Ashes To Vinyl: Because You Always Wanted to Be in Guns N’ Roses [Ashes]
I thought I fancied the idea of turning myself into a diamond once I die , but actually, having my cremated ashes turned into a vinyl record of my favorite album is much more my style. More
Plastic Logic QUE ProReader is Dead, Dead, Dead. DEAD. [Ebooks]
After canceling all pre-orders , Plastic Logic has completely cancelled the QUE ProReader . They claim, however, that they are working in a second generation. Apparently, they realized their product was dead-on-arrival because of the changes in the market. More
Cooling Pump Malfunction Shuts Down Parts of the ISS [ISS]
I can think of few things more terrifying to an astronaut on the ISS than being awakened by blaring klaxons in the dead of night. That happened this weekend. More
Gourmet Magazine Returning From the Dead in iPad App Form [IPad Apps]
Beloved food magazine Gourmet was shuttered by Conde Nast last October to the sadness of food nerds everywhere. But now, it appears to be rising from the ashes as...an iPad app. More
How to Force Anyone to Follow You on Twitter [Twitter]
Follow this dead-simple guide to force any Twitter user—from Oprah to Kutcher—to follow you . No, seriously. (Updated) More
The Reanimator: Raising the Dead Was One of Electricity’s Earliest Goals [Book Excerpt]
Before scientists figured out electric motors, batteries were first used in chemistry experiments and primitive medical research. From his enjoyable book, The Battery , Henry Schlesinger describes the real-life Dr. Frankenstein who inspired Mary Shelley's classic horror story: More
iPad version of WSJ: $17.99 a month
Pretty pricey, no? Still, it's at least ten bucks cheaper than a monthly subscription to the dead-trees version. Originally posted at News - Digital Media
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Today, Steve Jobs Is Very Sad [Apple]
Apple Director and IBM ex-CFO Jerome B. York is dead after suffering a burst brain aneurysm. He joined Apple's board when Steve Jobs came back into the company. Needless to say, Steve is very sad: More
Today, Steve Jobs Is Sad: The Passing of Jerome York [Apple]
Apple Director and IBM ex-CFO Jerome B. York is dead following his hospitalization yesterday, after a burst brain aneurysm. He joined Apple's board when Steve Jobs came back into the company. Needless to say, Steve is very sad: More
Staring Directly At the Artificial Sun [Image Cache]
That's not the sun. But for a brief period, in a small Arctic town in Canada, in the dead of winter, it was the next-best thing. More