So Portland Fashion Week, if the website that hasn’t been updated in a year didn’t tip you off, has been abandoned. Instead, Executive Producer Tito Chowdhury has started FASHIONxt, which sounds like a stylish new model of vacuum cleaner or curling iron, and somewhat rightly so. Chowdhury, whose day job is as a Microprocessor Design […]
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Would You Pay $5 to Watch Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly Eviscerate Each Other?
Calling all people who like to watch other people fight each other! Liberal knee-jerker Jon Stewart and conservative toothless bulldog Bill O’Reilly are planning on mixing it up again—though this time you’ll have to pay to watch their verbal slapfight. Called “The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium: O’Reilly vs. Stewart 2012,” the two will be […]
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Here Is What You Need to Know About XOXO Fest
1. It’s a weekend-long festival focused on how technology is helping artists create and distribute their work in new ways. (I wrote about it in slightly more depth here.) 2. Tickets were $400, and sold out in two days on Kickstarter, so you can’t go anyway. 3. The festival’s music, film, and gaming events are […]
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Google Blocks Anti-Islam Video in Libya and Egypt
Not because the video meets the company’s definition of hate speech, reports the New York Times, but because the company wants to help quell the violence in those two countries. Google’s action raises fundamental questions about the control that Internet companies have over online expression. Should the companies themselves decide what standards govern what is […]
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Military Robot Dogs: Prepare to Evacuate Your Bowels
From NBC News: The U.S. military-funded robot dog program— I’m sorry to interrupt this block quote, but WHAAAAAT THAAAAA FUUUUUUCKKKKK???? Okay, continue. The U.S. military-funded robot dog program now has two electronic canines in training to haul gear for soldiers over rugged terrain. Each member of the pack is also 10 times quieter than its […]
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Apple iPhone Announcement Postview!
Since my preview went so well, I assumed (correctly) that you’d want to hear more of my thoughts about Apple’s big event this morning. For you, dear reader, I took a couple hours out of my morning to kinda watch the Apple announcement while cleaning my apartment. Here are my thoughts. The most important thing […]
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Hot Or Not: Google Glass at New York Fashion Week
Back in April when we polled you on Google’s “Project Glass”—which emerged as Google Glass, a hands-free alternative to smart phones—only 13.61% of you answered “I want those glasses so fucking hard right now.” 21.09% of you said you’d try ’em, and 42.18% thought smart phones were quite enough in the personal technology department thankyouverymuch. […]
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Friendly Reminder: OUR IPHONES ARE STILL COVERED IN BLOOD
The worst thing about the whole Mike Daisey debacle wasn’t that Daisey duped a lot of people (including me, at TBA, almost exactly two years ago). It’s that as soon as Daisey was caught falsifying some elements of his monologue, the other elements of that monologue—the ones that, by all other accounts, were legit—were tarnished […]
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Our “Apple Preview” is the Best “Apple Preview”
In case you missed it, yesterday’s verrrrry funny “Apple iPhone 5 Announcement Preview!” by our own Alex Falcone attracted a lot of attention—and landed the top spot on this morning’s Google Finance page. And since then it’s drawn both the ire and admiration of Apple fan boys and haters alike! Here are just a couple […]
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Apple iPhone 5 Announcement Preview!
I’ve watched every iPhone announcement to date, so I think I’ve got a pretty good handle on them. I’m going to save you time now by running through the iPhone 5 announcement coming up on September 12th as if I’d already seen it, because I pretty much have. Apple makes more money than youAll the […]
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You Don’t Know Me, Pandora… YOU DON’T KNOW ME!!
You know my feelings about robots: they’re just fattening us up on delicious noodles so they can murder us and absorb the precious sugars in our bodies to recharge their batteries. From time to time, I am able suppress my fears and listen to Pandora because it was really good and really free. But something […]
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Sorry, GOP! No Ronald Reagan Hologram for You
According to Yahoo! News, Republicans had a secret weapon they were considering dropping into this year’s GOP convention: a Ronald Reagan hologram. The hologram—which was designed by the same company who made the Tupac hologram at Coachella—was supposedly ready to make its debut in Tampa and cause every Republican in sight to squirt a gleeful […]