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Friendster Ruins Uncovered – The Onion

December 17, 2009

The Onion takes a crack at what future “internet archaeologists” from the “Friendster Excavation Project” discover when they run across the ruins of the ancient online civilization, Friendster.”
One day users were posting a seemingly endless stream of bulletins about “awesome parties” and “cool shows” and then, nothing. Total silence. . . Their lives come to a complete [...]

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Ringtone Symphony

October 23, 2009

Izumi pointed me this old video from the Improv Everywhere performance troupe in which they orchestrate the simultaneous ringing of a large number of cellphones stored in a normally quiet place.
Mayhem ensues.

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IKEA Heights

September 3, 2009

IKEA Heights is a mini-series shot entirely in the Burbank IKEA store without the store’s knowledge. I think we’re seeing the birth of a new genre.
Flash Concerts and Performance Art to name a few. The Finns pronounce it ee-ki-ya by the way.
- via Laughing Squid

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Fisher-Price Snuffs Out View-Master

August 12, 2009

Fisher-Price, the toy company that used to market them, has just eliminated almost all the View-Master titles that have been a staple of young lives for almost 70 years.
- The Economist
Rumor has it that Microsoft will license the rights to the View-Master and use them as a new and innovative distribution channel for their PowerPoint [...]

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Best Code Comment Ever

April 28, 2009

Comments left by developers in the dead of the night are inside jokes left for others. Little winks of comic relief left for others that will be parsing through the sub-routines trying to wrangle software to get things working. Usually code comments are short but this one left by a frustrated programmer of a Photoshop [...]

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Certain Destruction

February 28, 2009

From brutal field tests we now turn to an entertaining ways to get rid of unnecessary documents. Presenting, The Unloader!

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Screenshot of MacBook Wheel Predictive Sentence Feature

January 6, 2009

In the absence of any real substantive announcement from today’s MacWorld, people are talking up a fictional device announced by The Onion, the MacBook Wheel. I’m assuming you’ve already seen the video but here’s a screenshot of the predictive sentence feature with some choice samples.
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Bluetooth Headset Monitors Conversations, Offers Helpful Advice

April 1, 2008

A new type of Bluetooth headset hits the market today that offers a unique service for busy travelers on the go. Listening in on your conversations, the Concierge by Sony Ericsson offers helpful tips when it senses hesitation or pause in the dialog.
Let’s say you’re talking to your date about a good place to [...]

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First Annual Day of Awesomeness

March 10, 2008

In celebration of the International Day of Awesomeness
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Coyle & Sharpe – the original San Francisco Pranksters

December 28, 2007

San Francisco has a long tradition of pranksters. Back in the early Sixties, two guys in suits working for the local KGO station interviewed people on tape for their radio show. The archives are available on CD and they also have been releasing selected episodes via podcast. The pieces capture a time when America was [...]

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