Monday, April 30, 2012

20 Amazing Facts You Probably Didn’t Know






The 9 Worst Hotel Room Views Ever

20 Amazing Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

The 6 Creepiest Ways They're Harvesting Electricity

5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong

5 People Who Held Grudges Well Past the Point of Sanity

11 Early Scathing Reviews of Works Now Considered Masterpieces

12 Awesome Celebrities Playing Themselves In Movies

The 5 Most Badass Man vs. Nature Showdowns Ever Photographed

9 More Regular People Who Became Internet Memes

22 Fictional Characters Whose Names You Don’t Know

5 Futuristic Technologies Invented in the Wrong Century

Counterfeit Capitol: 17 Funniest Fakes From China

This is the web right now - The Oatmeal






Apple: Think Different about your dirty energy

Apple: why doesn't it employ more US workers?

Microsoft is buying and selling patents like a kid trading snacks in the cafeteria. Clearly, the patent system needs an overhaul

Microsoft Security Essentials Updates with Better Performance, Virus Detection, and Interface Changes

Microsoft backs away from CISPA support, citing privacy

Hotmail password bug fixed

7 Ways the Internet Has Been Used for Good

This is the web right now - The Oatmeal

What if Facebook isn’t so special after all?

The Web is Not User Friendly! Face it, and Embrace It!

The 'Facebook Phone' is a Dumb Idea

Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Account in Control System Code

White House takes aim at CISPA with formal veto threat

Web trolls put picture of Down's girl on Facebook with vile caption

Watchdog finds undeleted data on second-hand disk drives

Insecure websites to be named and shamed after checks

The Feds Will Shut off Your Internet If You Don’t Clean Your Computer by July 9

CISPA: Who’s for it, who’s against it and how it could affect you

Which Facebook Apps Steal Your Data (and How to Stop Them)

Firefox 12 released with UAC-less update system on Windows

Google Drive: Hands-On Winner

Google Maps now includes 'photo tours' of 15,000 popular landmarks around the world

The Pure Google Home Screen

Google's Destruction Is Already Under Way

6 Guns That Could Only Ever Exist In Video Games

The 8 Most Gruesome Video Games of All Time

Supporting an Industry That Doesn’t Respect Itself

20 Cute Video Game Characters You Don't Want To Mess With

Xbox patent ruling favours Motorola over Microsoft

How To Make A Nerdy Bangle






Sunday, April 29, 2012

A Look Inside the Nike Sports Research Lab






The Complete Works: Ranking All 62 Stephen King Books

How cheating at checkouts is turning us into a nation of self-service shoplifters

Biology Degrees and PhDs: Actors Who Are Smarter Than You Think

Here's How Much We Still Don't Know About The Ocean

In Pictures: 'World's most endangered tribe'

Hundreds of iPhones smuggled into China inside beer bottles

And you thought crop circles were cool… [PICs]

Why Are Some People Better at Drawing than Others?

Which Side Is Your Good Side? Here Comes the Science

Swiss scientists demonstrate mind controlled robot

Mysterious Rainbow River of Pills Appears In China

Russian teens risk their lives for dizzying, sky-high photos

The Physics that Explain Why You Should Wear Black This Summer

The Virus that Destroyed the Dutch Economy

Swiss scientists create mind-controlled robot for disabled patients

Would you spot this skimmer on an ATM?

Everywhere a Sign: A Brief History of International Symbols

Why Pygmies of Africa Are So Short

A Look Inside the Nike Sports Research Lab

Dudes Look Like Old Ladies






The 6 Most Baffling Classic Rock Songs About Women

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Punk rock ... alive and kicking in a repressive state near you

Dudes Look Like Old Ladies. Poking fun at Aerosmith.

Cameron ready to give graphic pop videos an 18 rating to stop children watching them

The 13 strangest composer deaths in classical music

Gran, 87, gets Asbo for radio noise

Slightly Depressing Facts About Popular Music

Marley: The Definitive Biography of the Man Who Invented 4/20

The 8 Best Musician Autobiographies of All Time

9 Rock Stars With Advanced Degrees

Nose Art