Portland’s population of motorcycle builders is a photographic bunch, as illustrated by the number of photo and video projects that have come out focusing on them in recent years. The latest is a unique project from Instrument called The Build. Instead of another straightforward stylized documentary, though, the result is something of an experiment: Instrument’s […]
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Reinforce Your Passwords, People
Nate Anderson set out to crack a single password in less than one day’s work. By the end of that day, he had cracked 8,000 passwords. You should read his full report at Ars Technica.
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Haven’t You Guys Seen The Internet? Food Porn Edition
Let’s all take this moment to promise before God and The Commenters, that we’re going to stop referring to things as porn that are not porn. Pinterest, for example is not full of “food porn” as people keep telling me. I’ve spent a lot of time on Pinterest and I’ve not seen one picture of […]
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Facebook’s Midlife Crisis Continues
Facebook unveiled their shitty new toupee and sweet-ass new sports car new news feed today. According to The Verge, it’ll be bigger—because bigger is always better—and a little more granular. There will also be recommendations, which sound like it’ll turn into another source of advertising revenue sooner or later: Besides the visual redesign, Facebook is […]
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The World’s First 100% 3D Printed Dress
A glimpse into a possible future of garment manufacturing technology (an industry that needs materials innovation with increasingly obvious desperation) came this week courtesy of stage designer Michael Schmidt and model Dita Von Teese, who debuted the design at none other than the NYC outpost of the Ace Hotel: Albert Sanchez I think it’s pretty […]
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The Closer Google Glass Gets, the More Ethical Dilemmas Appear
1. Here’s a blog post that makes a very good point about Google Glass: The key experiential question of Google Glass isn’t what it’s like to wear them, it’s what it’s like to be around someone else who’s wearing them. I’ll give an easy example. Your one-on-one conversation with someone wearing Google Glass is likely […]
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Another Win for Team Catholic
A deacon at St. Joseph’s Church in Fullerton, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, was arrested last week for possession of child pornography after Verizon detected images and videos on its cloud backup servers of children performing sexual acts. You have to wonder if they’ll ever get out of the “suffer the children” business.
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Robot Apocalypse Update: Rat Brain Edition
Poor little fella, getting contextual ads in his dreams. Normally the thing that scares me most in science is robots, with their beady little eyes that hide sinisters “thoughts.” But now scientists are working on something even scarier than a bunch of servos and actuators bent on world domination, they’re connecting rat brains to the […]
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Apple’s War on Barely Legal Teens
Steve Jobs once promised that Apple products would provide the world “freedom from porn,” and it looks like Apple is taking that “freedom” directly to your private e-mail. MacWorld reported this morning: Apple’s iCloud email service deletes all emails that contain the phrase “barely legal teen” it was revealed today. Macworld has tested this by […]
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Chocolate for Breakfast (at Tiffanys): Hepburn Returns in Candy Ad
Here is the latest example of a company deciding the best way to sell a product is to use modern technology to resurrect the dead. It stars Audrey Hepburn, making amiable mischief thanks to the amiable mischief fuel that is Galaxy Chocolates. This is not the first time Hepburn has posthumously appeared in an advertisement. […]
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What Would You Do With Google’s New Face Computer?
Last week Google finally showed us what Google Glass might look like in action. The Lavar Burton-esque face computer is going to debut next year for the price of a high end laptop that you don’t have to wear. Here’s the video from the perspective of a rich person’s eyes: Basically you just speak to […]
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Haven’t You Guys Seen The Internet?
Guess where I found this? The Internet! Last week Sports Illustrated released its annual Swimsuit Issue, featuring lots of pictures of women in swimsuits. “Who cares?” I thought. It’s like the Victoria’s Secret catalog, completely outdated in the modern era. But I was wrong. The issue brings in over a billion dollars a year. What […]