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#thewaywelivenow
Best and Worst of Largest-Ever Secret Santa
Commenters on Reddit.com banded together to create the largest secret santa gift exchange ever attempted, with 5,000 global participants, three times the prior world record. Even more amazing, the gifts were not entirely terrible! More » -
#thingsweactuallylike
Where Did the Web Touch You?
Online artist Casetteboy created this funny/brilliant mashup of experts explaining "the Web." In short, the global computer network is an anti-social creep that "nailed some feces to the door," according actor Stephen Fry, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and other digerati. More » -
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Soft Porn for Media Junkies: The Nifty Tablet Demo from Sports Illustrated
This is a pretty darn cool video from Time Inc. about its forthcoming tablet. Cool, that is, if you can forgive the gratuitous feature for fingering half-naked models. More » -
#ebay
The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
This is eBay's rendering of transaction activity on Black Friday; notice how the seller-heavy rural areas (yellow) are offloading their juno on the coast elites (red). What was the flow of crap to your neighborhood. More » -
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MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
It's hard to imagine much of a future for MySpace. Which is probably why it took a science fiction author to do so: Bruce Sterling says the flagging social network is an ideal shantytown for the nihilistic unemployed. Compelling! More » -
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When Singing Computers Were Truly Menacing
Today's wee computing devices aren't nearly as threatening as those giant mainframes that took up entire floors. Which is why this awkwardly singing old IBM 7094 is far creepier than your video-capable iPhone could ever be. More » -
#mineissmaller
Deflating Google
Once upon a time, search engines were cluttered. A scrappy upstart called "Google" surpassed them with a minimalist interface. Ten years later, Google still has a minimalist interface... if you install a popular javascript bookmark. Progress! -
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Pretty Commemorative Pictures Are the Killer App for Print
After his fairly traditional magazine was taken from him and run into the ground, Web-savvy photographer Derek Powazek found a tighter niche: Instant photo magazines tied to major events, like his nifty publication on an Australian dust storm. More » -
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#nerds
High-Flying MIT Nerds Shame Filthy Rich NASA
The government pumps about $20 billion into NASA each year to levitate mice and study crystals. Whatever. All most of us want from space are pictures. And some MIT students did that for a far cheaper fee. Math lesson, anyone? More » -
#iphone
Five Augmented-Reality iPhone Apps We'd Actually Buy
Sometime next month, new iPhone software is supposed to ease the way for "augmented reality" apps, which digitally superimpose data on the world, as seen through the phone's camera. Very cool idea and, so far, very boring execution. Think, people! More » -
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Spotify: Delicious Forbidden Fruit
Spotify is everything iTunes should be: Simple, free and completely ubiquitous. The internet positively overflows with shared Spotify playlists. But the damned Europeans have the online music service all to themselves. Well, almost all of it.
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The Real Microsoft Future
The best thing about this satirical remix of a utopian Microsoft video is that you don't need to watch the original to appreciate it; anyone familiar with Microsoft software appreciates how frequently the company's grand visions go awry. More » -
#music
Facebook Friends? 'Are You F—king Kidding Me?'
Hey look, it's a song about Facebook, that is somehow pretty great. Geeks have been uploading songs about their culture for a while now, but it took an Aussie alt-pop singer's "Are You Fucking Kidding Me" to legitimize the genre. More » -
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You're In the Googleplex Now
After a yearlong Army deployment to Iraq, how does it feel to enter Google's bubble of notoriously cushy working conditions, stateside? It's as disorienting as you might think, reports public affairs specialist Dale Sweetnam, now embedded with Google. More » -
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Gay-Test Your Twitter
Stockholm's gay pride organizers have created an application to analyze your Twitter and score how gay you are. As a useful tool, it's more than a little silly. As a piece of marketing, though, it's brilliant. More » -
#theinternet
Best Tumblr-to-Book Deal Yet
Look At This Fucking Hipster, a blog about looking at hipsters, and then making fun of them, has scored a book deal. Plus the formerly anonymous, self-loathing author has been revealed!
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#valleywag
The Comical Facebook Land Rush You Should Ignore
Sad Web nerds plan to stay in front of their computers late Friday night to obtain short, easy-to-remember Facebook addresses ("facebook.com/sadwebnerd"). It's the start of a geeky land grab! But true geeks know why this is stupid. More » -
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Xkcd's Rebel Book Deal
Randall Munroe, creator of the awesome (and popular) Web comic xkcd, skipped past the overtures of large publishers when it came time to publish his work on paper. Instead he's working with "breadpig." WTF? More » -
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Web Ego Map
Sure, the fourth "Web Trend Map" from branding firm Information Architects is a nifty piece of graphic design. But that's not what makes it viral. More » -
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Unmasking Punditry B.S.
The worlds' professional pontificators now have a sworn enemy. Wrong Tomorrow, a newly launched website, is getting Biblical on their ass, tracking predictions and recording their wrongness. More »
