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It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
In honor of the bard’s birthday, we’re paying homage to his unmatched talent with dramatic dialogue, particularly his flair for insults. So, next time you find yourself muttering “Them’s fightin’ words,” just think: What would Shakespeare say?
Not that it matters to most of you, but we have no idea where Lev Grossman is. If you’ve seen him, please tell him to come home. We miss him. And so does Church.
And here we have the last pocket knife you’ll ever need. The $68 “Switch” from crowdsourced product manufacturer Quirky features 18 different attachments that can be custom configured into three different knife sizes.
If your weekend plans are full of nerding it up at this year’s Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo, then take a peek at these Spider-Man paintings, done by awesome artist Scott Morse (Soulwind). Morse will be peddling his work at the Expo, with each 6″ x8″ painting selling $150 – though his blog also mentions [...]
Once in a while you need a swift kick to the derrière to put things back into perspective. It seems like fanboys, tech pundits and tech journos have been bickering back and forth about the iPad for months. Can it do this? Can it do that? Why doesn’t it have this? You get the picture.
Kristen Stewart (Twilight, Adventureland) might replace Angelina Jolie in Wanted 2. [via Collider]
Netbook trailblazer Asus is apparently planning to officially reveal its own tablet in early June at the Computex trade show in Taipei. According to DigiTimes, the actual launch will come sometime in the third quarter, “which sources from component makers revealed will be late July.”
Things can certainly change in the blink of an eye. After announcing that they were looking for a buyer less than two weeks ago, Palm now says it can survive on its own with “a strong pipeline of products” coming down the road, said Palm CEO John Rubenstein.
Google recently revealed that its free GPS navigation software that currently runs on newer Android devices will someday be available on other smartphone platforms such as the iPhone. No timetable’s been given but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it made available for BlackBerry and perhaps Palm devices, at the very least. Maybe Windows Phone [...]
