Jul
31
Exercise Pills Will Finally Make You Attractive to the Opposite Sex, I’m Sure [Science]
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Good news, chubbies! Science has got your back. Researchers at the Salk Institute have found two drugs that trick the muscles in mice into thinking they’ve been working out like crazy, even when said…
Jul
31
An Xbox 360 Controller Crammed into a PS3 Dual Shock Controller’s Body [Mods]
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A clever modder on the Ben Heck forums managed to cram an Xbox 360 controller into the shell of a PS3 Dual Shock controller. What resulted is an unholy union of the two consoles, bringing a…
Jul
31
Apple Now Telling Developers How Many People Download Their App [IPhone Apps]
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We reported in our massive feature on the SDK and App Store’s shortcomings that Apple didn’t even tell devs how many times their app is downloaded. I guess they realized devs might wanna know, ’cause…
Jul
31
Music and movies may grab the most headlines when it comes to piracy, but many content providers on the web are also having trouble managing their images, which are easy to crop, resize, and copy. Some services, like Attributor, try to monitor and track offending images, but the ultimate solution may well lie in removing [...]
Jul
31
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Del.licio.us Now Delicious.com, With ImprovementsDelicious has now relaunched under Delicious.com with some new functionality. The old Delicious was at del.icio.us and should soon redirect to the new [...]
Jul
31
Judge Rules Early Termination Fees Are Illegal and Violate California Law [ETF Fees]
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A California Supreme Court judge has just ruled that early termination fees from cellphone companies violates California state law and are illegal. What’s this mean to you? Sprint Nextel has been…
Jul
31
Congress Moves Forward With Plan To Make Universities Copyright Cops
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For a little over a year, there have been stories about how the entertainment industry has been pressuring Congress to make universities responsible for stopping copyright infringement on their network. This got a lot of attention late last year when Congress tried to tie such a mandate to a provision granting financial aid to [...]
Jul
31
I Don’t Think The World is Ready For Aromatherapy Earphones [Design]
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Hey, I love pleasing scents as much the next person, but I don’t think people are quite ready for an MP3 player that pumps odors through your earbuds. Nonetheless, a group of designers has come up…
Jul
31
One month after launching its new recommendation system, Digg is already reporting positive results. Digg recommends stories based on other members with similar voting patterns and interests. Chief scientist Anton Kast writes on the Digg Blog:
- Digging activity is up significantly: the total number of Diggs increased 40% after launch.
- The Recommendation Engine [...]
Jul
31
Digg Credits New Recomendation System With 40 Percent Surge In Activity
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One month after launching its new recommendation system, Digg is already reporting positive results. Digg recommends stories based on other members with similar voting patterns and interests. Chief scientist Anton Kast writes on the Digg Blog:
- Digging activity is up significantly: the total number of Diggs increased 40% after launch.
- The Recommendation Engine [...]
Jul
31
BLAB! retrospective art exhibition
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A retrospective art exhibition featuring art from BLAB! is opening tomorrow, August 1, at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. I wrote an essay for the show’s catalogue about BLAB!’s creator, Monte Beauchamp.
The exhibition, organized by the Beach Museum of Art, will [...]
Jul
31
For those of you who’ve finally repressed Frucci’s homoerotic slow-mo watergun facial montage, we’d like to offer a piece of apparel to commemorate the occasion (and bring back painful memories). By…
Jul
31
Police Officer Makes Drunk Driving Arrest On His Segway [Not So Hot Pursuit]
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You would have thought that the only way a police officer could have made a drunk driving arrest on a Segway was if the car jumped onto the sidewalk and slammed into one. However, an officer actually…
Jul
31
Why Apple Is Sticking With Intel Chipsets (Probably) [Rumor]
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One of the more eyebrow-raising rumors in the scramble of them about Apple’s upcoming MacBooks is that they will switch from Intel chipsets to someone else’s. It seemed odd on its face, since Intel…
Jul
31
The Telegraph writes:
<<One of the cars that are currently filming every road in Britain stopped by police – for driving in a bus lane.
The distinctive vehicle – complete with roof-mounted camera pole and Google logo on the door – was stopped in the centre of Bradford at 12.40pm yesterday.
Eyewitnesses described how the Google car was [...]