iPhone line-sitting has never been a proud endeavor, but at least there was something pure about the diehards and wackos that set up shop outside Apple Stores for days, even weeks ahead of launch. This year? It’s just a bunch of sellouts and self-promoters. More »
After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it seemed everyone was on the brink of discovering the definitive method for separating oil from water. Hair. Straw. Sand. A lot of suggestions were thrown out there by the happy-to-help public. More »
Your Dumb iPad Picture Taking Is Keeping Real Photographers From Doing Their Jobs [Image Cache]
Posted in: Today's Chili Here’s a picture of Barack Obama campaigning in West Palm Beach, Florida yesterday. Except you can’t even get a great look at the prez because of all the amateur idiots taking idiot pictures with their idiot tablets, getting in the way of the real professional photographers. This disruptive behavior has to stop. More »
Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within three hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed a fake pirate server online—and very quickly found monitoring systems checking out who was taking what from the servers. More »
Romney 2012 Becomes First Political Campaign to Buy a Twitter Trending Topic [Election]
Posted in: Today's Chili In what is by all accounts a pathetic bid for social currency, Mitt Romney’s campaign has officially become the first political campaign to buy a trending topic on Twitter. More »
Nobody Wants to Get Married at Eric Schmidt’s House Because of Kim Kardashian [Eric Schmidt]
Posted in: Today's Chili Eric Schmidt is the owner of a mansion in Montecito, California that’s so beautiful and gorgeous that even the rich and famous use it to hold their weddings and parties. But apparently, not anymore. And it’s not because Schmitty is no longer the Google CEO but because of Kim Kardashian. What? More »
How the Creator of Wonder Woman Also Invented the Lie Detector [Drawing Board]
Posted in: Today's Chili We learn to lie around age two or three. By the time we’re adults, we do it a lot-at least once a day, and perhaps more like 2.92 lies in 10 minutes, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology. It’s no wonder we’ve been chasing after an accurate lie detector for so long. More »