Imagine a world where you sit at your computer and you never go outside. Where you never see another human being. This is the world that sites like Google and Facebook want you to live in.
Though they’d never admit to such a thing, the reasoning should be obvious: The longer you’re at your computer, the [...]
Sometimes it can be hard to see the messages a movie teaches, especially if they’re unintentional. The best way to see a movie’s messages, the bad ones in particular, is to be a parent watching the movie with your kids. Suddenly you find yourself talking to your kids after you leave the theater or after [...]
Video aggregation sites like Hulu and Fancast help you find your favorite TV shows on the Web, but the founders of the newly-launched Clicker have a bigger picture vision.
“At the end of the day what we think we built is the first true programming guide for Internet television,” said Jim Lanzone, CEO of Clicker and [...]
The right kind of sound can relax your mind, hone your focus, drown out distractions, or get you pumped to kill your to-do list. We’ve assembled some research and free resources to help you create your own best workspace soundtrack.
via The Best Sounds for Getting Work Done – Music – Lifehacker.
A little editing of the recent Apple Rock N Roll event, extracts the best parts.
Have special plans this 09/09/09?
Everyone from brides and grooms to movie studio execs are celebrating the upcoming calendrical anomaly in their own way.
In Florida, at least one county clerk’s office is offering a one-day wedding special for $99.99. The rarity of this Sept. 9 hasn’t been lost on the creators of the iPod, who have [...]
Whether you’re moving, short on cash, or running out of storage space, you’ve got plenty of reasons to ditch your physical media. Hard drives are cheap; here are our recommended methods of saving, selling, and trading your CDs, DVDs, and video games.
via The Definitive Guide to Backing Up and Ditching Your Discs – CDs – [...]
For the past seven years, one particular character has defined the USA Network schedule. Tonight, former detective Adrian Monk will begin his eighth and final season of quirky crime solving before award-winning actor Tony Shalhoub moves on to other wonderful adventures.
In addition to being a genius at observation and deduction, Monk has a daily battle [...]
My favorite ham activity is making contacts via satellites. Not only is there the romantic notion of sending messages into outer space, but you have to trace the orbit of the satellite with your antenna while tuning the radio, to compensate for the Doppler effect.
The satellites AO-51, SO-50, and AO-27 orbit the Earth acting as [...]
If the ancient Egyptians had the internet, there would have been 11 plagues in Exodus, with “unreliable DSL” tucked in between the frogs and the lice.
It’s a pain when your DSL goes down, but the bright side is that it gives you a chance to rate yourself on the Internet Dependency Scale. Just compare your [...]
A tectonic shift has taken place for the digital age: ad rates for popular shows like The Simpsons and CSI are higher online than they are on prime-time TV. If a company wants to run ads alongside an episode of The Simpsons on Hulu or TV.com it will cost the advertiser about $60 per thousand [...]
Feet have been dragged and dates have been changed, but the death knell is finally ringing for analog television. If you’ve dragged your feet too, check out the crash course inside.
Many stations will be cutting their analog broadcasts in the early morning, right around the time you’re reading this. By the end of the day [...]