If the iPhone had been made in the 80s
The son of industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger (creator of the distinct styling of the Apple IIc and subsequent products, as well as founder of frog design) shares memories and photographs (auf Deutsch; Google cache) of Apple’s early attempts at an iPhone.
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Bring email to life, and put spam to death!
Just when you thought virtual reality couldn’t get any worse, it’s 3D Email!
3D Mailbox delivers a fantastic, smarter e-mail experience. Immerse yourself in 3-D as you read and write your mail. Relax to the sounds of the ocean, seagulls, and cool tunes. Hang with your mail poolside, or feed your spam to the sharks! Deleting spam is so much fun, you may wish you had more!
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Malaria: The Buzz of Death
This year, 500 million people will get malaria and about a million of them will die from it. Some scientists believe that one out of every two people who have ever lived have died of malaria. Here are some reports from Sierra Leone on efforts to control this deadly disease.
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Psychiatry in pictures
Psychiatry in Pictures is a monthly feature of The British Journal of Psychiatry which often demonstrates art created by the psychopathologically afflicted. Other installments include portraits of important figures in the history of psychiatry, paintings drawn during art therapy, and photographs of (quite inhumane) psychiatric treatments.
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Wrinkled and Rankled
Okay, it wasn’t exactly banned, but the new Dove ad for their anti-aging products– featuring tastefully nude older women– was pre-emptively rejected by broadcast networks. Dove’s Campaign For Real Beauty shares reactions, lets you meet the cast, and invites you to discuss.
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these ppl better hope they don’t find themselves on the moon!
Problem: How to get laid. Solution: Edit Super Mario World.
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Powerful mood-altering chemicals
Alexyss Tylor was right! Semen is a powerful drug. (Fairly SFW, text-only link.)
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Harlem-13-Gigapixels
On a summer afternoon in 2006, New York photographer Gerard Maynard captured his neighborhood from a rooftop at 7th Avenue and 110th Street. The resulting 2,045 photographs, stitched together, comprise a 13-gigapixel panorama of Harlem’s skyline. Best viewed with HDView option (MS Internet Explorer only).
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Oh God the mother of all earworms
If it’s highly virulent earworms you’re looking for, you will probably want to check out "Spanish Flea," an irrepressibly cheerful song written by Julius Wechter and recorded by Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass. This slight, two-minute instrumental from 1965 (originally with lyrics by Cissy Wechter) has become so popular as ‘waiting room music’ and ‘hold music’ that it’s become a cliche of the genre, and it’s quite likely that you’ve heard at least a snippet of it at some point in your life. (Perhaps repeatedly, late at night, at your local supermarket?) It’s been used for several film soundtracks (American Pie 2, Ocean’s Eleven, Striptease, etc.) and, perhaps most famously, as one of the theme songs for the show "The Dating Game." Of course, in the most striking gauge of its cultural ubiquity, The Simpsons has referenced it not one but four times (only two are available on youtube). The song’s infectious melody has spawned innumerable homages, ranging from interesting to amusing to thought-provoking to imbecilic to bizarre
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AKARI IR Sky map
The AKARI mission has produced the first infra-red sky map in over 20 years.
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Regular Bowling Not Frustrating Enough? Try This!
The Dreaded Half Worcester warning: music is just one of the possible vexing configurations players encounter in candlepin bowling, a regional variation on traditional bowling that’s unique to northern New England and maritime Canada. Developed in Worcester, MA, around 1880 (warning: more music), the game is played in gorgeous antique alleys dotted around New England and Nova Scotia, and features a 4 1/2" wooden or rubber ball, three rolls per frame or "box," and 15 and 3/4" narrow, cylinder-shaped pins that are the devil to knock down — even though you can use the dead wood to knock other pins down, a score over 200 is extremely rare. Find some lanes and play or just take the quiz – like so many regional quirks, this one’s undergoing a bit of a revival
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Don Edrington
He’s a computer tutor for seniors, who also seems to have a giant collection of music that’s rare these days. Shortly before leaving to fight in Korea, he was kissed by Celia Cruz in 1951, among other adventures.
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Molly Walker Need Not Apply
WIRED: A cell mobile phone helped police find the body of missing student Kelly Nolan. "The average citizen is not aware that they are carrying a location-tracking device in their pocket…"
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Find The Cult Movie Visual References
Crazy 4 Cult is a new exhibit coming to Gallery 1988, the Los Angeles art gallery that hosts the annual (and always great) IAm8Bit exhibit. Just as IAm8Bit uses videogames of the 1980s as the theme for the artists, Crazy 4 Cult is using Cult movies. For fun, the exhbit poster features a huge number of movie references – can you catch them all?
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Aslan Shrugged
"And, why," Lucy says, "a lamp post!" The lamp post shines like a monument to industry.
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An orange hankie in the right pocket means…..
Ever wondered how gay men signal each other with colored hankies? Ask Meathook. (warning: the photo section is not suitable for anyone, anywhere.)
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We’re in your routers, hacking your Government
The Athens Affair. An IEEE Spectrum article on the Vodafone Greece phone-tapping case, quite possibly the most elaborate publicized cybercrime ever.
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