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May 31

Ye crowd gives up (Taken with instagram)

Ye crowd gives up (Taken with instagram)

May 30

Home away from home (Taken with instagram)

Home away from home (Taken with instagram)

May 29

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Here’s Why Apple’s iPhone Chargers Are So Expensive By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com Here’s the the ques­tion: you can charge an iPhone with any AC-to-USB adapter. So how does Apple get off charg­ing $29 for theirs? Ken Shirriff took one com­plete­ly apart to fig­ure it out, and it turns out, Apple’s charg­er goes above and beyond…

Here’s Why Apple’s iPhone Chargers Are So Expensive
By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com

Here’s the the ques­tion: you can charge an iPhone with any AC-to-USB adapter. So how does Apple get off charg­ing $29 for theirs? Ken Shirriff took one com­plete­ly apart to fig­ure it out, and it turns out, Apple’s charg­er goes above and beyond…

Japan firm unveils radiation-gauging smartphonerawstory.com By Agence France-PresseTues­day, May 29, 2012 8:08 EDTMobile phone oper­a­tor Soft­bank on Tues­day unveiled a smart­phone that can mea­sure radi­a­tion as con­sumers in Japan­clam­our for reas­sur­ance fol­low­ing last year’s Fukushi­ma… The fact that resources were put into this in the first place are kinda scary. On the other hand after what happened this is a brillant move. I for one would have one or maybe two on order if there were there.

Japan firm unveils radiation-gauging smartphone
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By Agence France-Presse
Tues­day, May 29, 2012 8:08 EDT

Mobile phone oper­a­tor Soft­bank on Tues­day unveiled a smart­phone that can mea­sure radi­a­tion as con­sumers in Japan­clam­our for reas­sur­ance fol­low­ing last year’s Fukushi­ma…

The fact that resources were put into this in the first place are kinda scary. On the other hand after what happened this is a brillant move. I for one would have one or maybe two on order if there were there.

May 24

What is wrong with this picture?

What is wrong with this picture?

May 17

Gale-Force Winds Directly to the Face Christopher Jobson, thisiscolossal.com Lithuan­ian pho­tog­ra­ph­er and artist Tadao Cern has been work­ing on a series of hilar­i­ous por­traits enti­tled, ahem, Blow Job, that depicts indi­vid­u­als endur­ing gale-force winds direct­ly to the face. Say good­bye to the next 15 min­ute… These pictures perfectly portray how I feel this morning.

Gale-Force Winds Directly to the Face
Christopher Jobson, thisiscolossal.com

Lithuan­ian pho­tog­ra­ph­er and artist Tadao Cern has been work­ing on a series of hilar­i­ous por­traits enti­tled, ahem, Blow Job, that depicts indi­vid­u­als endur­ing gale-force winds direct­ly to the face. Say good­bye to the next 15 min­ute…

These pictures perfectly portray how I feel this morning.

Here’s a great (and hilarious) way to fight spammers and scammers Boris, thenextweb.com Last night I spent a few hours (seri­ous­ly) read­ing the hilar­i­ous sto­ries at DontEvenReply.com. The web­site’s author emails peo­ple who post clas­si­fied ads. As he puts it: “My goal is to mess with them, con­fuse them, and/or piss them off”… Love it, putting minds together to annoy spammers. Well worth the efforts.

Here’s a great (and hilarious) way to fight spammers and scammers
Boris, thenextweb.com

Last night I spent a few hours (seri­ous­ly) read­ing the hilar­i­ous sto­ries at DontEvenReply.com. The web­site’s author emails peo­ple who post clas­si­fied ads. As he puts it: “My goal is to mess with them, con­fuse them, and/or piss them off”…

Love it, putting minds together to annoy spammers. Well worth the efforts.

May 16

This Is What Android Fragmentation Looks Likegottabemobile.com Post­ed by Chuong Nguyen | 05/16/2012 | 0 Com­mentsFrag­men­ta­tion on the Android ecosys­tem encom­pass­es many dif­fer­ent things. As there are a vari­ety of Android licensees each mak­ing mul­ti­ple phone mod­els with vary­ing hard­ware…

This Is What Android Fragmentation Looks Like
gottabemobile.com

Post­ed by Chuong Nguyen | 05/16/2012 | 0 Com­ments

Frag­men­ta­tion on the Android ecosys­tem encom­pass­es many dif­fer­ent things. As there are a vari­ety of Android licensees each mak­ing mul­ti­ple phone mod­els with vary­ing hard­ware…

Beautiful Pencil Sculptures by Federico Uribe Michael Dachstein, inspirefirst.com Below sculp­tures by Fed­eri­co Uribe are still rather impres­sive when you con­sid­er his media of choice is pen­cils. Through care­ful arrange­ment and bind­ing of writ­ing uten­sils, the Miami-based artist crafts bizarre man­nequins that are… Creative yes … Odd yes X2

Beautiful Pencil Sculptures by Federico Uribe
Michael Dachstein, inspirefirst.com

Below sculp­tures by Fed­eri­co Uribe are still rather impres­sive when you con­sid­er his media of choice is pen­cils. Through care­ful arrange­ment and bind­ing of writ­ing uten­sils, the Miami-based artist crafts bizarre man­nequins that are…

Creative yes … Odd yes X2