While the publishing industry, and indeed readers themselves, are still figuring out just exactly what to do with e-readers and e-books, Amazon’s certainly not flagging. Engadget, and about 200 other media outlets, reports that Amazon’s new Kindle—in WiFi only format, of course—is going to be a paltry $139, just in time for the new school […]
Print, cut, fold. Voilà. [Via Reddit]
If you’re in the United States you might know that there’s this very confusing copyright law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, that (in short) criminalizes certain means of circumventing copyright protection (i.e., digital rights management, or DRM, i.e., that stuff that wouldn’t let you play your MP3s wherever you want). The DMCA […]
An absolutely amazing remix that uses some of the most popular videos released by the old spice man in the past week. Enjoy.
Hello, scholars. Look at your grades. Now look at mine. Not back at your grades, now back to mine. Sadly, they’re not like mine… Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly subject you to another post mentioning the Old Spice ad campaign, I saw this parody featuring the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young […]
While this does tread on sacred ground for me, having enjoyed Ferris Bueller’s day off with my friends and family for years, this mashup by Classy Hands that visualizes the Ferris Bueller Fight Club Theory is extremely well done. Going off the idea that Ferris Bueller is actually Cameron’s projected alter ego, ala Tyler Durden, […]
Sony pictures finally released the full theatrical trailer for The Social Network, and while it certainly reveals more about the movie than the two previous teasers, it still didn’t convince me that I should go see it at the cinema. I’ll probably wait until it’s out on DVD/Blu-Ray. What about you?
I love it when the Internet makes stuff happen. Thanks to reddit, there’s now a voicemail generator at oldspicevoicemail.com. Whether you’re “ripping out mass loads of weights” or “on Reddit,” there’s a personalized message for you. Note that though as of this writing the voicemail is appropriate for a guy’s phone, there should soon be […]
It’s time for a new season of The Guild, the MMORPG-based web series spearheaded by geek favorite Felicia Day. The first episode, “Epic Guilt”, premiered last night at midnight PST. You might remember that last season featured Wil Wheaton as the leader of a rival guild, and it looks like that character is definitely sticking […]
It’s no secret that major search engines try, data protection laws permitting, to use demographic information to provide more accurately-targeted advertisements. Now researchers believe the same details could be used for producing more relevant search results. Ingmar Weber and Carlos Castillo of Yahoo’s research center in Barcelona say there’s a clear pattern between demographics and […]