CES, the Consumer Electronics Show held each January in Las Vegas, is known for two things:
1. Being the first look at the new gadget technology we can expect to see in the year ahead.
2. It’s invariably across the road from the annual porn industry convention held in Las Vegas at the same time. Continue reading
Because I am a fool waiting around with nothing else to do, I decided to download Android rip-off of the iPhone’s Siri, named Iris, and interview her.
Iris is a very strange woman. Continue reading
This year nearly 200,000 people across America have committed to learn computer programming through the Code Year Project. Sponsored by Code Academy, with lots of tech companies joining the project, Code Year seeks to help people learn the basics of computer coding so they can design their own web pages. Even New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is along for the ride. Continue reading
I see in the news that the issue of in-flight wi-fi availability is back.
Passing time while the cattle-prod charges up. Again.
It would be wonderful to while away the ghastly hours of a long (or even a short) plane trip looking at your favourite websites, emailing to all your friends about how horrible the food is and how loudly your seatmate snores. Continue reading
Law enforcement has been dealt some major setbacks this year because of their inability to effectively deal with protestors. This was epitomized by the UC Davis pepper spray cop. The non lethal options he had available to him were comically ineffective.
What he needed was something that would put real fear into protestors but without actually killing them. He needed the Sprayser™. The Crasstalk research and development team has been hard at work on the Sprayser since they first heard about the Occupy Movement. Now it is ready for general use. Read on to see the Sprayser in all of its glory. Continue reading
The Avenger Controller was originally developed as an add-on to a standard Xbox or Playstation controller. It allows those with disabilities to play the games they love with minimal hand movements. Its inventor, David Kotkin was inspired by a student in his class that experienced difficulty playing due to skin condition called Epidermolysis Bullosa, a hereditary condition which makes skin sensitive, blister easily, and sometimes affects hand size. The Avenger was rightly lauded as opening up gaming to a market that is often overlooked. Additionally, the general public, currently in love with multiplayer games, and a growing interest in competitive gaming brought the device to the general public and sales took off. Continue reading
One year when we were kids, my dad decided to mess with my brother and I in a way not unlike that Jimmy Kimmel video that has been making the rounds this week. He brought out a huge wrapped-up gift and stuck it under the tree. After every other gift had been opened, my brother and I tore the wrapping paper off and there it was — an entire pig’s head from a butcher shop. He thought this was hilarious… and YouTube hadn’t even been invented yet.
So Christmas brings out the crazy side in all of us and nowhere is that more evident than at the Shopping Mall of Perversion that is Craigslist. When Slim Pickens and I first kicked around the idea of a Christmas-themed Craigslost we honestly didn’t think we’d find nearly enough demented assholery and Freudian dysfunction for an entire post. Boy were we wrong. (Slim: Never before have I been so glad that I was wrong. I think.)
Let’s get to the fuckery! (Warning: Craigslost is NSFW.)
If you’ve ordered anything from Best Buy online since the day after Thanksgiving, you might want to check your email. Your special snowflake might not be getting that Hot New Toy after all.
From a press release issued to FOX 9 in Minneapolis earlier this week: Continue reading
After spending more than eighteen months of pre-trial confinement in a military prison, most of it under “maximum custody,” alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning has finally begun the judicial process in a military court.
In the second day of his (UCMJ) Article 32 pre-trial hearing, it was revealed that the affidavit that served as the basis for his arrest appears to have been based in large part on unconfirmed or erroneous information.
If you’ve turned on your TV recently you may have noticed a series of (awful and borderline racist) commercials for www.Buy.xxx. Yep, you can now register Slores.xxx (or whatever). Yesterday the .xxx top level domain (TLD) officially opened as more than 100,000 sites were registered with the domain management company ICM Management.
The creation of the .xxx TLD has been roiling the adult industry for the past few years but is now just creeping into the mainstream media. Continue reading