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What's With The Sudden Recoiling Mudguard Obsession On Bikes?
Jun 03, 1:00AM
We've been through a lot with slap bracelets. There were the novel years when everything seemed possible, the painful years when the cruel tide of fashion turned, and the ironic years when it seemed like anything could resurface and claim a place in hipster nostalgia. And now two different groups have Kickstarters for recoiling mudguards. But it's pretty apparent that both products are actually just big slap bracelets, rendering the whole competitive mudguard market totally absurd.
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Florence and The Machine: Bedroom Hymns
Jun 03, 12:12AM
Bedroom Hymns was in an early preview of The Great Gatsby before the real soundtrack was released. It was sort of a reference to the fact that Florence and the Machine would have "Over the Love" on the soundtrack when it eventually came out. But ever since that trailer, "Bedroom Hymns" has been stuck in my head. Based on the clip of the song in the movie preview I thought one of the lyrics was "This is his party/" fitting perfectly with the whole Gatsby theme. The lyric is in fact, "This is his body/" because the song is about Jesus and I am an idiot. But there you have it.
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Heineken Wanted Beer Bottles To Be Bricks For People In Need
Jun 02, 11:15PM
Beer and soda companies are doing bottle redesigns left and right lately, and like so many things these overhauls seem to be motivated by brand appeal aka money. But you kind of can't blame manufacturers for wanting to, you know, sell more of their product or whatever. Free market! Anyway. It wasn't always like this. For about a minute in the 1960s Heineken tried to continue making money while doing good at the same time. And it was a great idea.
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This Fabulously Oddball Galaxy Only Has One Spiral Arm
Jun 02, 10:00PM
Most galaxies, like the Milky Way, have two or more spiral "arms," but NGC 4725 only has one. Don't worry NGC 4725 you may be weird, but we still love you and think you're great looking. Space is a safe space.
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A SlingSword Is A Sword/Slingshot Hybrid For Fighting Zombies
Jun 02, 8:56PM
Joerg Sprave is expanding his horizons and moving The Slingshot Channel into a new era. He had blacksmith James Helm make him a small sword and this demo is a relaxing break for all of us. Just some good old fashioned coconut decapitation to test the blade. Refreshing! Oh, and the hilt of the sword also has a built-in slingshot. Baby steps.
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Pigeons Are Smarter Than You Might Think And Can Use Touchscreens
Jun 02, 7:38PM
Pigeons are everywhere in cities, but they don't get a lot of love. True, they can spread disease and aren't very personable, but maybe they're not getting the credit they deserve. Like city-dwelling humans they have places to be and lunch deals to scavenge. And like good urbanites (and penguins) they know their way around a touchscreen.
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How Manic Are You About Organizing Emails?
Jun 02, 6:12PM
I get a lot of email. Not so much that it's threatening my quality of life, but definitely a lot. I mainly use Gmail and I have some basic organizational systems in place (a label here, a star there). I have to keep up with the daily onslaught and maintain my inbox, but like I said I don't associate a lot of stress with it. Email is embedded pretty deeply in my subconscious at this point. But some people I know have organizational methods that I find scary, and any system breakdown causes them emotional turmoil. Are you intense about inbox maintenance, or do you take a come what may approach? Organize your thoughts below.
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Study The Physical Properties Floating In Your Breakfast
Jun 02, 5:39PM
There's so much noise about breakfast lately. Apparently, eating a morning meal makes you more focused, healthier and generally superhuman. It might seem like a lot of hype, but Andong He, a geologist at Yale, actually found a research topic in a bowl of cereal. So keep knocking that oatmeal back.
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Yahoo Is Axing Mail Classic But The New Version Reads Your Emails
Jun 02, 4:25PM
Beginning tomorrow Yahoo Mail Classic won't be available anymore. And that's really fine. The Yahoo Mail redesign is both necessary and pleasant. But when users upgrade they have to accept new terms of service and a new privacy policy. And Yahoo's candor is freaking people out.
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Escaped Florida Llama Brought Down By Taser
Jun 02, 3:22PM
Tallahassee police reported using a taser on a six-foot llama, Scooter, after it ran around a local neighborhood for hours yesterday and generally galavanted about. The llama was eventually subdued to avoid an accident and returned, and its owner will not face charges.
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Electrified Wolverine Claws Are Fabulously Ill-Advised
Jun 02, 2:18PM
I think it's safe to say that we all want Wolverine claws. Sure, working out some of the logistics would be tough at first, but come on. You would feel invincible! And you could open plastic packaging really easily. To this end, Master James made a set of great looking claws at a machine shop. But they weren't awesome enough. So he electrified them.
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6,500 Silk Worms Spin One Heck Of A Cloud
Jun 02, 1:21PM
Honestly, it seems like silk pajamas are on a downswing in popularity. Which is a damn shame. But the Mediated Matter Research Group (part of the MIT Media Lab) recently put thousands of silkworms to work on an architectural project that combines the worms' natural talent with computer modeling.
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How Tech Made the Boston Bombing Manhunt Possible
Jun 02, 1:00AM
The chaos of the Boston Marathon bombing is behind us now, but the mechanics of the high-tech manhunt it inspired are no less awe-inspiring than they were the day they happened. PBS's fantastic NOVA series took a deep dive into the technology that went into tracking down the suspects, and it's now available to watch online for free.
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Sublime: We're Only Gonna Die For Our Own Arrogance
Jun 02, 12:00AM
There's nothing quite as awesome as when bands you like like other bands you like, and like them awesomely. Case in point: Sublime's utterly sublime cover of Bad Religion's already fantastic, lo-fi classic "We're Only Gonna Die For Our Own Arrogance."
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China and the US Are Going to Sit Down and Talk About All This Hacking
Jun 01, 11:00PM
China's been hacking up a storm recently, up to and including stealing sensitive, confidential weapon designs from the US. Things started coming to something of a head early last month, when the Pentagon finally directly accused China of being the perpetrator of all this cyber-trechery. Now, according to the New York Times, a nice little hacking-chat has been scheduled between the two powers.
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A Lamp Made of 200 Traffic Cones Is the World's Craziest Hazard Light
Jun 01, 10:35PM
Every little punk out there has stolen a traffic cone at one point or another and done something really dumb with it. You know who you are. The minds behind "Planet: Under Construction" (PUC), on the other hand, put some 200 cones to a use that's awesome. And they problem didn't steal them, either.
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This Terrifying Video Shows How Dangerous It Is to Film Tornadoes
Jun 01, 9:25PM
As long as there are storms, there will be storm chasers, and the footage they get is always equal parts soul-chilling and awe-inspiring. Yesterday, chaser Brandon Sullivan and his team got a little too close for comfort with one of the many twisters that have ravaging Oklahoma.
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What Are Your Must-Have Gadgets for Getting Through the Summer?
Jun 01, 8:00PM
I'm sitting here, sweatily blogging away in my not-very-breathable pleather blogging chair, and that can only mean one thing: summer's here. Some lunatics like the heat, but the rest of us prefer to fight like hell, and you've got to have the right arsenal to do it.
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These Awesome Maps Show Off All the World's Geo-Tagged Tweets
Jun 01, 7:09PM
There's only so many place you can tweet from, and Twitter's been diligently indexing them all. These new visualizations from the Twitter team show the history of all geo-tagged tweets since 2009 (when the feature was born) by location. We're talking billions of them.
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Google's Fixing Android's Major Flaw, HIV-Fighting Computers, and More
Jun 01, 6:00PM
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You Can Buy Your Very Own Used Morgue Fridge on Ebay Right Now
Jun 01, 5:02PM
Need a new fridge? Has the State of New York Office of General Services ever got a great deal for you! How about a used but fully functional morgue cooler from the Manhattan Psychiatric Center? It's on Ebay right now, and only a few hundred bucks.
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Tons of Hackers Are Hanging Out in Old Soviet Cyberspace
Jun 01, 4:00PM
The Internet is a huge place. Some parts of it are awesome, but others are...less so. And falling squarely in that latter category is the ancient .su domain, once the cyberhome of the Soviet Union. It's not exactly well maintained, or well policed, which is why more and more online criminals are using it as a hideout.
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How to Conquer Your Inbox Once and For All
Jun 01, 3:00PM
If you find a feeling of helpless despair descending upon you every time you open up your email inbox, help is at hand—you can get on top of your messages without hiring a personal secretary, and we're here to show you how.
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The Kickass Processors That Will Power Your Next Computer
Jun 01, 2:01PM
Bits and pieces of info about Intel's brand new 4th generation processors have been dripping out for months now. Good graphics, crazy battery life. Exciting stuff. Finally, though, we've got a full view of guts that'll power most of next year's computers, and they'll be available starting June 4th. The future looks very, very bright.
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Security Camera Paintings Are an Art Project for Big Brother
Jun 01, 1:03PM
There are security cameras all over the place, and as we creep ever forward into a technological utopia distopia future, there are going to be even more, gazing at you from the street corners, in stores, and who knows where else. But all that footage doesn't have to be pure surveillance; you can turn it into art.
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