The nerd world is all atwitter about today’s Amazon event, eagerly anticipating a tablet or two. Will Bezos & Co crash the iPad’s party with a color Kindle Powerhouse? Will the black-and-white e-reader sink below $100? More »
Fall’s officially here because the leaves that were on the trees in my yard last week are now all over my lawn. Bugger that. These seven tools will get my yard cleaned, primped, and ready for hibernation.
Have you ever wanted to buy something but knew that you had absolutely no need for it so you just tried to forget about it but every time you see it again, you want to buy it even more? That’s my relationship with Buckyballs. I just can’t justify spending money on those stupid metal balls. For what? Stress reliever? Clarity? So I can play with balls? Or can I? It’s like a rare alien metal that can somehow stick together. I don’t know how it works! It’s magic. An inevitable purchase. They have Buckycubes now for $25 (+ $5 shipping) which makes them even harder to avoid. I gotsta have it. But what about when they start introducing triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, paralellograms, hexagons, and rhombuses. Rhombuses were always my favorite shape (partly because I always forgot what they actually were). I’m gonna stay strong and hold out for the Buckyrhombuses. -CC More »
Karla Flores was peacefully selling seafood on the street when she heard an explosion. An object hit her face, knocking her down. When she woke up she was in a hospital with a live fragmentation grenade stuck inside her face. More »
We think steel, glass and concrete will live forever. Then we look at the things we’ve built that don’t last. These 97 images from this week’s Shooting Challenge are deflating, haunting…and a bit reassuring. At least nature will go on. More »
“Windows Phone Seven Point Five.” It’s somehow mind numbing and yet not totally unexpected that chunky string of syllables is how you say the name of the new Windows Phone. Mind numbing, because it’s the antithesis of what Microsoft has ultimately built, and not totally unexpected, because we’re still talking about Microsoft, and it’s not a reinvention of what they’ve done with Windows Phone. More »
Facebook really changed things up last week. Oh sure, it’s as disrespectful of my privacy as ever, but now it’s enlisted the entire web to help. So I’m done with anything that requires a Facebook login. More »
Well, we pretty much knew it already, but now it’s Super Apple Official: the next iPhone will show up on Tuesday, October 4th at Apple HQ. More »
Last week Mark Zukerberg showed off the new Facebook Timeline during the company’s f8 keynote. Announced as a new way of presenting yourself on Facebook, the Timeline is an autobiography of your Facebook-shared life. But how Facebook is securing that life could surprise you. More »
It was a dark, ice-cold February. The merchant ship SS Gairsoppa was seeking refuge in Ireland when a Nazi U-boat sunk her. She was loaded with seven million ounces of silver. That’s worth $202.74 million in today’s dollars. More »
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