Well, since this week is Black Friday’s week on Amazon.com, the site has some pretty sweet deals all over the place. Today, we have the LG BD270 Blu-ray Disc Player for $99, and the Canon PIXMA MP490 All-In-One for $49. [LG BD270 Blu-ray Disc Player - $99] Blu-Ray Disc Player with Pure Audio and Video [...]
Yes, a Cylon birthday cake… with a shifting, glowing red eye. Now how awesome is that? [Via Neatorama]
A senior Apple executive has refused to apologize for problems with the approval process for applications with the iPhone app store. That’s despite a combination of developers complaining that perfectly good apps get delayed or rejected, and some clearly inappropriate apps make the cut. To recap some notable decisions, Apple has said “yes” to a [...]
A few days back on the Tonight Show, Conant O’Brien took a bit of time to show a mock-up of what could be the most effective parental anti-porn app ever! Check it out:
Earlier this year I worked as proofreader on a novel (Frantic Planet volume 2 by Stuart Millard) in which the protagonist’s descent into isolation begins when he finds he was the only person unaware of a major terrorist attack on his city, having missed all media coverage because he’s been too busy playing World of [...]
You knew it was coming. Or chances are you didn’t, because the likelihood of you using AOL and reading Geeks Are Sexy are kinda slim. As Gigaom reports, and about fifteen people might have noticed, AOL is rebranding. Yes, another dinosaur of the early internet boom is going for a redesigned look, in a rather [...]
In the following video, science comedian Brian Malow jokes that a virus is “the ultimate David and Goliath” when compared with humans. He then rattles off a series of hilarious science-related jokes. Enjoy! [Via BoingBoing]
With retailers moving the start date of the shopping season earlier and earlier each year, Amazon.com has just launched the Black Friday section of their site today, helping you save hours of precious time better spent in the comfort of your own home. Who likes to be trampled by a horde of stampeding shopper who [...]
NASA has just release this amazing video showing Earth’s weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. The clip was filmed at a 7-kilometer resolution with NASA’s GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model. The GEOS-5 atmospheric model was developed by NASA Goddard’s scientists. It’s based on the Earth System Modeling Framework, an open source project “for [...]
The following video will keep you sitting at the edge of your chair for the next three minutes. Hang on tight!
So remember the Verizon “there’s a map for that” commercial that first aired during Monday Night Football last month? It only took a few weeks for AT&T to take legal action, claiming that the ad was misleading to the point of deceptive trade practice. Their complaint? Not that the spotty AT&T 3G coverage map (which [...]
-How To: Back Up Any Smartphone You back up your computers, or at least know that you should. But what about your smartphones? They carry massive amounts of personal data, and are subjected to life-or-death situations on a daily basis. Here’s how to back them up. -12 Worst Photoshop Mistakes ever In ads and other [...]
