Raise your hand if you kept all of your New Year’s resolutions in 2013. Good, okay, now only raise your hand if you weren’t lying just now. Ahh, nice to see both of you. We always start the new year with the best intentions but, man, old habits die hard. Let’s see if we can do better this year. Here are five tips that might just help.
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We all have our standard, age-old New Years resolutions. Quit smoking. Work out more. Come to terms with ever present self hatred. But there’s more to life than just health and wellness. There are computers! And social networks! So is this the year you finally kick Facebook? (Yeah right!) Or maybe the year you stop staring at your phone constantly? (Probably not!) What are your hopeless tech resolutions for 2014?
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This morning I decided that I was going to write a soundtrack post called "Here’s the Deal with Auld Lang Syne." And then around 4pm "What’s the Deal with Auld Lang Syne?" went up on Huffington Post. So cool. Go there for your 1788 Scottish poetry/music lesson.
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Chances are you may have rung in the new year with excess of some kind or another, but there’s no way in hell you were this cute while you were doing it. Teddy here can get away with knocking over his glass and just generally making a mess because of that endearing squeaking nose. You, on the other hand, just yell incomprehensible nonsense. And so, the moral of the story is: this year, if at all possible, be a porcupine. [YouTube] More »
Ringing in a new year just doesn’t feel right without the cacophonous report of fireworks. But for something a little different—and maybe more inspiring—check out this spooky video of Melbourne’s new years fireworks in reverse. The explosions of light collapsing on themselves look like galaxies getting sucked into black holes. [Devour] More »
When it comes to reliving headline making news events, the spinning newspaper effect is old and antiquated. Social networks have long since replaced printed media as the go to source for breaking news, so visual effects artist Jeremiah Warren has animated a 2012 year in review using nothing but tweets from the past 365 days. More »
Gangnam Style and Call Me Maybe parodies might have been some of the most shared videos during 2012, but Conan O’Brien decided to dig into the deepest bowels of YouTube and unearth the least viral videos of the past year. If you’re a fan of topless old men sleeping and cable access shoe shine shows, you’re in for a real treat here. [YouTube via GeeksareSexy] More »
Your 2013 New Year’s Eve celebrations are probably over, but if you want to add some pizzazz to your next party 364 days from now, grab a set of these special champagne flutes that feature a laser-etched sparkling point on the bottom producing a non-stop stream of bubbles. More »
A lot of things have changed in the past 56 years, but some things will always be pretty much the same. Take a look at this footage of Times Square on New Years Eve from 1957, for example. No one is carrying portable, cellular phones or updating their statuses on any so-called “networks of sociability”, but they’re still tightly packed into a public place (and sauced, no doubt), waiting for a clock to hit a number so they can scream. And that’s what the New Year is all about, right? [YouTube] More »
It’s New Years. Balls will be dropped. Kisses will be kissed. Bubbly will be drunk drank drunken dranked consumed. But that’s all normal. This year there’s something different: a message from Mars, apparently. More »
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