There’s always too much month left at the end of the money, isn’t there? You can try your best to make your pennies stretch, but sometimes you just can’t make it. That’s to be expected from time to time. It happens to the best of us at some point. Fortunately, the excellent Zen Habits is […]
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Have you ever traveled to a location and realized that, in some strange way, you’ve been there before? Or, have you been asked a question that you swore you knew the answer to — but even though it’s on the tip of your tongue, you just can’t seem to get the answer out?
These and other […]
“Don’t download that song, you’re stealing money from the hardworking artist,” the recording industry cried out as they rushed from the corner offices of their million-dollar high-rise buildings into the streets, armed with only threatening letters and piles of money to waste on lawsuits.
Flush with cash and mad with the desire to protect their archaic […]
We all make mistakes. We’re human, not infallible.
We’ve all been called on the carpet at work and chastised for an error. It’s just part of the process.
But imagine having to take responsibility for a mistake so huge that it caused the water to reverse flow and leave the Gulf of Mexico to create a giant […]
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If you could change the message of a billboard, what would you say? We’ve all seen the iconic, sometimes annoying advertisements shouting back at us while driving down the highway. Or maybe you’ve just wanted to be a little devious and alter something as simple as a kiosk insert. Enter the Billboard Liberation Front, a […]
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I can’t believe this is even a question. When you’re given two gadgets of comparable quality, why would anyone choose the gadget with less features, a smaller screen, half as much storage, no SD expansion slot, and no FM tuner over a slightly bulkier piece of technology with somewhat less selection of legal downloadable media […]
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It’s always a bit disconcerting to sit down and write a list about things you should do before you die. Should you skydive? Go on a cruise to the South Pole and watch penguins frolic about? Pick a fight with a redneck in a juke joint over who was the best country rock band: Lynyrd […]
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Where exactly is the groove? Ah, yes, I see it is in the heart. I never would have been able to understand the true meaning of Deee-Lite’s 1990 dance hit without this chart. But you must be wondering why there is a chart detailing the innerworkings of Deee-Lite’s music.
Livejournalers Boyshapedbox and Pacman Is Loving It […]
What do you get when a Photoshop guru crosses all the best body parts from Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron and Carmen Electra into one entity? The end result is Hollywood perfection: “Carlizina Jolectron.” This is exactly what has happened for a Photoshop contest hosted by Worth1000.com, but they didn’t stop there…
Also included among the mash-up […]
Seventy-five years ago, the communicator that comic strip crime fighter Dick Tracy wore strapped to his wrist was thought to be a flight of fancy. Now cell phones are common among kindergartners.
For the clumsy and the absent-minded who are constantly dropping their cell phone into a wet sink or can’t seem to remember where they […]
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In a move that is sure to become a platform for aspiring politicians everywhere, Google has announced it will give every homeless person in San Francisco free voicemail. After all, how do you stay connected and communicate with people when you don’t even have a house to call from?
They’ll be working with homeless shelters to […]
The Italian government doesn’t want to see you guys scratching your junk in public.
It irritates them so much that they’ve even been to court over it and a judge has officially made a ruling citing that men need to keep their hands off their naughty bits.
Now, let’s be very clear.
In Italy, apparently men touch themselves […]
Everyone knows smoking is bad for your health. Even tobacco company’s must provide a surgeon general’s warning to the customer about how dangerous smoking is. Second hand smoke is just as deadly. However, no one really understood how cigarette smoke caused lung cancer. Was it the nicotine? Other toxins?Researchers from the University of California published […]
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It seems that everything changes radically in the consumer electronics field. TVs have gone from big square cabinets to flat panels mounted on walls in the course of five years. Computers made drastic leaps in speed every year, and now the single core processor has been phased out for two, four, or even eight processors […]
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After throwing a huge blowout bash, it is inevitable that you will be stuck with more leftover alcohol than you can fit in your fridge, basement and bedroom closet combined.
Parties are just like that. You over-buy because the fear of running out of beer halfway through the night scares you more than finding out no […]
Advance Transport Systems (ATS) has a radical idea. They call it ULTra (short for Urban Light Transport), and at first blush it seems as though it’s a great new idea for the age-old problem of moving thousands of people around in a modern city on a day to day basis without cluttering up the […]
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