Online

This Incredible Analogue Synth Google Doodle Celebrates Pioneer Robert Moog

Google just turned its Doodle into a fully functioning analogue synth attached to an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape machine. Today is is Robert Moog’s birthday. OH MY GOD, this is incredible. There goes my day.


Online

How One Man Faked His Own Internet Death

Death is scary. Suicide is scary. And when you’re a valued member of a long-standing community who supports and helps one another, you don’t fake awful stories about either to sadden and embarrass your friends. You don’t ruin years of relationships to pull a stupid gag that demeans true tragedies. You don’t make all of those people who love and care about you think you killed yourself for the lulz.


Online

Aussie Uni Seeks Twitter Junkies

Gizmodo AU

Are you Australian and totally hooked on 140 character communication, hashtags and all? Professor Helen Partridge from the Queensland University Of Technology wants you!


Online

Google CEO Blasts Facebook For ‘Holding Users Hostage’

Even as news spread that Chrome was now the world’s most popular web browser, Facebook ended up as the focal point in last night’s discussion between Google CEO Larry Page and talk show host Charlie Rose. Rose asked what’s on a lot of people’s minds: Given Facebook’s mammoth IPO, was Larry Page worried?


Online

Facebook Testing New Profile Look (Again!)

Plenty of people are still unwrapping their undies after the move to Facebook’s super-graphical Timeline look — and now the company is ready to mix things up again. Check out what your profile might look like soon.


News

US Supreme Court Lets Student’s $675,000 File-Sharing Fine Stand

Yesterday, the US Supreme Court let stand a $US675,000 file-sharing damages award that a jury levied against a university student for making 30 music tracks available on a peer-to-peer network.


May 21, 2012
Computing

Diablo III: Which PC Hardware Works Best?

After 11 years in the making and more setbacks than we care to count, Blizzard has finally unleashed a third instalment to its cult classic dungeon crawler. Having waited over a decade, the arrival of Diablo III was a bittersweet moment for eager fans. In what must’ve felt like a cruel joke, missteps in Blizzard’s execution prevented many users from accessing content throughout last Tuesday.


May 19, 2012
Online

Rant: Facebook Is Going To Be Even More Annoying Now That It’s Public

Facebook is public now. And that means you’re going public too. Facebook has to make you share more. It has to make you expose more of yourself. It has to do all those deeply creepy it’s already doing, but more more more. It is going to sell you to advertisers, to shareholders, to anyone it can.


Online

11 Funniest Tweets About The Facebook IPO

Facebook money money stock Facebook NASDAQ hoodie Zuckerberg Facebook. There’s a lot of noise today, but amid the foam-mouthed financial babble, here are some funny things instead. Instead of becoming rich, let’s laugh today.


Online

The Mark Zuckerberg Wealth-O-Meter: Sad, Absurd And You Know You’re Curious

As a species, we are very stupid and fascinated with things that have nothing to do with us. It’s what drives ordinarily sane people to, say, stand in Times Square and take photos of rich people doing rich people things on jumbotrons. And also what drives us to follow, minute-by-minute, the outrageous wealth of a 28-year-old billionaire.