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Sep 16

A Year After “AngelGate”, More Angelic Angels Descend Upon Disrupt - disrupt_d3-3044-1

A year ago, a huge controversy erupted before TechCrunch Disrupt (sound familiar?). Michael Arrington walked into a bar in San Francisco, Bin 38, and walked out feeling dirty. It was in Bin…

Sep 08

An Open Letter To Time Warner Cable -

Emailed to:
Scott Miller: (scott.miller@twcable.com)
Randall Wells: (randall.wells@twcable.com)
Derrick Moore: (derrick.moore@twcable.com)
Office of the President: (twc.cotp@twcable.com)

Scott,…

Aug 21

Apple Sneaks A Big Change Into iOS 5: Phasing Out Developer Access To The UDID - UDID

Apple is making a lot of big changes to its mobile operating system with iOS 5, which is dribbling out in betas for developers ahead of a general release later this year. But there is one…

Aug 20

Evernote buys Mac drawing app Skitch, makes it free -

Popular cloud-based note-taking service Evernote announced today that it has acquired Skitch, a photo annotation, editing, and sharing app. Skitch has so far been limited to the Mac platform, but…

Jul 26

Putting a Ton of Glowsticks in Blenders Looks Just as Awesome as It Sounds [Video] -

Crushing glowsticks for their oozy neon contents and spraying it all over the place in a room filled with paint and loud music sounds like a wonderful way to conclude a drug bender. It’s…

May 28

This Is the Best Time Warner Cable Takedown Yet [Humor] -

This Is the Best Time Warner Cable Takedown Yet>Is making fun of Time Warner Cable like beating a dead horse? Maybe, if the horse were still alive and twisting your life into a waking nightmare. So when comedian Eugene Mirman gets out…

May 18

Another Day, Another Awesome Parent: New Father Makes Toy Phone Say Curse Word -

dirty-talking-phone.jpg Note: Video audio is VERY NSFW on account of “motherf’er’” over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. This is a video of a new father after learning how to get his…

Apr 25

This Old Chinese Man Repairs Damaged Photos with Photoshop for Free [Photoshop] -

This Old Chinese Man Repairs Damaged Photos with Photoshop for FreeBaojun Yuan, the man pictured above, learned Photoshop at 60 years old. He’s now 76 and for the past decade or so has repaired over 2000 damaged photos and done it all for free. Yuan bought…

Mar 04

Conan Parodies the iPad 2 [Video] -

Conan Parodies the iPad 2You can always expect a few good parody videos after an Apple keynote, and Conan didn’t disappoint with his iPad 2 video. Also: “Dream-Telligence” team! *chortle* [Conan]

Feb 12

What Happens When You Replace the N-Word In Huck Finn With the Word Robots? [Robots] -

If you’re going to go through the trouble of whitewashing Huckleberry Finn by taking out the n-word, why not replace it with something more anachronistic. Like robots. I mean, it only makes…