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09 Apr 2010 15:32

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Tech: Want to print your own newspaper? In the U.K., you totally can.

By taking advantage of large newspaper presses’ offtime, The Newspaper Club has been able to turn out small print runs for anyone, cheap. (Hat tip @10000words) source
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05 Apr 2010 11:31

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Tech: Want to become a better iPad touch typist? Use this app

  • If we can somehow turn an army of tablet-wielding rich people into tablet-wielding rich people who can also type at 50 words a minute on a touch screen, the world will have plenty of reason to be scared. We haven’t tried this app, but plan to. source
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01 Apr 2010 10:32

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Tech: YouTube’s April Fool’s joke, TextP, really works (and is awesome)

  • Perfect response to this feature: “I like the TEXTp, but could you cut the font size in half? some videos look horrible and you can’t even make out what it is with the current font size. If it were 6 or 8 instead of what looks like 12 then you would still cut down on bandwidth but get more people to switch because they will still get their video.” (Oh, and people are downright angry about the new layout, which has been around for a while in beta form, and are threatening to quit the site where they watch all their videos. Because, as we all know, the most rational people in the world are YouTube commenters.) source
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30 Mar 2010 20:40

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Offbeat: Is an earthquake coming soon? The toads may know

And after the toads, the livestock will know, and then the locusts, and after that your first born will die. Then an earthquake hits. source
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30 Mar 2010 10:10

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Tech: We admit it, we think the Large Hadron Collider is freaking cool

  • 27km length of the underground tunnel, near Geneva, where
    all the good stuff happened this morning
  • 3.5x the strength of the atom-smasher compared the next-highest level of energy achieved
  • 99.9% the speed of the collider compared
    to the speed of light; any faster, and we might all die source
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22 Mar 2010 13:42

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Offbeat: He didn’t Lego: Dude builds career in high art, brick by brick

Of all the things you can build an art career out of, Legos seem fairly unlikely. But don’t tell that to Nathan Sawaya, who’s finding success with the blocks. source
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13 Mar 2010 11:42

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Tech: A hat tip to our friends at Apture, and their latest upgrade

  • As might be clear to the people who regularly use ShortFormBlog, we’re big fans of the Apture contextualization technology, and we’ve actually been testing out the newest version on the site for months. However, and this is big news, they’ve launched a public beta, with some significant(ly awesome) changes. You might notice that the bar on the bottom of the site has been replaced with a branded pop-up bar on the top with really cool social functions at your fingertips. They’re really excited about it (and have some awesome ideas about context), and so are we.
  • ยป Want to see something cool? Select this text: “Elvis bananas.” Then hit Control-C/Command-C to copy it. You should see something really awesome happen. Just sayin’. source
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12 Mar 2010 19:04

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Culture: Play him off, next-generation Keyboard Cat! Play him off!

  • What’s great about Keyboard Cat is that the original video is 26 years old. But that means that Fatso, the original cat, is long dead (sadly). But Charlie Schmidt’s awesome goofy video is no longer just encased in amber for all eternity. The next generation of Keyboard Cat has been introduced. Meet Bento. (Hi Bento!) See him play the keys like a king. source
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09 Mar 2010 10:28

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Tech: Your guitar controller plays games; our guitar controller plays songs.

Seven45 Studios ups the ante for the “Rock Bands” and “Guitar Heroes” of the world with “Power Gig: Rise of the SixString,” which uses a real, live gee-tar. Sweet. source
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08 Mar 2010 10:51

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Offbeat: 8-Bit NYC: An amazing video game visualization of New York City

  • For some reason, this is awesome. Someone decided to turn New York City into an 8-bit map, which actually is more useful than you’d think, and even makes a huge city seem a little less daunting. We approve, though we admit to clicking and hoping we were pulled into a level of Zelda where we got the opportunity to slay rich socialites. source
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