Nov
30
Ashley Hope paints from crime scene photos. The images in this gallery depict murders of women. Snip from artist’s statement:
There are certain moments in life when one experiences space and time to an excruciating degree. There are seconds — fleeting, momentous seconds — when the world seems relentlessly clear, and the very nature of existence [...]
Nov
30
Slashdot reports that a pair of computer scientists have figured out how to de-anonymize the "anonymous" data set that Netflix released as part of its million-dollar contest to improve its recommendation algorithm. The researchers found that the set of less-popular movies a user has rated tends to uniquely identify that user. By comparing movie [...]
Nov
30
Japanese Aquarium Bathroom Makes You Feel Like a Mermaid While You Go #2 [Luxury Pooping]
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newVideoPlayer(”aquatoilet.flv”, 475, 376);You think your bathroom is awesome? It’s not. Check out this Japanese bathroom that’s built into an aquarium, featuring a peeping tom of a turtle and a…
Nov
30
The announcement earlier this week that Tag Heuer was designing a luxury cellphone didn’t inspire shock as much as a raised eyebrow, but Biggs the watch fetishist over at Crunchgear dug through his…
Nov
30
I’m fanatical about Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years. It’s got every issue on three DVDs and works with Windows and Mac.
Once you install the reader application, searches are fast. They’re even faster if you copy the DVDs to your internal hard drive. (You’re not allowed to copy them to an external [...]
Nov
30
newVideoPlayer(”bluetoothhack.flv”, 475, 376);Our experience with Bluetooth headsets tells us that you first have to place it into discoverable mode before any other device can connect to it, but…
Nov
30
This is just a short note to withdraw a recommendation that I made a year or two ago about the Zookoda email service.
When they first came out Zookoda was a dream come true for me - a free service that enabled bloggers to built a newsletter subscriber base, convert RSS to email etc. It took [...]
Nov
30
Flux Launches Self Service Product; Full On Ning Competitor
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Flux, a new social network joint venture between Viacom and Social Media, had a limited launch in September.
The platform is the cornerstone of Viacom’s social network strategy. Instead of building independent networks for MTV and its hundreds of other brands, they’ve built a distributed platform that shares users, infrastructure and content, but allows for distinct [...]
Nov
30
Exclusive: The Secret Sauce That Goes Into an OLED High Def TV [Our OLED Odyssey]
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newVideoPlayer(”oledfac3_gawker.flv”, 475, 286);UDC is one of a handful of companies pioneering OLED development and manufacturing techniques for the big boys such as Samsung, Sony, LG and of course,…
Nov
30
Exclusive: Learning the Secret Sauce That Goes Into an OLED High Def TV [Our OLED Odyssey]
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newVideoPlayer(”oledfac3_gawker.flv”, 475, 286);UDC is one of a handful of companies pioneering OLED development and manufacturing techniques for the big boys such as Samsung, Sony, LG and of course,…
Nov
30
According to DigiTimes sources, Nvidia is planning on rolling out GeForce 9 this February. They also noted that the first chip in the family will be the 65nm D9E –complete with support for DirectX…
Nov
30
Readers who enjoy the
Amazon Kindle e-Book reader’s concept for letting you consume
literature in electronic form–but won’t purchase one until they
see what’s inside–will love this post….
Nov
30
It’s Friday, and that means one thing: sex. Or shower. I can’t remember what, but the always-fab Regina Lynn’s Wired Sex Drive column is out, and while commenting on David Levy’s new book Love + Sex…
Nov
30
Once Again, Hormel’s Trademark On Spam Does Not Apply To Email
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I thought we had gone through this a few years ago when Hormel lost a trademark lawsuit against an anti-spam company. Hormel, of course, is the maker of SPAM, the meat-like substance. It’s had something of a love-hate affair with the use of the word “spam” for email, originally hating it, but [...]
Nov
30
newVideoPlayer(”itouchadfight.flv”, 475, 376);
Those man on the street iPhone commercials have inspired a lot of parodies, partially because they’re so easy to replicate. SNL did a couple of amusing…