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11 of the Weirdest Sites on the Internet
Oct 09, 1:20PM
The internet is a wondrous place, but for every fantastic website out there, it seems like there are two weird ones. We asked you, dear readers, what some of the strangest sites you've ever seen were, and here's what you dug up, you freaks.
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This Encyclopedic Site Contains 41 Years of Video Game Console Design
Oct 09, 1:11PM
Commercially successful video game consoles—your Game Boys and your Playstations—are iconic pieces of product design. But they're only part of the story. There are dozens of other machines that either didn't catch on or failed miserably—and Evan Amos has devoted himself to cataloging them all.
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Put a Porsche on Your Keychain Without Taking Out a Loan
Oct 09, 1:00PM
Flash drives are given away at trade shows like breath mints. But unless you like waiting hours to slowly back up your files, you're going to want to spend some money on a drive with a little more speed and capacity. Looks don't hurt either, which is why you'll want to consider LaCie and Porsche Design's latest sleek collaboration.
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Playable Captchas are the Future of Logins
Oct 09, 11:45AM
A new way of verifying you're a real person and not a spam machine might eliminate the chore of typing phrases like "beetle sausage" and so on, with a start-up looking to gamify the art of verifying you're a human.
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Flickr's new iOS 7 app now offers automatic uploading at full resolution, with sharing set to privat
Oct 09, 11:00AM
Flickr's new iOS 7 app now offers automatic uploading at full resolution, with sharing set to private by default. Neat.
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How the Bible Is Helping Crack Your Passwords
Oct 09, 10:30AM
The Bible might not be quite the good book it claims to be. According to an Ars Technica report on the future of password cracking, the holy book is being employed to help crack passwords to great effect.
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Macro Photographs of Electronic Components Are the Best Geek Porn
Oct 09, 9:30AM
Johngineer from Adafruit has a deliciously geeky hobby: he takes amazing macro-focus photographs of electronic components. As geek porn goes, these images tick all the boxes.
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How The NSA Deploys Malware
Oct 09, 8:30AM
We've long suspected that the NSA, the world's premiere spy agency, was pretty good at breaking into computers. But now, thanks to an article by security expert Bruce Schneier—who is working with the Guardian to go through the Snowden documents—we have a much more detailed view of how the NSA uses exploits in order to infect the computers of targeted users. The template for attacking people with malware used by the NSA is in widespread use by criminals and fraudsters, as well as foreign intelligence agencies, so it's important to understand and defend against this threat to avoid being a victim to the plethora of attackers out there.
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Skype for Android has had an overhaul, so now the video quality's actually, y'know, good.
Oct 09, 7:30AM
Skype for Android has had an overhaul, so now the video quality's actually, y'know, good. Oh, and the UI is massively improved, too.
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Michael Jackson's Thriller Epically Performed with Stop-Motion Lego
Oct 09, 5:00AM
If you don't care about the Mileys and the Biebers like most sane humans of this world, one of the most iconic music videos to you is probably Michael Jackson's Thriller. Or maybe Billie Jean. Or is it Smooth Criminal? Beat It? Actually, it can be five more MJ creations. But Thriller is somethin'. And it's even more somethin' when masterfully recreated with Lego. This isn't your usual pop culture rendition cutely done with Lego minifigures, it's recreating an epic scene of a short musical with Lego bricks as pieces of art. Magnificent. [Talking Animals via BoingBoing]
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Monsters
Oct 09, 4:00AM
Sometimes, it's your own head where the wild things are. Monsters follows a young woman as she slips in and out of a private, demon-filled nightmare. But can figments of your own imagination become a threat to your sanity?
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Reuters: Panasonic Is Going to Kill Off Its Plasma TVs by March 2014
Oct 09, 2:55AM
According to Reuters, Panasonic is going to stop production of its fantastic plasma TV sets by March 2014. That sucks. But also not surprising since previous reports had hinted at Panasonic planning to cut its TV production and that the TV market has been overtaken by seemingly every other technology not named plasma.
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That Curved Screen Samsung Galaxy Round Is a Real Thing
Oct 09, 2:21AM
If you're looking to get weird with your phone, the curved screen of the official Samsung Galaxy Round is a good start. Well, sort of. The curved 5.7-inch screen—same as the uncurved Note 3—is a real thing that Samsung is actually making but it's only launching on SK Telecom in South Korea.
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Exploding Giant Bubbles Will Never Get Old
Oct 09, 12:30AM
Though we can never be in awe of bubbles like we once were, we can still have fun with them. Lots of fun! And the easiest way to have more fun with bubbles is to go bigger and add in slow motion to capture the exploding bubbles. When you see these giant bubbles get popped in the park, they disappear instantaneously. When you see it in slow motion from Shanks FX, you see the water fireworks that follows the sphere-ish liquid amoeba.
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Presidents of the United States of America: Peaches
Oct 08, 11:00PM
"Peaches" is one of those songs from the 90s that you always forget to remember. You loved it—everyone did. But for some reason, this masterpiece of post-grunge alt rock rarely shows up on any 90s playlists. That needs to stop.
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NYC's Taxi of Tomorrow Won't Be Your Only Choice of Cab
Oct 08, 10:24PM
New York's State Supreme Court just put the brakes on the Taxi of Tomorrow, ruling that the Taxi and Limousine Commission doesn't have the power to make Nissan's NV200 the universal yellow cab. But how could NYC riders have benefited from it?
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The Great Library at Alexandria was destroyed by budget cuts, not fire
Oct 08, 10:16PM
One of the great tragedies of ancient history, memorialized in myths and Hollywood film, is the burning of the great library at Alexandria. But the reality of the Library's end was actually a lot less pyrotechnic than that. A major cause of the Library's ruin was government budget cuts.
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This 3D-Printed Web of Plastic Caps Turns Water Bottles Into a Vase
Oct 08, 10:01PM
If your recycling bin overfloweth with empty plastic water bottles and you're just too lazy to take them to the curb, why not turn them from an eyesore into a lovely centerpiece with this 3D-printed web of bottlecaps? All you need to do is scrounge up twelve similarly sized bottles and you've got yourself a one-of-a-kind vase that can hold an entire bouquet of flowers.
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This Air Travel Map From 1929 Is Absolutely Stunning
Oct 08, 9:56PM
The 1920s was a thrilling decade for aviation. Daredevils were just beginning to hop across the Atlantic, and at least one airline was even experimenting with in-flight entertainment. But if you wanted to tour the United States by air it was a pretty involved process. And this beautiful map from 1929 showed you how it was done.
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An Interactive Map of San Francisco's Many Literary Landmarks
Oct 08, 9:40PM
In the lead-up to Litquake, the annual city-wide literary festival that kicks off this Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle just launched a seriously impressive online map marking some of the Bay Area's most iconic moments in print.
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Nielsen's New Twitter TV Ratings Are a Total Scam. Here's Why.
Oct 08, 9:23PM
Nielsen, the ratings monitoring service that gives networks the ammo to charge exorbitant prices for commercials, released their first "Twitter TV ratings"—ratings metrics that take into account social-media activity—this Monday.
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Soar Through the Alps With This Interactive Video of a Wingsuit Flight
Oct 08, 9:20PM
Taking flight with a wingsuit is probably the scariest thing I can think of doing. And that's part of the reason why this interactive video of German crazy person Beni Kälin jumping off a Swiss mountaintop is so cool. It feels like you're flying—except without the risk of dying part.
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A Sleek Ping Pong Table You Won't Want To Hide in the Basement
Oct 08, 9:00PM
Billiard tables have become bonafide works of art that some people furnish entire rooms around—but ping pong tables are only just catching up. But the hideous green folding contraptions of yesteryear are quickly being replaced with sleek pieces like this gorgeous Bola Service Table designed by Barcelona-based studio A.P.O.
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Report: Apple Is Holding an iPad Event October 22
Oct 08, 8:50PM
AllThingsD is reporting that Apple is holding an iPad event on Tuesday, October 22. Apparently, the focus of the event will be not only iPads, but also new Mac Pros and OS X Mavericks.
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Deadspin What Would A Jaguars-Alabama Betting Line Look Like?
Oct 08, 8:48PM
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