Sign Up For The Quake Live Beta [Beta Watch]

Back in February, Id Software and IGA announced Quake Live, a browser-based 'freemium' multiplayer version of the classic shooter. Now that they've wet our whistles with a couple of teaser screenshots, their ready to get our hands dirty. Quakelive.com is now accepting email addresses for the upcoming ...

Wii Gets A Pretty New GameCube Controller [Wii]

Gorgeous. Nintendo are releasing sometime later this month a new, white GameCube controller, no doubt to satisfy the growing throngs of not only Smash Bros (and soon to be Mario Kart) players, but Wii-white console colour fetishists as well. It'll retail for a suggested price of ¥2000 (around USD$20), ...

Hands on With GTA Multiplayer: City of Chaos [Impressions]

A couple of months ago, before I had a chance to play GTA4, I got into a discussion with an industry insider about Rockstar, and in particular, the Grand Theft Auto franchise. We were talking about whether the polarizing series, much beloved by gamers and reviled by non-gamers, had jumped the shark. Would ...

Heavy Metal Dog

"I'm just glad Peanut's finally grown out of his goth phase." Uploaded Today 81 likes .

World's Worst Toy

"Neck brace sold separately." Uploaded Today 3 likes .

The Only Game I Ever Beat on the First Try [Flash Game Cookie Break]

OK, time for a flash-game cookie break! Know what I like about this one? Even though you get the joke, even though you follow the instructions, even though you do it right with complete and total hand-holding the first time ... You're still proud of yourself for figuring it out. Someone stick a walkthrough ...

Speed up Hard Drive Performance in Vista [Windows Vista Tip]

Windows Vista tip: Web site OCModShop details how to speed up your hard drive performance in Vista by tweaking an advanced setting to enable write caching and advanced performance on your SATA hard drive. The net effect of this tweak should certainly bring improved disk performance, but there is a catch: ...

Learn the Basics of Sewing with an Illustrated Guide [Instruction]

Have you thought about tackling some of the niftier crafts projects we've posted at Lifehacker, but the thought of picking up a needle and thread brings phantom stabbing pains to your fingers? Instructables posts a pretty handy guide to the basics of putting thread through a needle and working with it, ...

Plastic Bag Animal Street Art

Found at Wooster Collective: this creative (and non-destructive) street art by a mysterious artist who makes animals out of discarded plastic bags and ties them to subway grates. When the train rushes below, the puff of air makes the animal jump to life! Link - via Today and Tomorrow - Thanks Lee! Looks ...

Hackers “Seize-rolled” Epilepsy Sufferers in a Support Forum

This incident is quite possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims: hackers uploaded a flashing computer animation to an epilepsy support forum to trigger epileptic attacks! RyAnne Fultz, a 33-year-old woman who suffers from pattern-sensitive epilepsy, says she clicked ...

(John) Calvin and (Thomas) Hobbes

Nina Matsumoto of Space Coyote (of the Simpsonzu fame, blogged on Neatorama here), made another fan art. This time, it’s her take of Bill Watterson’s classic comic Calvin and Hobbes: Few historians know of the heartwarming friendship between French Reformation theologian John Calvin and ...

How Squid Beaks Work

Squids not only have sharp beaks - their beaks are made from one of the hardest materials found in nature. Yet, these beaks are attached to soft tissues with the consistency of Jell-O. Why don’t squids get cut every time they eat? Now, a team of scientists at UC Santa Barbara discovered the answer: To ...

The Laziest Camgirl Ever

Times were when a 'camgirl' had to do something to attract attention. Talk, walk around or whatever. This Japanese-American girl (or at least I think that's what she is) does absolutely nothing. Twenty-one year old MRirian, as she calls herself, just stares into the camera.Still, in the past two months ...

Photoshop Express: Not the Full PS Package, but Good Web-Based Editing [Photoshop]

More than a year after web-based photo editors began swarming the scene, Adobe this morning unveiled its free, long-anticipated Photoshop Express web app. It doesn't have nearly a quarter of the options, tools, and tricks of its desktop-based namesake, but it seems like a good platform for anyone who ...

Protect Your Privacy When Downloading [Feature]

Earlier this week, a Lifehacker reader caught downloading copyrighted material using BitTorrent told us about the scary warning letter she received from her ISP about a big media company who filed a complaint. Fact is, whether you're downloading copyrighted material or not, no one likes to have their ...

Ouch!

Some Canadian Global news reporter thinks the bottom of a sledding hill is a great place to do his broadcast. He was wrong. Or, in his own words: 'That was a bad idea.'(via Optical Poptitude)

Finding the most beautiful woman in Italy.

ItaliaUploaded by pocarisweater How can one find the most beautiful woman in Italy? A Japanese expert determined the following 4 steps: 1) Find a random woman on the street. 2) Ask that woman to introduce the film crew to a more beautiful friend. 3) Have that more beautiful friend introduce the ...

Beauty Contest Winner: Not a Man, Not Yet a Woman

Xie Xiaoxing won "Best Camera Image" in the Fujian regional heat for Miss China contest. The contest organizers thought that Xie was a woman - but it turned out that he was a man … on his way to become a woman! The organisers assumed he was female - but he had only had the first phase ...

Dog Rides Comfortably In Sack On Running Board

From the June 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics comes this insane idea of strapping your dog to the side of the car.

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