January 2009
43 posts
MapMyRun.com - Map your Running Routes. Find Runs.... →
Measurement Lab Checks if Your Connection is Being... →
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts :... →
Living Bath Mat Feeds Off You and Your Bath Water →
Save Money with Quick and Easy Homemade Granola... →
Gmail Goes Offline with Google Gears [Gmail Labs] →
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News →
Download details: WMI Code Creator v1.0 →
C# Tip: Monitoring Clipboard Activity in C# →
Ant Renamer is a Lightweight but Powerful Renaming... →
1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive... →
Don't touch when you are shopping, or the new... →
Google Engineers Fear 1,000 or More Layoffs →
Tweak Windows Startup Items to Improve Performance... →
Everyone Can Now File Their Taxes Online Free... →
You used to have to make less than $56,000 per year to use the IRS’ Free File program to submit your income tax forms online (with help). Now everyone can e-file for free this year. As the…
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
– Albert Einstein, 03/14/1879 - 04/18/1955 Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)
Take a Tour of David Allen's Office [Video] →
For his documentary-in-progress About You 2.0—a film about the culture of life hacking and productivity—Joey Daoud visits the office of David Allen of the Getting Things Done fame: It’s…
Google Calendar Desktop Gadget Released [Featured... →
Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Google Desktop’s gadgets are looking more helpful these days, with the addition of an official Google Calendar gadget that puts your appointments at your…
Honey Lemon Ginger Infusion Soothes Throats,... →
East-coasters, northerners, and anyone with a cold lately knows how rough winter can be. Slashfood has a simple recipe for a concoction that soothes coughs and throats, and gets more fluid in…
How Lost bends the rules →
Ed Note: Boingboing’s current guest blogger Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America, for…
Mercurial - Mercurial →
Lightscreen Captures Region Screenshots with Ease →
Lightscree
Fun with the Yoshimoto cube →
Video demonstration of a variation of the Yoshimoto cube, invented in 1971. Link includes a video on how to make one yourself out of paper, as well as an introduction to the Banach-Tarski…
Papercraft deep-sea creatures and submersibles... →
Rob sez, “The kids’ page of the Japan Agency for Marine-earth science and technology has some awesome [free!] papercraft models of deep sea creatures and submersibles.”
Jamstec Papercraft (…
This Burger King Sign Is Both Disappointing And... →
[January 13, 2008. Philadelphia, Pa. Image via Time Doctor] This Burger King sign is right. Nobody ever orders the salad or chicken.
Lifehacker's Guide to Catching the Inauguration... →
If you didn’t snag a ticket or the time off, there’s still a multitude of video streams, pictures, and other ways to experience Barack Obama’s inauguration Tuesday. Here’s our growing list of…
Update Twitter and Chat on Facebook with Pidgin... →
Pidgin already has support for a variety of messaging protocols, add to its chat-tacular arsenal with add-ons for Facebook and Twitter. Over at Download Squad they’ve put together a step by…
Hive Five: Five Best File Syncing Tools →
Levar Burton sings Reading Rainbow live at... →
One of the highlights of the show was that LeVar Burton, star of Roots, host of Reading Rainbow and “Geordi LaForge” on Star Trek: The Next Generation, came out to watch the show and even came on…
YouTube Optimizes for Your Wii and PS3 [YouTube] →
Video streaming web site YouTube announced a new beta service today called YouTube for TV (if you want to try it in your regular browser, here’s how). To begin with, the service is…
Where to Go When Google Notebook Goes Down... →
Google’s Notebook webapp was tightly integrated with other Google apps, had a killer Firefox extension, and was great at getting things done. “Was,” though, because Google is ending…
Funniest Condom Ad I've Seen All Year (for Durex,... →
This is not okay for kids to watch, but it’s potentially safe to sneak-watch at work. Durex: Get it On. YouTube, and here it is at the designers’ site with hilarious “out-takes.” …
The 44 Places to Go in 2009 - Interactive Graphic... →
GB-PVR mediacentre. TV, Music, Video, Pictures,... →
Video: Oil Speculators To Blame For Record Gas... →
If you thought oil speculators as the reason behind the historic gas prices spikes of this summer was debunked, think again. From ‘07 to when the price of oil collapsed, supply increased and…
Vinagoth →
Whoops: Ford Might Need A Bailout After All [Auto... →
Ford has been busy marketing itself as America’s Healthiest Automaker — but Bloomberg says that the company may need a bailout after all.
Ford Motor Co., the second-largest U.S. automaker,…
Bra Boys Fan Community →
lunchn.com →
Use Lunchn to Select a Location for Your Lunch... →
Lunchn is a web-based application geared towards groups trying to select a location for lunch. If you regularly meet with a group of people for lunch and want to vary the grub, check out…