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Attractive nose stylus lets you use your...
Smartphones are great for multitasking, but the bitch is that you’ve only got 2 hands. What if you’re trying to eat and drive and use your phone all at the same time? You’ll probably need something like this handy and attractive nose stylus, because email and text messages can’t wait dammit.
Created by admitted bathtub smartphone user Dominic Wilcox using plaster wrapped...
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NATO air strike kills the shit out of Gaddhafi's...
In a recent shift from simply protecting the population to actively going after Muammar Gadhaffi, a NATO air strike this evening leveled a house where Gadhaffi was staying. The bombs destroyed the residence and killed Saif al-Arab Gadhaffi, the youngest son of Muammar Gadhaffi and three of Gadhaffi’s grandsons, but the Libyan leader himself was unharmed.
Journalists say the building was...
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Film footage of New York City in the mid 1980s
In 1983 and 1986, YouTube user RailroadPacific, a German tourist, visited a much grittier New York City and shot some amazing footage of the subway, Times Square, Chinatown, and the never to be seen again view of the city from atop the World Trade Center.
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WatchMario gets his hands on a portal gun
…And the Mushroom Kingdom would never be the same.
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Anonymous hacks into the US Chamber of Commerce,...
Earlier today, Anonymous dumped 1.2gb of documents on the internet, hacked from the US Chamber of Commerce. People are still going through the mountain of data, but it looks like that most of the documents are from the Michigan based group, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
This document release contains content from the American Legislative Exchange Council, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,...
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Marvel's upcoming Marvel Universe Online MMO will...
What with the Marvel empire marching ever forward, it seemed like it was only a matter of time before there was a Marvel MMO. On Friday, the company announced that it is working on an MMO called Marvel Universe Online to directly compete with DC Universe Online and it will be free to play.
Marvel has definitely examined pay-to-play options in the past, however, and determined it was not a good...
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Is "Django Unchained" the name of Quentin...
Years ago, Quentin Tarantino defined his next couple movies as “his WWII film”, which was of course Inglourious Basterds and then “his Western”, which we know that he’s been working on a script for currently. Or perhaps more accurately, Uma Thurman described the film as a “southern”, in that it takes place during the same period of time as a Western...
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Preview of WoW patch 4.2, including tier 12 armor...
Patch 4.1 has only barely been out for a week and Blizzard’s already releasing lots of details about patch 4.2, which will focus on the Firelands and the fate of Thrall. In the next patch, after Thrall and the Earthen Ring have more or less stabilized the situation at Mount Hyjal, a mysterious assassin infiltrates the Ring and strikes down Thrall and sunders his spirit into four pieces,...
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Oh yeah, the Easter Egg giveaway. That did happen...
So sorry I keep forgetting to post this. So not all of the Easter eggs were found… there were three that remained hidden, but that’s close enough, so I went ahead with the giveaway anyway.
And the winners of the Easter giveaway were… Mgoodfel and ChildofParadise. Congrats to them and thanks to everybody for participating and I’m sorry it’s a week later that...
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A five minute test could spot autism in infants
Or you could just drop a whole box of toothpicks on the floor.
The current options for parents who want to test their children for autism require waiting until the child is at least two, though parents often don’t report anything odd to doctors for several more years later. But a new test could help to detect autism spectrum disorder in just a few minutes when the child is an infant.
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Portal 2's first DLC pack announced already
Portal 2 hasn’t been out for but a week and a half and Valve has already announced the first DLC pack, which will be free across all platforms. This will be adding additional levels and competition modes to what is already a very freeform title. One can only hope that they will be adding on the ability to submit custom levels so the userbase starts to create the insane platforming that...
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Anonymous asked: Hey, Stubblecat here again.
What's your favourite short, snappy dirty joke? Here's mine:
Q: How is a woman like Kentucky Fried Chicken?
A: Once you're done with the breasts and thighs, all you're left with is the greasy box.
I think this might be a good weekend thread.
What's your favourite short, snappy dirty joke? Here's mine:
Q: How is a woman like Kentucky Fried Chicken?
A: Once you're done with the breasts and thighs, all you're left with is the greasy box.
I think this might be a good weekend thread.
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Could Google Chrome OS be the next big threat to...
Even if Apple is currently beating out Microsoft in overall profit and company worth, it still has barely made a dent in its roughly 10% share of the desktop OS market. That’s a number Apple’s fine with, as they stopped really competing with Microsoft in that arena when they became a general gadget company. But when Google releases the Chrome OS to the public later this year, it...
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arnhouse asked: You guys have friends across the pond correct? Me and my girl (you've posted a video of us singing together, search die hard ihc-ers) are taking our instruments over there for a month. spain, france, the uk, amsterdam, a bunch of places. BUT we are super broke, and counting on busking to make food money. if anyone over there has ideas of where to play on the street, or in a club... that...
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Meet the REAL real life superheroes that protect...
Several times before, we’ve profiled “real life superheroes” that are really nothing but untrained, basement dwelling comic book nerds who feel super cool walking around town in a Halloween costume and with a can of pepper spray telling people to use the crosswalk. But real superheroes come out of necessity, not just because some dork gets a boner making his own costume.
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A gigantic 8000 by 8000 pixel screen is coming to...
The Adler Planetarium in Chicago is undergoing some renovation, the centerpiece being a massive 8000px by 8000px screen in the Grainger Sky Theater. This would give Adler the largest seamless digital screen in the world, and at 8000 by 8000, it’s twice as wide and four times as tall as a traditional movie screen.
The screen will be housed in the planetarium’s iconic dome and will...
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Thing you should watch: GameTrailer's "Pop...
If you’re a regular visitor to GameTrailers.com, this is probably not new. The series has been ongoing since May of last year, but it’s definitely worth a watch or few if you’re not familiar. It’s sort of like a video game version of Mythbusters, only much shorter, with only a voiceover, no Kari Byron and no explosions. But it does examine and try to verify or bust old...
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TPN's Road to E3 2011 Part 4
So it’s been about a week since my last post, but I’ve been busy busy busy with work and the like. A few days ago, I went online and purchased my tickets to fly out for the convention. I managed to find a good deal, because I’m a cheap bastard and don’t like to pay a lot of money for anything other than video games and food. All I have left to do is make a list of stuff I need to take and...
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NASA scrubs next-to-last shuttle launch til no...
Hell… I was all ready to post a link earlier today so you could watch the Endeavor shuttle launch and then NASA went and postponed it, as so often happens. Going into space is risky business and the slightest change of weather or the slightest thing that’s out of place, no matter how possibly inconsequential is a reason to recheck everything. So, Endeavor’s last flight has been...
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Documentary of the day: "The New Sound of Music"...
The New Sound of Music is a great documentary (in four parts) about the emerging electronic instruments in 1979, back when everyone was all like “oh god, computers are going to destroy music”. I dunno, maybe they were right.
Click here for parts 2-4.
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The original radio cast of Hitchhiker's Guide to...
Huge… HUGE news for fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. So you know right that Hitchhiker’s Guide was a radio show before it was a book before it was a series before it was a radio show before it was a movie, right? Well now it’s going to be a traveling stage show with the original radio show cast reprising their roles live, many of which were in the 1981 BBC...
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The brand new Transformers 3 trailer is... it's a...
I’ve been pretty light on posting trailers for Transformers 3, mostly just because I don’t really care a whole lot about Transformers 3 at this point. But this is the most complete trailer to date, and it’s got all the explosions and giant robots and Shia the Beef and Francis McDormand you could want.
Click here to watch the trailer on Apple
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Hulu Plus goes live on Xbox today
If you’ve got an Xbox 360, there’s a brand new service on your machine today— Hulu Live. It does mean another paid service that you then have to have Xbox Gold (also paid) to use, but if you’re already paying for both services, it’s one more opportunity to use your 360 more and more as a multimedia machine. And you do get this first week for free if you want to just...
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