October 2011
3 posts
After 12: Remember This Next Time You Pose For A... →
The party doesn’t really start until After 12!
Oct 7, 2011 - Ten Years Later →
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Westboro Church Announces Protest of Steve Jobs’... →
The fringe crazies at Westboro Church are going to protest Steve Jobs’ funeral for…well, for reasons I can’t possibly explain. As best I can tell, they believe this titan of capitalism should have…
September 2011
1 post
At Least They Don’t Think You’re a Whale? →
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July 2011
1 post
Choose an Irrelevant Skill When Asked "What... →
If you’ve been in a job interview before, you’ve likely been asked about your weaknesses. The common advice is to pick a weakness that really isn’t one at all, but that doesn’t…
June 2011
2 posts
Pretending to Do One of These Things to Avoid You →
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“1. Don’t pick on the weak. It’s immoral. Don’t antagonize the strong without...”
May 2011
1 post
Windows Phone "Mango" screenshots show off new... →
In the run-up to next week’s official unveiling of Windows Phone “Mango,” the forthcoming major upgrade to Microsoft’s smartphone platform, more features have been disclosed by…
April 2011
4 posts
The Real Reason Mike McCue Needs $50 Million:... →
When news came out the other day that Flipboard just raised another $50 million at a $200 million valuation for its iPad news reading app, I gave CEO Mike McCue a hard time on Twitter and…
Why the password "this is fun" is 10 times more... →
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Friday Funny 177: What You DON'T Want to See at... →
One of my twitter friends (Paul Wakeford) sent me a link to this picture. This was the caption: *Not* what you want to see on the fetal monitor when your wife begins to push. Thanks, Microsoft.
(805): He told me that "my... →
(805): He told me that “my little fuckpig” was a term of endearment in Britain. I think I’m in love.
January 2011
6 posts
All or Nothing →
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Use a Google Voice Number from Outside the U.S.... →
Any post about Google Voice brings a small collection of sighs and aggravation from our non-U.S. readers: “What about us?” Here’s how you can obtain a U.S. Google Voice number and…
See Also: Exploring the Water Temple? →
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Councils urged to collect disease-ridden bags of... →
COUNCILS across England are to be offered incentives to collect rat-filled bags of putrefying meat and devastating viruses more often than once a fortnight.
Custom Board Game of the Day: Elliott Quince... →
Custom Board Game of the Day: Elliott Quince (previously) put a scatological spin on a Milton Bradley classic for his nephew’s 9th birthday present. (With bonus pic of said nephew…
(705): All I heard was "I... →
(705): All I heard was “I swear it’ll be funny” and then we were in jail.
December 2010
18 posts
Mayor of London hilariously revokes FIFA... →
The chaps in London are none too happy about losing the World Cup bid. In a surprising twist last week, FIFA handed the reigns to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup to Russia and Qatar respectively. Both…
DEADLY ICE CAUSING HUNDREDS OF PAINFUL, HILARIOUS... →
ICY pavements are causing a record number of injuries as people fall over in a manner that onlookers find incredibly funny.
Wiki-danger →
Now the Wikileaks are beginning to become dangerous. Before, the leaks contained high-level tittle-tattle, confirmation of existing analyses and embarrassingly accurate portraits of world…
How Crayola crayons are made →
Jim Gurney says: “Who knew that the making of colored crayons could be so beautiful?” What is the secret powder? How it’s made - Color Crayons
Social Networking: The Future →
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners on “Social Networking: The Past, Present, And Future.” Read Part I and …
(206): We have literally factored... →
(206): We have literally factored in $2200 for bail money in the budget. This vegas trip will be out of hand. We are signing confidentiality contracts. .
2010-12-05: WikiLeaks domain move under way →
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The Swiss Pirate Party, who was hosting the wikileaks.ch domain, has told The Associated Press that their main server in France has gone offline. Dennis Simonet, speaking for the Swiss…
Frivolous Facebook Meme of the Day: Long story... →
Frivolous Facebook Meme of the Day: Long story short, in case you’re not current on the latest Facebook meme, people all over the world have been changing their profile pics to cartoon…
Act Your Age! →
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When Game Shows Go Too Far of the Day: On the... →
When Game Shows Go Too Far of the Day: On the popular German game show Wetten, dass..? (Wanna bet?), which features ordinary people performing unusual tasks for money, a contest “bet”…
Interactive Feature of the Day: The New York Times... →
Interactive Feature of the Day: The New York Times marks the conclusion of NYC’s Times Square rejuvenation campaign, which began some 30 years ago, with a nifty interactive look at the…
Why I Fist Bump (and Never Get Hired) →
British cops eat pizzas that were evidence in... →
I’m no lawyer, but I do know that when you have a piece of evidence about a new case, you probably shouldn’t eat it. Unfortunately, a crew of British police officers didn’t compute that same notion…
What it's like to be a cocaine submarine captain →
A former Columbian narco-sub pilot anonymously recounts his life captaining a homebrewed semi-submersible filled with millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine, at gunpoint all the while:
At around…
Street Art of the Day: Lisa Jelliffe and Kirsten... →
Street Art of the Day: Lisa Jelliffe and Kirsten Rutherford of Brothers and Sisters, in collaboration with German street art collective Mentalgassi, have created a number of art installations…
WikiLeaks Cables: UFO Files to be... →
New leaked diplomatic cables set to be published by Wikileaks will contain fresh details on UFOs, according to the website’s founder Julian Assange.
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San Francisco's steep hills →
Håkan Dahlström got this delightful shot of one of San Francisco’s steeper hills, turning his camera so that the road (and not the houses) were at level to convey the extent of the slope.
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November 2010
39 posts
Free Erections! →
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Use Symbols in Folder Names to Pin Important... →
Windows: If you’d like to shift folders up to the top of the folder list for easy access you can add a symbol to the folder name to quickly pin it to the top. More »
Harvard scientists reverse aging in mice, laugh... →
The reversal of aging has been one of the great dreams of humanity, but it seems like our rodent overlords have beat us to it. The Harvard Medical School has demonstrated “a dramatic…
Lawyer Fail →
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Hakuna Matata →
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The 10 types of songs you will hear at a karaoke... →
Everyone loves to toss a few back, forget their inhibitions, and then proceed to embarrass themselves. Karaoke bars are the best way to get all of those things accomplished in a short amount…
Yeah Baby →
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#364 When you get caught in the rain and just... →
Water, water, everywhere.
Most of our brains and our blood and our bodies are water. Most of our babies and our beagles and our baths are water. Water rinses apples and washes cars….
Is Twitter Predicting Contestant Exits From The... →
Glancing at my Twitter stream of an evening, I’ve been surprised at the number of Geeks watching The X-Factor TV show (in the UK) which is similar to American Idol . But then I guess it lends…
Wikileaks' ISP nuclear bunker cave →
Here’s a series of panoramae of the purported site of Wikileaks’ servers, the Bahnhof ISP is Stockholm, a kind of batcave decorated with rough stone walls and gro-light foliage. The site is a…
Time for a Face-Off! →
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Science Experiment of the Day: Fireworks ain’t got... →
Science Experiment of the Day: Fireworks ain’t got nothing on a tuft of steel wool and a blowtorch.
[boingboing.]
5 Ways Television Went Crazy Since I Quit... →
Sometime in early 2003, I gave up television. It wasn’t some conscious decision to try to become a more productive person or anything of the sort. I just found that the remote had become just an…
Kinect as a Nintendo controller on the PC
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“Proof of concept. Celebrating 25 years of Mario. I programmed it to recognize my motions and passed the virtual button presses to the NES emulator. I could have placed a simulated keypad right in…