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Online
Time’s “Hulu For Magazines” Idea Is So, So Doomed
2:40AM Matt Buchanan | Magazines are basically f–ked. They know this, and figure the only way they’re going to survive is if they manage to successfully navigate the transition to digital. Time’s grand plan? A “Hulu for magazines”. Oh boy. More »
Software
Time Is Relatively Easy To Track Using These Five Tools
5:30AM Jack Loftus | More goodness from Lifehacker. Today’s instalment is a list of the best time-tracking applications available today. [Lifehacker]
Design
Qlocktwo Really Spells The Time Out For You
10:50PM Mark Wilson | At first glance, we thought the Qlocktwo was some intentionally confusing, Tokyoflash-like time puzzle. Then we learned that those symbols are called letters. And letters, following long-standing social constructs, form words. More »
Gadgets
Remainders — Things We Didn’t Post
12:00PM Wilson Rothman | The Other Apple Tablet…Dell Again Denies Existence of Decent Smartphone…When Best Buy Security Is Too Good…Scientist Proves That Time Can Only Move Forward (When You’re Paying Attention)… More »
Random Stuff
You Guys, 12:34:56 7/8/9 Is A Once In A Lifetime… Oh, You Missed It
2:34AM Adam Frucci | Once every hundred years, our time and calendar line up to make the amazing time of 12:34:56 7/8/9. And since this post went up exactly at that time, you totally missed it. More »
Entertainment
Penn Swallows Fire In Super-Slow-Mo On Discovery’s Time Warp
8:30AM Andi Wang | Here’s a peek at this week’s episode of Time Warp, where hosts Jeff and Matt join up with magicians Penn and Teller in Las Vegas and get a behind the scenes tour of Cirque de Soleil’s O. More »
Gadgets
The 100-Year Alarm Clock
3:40AM Matt Buchanan | Time rendered in machined metal: The largest gear in “Time in Six Parts” takes 100 years to complete one revolution—when it’ll crash to the ground, waking up the giants that’ve conquered the earth. More »
Gadgets
A Contemporary Cuckoo Clock for a Contemporary Cuckoo
3:40AM Mark Wilson | The Wristwatch Cuckoo Clock may still be our resident cuckoo champion, but this striped wall clock from Italy comes in a very close second. More »
Science
Atomic Clocks to Go Portable
12:50AM Mark Wilson | Right now, an atomic clock works by sending atoms through a vacuum, microwaving them and measuring how many waves it takes to maximise atom florescence (that’s 9,192,631,770 microwaves or one second). More »
Phones