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Photo Essay: NYC's Incredible Christmas Tree Seller Subculture
Dec 10, 4:00PM
The Friday night after Thanksgiving is when all the little forests pop up around the city. Most Christmas tree outlets—bodegas, parks, supermarkets, and big-box stores—have a team that comes in to set up wooden display racks, while electricians wire up lights to a generator and a truck drops off Fraser Firs to sell the next day.
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The Entire East Coast Looks Like It's Under a Massive White Blanket
Dec 10, 3:51PM
Did you have a hard time getting to work today? Probably so, if you live anywhere from the Tennessee Valley all the way up to New England. Just look at this image from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center—everything is white.
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Behold the new US star destroyer turbolaser cannon—or just a centrifuge
Dec 10, 3:28PM
Cool photo from Sandia National Laboratories of what appears to be some exotic plasma cannon to be installed in the first US star destroyer—until your dreams are destroyed when you read the caption: it's a centrifuge "used to simulate gravity for re-entry situations."
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These Just Might Be The Goofiest Lo-Fi Headphones You'll Ever Hear
Dec 10, 3:23PM
Strapping on a pair of oversized headphones is a great way to shut out the world. But what if the beat was coming from outside the earpads?? For his latest trick, prolific sonic experimentalist Zimoun crafted a makeshift noise-maker out of a pair of mini-pizza-looking boxes, two prepared DC motors, and a couple of cotton balls.
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Work on Google's Mysterious Barge Mysteriously Halts
Dec 10, 3:06PM
Following scrutiny from the Coast Guard and an investigation by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, work on Google's mysterious docked barge has stopped.
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7 Essential Self-Heating Garments To Keep You Warm This Winter
Dec 10, 3:00PM
Just because the weather outside is frightful, doesn't mean you have to stay indoors huddled close to a delightful fire. There's plenty of things to do in the winter that don't involve shovels or shopping.
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Quadcopter vs. Swarm of Angry Bees: Place Your Bets
Dec 10, 2:44PM
Drones face all kinds of airborne adversaries from gun-toting quadcopter hunters to hackers to other flying contraptions. And it looks like nature is contributing its own flying obstacle as well, in the form of a swarm of angry bees. So who wins in the war of propellers vs. stings? Well, duh.
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27 of the Most Eye-Popping Cargo Aircraft Ever Built
Dec 10, 2:00PM
They are the grey eminences of aviation. They are doing what they have to do without any ado. We hardly notice them when we take a flight from A to B. However, cargo aircraft can be as interesting and special as fighter planes or passenger aircraft. We are going to prove this.
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What Searches Look Like With the Top Million Sites Removed
Dec 10, 1:54PM
At this point it's ludicrous to think of using any other search engine than Google. But while it's very effective, you'll find your search results coming from many of the web's top sites again and again. What if you wanted to find something a little more eclectic? Well, a new search engine called Million Short offers just that by letting you ignore the top million websites on the internet.
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Gawker Just Shut Up and Do the Goddamn Housework Already, Dude | Jalopnik Insane Seattle Bus Crash C
Dec 10, 1:34PM
Gawker Just Shut Up and Do the Goddamn Housework Already, Dude | Jalopnik Insane Seattle Bus Crash Captured On Google Street View | Jezebel Sex Robots and Love-Score Apps: This Is the Future of Dating | Kotaku The 12 Best Games on PC | Valleywag Twitter Refused to Answer SEC Questions About the Profitability of Ads
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Nest Protect Teardown: Reassuringly Simple and Solid
Dec 10, 1:29PM
Nest managed to do the seemingly impossible with its Protect: it made a smoke detector... exciting. But what lurks within that beautiful shell? Fortunately, iFixit has ripped one wide open to find out.
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Apple Patents Screen Technology For Curved Touch Displays
Dec 10, 12:20PM
Move over Samsung and LG: Apple has been awarded a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office that describes how they could manufacture a new breed of curved touch surfaces.
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DARPA Is Turning Finding Software Vulnerabilities Into a Game
Dec 10, 11:47AM
There's no way 'round the fact that scanning millions of lines of software code for vulnerabilities is a chore. But now DARPA is keen to get volunteers helping out—by turning it into a game.
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Rumor: The Full Start Menu Might Be Coming Back to Windows 8, Too
Dec 10, 10:45AM
Microsoft was forced to make some come compromises to their original vision for Windows 8 come the recent update, reinstating the Start Button due to popular demand. Now, rumors suggest that the 8.2 update could take that one step further.
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Apple's 12 Days of iOS Gifts Comes to the US This Year
Dec 10, 10:00AM
The past couple of years, iOS users in Europe and Canada have been lucky enough to receive a series of 12 free gifts from Apple over the festive period. Now, Cook & Co. are spreading that generosity to the US, too.
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A Crash Course in How Genomes Are Sequenced
Dec 10, 9:20AM
Everyone's heard of DNA, genetics and genome sequencing, but you might not actually know exactly how scientists go about doing it. This TED Ed video explains, nicely and simply, how it works.
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Now Everyone Can Contribute to Google Street View
Dec 10, 8:40AM
Google's Street View is slowly covering more and more of the world's surface, but it still has holes. Now though, you can help fill them—and all you need is an Android phone or DSLR.
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Holy crap, watch this mad helicopter pilot harvesting Christmas trees
Dec 10, 5:23AM
This video is crazy: Watch ace helicopter pilot Dan Clark demonstrating his incredible skills while harvesting Christmas trees at mad speeds. "Oregon helicopter pilot ruthlessly owning inertia," says Redditor coolmandan03. Indeed. It's absolutely insane.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Downtown (NSFW)
Dec 10, 5:00AM
Man, big city livin' ain't what it used to be. What happened to the good old days when people simply broke into song when they were on skid row?
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NASA finds the coldest place on Earth
Dec 09, 11:24PM
You're looking at Valkyrie Dome aka Dome Fuji, on the East Antarctic Plateau. Near these dark structures there is a ridge with hollows that can get down to minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit—minus 92 degrees Celsius. A team of NASA and US Geological Survey scientists have now officially declared this ridge The Coldest Place On Earth.
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Gawker Teen Claims Krokodil Ate Her Genitals | Jalopnik Man Steals Gas While Smoking, Sets Self On F
Dec 09, 11:01PM
Gawker Teen Claims Krokodil Ate Her Genitals | Jalopnik Man Steals Gas While Smoking, Sets Self On Fire | Jezebel Positive HIV Test Shuts Down Porn Industry for Third Time This Year | Lifehacker Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming Out | Kinja Popular Posts
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Meet Mom Chung, The Massive Machine Digging Tunnels Under San Francisco
Dec 09, 10:40PM
Deep beneath the streets of San Francisco, Mom Chung is making her move. In July, the massive tunnel boring machine (TBM) started construction on the Central Subway, the city's brand-spanking new subterranean transit line (ETA 2019).
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People Who Did Not Get Rich and/or Famous Coding Want You to Code
Dec 09, 10:20PM
If you find this new batch of Code.org PSAs hilariously awkward, you're in good company. I literally yelped when I heard Nas say "I just did 15 lines of code." There are more than a dozen new videos from the everyone can code organization, and they're all just a wonderful gift.
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You'll Actually Be Excited For Snow With This Gorgeous Toboggan
Dec 09, 10:00PM
Is there anything more soul crushing than waking up and checking the weather on your phone, only to discover that there are inches of snow outside waiting to complicate your morning commute? Snow in the forecast doesn't always have to be a letdown, though. With this steam-bent wooden toboggan from Lucky Bums, you'll embrace every flake that falls.
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The First 64-Bit Snapdragon Processor Won't Be in a Phone You'll Want
Dec 09, 9:47PM
Apple started a wave when it announced its new A7 processor--the brain of all its flagship products—would be 64-bit. Competitors have been keen to catch up, and now Qualcomm's making its move with the new Snapdragon 410, the first 64-bit chip in the line. The catch? It's for low and midrange phones.
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