We can’t go anywhere without hearing gripes about Facebook’s new terms of use. How do you feel about all of this Facebook backlash? Are you searching for delete instructions as I type, or “Liking” everything in sight? We’re curious.
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Techland is expanding!
Today is Graeme McMillan’s first full day with Techland. He joins us from other Internet haunts like io9 and Newsarama. Be nice and say hello. But just for today. You can be a jerk to him starting tomorrow.
Graeme will be covering the Culture space alongside Steve and Allie, but don’t be surprised to see …
On last night’s season finale of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, merch extraordinaires ThinkGeek donated a ton of awesome stuff to give one kid the nerdtastic room of his dreams. (Watch the episode here.)
ThinkGeek donated over 45 items from its catalog for the room, themed Digital World, and some of it is pretty awesome stuff. …
File under “Inexplicable legal actions seemingly born of laziness”: Time Warner Cable is asking a US court to quash legal action against online piracy, because it doesn’t have the bandwidth to look up more than 28 IP addresses a month.
According to the Hollywood Reporter’s THR, Esq. blog, TWC has filed a third party motion to quash a …
Update: My original post was lacking depth so I’ve updated with a few more thoughts sprinkled throughout.
Today marks the second time that I’ve returned an iPad. I honestly thought I was going to keep this one, but I woke up this morning and realized that a device I spent over $800 on has been sitting on my couch untouched for …
YouTube entered beta testing five years ago this month, and to celebrate, we’re listing our personal favorite YouTube hits. Now for the last time, leave Britney alone and don’t you dare tase me, bro.
(More on Techland: YouTube Friday: 99-Year-Old Woman Gets Her First Computer)
Peter Ha: Kittens Inspired By …
Video games get a bad rap as a sedentary, unhealthy pursuit. It’s one of the reasons the medium fights for respectability and probably one of the reasons the President calls out video games as often as he does.
Whatever you may think about the Wii, Nintendo has changed the way people think about what it means to play a video game. …
DigiTimes is reporting that Foxconn will apparently ship 24 million iPhone 4G units this year alone—4.5 million shortly after Apple officially announces the phone on June 7th and another 19.5 million throughout the rest of the year.
Of course, none of this is official since as far as Apple’s concerned, the new iPhone doesn’t …
Case of the Mondays? Well, we’ve got some free stuff to give away to cheer you up.
Up for grabs is a limited edition (70/150) aluminum diebond art print signed by Crytek CEO, Cevat Yerli. It’s pretty wicked. Be sure to check out our preview here.
How do you win?
Have you been to NYC lately? Any horror stories? Or tell us about …
This will really put a stop to those uncomfortable wedding officiant tangents.
Japanese couple Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue recently tied the knot with the help of the I-Fairy bot, a ceremonial drone created by Japanese company Kokoro, where the bride works.
Inspired? The bot, one of only three in use, will set you back …
Another Monday, another set of handpicked deals. Here are the ten best ones, in no particular order. Walmart has some pretty aggressive pricing on netbooks and nettops, while Target’s got an excellent coupon code for 15% off anything ordered from its website. Happy shopping, folks.
ASUS Eee PC 1005HA 10.1-inch netbook: $198 today
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The list of blogs that this is via is lengthening unmanageably even as I type. Suffice it to say that it’s via Kotaku via Super Punch via the place where it actually appeared, COOLEY!
But what is it? It is: inappropriate Golden Books.
Doesn’t require much explanation. Cooley is Josh Cooley, who’s a Pixar artist. His life is …