TV to explain why Earth... →
Here’s a video of Fadhel Al-Said, a “researcher on astronomy,” sharing his surprising findings about the shape of the Earth and the physics of the solar system with Iraqi television viewers.
Daily pulp novel/magazine covers →
The Pulp of the Day blog uploads a new scanned-in cover from a classic pulp magazine or novel every day. The science fiction ones are superb (Warren Ellis subtitled these both “Fuck you…
New HTML and CSS Features in Safari 3.1 →
The new version of Safari (3.1) that was released today incorporates the latest HTML and CSS capabilities found in Webkit. While we previously featured the changes, they are worth repeating now that…
Pieter Hugo's photos of Nigerian men and their pet... →
Photographer Pieter Hugo went to Nigeria in 2007 and took a series of stunning photos of Nigerian men posing with their pet hyenas and baboons. Link (Via a best truth)
Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction Writer, Dies at... →
Mr. Clarke won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future.