Saturday, November 21, 2009

Online

How Do You Hide From The Internet?

5:00PM November 21, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Wired writer Evan Ratliff spent 27 days in constant fear of getting caught as a small army of amateur and professional investigators hunted him. He had a bounty on his head and the internet nipping at his heels. More »


Software

Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales In 2007)

4:20PM November 21, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

March, 2007: Windows Vista’s initial sales are great, “more than doubling” those of its predecessor, Windows XP. Flash forward to November, 2009: Windows 7 initial sales are 234 per cent higher than Vista’s. Those numbers sound awfully similar… More »


Gadgets

Remainders — Stuff We Didn’t Post (And Why)

3:40PM November 21, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Apple Patent Describes iPod UI “Pushed” to Other Devices…Philips Announces Very Pretty Pro LCD Line…NYTimes Columnist Proposes Boycott of “Pro-Communist China” Bing…Ooma Adds New Handsets and International Plan… More »


Gadgets

My Dream Coffee Cup Is Now A Reality

3:00PM November 21, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Unlike T.S. Eliot, I can’t measure life out in coffee spoons. I tend to lose the darn things. That’s exactly why this self-stirring, self-heating, USB-chargeable coffee cup is the stuff my caffeine-deprived daydreams are made of. More »


Science

Earth’s Weather Like You Have Never Seen It Before

2:20PM November 21, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

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This video shows Earth’s weather from August 17-26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7km resolution with NASA’s GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model. More »


Science

OK, Now I’m Nervous About The Large Hadron Collider

1:40PM November 21, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider. I even made fun of the nutters saying it’s going to destroy the world. After reading CERN Director for Accelerators’s latest statement, I’m not so sure: More »


Policeman Tasers And Arrests Girl, 10, For Throwing A Fit

1:00PM November 21, 2009 | Sean Fallon

Are idiot cops with tasers in some sort of competition with one another? I think the new record for stupidity belongs to Dustin Bradshaw, the Arkansas police officer who zapped and arrested a 10-year-old girl for throwing a fit. More »


Gadgets

Perhaps It Is Time To Make “The Switch” To An Electric Razor

12:20PM November 21, 2009 | Sean Fallon

Because the original switch on this model was busted. Of course, the modification looks like it would get in the way of a close, comfortable shave. More »


Entertainment

No, Fight Club Has Not Turned Into A Horrible Romantic Comedy

11:40AM November 21, 2009 | Sean Fallon

If you picked up the new Fight Club Blu-ray edition, don’t panic when you see the menu screen. Edward Norton HAS NOT been replaced with a Drew Barrymore character that makes out with her alter ego to vent sexual frustration. More »


Software

This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

11:30AM November 21, 2009 | John Herrman

In this week’s charmingly tawdry app roundup: Voices, creepily modulated! Annoying trips to Kinkos, averted! Cats, artfully superimposed! Photos, easily shared! iPhone speakers, blown! Call of Duty, iPhone’d! Google Maps, humiliated! Certifiably good games, discounted! And more… More »