Posts by Casey Chan
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Watch A Lingerie-Wearing Hologram Model Strut Half-Naked

Tupac hologram, you were amazing. Beautiful girl in lingerie hologram, you might be even better. A lingerie store in France called Empreinte is using a hologram woman in lingerie after the store closes to attract people. I think it’s working.


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Life, If Everything Was Reversed

Ryan Jay and Alexander Shahmiri created Life Backwards, a little short showing what life would look like if it was all in reverse. It’s hypnotic and tickles that part of your brain that’s been numbed by too much normalcy.


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Thief Takes Pictures With Stolen iPhone… That Synced With Owner’s Computer

That’s Nelson above. That’s Nelson partying. That’s Nelson with his girlfriend. All those pictures were taken with an iPhone he stole. Pictures that were automatically sent to the phone’s original owner, Katy McCaffrey, through Photostream. McCaffrey posted a hilarious Facebook photo album detailing Nelson’s various adventures with her stolen phone.


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You Can Jailbreak Your Apple TV Now

Along with being able to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad, you can jailbreak the Apple TV now. It’s the first untethered jailbreak for the new Apple TV software (5.0.1) and it’s all thanks to Seas0nPass. Why would you jailbreak your Apple TV though? For the plugins!


Science

How Earth Got Its Oxygen

If you’re currently living on our pale blue dot, you should thank it for becoming inhabitable for us human folk. Specifically, you should look down and thank its mantle, because scientists are saying that Earth’s cooler mantle allowed it to develop oxygen. You know, that thing we breathe to live.


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Google Purges 1.2 Million Links A Month From Its Searches

Google just released a report today showing just how many links the search giant rips down from its searches a month because of copyright complaints, and it’s a doozy: 1.2 million a month. That comes from over a 1000 copyright owners who’ve targeted 25,000 websites.


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Here’s The Easiest Way To Take Better Pictures

Have you ever wondered why some of your pictures look like they’ve been stained yellow or red while others look swamped with green or blue? It’s because of your camera’s white balance setting! The easiest way to take better pictures is to fix your white balance, and this chart tells you how.


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The Wasteland Of Forgotten Phone Numbers On Facebook Is Exposing Your Privacy

Do you remember the olden days of losing a phone? Crap! You lost all your contacts! What do you do? You probably didn’t have a smartphone, and you probably didn’t sync your contacts. Instead, you went to Facebook and told your friends to give you their numbers. Those phone numbers are still on Facebook.


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The Huge Difference Between Food In The 1950s And Today

What’s the biggest difference between food back in the 1950s and today? Portion size. According to the CDC, meals are four times bigger now compared to what they once were, and as a result, people are 12kg heavier. Yeesh! No wonder we’re all so fat.


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There’s A Ridiculous Traffic Jam Of People Trying To Climb Mount Everest

Even though four people died trying to climb Mount Everest last weekend, and even if reaching the summit costs more than a Porsche, it’s not stopping people from attempting to scale the highest point on Earth. In fact, there’s so many people trying to climb Mount Everest that it’s causing a human traffic jam.