The Big Box Stores' Last Stand
Best Buy has never really understood the internet. And now it's sort of dying. Read More ›
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Best Buy has never really understood the internet. And now it's sort of dying. Read More ›
You know about :) and you've probably seen B-), but have you ever met ϿفϾ or ϐ ]? Death to emoji! Let's bring back real smileys. Read More ›
Ever wonder what your aunt is up to on Facebook other than commenting on every photo you're tagged in? From @boring_as_heck, the mastermind behind Corprate Twits is the new hilarious Tumblr Old People Facebook Writing on a Restaurant's Facebook Page. Read More ›
Adrian Chen goes deep and very wide on Web 1.0's most notorious meme. Do you remember where you were when you first stared into the abyss? Did it stare back?
A lot can change in 13 years.
It's just like the 1979 Asteroids, except it runs in your browser and the “asteroids” are other people. Read More ›
A lot of smartphones means a lot of smartphone thefts! The plan to fight this, devised by police departments, the FCC and the wireless industry: "the creation of a central database to track stolen phones and prevent them from being used again." I can only think of 7,000 reasons this could be a terrible idea, and the ineptitude of the federal government on things like this is only one of them.
Using an old hack, developer David Hirmes was able to build an instant Google Image Search timeline generator. Just enter a year and a term and let Google work its senseless magic. Read More ›
Instagram was not the only technology thing bought for a beelleeon or so dollars today! Read More ›
We published a mini-expose of Wikipedia's child porn problem. What kind of search terms brought people to that piece? Read More ›
Instagram's billion dollar payday is great for the sub-20-employee company. But it's worth remembering that, not so long ago, Facebook almost released an Instagram clone. Read More ›
"I'm deleting this app!" is the nerd equivalent of "I'm moving to Canada!" If you're upset about Facebook buying Instagram and are one of those people, Instaport will painlessly move all your photos, wherever you want. (via)
C'mon, we all know you're not really going to delete it. Read More ›
Things this guy can make himself look like with a Kinect: The Michelin Man, Animal (the muppet), a waterlogged corpse, Bigfoot, a baby, a Minecraft level, a man taking a bubble bath, smoke. Read More ›
And iPhone users were worried about the Android hordes invading Instagram's semi-gated community. Now Facebook just bought Instagram for $1 billion. Read More ›
The furniture company is building a 27-acre neighborhood in the outskirts of London. The only way out is through the pillow section. Read More ›
A first-hand followup to last week's freak fighter crash.
The Windows future glasses are super cool, but you do need to click to run an ActiveX control on this webpage. Now that is what you call an arcane IE6 joke! I'll be here all night, ladies and gentlemen. Read More ›
"I can't believe Netflix said that was a four-star movie, it was totally only two-and-a-half stars, and oh GOD I don't want to watch that, why does it think I'd be interested in that crap? UGH." This is how Netflix got there.
An inside joke for geeks. On every page of the Obama campaign website, his coders have inserted this ASCII rendering of the campaign's logo. Read More ›
Which is totally fine, really! Except that now you need to know how to measure in megabytes if you don't want to get crushed by your carrier's new data plans for smartphones.
WARNING: This is only for great big nerdy nerds who are also Nicki Minaj fans. So, pretty much everyone, I guess. (Created by the magnificent Noah Cooper.) Read More ›
You probably have some data stored in "the cloud." Well, facilities like this are where "the cloud" lives. Wired flew over Apple's 500,000-square-foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina, to see what else it was building: a bio-gas power generator and 100-acre solar farm.
Maybe the craziest Netflix streaming movie we've found yet: In which a topless chick shoots lasers in space at an evil Indian dwarf. Plus two more gems scrounged from the Netflix dumpster. Read More ›
I've neeeever had an experience to the contrary. Destroying someone in Smash Bros. inevitably leads to destroying their heart.
If you're ever involved in a serious crime, you can expect the police to subpoena your Facebook account. Here's what Facebook sends them. Read More ›
Plus, how to not be creepy on Twitter. Welcome to FWD: Halp! a weekly advice column about using technology like a person. Read More ›
Dennis Maitland's 'Life on the Edge' photos are intensely beautiful, but also kind of make you want to throw up. Maitland explains how to take the perfect puke shot. Read More ›
And I mean it. (via textfromdog.tumblr.com) Read More ›
