Working for a 911 call center must be one of the most stressful job ever; when you’re not dealing with critical, life-threatening situations, you get called by morons who think that the official emergency number is there to answer all their questions: from asking what time of the day or what day of the week […]
Apparently Microsoft isn’t content battling Google on your monitor screen: it wants to do battle at the mains socket as well. The firm has launched a beta test of an online application designed to give customized advice on how to save energy in your home. The idea is that users then give feedback on the […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] According to The Economist, the virtual world Second Life might be a new way to help those with learning disabilities understand (and therefore provide informed consent for) medical procedures and treatment options. A model of the Royal Sussex County Hospital is being built, where the avatars of study participants […]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] I spied this image on Gizmodo yesterday and it made me laugh. Notice “YouTube:” just you and a tube! “Weather” and “Safari” aren’t too bad either! Somebody clearly put a lot of work into this. Let’s hope getting on the front page of Digg was the payout they […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] In a recent speech, Dow Jones Chief Executive and publisher of the Wall Street Journal Les Hinton waxed poetic upon the evils of Google by picking a metaphor and, er, sinking his teeth in. He called Google a vampire that’s been “sucking the blood” out of the newspaper business. […]
By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] Gather around, children, and I’ll tell you a tale of a bygone era when Yahoo! was relevant. Way back in the late 1990s and even into the early 2000s, Yahoo! was the web portal and search engine of choice for many netizens. But that was before the ascendance […]
He cannot deny it, Marvin has the most boring job in the universe… but navigating through space in an old piece of junk must surely bring its own share of excitement… right? If you want to download the 720P version of this movie or simply want to learn more about it, you can do so […]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Much has been made of the wives of the important men in history. Some of those wives were very important in their own right, or even more so than their husbands. It seems that one such lady has somehow slipped through the cracks of history, though. Recently, a […]
While I’m sure that you’ve all seen Darth Vader’s mask from the perspective of an outside observer, how many of you have ever seen it from the inside? Not many, I’m willing to bet! Look at all those tiny needles! Maybe Lord Vader was a fan of acupuncture, who knows? [Via Walyou]
O.M.G.I.G.P. stands for “Oh My God I’m Gonna Puke.” Some of you will think that this acronym should be used as an Anti-IE acronym, but in the case of the following video, no, it’s to promote IE8’s new InPrivate mode. Warning: Video is a bit gross. Oh, and before anyone mentions it, yeah, we know, […]