Jaw Dropping YoYo Performance [VIDEO]
Jensen Kimmitt recently won the World YoYo Championship, and in this clip you’ll see why. Enjoy!
Category Archives: Web
Ten of the Best Offbeat Twitter Users
There are plenty of celebrities, public figures, intellectual giants and business gurus using Twitter these days. But there are also some posters who entertain in a slightly different manner: the fictional, fictionalized or anonymous accounts. Here’s our guide to some of the most notable: @fakeapstylebook If you’ve any interest in language or journalism, this is […]
Video system designed to capture auto-challenge market
The people behind a new challenge/response test say their video-based system is both more legible to humans and trickier for computers to defeat. NuCaptcha is the latest incarnation of the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, a particularly convoluted way of producing an acronym that sounds like “capture”. The idea […]
IE 9 Beta Coming September 15th
Just a quick post to let you guys know that Internet Explorer 9 Beta will be available for download starting September 15th. If you’re interested in testing the browser out, you can sign up for the beta right here (Windows 7 or Vista only.)
Nostalgic Acapella Versions of Cartoon Theme Songs
Destorm is an artist who has created us several episodes of Soul Toons, giving us awesome acapella versions of Tailspin, Ducktails, Gummy Bears, and other Cartoon theme songs!
Awesome Prints of Bad Robot Dudes
Adam Sidwell is a graphic artist who turned to the internet for inspiration. Instead of looking for subjects in the heroes we see so often, he has been doing illustrations of “bad dudes“. From Max Max, to Tyler Durden, Sidwell uses an awesome modernist style. So far though my favorite piece is this set of […]
MC Dave Berzack Raps About Web Development
I’m usually not really into rap music, but darn, that was excellent! It’s probably also the best way I’ve seen to get your online portfolio noticed. Great job Dave! [Via Buzzfeed]
GAS Featured on Discovery’s Friday News Feedbag!
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Those crazy guys over at the Discovery News Friday Feedbag, a podcast that summarizes the most interesting science stories of the week, invited me to chat on the show once again. If you missed my first appearance, they asked me to share three GAS stories to add a little […]
Is cable TV the iPad killer?
In the crazy mixed-up world of modern tech, it was perhaps inevitable that we’d wind up with Verizon making a television. The company is reported to be partnering with Motorola to make an Android-fuelled tablet device, with the key selling point being TV viewing. According to the Financial Times, that will be based around a […]