http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Mon, 20 May 2013 14:12:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-memes-would-have-spread-across-the-universe/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-memes-would-have-spread-across-the-universe/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 11:30:00 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=165942 Information can only travel so fast—but even if it can travel at the speed of light, there would be a natural delay before memes could traverse the entire universe. So where across our neighbouring star systems might some of our favourite pop culture references have ended up by now? Fortunately, that’s exactly what today’s XKCD [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-memes-would-have-spread-across-the-universe/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/no-youre-not-random/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/no-youre-not-random/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 11:30:20 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=164724 Because actually, being genuinely random is incredibly difficult. You’re just talking crap, instead. [XKCD]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/no-youre-not-random/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-long-should-you-spend-on-making-tasks-more-efficient-2/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-long-should-you-spend-on-making-tasks-more-efficient-2/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:00:58 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=161715 These days everyone wants you to hack your life in order to make your day-to-day existence more efficient. But there are times when the effort’s not really worth it — and this chart should help you work out what to spend time on, and what to ignore. Put together by XKCD’s Randall Munroe, this chart [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/how-long-should-you-spend-on-making-tasks-more-efficient-2/feed/ 1 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-real-instruction-manual-for-your-shared-office-printer/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-real-instruction-manual-for-your-shared-office-printer/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:30:52 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160984 Working in an office with other people is fraught with all kinds of tensions and politics*, but there is nothing more divisive than the humble shared printer. Here’s the instruction manual they forgot to include in the box that behemoth of a color laser arrived in. [PHD Comics] * Or so I’m told. I work [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-real-instruction-manual-for-your-shared-office-printer/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/why-time-travel-is-confusing/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/why-time-travel-is-confusing/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:00:30 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160632 Actually, time travel is confusing on many levels—what the hell did happen in Twelve Monkeys exactly?—but it’s the simple things that can cause the biggest headaches. Especially, as the mouse-over text in XKCD points out, the countdown: “T-minus 10… 11…”. [XKCD]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/why-time-travel-is-confusing/feed/ 20 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/people-who-rescale-videos-without-thinking-need-to-be-punished/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/people-who-rescale-videos-without-thinking-need-to-be-punished/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:15:53 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=151162 And, as Randall Munroe points out in today’s XKCD, this is how to do it. Maybe then they’ll understand why preserving aspect ratios is important. [XKCD]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/people-who-rescale-videos-without-thinking-need-to-be-punished/feed/ 18 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/if-youre-blaming-computer-problems-on-a-virus-youre-probably-wrong/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/if-youre-blaming-computer-problems-on-a-virus-youre-probably-wrong/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:00:07 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=146985 Next time a computer in your office is broken, chances are someone will blame it on a virus. But let’s face it, most computer problems don’t stem from viruses; they stem from dumb people. Of course, it’s easier to blame something than it is to understand a problem. That’s natural; we all look for scapegoats [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/if-youre-blaming-computer-problems-on-a-virus-youre-probably-wrong/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/there-are-some-battles-bezos-cant-win/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/there-are-some-battles-bezos-cant-win/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:45:22 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=138262 Today’s XKCD puts the success of Amazon.com into some perspective. Because I can’t do any better than Randall Monroe’s hilarious alt text: “Amazon.com took a surprise early lead with ‘Time required to transport a package from Iquitos, Peru to Manaus, Brazil’ but then lost it at ‘Minutes to skeletonize a cow’.” Time to pick up [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/there-are-some-battles-bezos-cant-win/feed/ 15 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/sometimes-numbers-arent-as-convincing-as-youd-like/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/sometimes-numbers-arent-as-convincing-as-youd-like/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:00:43 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=135726 Turns out that a very small percentage of a very, very large number is still significant. Your hand sanitiser is only as good as the number of decimal points the nines stretch to. [XKCD]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/sometimes-numbers-arent-as-convincing-as-youd-like/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/social-media-is-ruining-our-real-life-conversations/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/social-media-is-ruining-our-real-life-conversations/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:00:38 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=122249 If you use Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, everybody already knows everything there is to know about you. That sailing trip you took? Liked. Breaking up with your girlfriend? Replied to on Twitter. All these over-sharing, always-on social networks create situations where there’s nothing left to talk about! [Shoebox Blog via Neatorama]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/social-media-is-ruining-our-real-life-conversations/feed/ 39 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/describing-saturn-5-in-simple-english-is-difficult-but-hilarious/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/describing-saturn-5-in-simple-english-is-difficult-but-hilarious/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:00:25 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=119507 Describing any form of technology in simple English can sometimes be tricky. But try describing a space craft, and suddenly things get much, much harder. Today’s XKCD attempts to describe the construction of Saturn 5 using only the thousand most commonly used words in the English language. Take a read by clicking on the image [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/describing-saturn-5-in-simple-english-is-difficult-but-hilarious/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/what-people-in-1899-thought-the-year-2000-would-look-like/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/what-people-in-1899-thought-the-year-2000-would-look-like/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:00:08 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=99693 If you asked me back in the year 2000, what 2012 was going to be like, I’m not sure I could have gave you a good answer. So you could imagine how wrong people back in 1899 were about the year 2000. They thought there were going to be flying firemen! It’s funny to see [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/what-people-in-1899-thought-the-year-2000-would-look-like/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/what-the-internet-and-modern-medicine-really-cost-us/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/what-the-internet-and-modern-medicine-really-cost-us/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:30:51 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=91858 So we may not have gotten the future we wanted with flying cars, robot butlers, and vacations on the moon. But we did end up with fantastic advances in science and modern medicine, and the internet. However, there was a catch. A very costly addition to the fine print that proves you don’t get something [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/what-the-internet-and-modern-medicine-really-cost-us/feed/ 18 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/movie-theatres-should-be-like-this/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/movie-theatres-should-be-like-this/#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:00:29 +0000 Jesus Diaz http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=82421 I love this movie theatre layout. It would be my favourite cinema ever. Wait, no. My favourite movie theatre would have seats that would open into a pit full of hungry Great White sharks in the case people talked out loud, texted or ate making annoying noises. Ooooooh yes, indeed. And then show footage of [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/movie-theatres-should-be-like-this/feed/ 11 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/the-fascinating-quantum-theory-of-pixels/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/the-fascinating-quantum-theory-of-pixels/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:00:47 +0000 Jesus Diaz http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=27459 Did you think that quantum physics is complicated? Try the quantum theory of pixels, as explained by 8-bit Professor Hawking.]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/the-fascinating-quantum-theory-of-pixels/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/10/whats-behind-the-next-apple-iphone-5-event/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/10/whats-behind-the-next-apple-iphone-5-event/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:00:11 +0000 Jesus Diaz http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=5233 Although you can't clearly see Scott Forstall's deranged face on this drawing, everything in this graphic showing the mechanics of Apple's next iPhone event—starring Tim Cook as master of ceremonies—is true. [Joy of Tech]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/10/whats-behind-the-next-apple-iphone-5-event/feed/ 2