Saturday, March 7, 2009
Entertainment
Hard Core Watchmen Fanboys Will Inevitably Agree With Hitler
3:00PM Jesus Diaz | If you are a Watchmen fanboy you probably have seen it and know all about it by now. Here are Hitler’s thoughts about its ending. Spoiler alert: He talks about it in detail. [Watchmen coverage] More »
Robots
This Trash Collecting Robot Isn’t Quite Earth’s Lovable Savior, but Close
1:30PM Adrian Covert | The problem with distant glimpses of the future is that getting there takes some time. Such is the case with the TCR-2009 Trash Collecting Robot, which is a neat, but primitive robot garbage man. More »
Regulars
What Is This?
1:00PM Jesus Diaz | It looks like the lastest image from a NASA spacecraft, approaching the surface of a satellite on the outskirts of the Solar System. Or maybe one from the deepest underwater exploration voyage ever. More »
Entertainment
Metallica’s Lars ‘I Hate the Internet’ Ulrich Pirates His Own Album
12:30PM Matt Buchanan | Metallica’s Lars Ulrich tries P2P: “I was like, ‘You know what? I’ve gotta try this.’ So we sat there, and thirty minutes later, I had ‘Death Magnetic’ in my computer. It was kind of bizarre.” More »
Design
Pac-Man Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts
12:00PM Mark Wilson | The mash-up was there all along, staring us in the face. Yet over the billions of years life has taken to evolve, it’s just now that we’re uniting Pac-Man and Ghostbusters in one t-shirt. More »
Entertainment
South Park on Blu-ray Fixes the Internet in HD
11:30AM Jason Chen | Remember the spooky ghost internet episode of South Park? It’s coming to Blu-ray. More »
Phones
Palm’s Sugar Daddy Serves Up Another Load of iPhone Trash Talk
11:00AM Adrian Covert | Roger McNamee, the long-haired, gadget belt-wearing founder of Elevation Partners investment group implied that the Palm Pre—in which he’s investing in—will make iPhone owners switch over when their contracts expire in June. More »
Online
Swedes Claim They’ve Killed the Source of The Pirate Bay’s Power With ‘Biggest Ever’ Raid
10:30AM Matt Buchanan | With the “biggest ever” piracy raid in Sweden’s history—taking down a server with “data equivalent to 16,000 movies”—the Swedish Anti-Piracy Agency says they’ve killed the source of all The Pirate Bay’s pirated material. More »
Software
UStream’s iPhone Video Broadcasting App is Live For Jailbroken iPhones, Still Not For App Store
10:00AM Jason Chen | It’s not quite the App Store, but Ustream’s broadcasting app is here on jailbroken iPhones. It joins Qik, which already does the same thing. More »
Design
