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Business
Steve Jobs And Sarah Jessica Parker Are Being Sued
9:45AM Rosa Golijan | In 1989, Franz Wakefield invented the iPod, iPhone and iTunes. Then the FBI stole his trade secrets and he confided in Sarah Jessica Parker and now he’s suing her and Apple…and my head’s spinning. More »
Random Stuff
On The Auction Block: 5000 Leftover Condoms From The Olympics
5:29AM Rosa Golijan | Hot date this weekend? Impress with your sports memorabilia collection by snatching up these 5000 condoms left over from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. With inscriptions of faster, higher and stronger, they’re a bargain with a starting bid of $US730. More »
Gadgets
Telephone Company Ripping You Off? Get Revenge With This Lamp
11:21PM Rosa Golijan | Somehow it doesn’t seem like landline providers would be happy about people using the tiny bit of electricity coming through phone-jacks to power lamps, but this thing is so kitschy-looking that it’d be hard to resist. Plus it’s cheeeeeeap. More »
Gadgets
Guess Which Country Makes These USB Breast Warmers?
11:20AM Adam Frucci | Spolier: it’s Japan! What other country would produce USB warming pads designed for lovepillows? No other country, that’s what. Finally, ladies can work at their desks wearing only their bras without worry of cold breasts! [Thanko via TokyoMango]
Random Stuff
Woman To Live Stream Her Child’s Birth
4:00PM Rosa Golijan | People have posted videos of deliveries online before, but this Lynsee girl has decided on a live video stream when she gives birth to her first child. I’m OK with over-sharing now and then, I’m OK with over-sharing now and then, but this could be too much. More »
Peripherals
1:26PM Nick Broughall | I saw the word “USB”. I saw the word “Yoda”. I reached for my wallet. And then this pesky voice spoke up in my brain and asked, “But what does it do?” And you know what? I can’t answer that question. Can you? More »
Can Someone Tell Me What This USB Yoda Actually Does?
1:26PM Nick Broughall | I saw the word “USB”. I saw the word “Yoda”. I reached for my wallet. And then this pesky voice spoke up in my brain and asked, “But what does it do?” And you know what? I can’t answer that question. Can you? More »
Design
Disturbingly Cool “Big Head” Papercraft Halloween Costume
11:20PM Danny Allen | Inspired by the big head mode in retro video games, Eric Testroete created this trippy papercraft self portrait for Halloween last weekend. The geometric look uses 370 individual paper triangles, and here’s how he did it… More »
Gadgets
Odd: Japanese Burger Joint’s Human-Powered Vending Machine
11:08PM Danny Allen | We all know the Japanese like crazy burgers (and even crazier vending machines). Here’s a fun mix of the two. This machine in Tokyo actually backs onto a kitchen where a cook pops them into the machine by hand. More »
Software
Google Street View Driver Doomed To Map Hell For All Of Eternity
2:20AM John Herrman | After careening into a wall outside of Rankin, PA, one Street View photographer has been trapped and condemned to send dispatches from a horrifying hellscape, forever. This is the highly empirical theory that the internet, and I, am sticking with. More »
Design
11:00AM Mark Wilson | Constructed during a ceramics festival in China, this toilet waterfall is…well…it’s darn convenient is what it is. [Izismile via Fortean Times via boingboing]
Toilet Waterfail
11:00AM Mark Wilson | Constructed during a ceramics festival in China, this toilet waterfall is…well…it’s darn convenient is what it is. [Izismile via Fortean Times via boingboing]