By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] In recent years, the web has draped its sticky silk over most of our lives. There’s a web site now for just about every social interaction, business transaction, coming attraction, and useless distraction in which people may engage. Yet startups still keep finding opportunities that have not been […]
By Andrea Little Guest Blogger As we all know; EVERYTHING tastes better with bacon. As a purveyor of food porn (aka the Food network) I came across a show featuring chocolate covered bacon. So, when stumped for a recipe to take to recipe club; thoughts of bacon dancing in a chocolate shower came to mind. […]
There seem to be two main requirements for a social-based internet site to catch on with the online public: it should do one task very simply, and it should attract enough users to reach a critical mass. Chatroulette.com is not a particularly great site, neither is it a useful one. It will probably never change […]
Procrastination: Because sometimes, the only way you can get something done is to do something else first. Procrastination was made in 2007 as a graduation film project by a team of student from the London-based Royal College of Art. Enjoy! Congratuations, by watching this video, you just exercised your right to procrastinate!
For those of you who are fans of geeky cakes, check out this absolutely amazing Jabba the Hutt cake made especially for Flickr user icruise_flickr’s birthday. This is my birthday cake this year — Jabba the Hutt. A friend of the family kindly made this for us and I think she did a fantastic job […]
A four hour cyber-war simulation suggests the United States response could be severely lacking if such an event became reality. The Cyber Shockwave event, organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center, says that new laws are needed to give the federal government greater controls over privately controlled computers in the event of an attack. It also […]
In this age of broadband, more and more jobs — particularly those of a geeky nature — can be, and are done from home. While homeworking has its benefits, there are also some downsides, most notably the risk of feeling isolated and the potential to procrastinate with daytime television. One solution is co-working: renting a […]
The way we eat in the developed world is causing needless death — and shortening the lives of the next generation of kids. Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.