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Fracking Now Legal in North Carolina, Because Lawmaker Pressed the Wrong Button
Technology is screwing up our voting system. It is, time and time again. It’s possible that technology just doesn’t belong in that process, isn’t it? At least, not until the technology is foolproof and failsafe. North Carolina lawmakers had already passed a bill that would establish rules for fracking (hydraulic fractured natural-gas drilling) in the … Continued
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Would You Buy a $100, Open Source, Android Gaming Console Designed by Yves Behar?
The Ouya is a concept for a completely open sourced and hackable Android game console designed by Yves Behar (the guy who designed the Jambox and OLPC). When it arrives (if ever), $100 will buy you the box, a developer’s kit, and all the free games you can play. The vision is that any developer … Continued
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Rocky IV: Sly Stallone Takes on the Soviets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwvoTDoO9HgThere are few things more patriotic than a legendary American action hero taking on an evil Soviet boxer in an epic Cold War-era battle. Rocky IV is just that. In the 1985 film, Rocky Balboa must come out of retirement to duke it out with Ivan Drago, a steroid-addled USSR pugilist who killed Rocky’s friend … Continued
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Cheap, Plastic-Filled Furniture Makes It Easier for Fire to Destroy Our Homes
Today, more and more furniture is made using plastic-based materials, which burns drastically faster than the interior decor of yore, sucking all the oxygen out of a room at a faster clip, and making it harder to evacuate people. It’s a serious problem that’s making firefighters completely reconsider how they put fires out. The main … Continued
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Radiohead: The National Anthem
In light of the holiday, you might hear a lot of the national anthem this week. Radiohead’s version is not one of unwavering patriotism, but it’s a bass-heavy, brass-backed banger that they play at nearly every live show. Though it didn’t make it onto an album until 2000’s Kid A, frontman Thom Yorke actually wrote … Continued
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Your Lawn Furniture Could Clean Itself One Day
At the end of a sticky summer, your lawn furniture’s going to be gross with mold, algae, moss, fungi, or other bacterial yuck. You get to go in and take a shower after a day in the sun, but your furniture just festers. Unless it’s made with titanium dioxide, as these German researchers discovered. Scientists … Continued
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The Future of Twitter Is to Become Facebook
BuzzFeed FWD dove deep into the undercurrent of change that’s going on at Twitter right now and saw a glimpse into its future: Facebook. Yes, what Twitter wants to be in the future is nothing like what it is right now and everything like what Zuck’s social network already is. The Director of Twitter’s Design … Continued
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Gilt Taste: Find Gourmet Deals and Recipes
Eating well is expensive, whether you’re noshing in restaurants or chowing down at home. Gilt Taste helps you cut the cost on luxury food items and find inspiration for what to cook. What does it do? Like the Gilt you know and love, it gives you daily discounts on quality wines and gourmet items of … Continued
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Gizmodo’s 4th of July Block Party
Grillindependence Day | Come celebrate America’s birthday with us! How To Overclock Your Grill How do you make grilling more awesome? More fire, of course! Whether you’re kickin’ it coal-school or setting fire to a steady stream of volatile gas, it never hurts (well, sometimes it does) to pump up the volume. More » The Fireworks … Continued
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Where the Different Colors of Fireworks Actually Come From
If you want to scientifically impress your friends tomorrow (or look like a hoity toity smartypants), you can tell them what the color of fireworks really mean. See that explosion of electric white? That’s white-hot metal flakes. Gorgeous red array? Strontium Carbonate. It’s all about the chemicals, baby. Every single time a new color pops … Continued
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Did You Even Know What iGoogle Was Before Google Decided To Kill It?
Google’s latest product bloodbath includes underused or obsolete products you probably don’t need. Amongst the latest fatalities is iGoogle, which will die on November 1st. What is iGoogle and who uses it? To be honest a couple of us had to look it up. Launched in 2005, iGoogle is a personalized homepage that allows you … Continued
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Hide Your July 4 Beverages in a DQM Cooler Bag
The Fourth of July is far and away one of my favorite holidays. It’s an excuse to be overtly patriotic, blow things up, gorge yourself on barbecue, and drink beer. Lots and lots of beer. Just in time for Independence Day, DQM has come out with this Chinook Cooler Bag. It’s $128 and it might … Continued
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Making Raindrop Glare Disappear Using Smart Headlights
You’re driving down a twisting mountain road at night and all of a sudden the storm clouds open. Whatever you do with your headlights you can barely see more than a couple of feet. Fortunately, that’s all set to change thanks to a team of scientists who can make the reflections from the rain disappear. … Continued
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Will BlackBerry OS 10 Even Make a Difference for RIM?
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins is either in denial, or really knows something no one else does, because he is adamant that RIM is not completely screwed. With stocks tumbling, market share declining, and BB OS 10 delayed until 2013, it will take nothing short of a herculean effort to pull the hardware maker out of … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
Transforming Seat Doubles As an Entire Patio Set
If you’re tired of dragging your entire patio set into storage when the warm weather disappears come the fall, you’ll love this cleverly engineered piece of furniture that combines a chair, a lounger, and even a table, into a single piece. Estudio 408’s ‘M Chair’ is assembled from thin slats of lumber connected by long … Continued
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How to Get on a Plane Without ID
Because July 4th falls on a Wedneday, a lot of Americans will spend a five-day weekend traveling and drinking. It’s pretty common to misplace a wallet or a purse on that kind of vacation. And getting on a return flight without a valid ID, as you might imagine, is not easy. But it can be … Continued
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This Nerf Sword And Shield Is Your Dragon-Slaying Princess-Rescuing Deal of the Day
Nothing on Earth brings out the imagination better than Nerf. I mean, it’s one thing to build something amazing in a game or use those crazy little bricks, but with Nerf you actually get to play it out. Like… outside. In a field. Or abandoned factory. And with this Sword and Shield from Nerf, now … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: FIREWORKS!!!
The Fourth of July is tomorrow. And as usual, we’ll celebrate our nation’s independence (sorry international readers) by blowing up a small chunk of it. So get out your cameras and document the beautiful idiocy. The Challenge Capture a photo of fireworks. The Technique So, you have a TOUGH act to follow. Here’s what you … Continued
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12 Big City Scenes, Eerily Devoid of Human Life
What if we all disappeared tomorrow, leaving behind nothing but our stuff? That’s what we asked in this week’s Shooting Challenge. The results? Funny, clever, serene and often eery. WINNER: Busiest Pool In NYC I wish I had a private pool this large. This image is a combination of 20 or so images taken over … Continued
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This Complicated Deskcessory Does Everything You Don’t Need It To
If any product ever truly deserved the title of ‘jack of all trades but master of none’ it’s Thanko’s new iTable desk accessory. It preys on those who hate chaos on their desk, but at the cost of gobbling up a good chunk of your workspace. The iTable connects to your desktop or laptop and … Continued