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How the Best Super Bowl Commercial Was Almost Cancelled by Apple [Video]

Casey Chan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:00:00 EST

You know Apple's 1984 commercial. You've seen Apple's 1984 commercial. Heck, it's widely accepted that the 1984 commercial is one of the best ads of all time. But did you know it was almost cancelled by Apple before it ever aired? More »

The Domino's Super Bowl Pizza War Room Oozes Pepperoni, Cheese, and Sadness [Pizza]

Kyle Wagner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:30:00 EST

On Super Bowl Sunday, 55 IT specialists will huddle together in a dark room to keep company's website afloat on the biggest day of its entire year, since it's going to be bombarded by millions of ravenous fans. But the company they work for isn't the NFL. More »

The Hustler: Sometimes Winning Doesn't Mean Shit [Movie Night]

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST

If you haven't seen The Hustler yet, one of the best movies in the history of cinema, please don't delay it anymore. This movie will leave you in awe from beginning to end. And while you are at it, have a whiskey or two. More »

These Childhood-Adult Hybrid Portraits Are Freaky and Fascinating [Photography]

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:30:00 EST

Photographer Booby Neel Adams' Age-Maps are as fascinating as they are spooky. He combines a person's childhood portrait with an adult one, resulting in these weird hybrids. Some of the results are hilarious. Others freak me out. More »

Everything You Need to Actually Meet Your Deadlines [Toolkit]

Kyle Wagner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:24:59 EST

A workplace with constant access to the internet can be a knife in the face of productivity, and a total nuclear disaster for any actual deadlines. Here are a few tools to help you stay on track and on time. More »

3 Ways to Chill Your Superbowl Beer FAST [Happy Hour]

Brent Rose — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:00:00 EST

It's game time. You're hosting, which makes you the quarterback of the party. Your friend blitzes you with a six-pack of warm beer. Don't let this blitz get in the way of getting blitzed. Here are two tried and true fast beer-cooling techniques... and one harebrained scheme. More »

The Destruction of a US Navy Ship As Big As a City Block [Video]

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:40:00 EST

This is a fascinating video. It shows how the US Navy destroys its old ships, one scrap of metal at a time, recycling every component to make new parts. The ship is the USS Savannah, a Wichita-class tanker almost as long as two football fields and ten floors high. More »

Tom Brady Watched Last Year's Super Bowl with an Illegal Stream [Super Bowl]

Casey Chan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:20:00 EST

Tom Brady—Patriots QB, NFL boy of gold, Gisele's hubby and Uggs slanger—is in the Super Bowl this year so he doesn't have to worry about where to watch the game. Last year though, Brady didn't play in the Super Bowl and had to watch it at home like the rest of us. What did he do? Well, Brady fired the game on an illegal stream off the Internet. Brady! He's just like us. More »

Google Docs Goes Offline, Sync Photos to DropBox, Stream Music, and Play a Darwinian Puzzle Game [Video]

Roberto Baldwin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:00:00 EST

Managing content on your Android gets to be a pain pretty quick. How much music can I put on here? Did I sync all those photos to my computer? Is this document the most up-to-date version? This week's app picks help make managing those things a snap. Oh, and we've got a pretty sweet game, too.

Smack a Hockey Puck, Get an NFL Workout, Cross Tetris and Boggle, and Become a Phantom Detective [Iphone Apps Of The Week]

Roberto Baldwin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:00:00 EST

If you want to be ripped like those NFL guys you're going to have to workout. Like all the time. You shouldn't even be reading this post. Quit your job and download an NFL player's workout app. Or if you're in Canada, go after a hockey puck. Forget it, I know we're all just gonna sit around and play video games on our iPhones.

MythBusters Was Banned from Talking About RFID Chips Because Credit Card Companies Are Little Weenies [Video]

Casey Chan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:40:00 EST

RFID chips are super cool because those little buggers can beam things wirelessly. The guys at Mythbusters totally thought so too and wanted to make an episode about how trackable and hackable RFID chips were. Sounds amazing! Everyone would've learned more about the technology that's invisibly invading our lines. But, nope. Credit Card companies banned 'em. More »

There's One Very Important Time You Should Always Lie Online [User Manual]

Sam Biddle — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:20:00 EST

Using the internet is only worthwhile if you can show off the perverse and wonderful things you've found on it. So, now that we're always online and always in touch, we're constantly sharing links. But what if you've seen it already? Lie. More »

Google Just Stripped the 'Nexus' from the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Update: No It Didn't) [Android]

Casey Chan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:01:38 EST

Google's pissed at the Samsung Galaxy Nexus LTE about something because it just effectively stripped away the Nexus title of the Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy Nexus LTE no longer shows up on Google's Nexus developer pages which seems to mean that Google no longer thinks the Galaxy Nexus LTE is a true reference Android device. More »

REK: A Shape-Shifting Coffee Table That Expands When Friends Come Over [Desired]

Mario Aguilar — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:00 EST

Tiny apartments are miserable for a lot of reasons, but the most frustrating is when you can't make the most of your space without a clutter of furniture everywhere. Consider my coffee table problem: It doesn't take up too much space, but if there's more than one person hanging out, it's too small. The REK coffee table by Dutch designer Reiner de Jong would change everything. More »

Edit Videos, Play a German Board Game, and Kick a Football FTW [App Deals Of The Day]

Roberto Baldwin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:20:00 EST

Back in my day we would edit videos on a large table with razor blades, white gloves, and grease pencils. Ok, I'm not that old. But, if you told me 15 years ago you could edit video on a phone, I'd have called you a witch and burned you at the stake. Well, today we have two video editing apps on sale, and no one is lurking around the corner with sticks and lighter fluid. If you still fear fire, we have a German board game and a field goal kicking app in today's app deals. More »

How To Land a Plane That's Missing Half a Wing [Video]

Brent Rose — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:00 EST

It's time to talk about the second letter in NASA: Aeronautics. Yes, NASA does mind-blowing things in outer space, but they also want you to get to your family reunion in one piece. NASA is making planes smarter. More »

The Internet Is Too F*cking Slow [WTFriday]

Matt Buchanan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:30:29 EST

I'm trying to download a couple of games that are 5-15GB each and also back up my entire hard drive and holy Christ it is taking forrrrreeeeeverrrrr. More »

Did North Korea Secretly Test Two Nukes in 2010? [North Korea]

Kristen Philipkoski — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:20:00 EST

A new analysis suggests North Korea clandestinely tested two nuclear weapons in 2010. If it's true, it would double the number of known tests hailing from the country and could mean serious nuclear warhead development is underway. More »

Facebook Valued at Just Under $100 Billion [Facebook]

Brian Barrett — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:12:45 EST

In a private market auction yesterday, Facebook was valued at $94 billion, which is squarely in the ballpark of the $100 billion valuation that financial pundits have been tossing around. Don't read much more into it than that; there's plenty of time for the valuation to change slightly before the actual IPO (sometime in May), and either way, it's not going to affect you in the slightest. [Bloomberg BusinessWeek] More »

The Hypnocube Is Your OMG-I-Can't-Look-Away Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]

Chris Beidelman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:00 EST

The lights. The pretty lights. I can't stop looking at the lights. A few hours ago I thought I was hungry, then the lights came on. They lulled my hunger away. Maybe the lights are trying to tell me somethings? I have to find the pattern. The light pattern will be the answer to everything. They're so pretty. They never judge. What day is it? Who cares. Time doesn't matter when you're engulfed by the lights. I love you lights. Money does'nt doesn't matter. Okay, money still still matters. It mattered when I bought the lights for $80. I saved $20. That $20 can be used to blackout the windows in my apartment so I can stare into the lights without being distracted by other light sources. -RB More »

Woman Arrested for Selling Up to $1 Million of Fake Facebook Stock [WTFriday]

Kyle Wagner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:40:00 EST

A Wisconsin woman is facing 31 felony counts of theft and forgery for selling and trading up to a million dollars of fake Facebook stock. So much for not getting rich off of the Facebook IPO. More »

Backflipping Cheerleaders and Laptops Strapped to Faces: One Seriously Strange Ad [Video]

Michael Hession — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:00:00 EST

Jawbone, Motorola, Plantronics—any company that thinks it's good at making hands-free devices might as well give up. Gojo Hands Free has just blown this industry wide open. For 10 bucks. No, call now and it's Five. No, wait, how about $2.50? More »

Genius Suction Cup Shower Bag Makes Dorm Bathrooms Infinitely Less Gross [Desired]

Kyle Wagner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:40:00 EST

The Vessell shower bag from Quirky is ostensibly for travelers and folks who need to be able to lug their toiletries around with them, but might actually be an incredible way to deal with the disgusting showers in dorms and college houses. More »

Anonymous Leaks Marine Corps Massacre Case (Updated) [Hackers]

Sam Biddle — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:11:57 EST

The bombs keep dropping from Anonymous—first local cops, then the FBI, and now the Marine Corps: sensitive documents from 2005's Haditha Killings trial. Anon doesn't think the Marine in charge should have gotten off so lightly. This is their payback. More »

Official Vimeo App Brings Mobile Uploads to Your Windows Phone [Video]

Mario Aguilar — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:00:00 EST

Windows Phone just got an official Vimeo app. Like its Android and iOS counterparts, the app gives you streamlined access to all of Vimeo's content. More importantly, it brings mobile uploads to Windows Phone so you can get that instant viral video up faster than ever. More »

Apple Censors: Kinky Sex and G-Spots Fine for 12 Year Olds, But Penis Bad [Apple]

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:28:00 EST

Compare these two covers. On the left, Spanish science magazine Muy Interesante has an article titled "Myths and Truths About the Penis". On the right, your typical Cosmopolitan smut, from "50 Kinky Sex Moves" to "Your Other G-Spot." More »

Sharing with "Friends of Friends" on Facebook Exposes You to 150,000 People [Facebook]

Sam Biddle — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:01:56 EST

Well this is mildly terrifying: according to a new Pew study, the Facebook privacy mode a lot of us rely on for photos and status updates is, on average, anything but private. Time to reconsider your settings, everyone. More »

iPad 3: Everything We Think We Know [Ipad 3 Rumors]

Kyle Wagner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:52:30 EST

It's that magical time of year again, when everyone expects a new iPad to be right around the corner. Which in turn means an amassment of iPad 3 rumors clogging up our lives. Here's a quick guide to making sense of them. More »

The Mini Crab Bot Will Crawl Down Your Throat to Cure Your Cancer [Monster Machines]

Andrew Tarantola — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:30:00 EST

The famous Chili Crab dish from Singapore inspires more than just drooling. A pair of researchers have developed a robot with two tiny crab-like pincers that attacks stomach cancer via your mouth. More »

Don't Be Dumb Like a Newspaper and Forget to Renew Your Domain Name [Psa]

Casey Chan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:57:16 EST

If you own a website, it's probably a good idea to renew your domain name right now. In fact, it's probably a good idea to renew your domain name for as long as is fiscally responsible for you. 3 years? 5 years? Whatever, go do it! We don't want your website ending up like the newspaper, The Bay Citizen, which currently re-routes you to an embarrassing GoDaddy landing page. More »

Now You Can Tweet in Morse Code [Video]

Michael Hession — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:51:58 EST

Martin Kaltenbrunner, Professor at the Interface Culture Lab in Linz, and all-around innovator of anachronisms, has designed a device capable of translating Morse code into a twitter post. He has dubbed his creation the Tworse Key. And guess what? You can out-vintage your friends and build one yourself by downloading the schematics posted on Martin's website. [via Apartment Therapy] More »

Anonymous Leaks an Entire Secret FBI International Conference Call (Updated) [Video]

Sam Biddle — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:32:25 EST

Usually the FBI is the one doing the wiretapping, but Anonymous has turned the tables on the feds, intercepting an entire phone conversation between American and British cops. The investigation? Anonymous and LulzSec. Irony! More »

Anonymous Smashes Boston Police Department's Website (Updated) [Hackers]

Sam Biddle — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:11:19 EST

Anonymous has had a nice breather after last month's Megaupload blitzkrieg, so it's apparently time for more vengeance: the Boston Police Department's site is defaced to hell. More »

Gorgeous Shot of the Olympus OM-D Leaks [Rumors]

Mario Aguilar — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:45:32 EST

Camera nerds have been aflutter for weeks about a new Olympus mirrorless camera that's supposedly set for announcement any day now. The latest rumor is a nearly full-body view of the retro-styled OM-D. If the rumor is true, the camera is going to be beautiful. More »

AMD Mobile Processors Coming This Year [Guts]

Brent Rose — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:32:25 EST

AMD has been going head-to-head with Intel in the PC market for years, so it's no surprise that they will be hot on Intel's heels in the mobile space, too. Yep, they have plans to design tablet CPUs. It's like two gorillas shrinking themselves to do battle in your pocket. More »

Accused Rapist Trolls Police On Facebook [WTFriday]

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:28:00 EST

This is Dustin McCombs. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, in Alabama, is accusing him of being a "rapist by force." They posted his mugshot on their Facebook page's Creep of the Week page. When Dustin McCombs learned about it, he was naturally pissed off, so he did what comes most naturally on the internet. He started to troll the sheriff. More »

Han and Chewy's Secret Love Revealed on Conan [Video]

Michael Hession — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:23:00 EST

It's time we let our favorite Star Wars characters be themselves. Why should they hide behind the vail of traditional gender roles? After all, relationship politics can be as compelling and fantastical as battling the Empire, right? Thankfully, Conan opens up the closet door using clips from ~~the awesome~~ a Star Wars video game ~~Star Wars: The Old Republic.~~ More »

Yes We Can (Profile You) [Politics]

Daniel Kreiss - Stanford Law Review — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:22:53 EST

During the summer of 2011, Michelle Bachman's campaign rolled out an online video advertising campaign exclusively for Republicans likely to caucus living within one hundred miles of the straw poll in Ames, Iowa. In the months leading up to the caucuses Mitt Romney's presidential campaign purchased ads that ran before all YouTube videos watched by voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. More »