November 2008
Copy & Paste Babies [PIC] →
Copy & Paste Babies [PIC]
AIG Pulls Fast One --"Cash Awards" →
When you are a pro at a scam—the definition of “scam” also can be found under the term “insurance industry” — you know how to try to pull a fast one. And AIG is trying to pull one — under cover of…
I luvz you mommy! (PIC) →
Proof that Creationists Evolved from Monkeys [Pic] →
World Economy Cartoon →
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Apple's App Store Passes the 10,000 App Milestone →
Since that launch day there have been some great applications to hit the device as well as some not so great ones. Companies have split apart…and individual developers are on the verge of…
This is SOOOOO WRONG →
Warning: Graphic language and will make your puppy cry.
Doctors Predict Spray-On Skin Cells Will Be Common... →
Doctors predict that spray-on skin cells will be used as a common form of sore treatment in the Swedish healthcare system within a few years.
Uber Tuber: The Instant French Fries Bazooka... →
For some reason, Ted Goessling and Zach Gens think that creating a French fries machine using a potato gun—a compressed-air bazooka that fires potatoes—, a wire screen, and a large pot with hot oil…
Waveform jewelry →
Sakura Koshimizu’s waveform jewelry uses actual audio as its source -
Waveform Series is the laser-cut shapes of the waveform of the sound in sound editing software environment. I used some…
TheStar.com | sciencetech | 2,700-year-old... →
Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by gwwong to drugs history china cannabis marijuana anthropology cool news blog journalism - …
Clever showerheads →
When you take a shower, you turn the water on, wait for it to get hot, then you get in. It’s that second step that’s the problem, environmentally speaking: As a company called Evolve…
New comment system →
Currently testing IntenseDebate for threaded, shared, and archived comments. ID is a recent Automattic acquisition and supports OpenID.
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Want to Save the World? I’ll Tell You How →
Article by Zen Habits contributor Jonathan Mead.
Our planet isn’t in very good shape right now. The air is polluted. The ocean is becoming plastic soup. We’re in a financial crisis.
Things…
Experience vs. Function — a Beautiful UI is Not... →
Some good advice in there. Good UI is invisible.
Mimicking Apple’s Address Book for the Web →
As we all know, WordPress is so extensive that you can use it for nearly anything. There are even articles on sites with crazy titles such as 101 alternative uses for WordPress. So I thought, hey,…
How I charged my iPod using onion soaked in... →
A student claimed he can turn vegetables soaked in Lucozade into a homemade battery and recharge his iPod. Could that really be true? We put his bizarre claims to the test… with amazing results.
50+ Free iPhone Apps from the App Store [Black... →
This is a list of over 50 applications that used to cost money…but due to a promotional sale for Black Friday, you can download FREE from the App Store right now. The best part is, you don’t have…
Farmer builds robot army →
He has built robots capable of climbing walls, serving water, lighting cigarettes, playing musical instruments and writing calligraphy.
A 5th Grader's written plans to take over the... →
Found it on reddit and stole it.
It’s a simple blog theme →
It’s the 28th of the month and we’ve got just enough time to squeeze another theme release in before the end of the month, that mean’s we’ve launched 3 themes this month!
BlogTheme is…
OpenStreetMap Is Creating A Free, Editable World... →
This is a guest post by Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of the Nestoria property search engine: OpenStreetMap started four years ago in the UK as a project to create a free and editable world map….
How big is the International Space Station? →
Falling in love in Arctic →
Brainwashed Fanatics Open Fire in Mumbai Killing... →
Gunmen have targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India’s financial capital, killing 80 people and wounding 250, officials and…
Japanese Man Invents Water Powered Engine →
A generous mad scientist from Japan who’s working towards 6000 inventions.
6GB RAM for your MacBook →
Memory supplier Ramjet has added a 6GB upgrade kit for the new aluminum MacBook and the black bezel MacBook Pro. The 6GB upgrade combines a $599 4GB SO-DIMM with a $75 2GB SO-DIMM.
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Most Expensive Speaker Cable in the World? $21,000... →
Probably the most expensive speaker cables in the world, these things are way more expensive than the Pear Anjou. “Counter Spiralling Geometry” and “Spread Spectrum Technology” conductors….How many…
Pentagon Shoots $22 Million into Guided Bullet... →
Darpa, the Defense Department’s far-out research arm, announced a pair of contracts yesterday, to start designing a super, .50-caliber sniper rifle that fires guided bullets. Lockheed Martin recieved…
Raise Your Hand If You Feel Sorry For the Detroit... →
Chris Johnson was untouched on a short run to the outside and a long gain up the middle. The two plays were symbolic of the canyon-like gap between the once-beaten Tennessee Titans and the winless…
Some Great New Features Coming to WordPress in... →
I’ve been running WordPress 2.7 since beta 1 on my local dev server, along with a recent client site which required threaded comments. Instead of going with Brian’s Threaded Comments plugin, which…
shn.me →
The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the NYC... →
Basic sign module uses (left) from the 1989 MTA Sign Manual (courtesy Peter Joseph); and typographic alphabet (right) from MTA Graphic Standards: Signage (1988) (courtesy Michael Hertz).
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HOLY SHIT, MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON →
A classic from The Onion in way more than 96 pt. type: HOLY SHIT, MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON. “Holy living fuck…. Are you fucking believing this? Over,” Armstrong radioed back to NASA…
Newsweek: Inside the Race for Next-Generation... →
“The world’s US$71 billion battery market, once an old-tech backwater, is becoming a hothouse for innovation. The flow of U.S. venture-capital dollars into battery development has grown from US$4.3…
stevenf.com →
Simple redesign.
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Pilen concept bike →
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Change.gov uses IntenseDebate →
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Holiday Giveaway: 1.5TB of Seagate Drives →
Xavier of Notebooks.com has been gracious enough to extend his hard drive giveaway to PSTAM readers as well as 9 other websites, courtesy of Seagate. Up for grabs are a 1TB FreeAgent Desk hard…
Chase Jarvis CURRENT: Making The Web Work For You →
In May of this year I was invited—along with photo Illuminati compadres David Hobby (Strobist) and David Nightingale (Chromasia)—to Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai, UAE to give a little…
Backpack: Some things you may not have known →
We recently conducted a survey of our Backpack customers. We got some great feedback — including that 97% of our customers would recommend Backpack to a colleague, friend, or family…
The World of 100 →
Global statistics are daunting because the numbers are so hard to mentally wrangle. The World of 100 tackles this problem quite effectively:
This is a self-initiated project based on…
Google Reader + Helvetica = Helvetireader →
RSS is the only way to stay updated on new content from your favorite sources. Google Reader is my aggregator of choice. Thanks to Helvetireader, the next time I check my feeds, they’ll look a lot…
stevenf.com changes again →
I’ve decided to outsource all the various parts of my online presence to the web sites that are best suited to the task: Twitter for micro-blogging, Flickr for photos, etc. To that end, stevenf.com…
Golden opportunity for rookie bloggers →
Yesterday’s announcement about The Inner Circle managed to polarize opinion in an alarming way. Many bloggers emailed me for more information and already three out of the five discounted…
This is…
How INTO uses Basecamp as a content management... →
INTO is a web/print startup specializing in “cutting edge work, quick turn-around times, and a high level of web expertise.” Below, INTO founder Kirk Strobeck details the creative ways his team…
A "Virtual Office Kinda Life" with... →
The author of Setting Contexts has published a couple of posts about using 37signals products: How Backpack is Saving My Sanity talks about using the entire suite of 37signals tools: For the…
Sync Your Things Database via Dropbox at... →
Syncing the Things.app database using Dropbox on multiple machines.
iPhoneModem: 3G tether for the iPhone →
The official AT&T tethering service for the iPhone 3G is rumored to be an additional $30 / mo - release for some time in the future. For iPhone owners with a Jailbroken phone, this $10 app via …