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.
10% ($0 to $8,375)
At your income level, you …
Motorcycle racing’s premier class got an upgrade last weekend at Laguna Seca when MotoGP rights holder Dorna Sports rolled out new gyroscopic camera mounts. Valentino Rossi’s Fiat Yamaha M1 was the guinea pig and the results looked fantastic.
I guess this is only cool if you ride motorcycles or are a fan of MotoGP but I wanted to …
At Microsoft’s Financial Analysts Meeting yesterday, CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage to talk about the company’s consumer initiatives. The entire video of the presentation is available here. He spent a portion of the time talking about slates and tablets, saying the following:
“One of the top issues on my mind is, ‘Hey there’s a
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What a month. It’s hard to think back past Comic-Con, but nerd fests aside, we had quite a time. We weighed into Apple’s iPhone 4 Antennagate (Hey, free bumpers!) and munched on pop corn while Inception bent our minds in ways only Christopher Nolan ever could. (Was it all a dream? WELL WAS IT?)
Then there was The Con. A week that …
YouTube announced yesterday that its upload length would increase from 10 to 15 minutes. It’s probably a move to inspire more original content on the site to compete with other video social networking sites like Vimeo or Vox. As it is now, YouTube is great for music videos, amateur home videos with viral potential and the ever-popular …
Haden Blackman, the man behind The Force Unleashed, has resigned from LucasArts reports IGN. I’m rather shocked to hear this news because I met with Haden on Tuesday in the Presidio to talk about The Force Unleashed II and all seemed fine in TFU land. I guess not.
“I’ve had a fantastic time working with the team at Lucasfilm and am …
Good news, EVO 4G owners. Sprint has announced that it will be pushing out the Android 2.2 update beginning August 3 (everyone should have it by mid-August). The following new features, include:
• Voice Dialing Over Bluetooth.
• Application Storage on External Memory, giving users more storage room for all their …
The year was 2004. My wife and I had just started dating when she told me—on Valentine’s Day, no less—that the gold hoop in my left earlobe looked “pretty stupid.” I took it out, placed it in my pocket, and never wore it again.
My how that night would have been different if I’d been wearing a fully functional pocket knife earring. …
Giving you yet another reason that you never need to go outside, Google Earth has added live weather. It’s accessible by activating the “clouds” layer inside the program and shows rain and/or snow wherever it may be happening around North America or Europe. Currently in Boston where I live, it’s… not doing either of those things.
If …
I’m not going to deny it: I had an absolutely great time at this year’s Comic-Con. I saw some fascinating panels (and moderated a few), I found some books I’ve been looking for forever, I bought some fantastic original art, and I was convinced, contra Lev’s essay, that nerd culture is the healthiest it’s ever been, both in numbers and in …
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
How Did William Shatner Interview A D.C. Sniper? He asked. [NYT]
Has Apple Forgotten About Its Remote App? [Gizmodo]
Why Do People Want The Kindle To Be The iPad? They’re Two Different Products For A Reason [Crunch Gear]
How …
