Thanks to Facebook I'm able to catch up with friends from high school and uni. Also thanks to Facebook I've learned that some of my friends from high and college are completely bonkers. Fringe political views, multiple photo postings of their doll collection, and so many cat pictures. Instead of leaving aggressive comments in their latest tirade against the UN, I'm shooting them right in their smug face with Face-Invaders.
In a move that's sure to annoy the Occupy Flash movement, Adobe's updated Flash Player for Android to support Ice Cream Sandwich. Currently only the Galaxy Nexus comes packing Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box, but that probably hasn't stopped you from running a custom ICS install, just to be on that bleeding edge.
So I find this clip of the Ellen Degeneres show. Some dude in the audience gets down on a knee, pops the question to his girlfriend, and she says no. He's f*cking crushed and, I figure, will need a drink or 17 before the evening is over. But, as any recently dumped individual knows, the worst thing you can do in this situation is get historically slammed and drunk dial your freshly-ex'd. And that got me to thinking.
If high school taught me anything, where you sit—and who you sit next to—in the cafeteria is absolutely imperative to your social status and future happiness. And that lesson is now being retaught by a Danish airline—they'll let you chose your seatmate based on their social media profile.
This is the Addis family and their 100,000-brick Lego Christmas-themed Dalek—Dr. Who's enemy cyborgs. Every December, the Addis—Mike, Catherine and their three children, Tom, Holly and Christopher—spend hours creating something massive out of bricks.
RIM finally eked out a decent quarter. Beat analyst estimates, even. That is, if you don't count the £310 million bath the company took on unsold tablets. The PlayBook—ill conceived, poorly executed—is RIM's worst product. And it might just take down the whole company.
The New Yorker has a list of the top ten tech quotes of 2011. Instead of the usual boring quotes about how awesome a product is, they're insights into the dirty underbelly of the world of technology
Even if you're not a musician, there's something incredible about the iconic crash of the first chord on The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night. What is that chord anyway? The question has befuddled musicians until now.
There's the potential for the next generation of touchscreen LCD vending machines to be an all out assault on our senses. So here's hoping more companies will take this subtly animated approach instead of horrifying advertisements.
"How did a drug-taking college dropout create one of the largest companies of the world?" That's the question that this one-hour documentary on Steve Jobs by the BBC. I just watched it and it's not bad.
At last! Microsoft is killing the last vestiges of that dreadful, obsolete program known as Internet Explorer 6. They are going to force the upgrade and that's a good thing—the web needs to get rid of this crap.
Are you a Windows user? Are you amongst the 32.8 per cent of those using Windows XP, and not just because your IT department hasn't upgraded you yet? I have one question to ask: Why?
If you haven't been drooling with introspective ecstasy and rubbing your face all over your monitor enough yet, now you can get in on the Timeline orgy via mobile. Facebook's rolled the new format onto its web and Android versions.
The gentle swaying of kelp forests belies the immense hydraulic pressures they've evolved to endure. The waves that crash over them transfer huge amounts of energy — an average of 36kW/m with three-foot swells. Now, a green energy firm is banking on this sway to run arrays of Megawatt generators of the coast of Victoria.
Technically, this is a bipolar star-forming region called Sharpless 2-106. Not technically, NASA says that it "looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel." I think those image people at NASA are hitting that rocket fuel punch a little too heavily, but I like it.
Some people aren't meant to pursue creative endeavors, but you don't want to tell them that. So here are ten gifts that will encourage their efforts, boost their confidence, and improve their skills, even if they're completely and utterly untalented.
