Color IQ Test – Learn How You Really See Color

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Krulwich Wonders…

Robert Krulwich is a correspondent for NPR's Science Desk, reporting on the intersections of science and technology with culture, politics and religion. His specialty is explaining complex news in a style that is clear, compelling and entertaining.<br /> Additionally, Krulwich co-hosts WNYC's NPR-distributed scientific documentary series Radio Lab with host/producer Jad Abumrad. VISIT LINK: Krulwich [...]

Times – a unique and innovative RSS newsreader for iPad

Times presents news feeds in a visual newspaper format that is always up to date with news from the sources you want. VISIT LINK: Times – a unique and innovative RSS newsreader for iPad (tags: aggregator apple app application applications blog apps design feeds feed inspiration interesting interface ipad leopard web ui tools software rss [...]

Why Yahoo lost: In the software business, you can't afford not to have a hacker-centric culture

"Which companies need to have a hacker-centric culture? Any company that needs to have good software." VISIT LINK: Why Yahoo lost: In the software business, you can't afford not to have a hacker-centric culture (tags: advertising blog business culture entrepreneurship fail google hacker history inspiration interesting internet microsoft media management lessons programming search software startup [...]

PasswordCard

A PasswordCard is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them. You just keep them with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords. Your PasswordCard has a [...]

Ebola Monkey Man scams Nigerian 419 Scammers

One of the funniest things I have ever read. "This site is dedicated to all the hardworking people who have either been scammed or annoyed by a Nigerian 419 Scam Artist. Oh, and relax, it's all in good fun." VISIT LINK: Ebola Monkey Man scams Nigerian 419 Scammers (tags: activism archive blog awesome blogs cool [...]

Should I have bought Apple stock instead of an Apple product?

Apple's stock is at an all time high. How much would you have today if you purchased stock instead of an Apple product? VISIT LINK: Should I have bought Apple stock instead of an Apple product? (tags: apple business calculator comparison computers cool data economics finance fun funny humor ipod interesting lifehack list market mac [...]

Food Inc full movie now available online free

What we eat, how it's produced, and where we are going from here. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. "Food, Inc." reveals surprising – and often shocking [...]

Protect Your Privacy: Opt Out of Facebook’s New Instant Personalization

"Please keep in mind that if you opt out, your friends may still share public Facebook information about you to personalize their experience on these partner sites unless you block the application." VISIT LINK: Protect Your Privacy: Opt Out of Facebook’s New Instant Personalization (tags: 2010 computing education ethics facebook fb howto interesting internet libraries [...]

Beautiful: When I die, I want to become pencils

Carbon Copies, by Nadine Jarvis. 240 pencils made from the carbon of human cremains, as memory for those left behind. The most clever touch are the pencils getting sharpened back into the box causing the sharpenings to occupy the space of the used pencils. Hope it gets real sometime. VISIT LINK: Beautiful: When I die, [...]

Well-Placed Pixels – A Visual Record Of Beautiful Software

For those who look at graphical interfaces of apps, and not just their content VISIT LINK: Well-Placed Pixels – A Visual Record Of Beautiful Software (tags: app apple application applications apps art beautiful blogs blog design designer development gallery graphics inspiration interesting interface iphone mac mobile osx pixels reference software ui ux webdesign web examples [...]

Scamville – How games like Farmville trick their users for cash

The real story of the completely unethical way that they are going about achieving that success. In short, for users who won’t pay cash, a wide variety of “offers” are available where they can get in-game currency in exchange for lead gen-type offers. Most of these offers are bad for consumers because it confusingly gets [...]

8-Bit NYC – real-world map that look like 80s video game

"What would a real-world place like New York City look like as an 8-bit video game map? I started wondering, so I created 8-Bit NYC, mixing the lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games with the kind of geographical data that drives today's web maps and GPS navigation. It's interactive (like Google [...]

The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures

To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things (Facial Attitude, Photo Context, Skin). We discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. VISIT LINK: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures (tags: web internet funny social photo online photography culture photos image interesting media pictures [...]

The Credit Card Prank: Who checks the signature?

The Credit Card Prank: Who checks the signature? "Nobody checks the signature. Credit card signatures are a useless mechanism designed to make you feel safe, like airport security checks. So my question was, how crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice?" (tags: fun funny humor security article interesting humour [...]