Apple Steals Stuff

Turns out Apple has a pretty bad habit of stealing ideas from artists. Engadget put together a little collection of their recent thefts and it's pretty shameful. Although not nearly as shameful as the time I took my cousin out on a date by accident. Oh, man, the memories. The horrible horrible memories.

Geek Squad is stealing your porn

Consumerist launched a three month investigation into Geek Squad on claims the technicians would browse computers for sensitive files and then copy them over to their personal drives. They loaded up a computer with porn, rigged the computer to capture video of itself, and then caught a Geek Squad technician ...

Hunting and Killing Whales With Their Bare Hands.

For the fishermen of Lamalera, a remote village in Indonesia, the way of life hasn’t changed for hundreds of years: they still hunt and kill whale with their bare hands: Hunts are led by the Lamafa (boat captains), who purify themselves during the six-month whale hunting season by abstaining from ...

Joystiq hands-on: Rock Band

Filed under: Culture, Features, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Peripherals, Rhythm, Galleries Honestly, the first thing we thought when we looked at Rock Band was, "Hey! Guitar Hero!" Although right after that we thought "Guitar Hero! Plus drums and a microphone!" Because that's literally what ...

How To: Learn to use Vi

University of California at San Diego cracks the puzzle of Vi for beginners. Vi is a terminal-based plain text editor loved by seasoned *nixers. Described as a "programmer's text editor," Vi is chocked full of keyboard shortcuts that make it really useful for editing system files and plain text. Unfortunately, ...

Color Inspiration from the Masters.

From Colour Lovers, the folks who brought you Butterflies and Their Color Palettes, here are pleasing color combinations gleaned from famous paintings. Link -via Dump Trumpet

LOST: Dramatic Chipmunk

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James Earl Jones Counts to 10

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Mobile Phones: Map it with GOOG-411

1-800-GOOG-411 has added a new feature - the ability to get maps of the businesses that you're looking for texted to your mobile device. All you need to do is call the number, say "map it", and the text message will come to you with a map of what you're looking for right there on your phone. It's an ...

Taking Swipes at New Yorkers' Wipes

Yes, it's true, a huge billboard of people's butts with smiley faces drawn on them will go up in Times Square next week. Why are the butts so happy? Because they use bathroom fixture manufacturer Toto's "Washlet" cleaning system - a toilet seat-like attachment. Maybe the Charmin Family Experience ...

Bionic fingers

David Pescovitz: This prosthetic finger is completely mechanical, no batteries or electronics whatsoever. Inventor Dan Didrick previously made horror masks before inventing the X-Finger. According to a Wired News article, one in 150 people have lost a digit. From Wired News: ...Each digit incorporates ...

Clips: Phantom Hourglass Video Blitz

We have a lovely bunch of gameplay videos from Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for you today. Three in fact! In this first one we get to see some puzzle solving, and after the jump you can see some hot dungeon action and then get your sea legs with some sailing gameplay. The more I see of this ...

Game Design: What Web Developers Can Learn From Game Designers

Danc over at Lost Garden has some thoughts up on what web designers can (or should?) learn from game designers, and what some of them want to learn. Games are interesting to web developers because they demonstrate a rich set of techniques, proven over the course of thousands of projects to keep users ...

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 iPhone applications

The much-anticipated iPhone hits the streets today. While developers and users alike aren't thrilled that third-party iPhone apps are limited to the web, you might be surprised at the impressive offerings that have already been developed for new iPhone users. Today's top 10 features the best iPhone ...

Vimeo Relaunch

Everyone should check out the Vimeo relaunch. The design is easy on the eyes and that Sign Up page is something else!

Awesome Guitars!

AK-47 Guitar and Sword Guitar. Absolutely incredible.

Friday Videos - June 29th

Going Inside Turtles 1.21 Gigawatts (Redux) Rally Car Dentistry Boogie Nights / Star Wars Tractor Fight Enjoy your weekend!

Vimeo Redesigns

Vimeo redesigned with lots of clever little fun things like the new Sign In page, who’s online, etc. and some big features that needed to be implemented (new navigation, smaller player controls, etc.) I’m still marinating… I don’t have an overall opinion yet. (You can watch the ...

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Clock kit (and contest)

This is pretty interesting, a clock kit and a contest to mod up a case - These kits have the display, breakout board with the "buttons" and the power supply (all the same features as our Gator and Alba clocks) All you need to do is make a cool case to house them in!! Think of this as a Skill Defining ...