Sunday, December 13, 2009
Random Stuff
This Is Not How You Sell A Computer Desk
4:46PM Jason Chen | It’s fixed now on the Target website (updated product page here), but for a time, this was one very interesting product title. More »
Design
Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Art
4:20PM Rosa Golijan | When I see dust, I start cleaning like crazy. When Paul Hazelton sees dust, he collects it and turns it into statues. Yes, this skeleton was really made out of a pile of dust bunnies, just like Hazelton’s other art. More »
Software
Motorola’s Got Their Own Android Shop Cookin’
2:00PM Chris Jacob | Well, lookee’ here. Motorola’s been building their own Android Marketplace, and someone found it out. It’s been taken down since, but here’s what Android and Me found before Moto pulled the plug. More »
Science
MakerBot Industries Shows Us The Big Deal About 3D Printing
1:30PM Chris Jacob | RADAR’s got a great short documentary about our friends at MakerBot Industries (who were at this year’s Gizmodo Gallery). Check out what they’re doing and why they believe we’ll all have 3D printers on our desks someday. More »
Phones
The Real Google Phone: Everything Is Different Now
1:09PM Matt Buchanan | It wasn’t supposed to exist. “The” Google Phone. Then we (and others) heard otherwise. And now, Google isn’t just handing this “sexy beast” out to employees, they’re going to sell it directly. Everything has changed. Here’s what we know. More »
Online
Best Man Pranks Newlyweds By Connecting Their Bed To Twitter
1:00PM Chris Jacob | Maybe everyone wouldn’t be so riled up about Facebook’s privacy changes if they knew what’s up over at Twitter. A best man set up a prank where his friend’s bed now tweets whenever the newlyweds are, *ahem*, “on the job”. More »
Random Stuff
The Fight For Ebook Publishing Rights
12:00PM Chris Jacob | For the past 15 years or so, most authors who’ve signed with publishers have explicitly defined their ebook publishing rights. But who owns the rights to the bazillions of books published before ebooks existed? More »
Phones
WSJ Gives The Google Phone a New Name: Nexus One
11:57AM Chris Jacob | This little tidbit just popped up on the Wall Street Journal. They’re saying that the Google Phone will be called the Nexus One, unlike the Passion name that’s been thrown around all day. Other than that, they’re confirming what we’ve been hearing: It’s built by HTC, Google had a huge part in designing everything including tweaking the interface, they’ll sell the phone direct online and you’ll BYO service plan. [WSJ]
Random Stuff
Rudolph, The Red-Nippled Reindeer [NSFW]
11:00AM Jesus Diaz | I was walking through NYC today, and noticed an invasion of people dressed as Santa Claus. At least a hundred. I don’t know what they were up to, but none of their costumes were as good as the Red-Nippled Reindeer. More »
Robots
