Tag Archives: Awesome

May 02

Just the contents of an old chest in the attic

Over on reddit they have a forum, or as they call it subreddit, called WhatsInThisThing?, that grew from a post someone made about a vault they found in their house and the efforts around getting into it to see what … Read More

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Apr 26

Listen to Alexander Graham Bell

He invented the telephone and his voice was the first to be transmitted by it yet what he sounded like was lost to history. Or at least it was. Bell spent a number of years trying to improve on the … Read More

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Apr 12

The Jayne’s Hat controversy or why I hate Fox

You might have heard that Fox is going after knitters on Etsy who are selling replicas of Jayne’s hat from Firefly. This, despite having cancelled the show before it completed its first season. In response, ThinkGeek is donating 100% of … Read More

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Apr 11

Felix Baumgartner’s Story

William Langewiesche writes in Vanity Fair about Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian stunt jumper who successfully jumped from 24 miles above New Mexico. If you thought it took a lot of planning and effort to pull that jump off, you don’t … Read More

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Feb 01

Mark Cuban is endowing an EFF chair to ‘Eliminate Stupid Patents’

Mark Cuba, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and well-known for speaking his mind, is endowing a chair with the EFF to ‘Eliminate Stupid Patents’. When asked “why?”: Dumbass patents are crushing small businesses. I have had multiple small companies i … Read More

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Dec 14

Webcomics on the iPhone done right

Comic Chameleon is an upcoming iPhone app for viewing webcomics. But unlike some previous attempts, this one actually respects the authors’ copyright. Even now, the list of available comics covers some of my favorites and probably yours as well. Launch … Read More

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