Samsung Electronics UN40B7000 LED Backlit LCD Television
I find it maddeningly easy to be critical of new products. However, when Samsung sent us their 1.2″-thin LED backlit UN40B7000 HDTV, we set it up and quickly found ourselves struck speechless. Aside from an unresponsive remote control, off-axis black levels, and a few setup quirks, there is not much to dislike about this 40″ [...]
Discover Your Life’s Purpose in Around 20 Minutes—or Not [Mind Hacks]
Another work week is drawing to a close. If you’re less than thrilled by how you spent the last 40 hours, here’s a quick exercise designed to illuminate what you should be doing with your time.
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Blogger Steve Pavlina says that you can discover your life’s purpose in as little as twenty minutes. To [...]
Listen to "Complex" Music to Get a Song Out of Your Head [Mind Hacks]
Been singing the same refrain for what seems like hours on end and can’t seem to get the annoyingly catchy ditty out of your head? Here’s how to rid your mind of the song.
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Real Simple Magazine consulted James Kellaris, a University of Cincinnati professor who studies why catchy tunes [...]
Get paid to shop! Tibesti hacks the referral system
The Internet economy often works counter to what you’d expect in terms of who pays who. Take Tibesti, for example. Tibesti is a social network for shoppers that hacks the Internet’s referral fee system. The company lists 20 million products and is still adding more. Tibesti members are encouraged to create wishlists from this seemingly [...]
The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack
The Twitter document leak fiasco started with a simple story that personal accounts of Twitter employees were hacked. Twitter CEO Evan Williams commented on that story, saying that Twitter itself was mostly unaffected. No personal accounts were compromised, and “most of the sensitive information was personal rather than company-related,” he said. The individual behind [...]
Make Your Taste Buds Tingle With Homemade Carbonated Fruit [Beat The Heat]
Life gave you an abundance of lemons (and other fruit). What do you do? You could make berry lemonade, or you could make some carbonated fruit that’ll literally make your taste buds tingle.
Instructables user noahw has a guide to turning regular fruit into a refreshing, carbonated treat. You’ll need to track down some dry [...]
Windows 95 Running on the iPhone Makes Me Nauseous [Hacks]
It’s probably just the horrible background music and the schizo camera work that makes Doug Liman’s look like butter, but this video of Windows 95 running on an iPhone by the iSoft team makes my tummy turn.
The hack makes use of a standard Windows 95 image and the Bochs emulator, though as you [...]
Cool Down a Scorching Car as Quickly as Possible [Beat The Heat]
Decrease the amount of time it takes to cool your car off after it’s been sitting in the summer sun by using this simple six-step process. Photo by jam343.
Even with fancy reflecting shades and window tint, leaving a car parked in the sun inevitably turns it into a blast furnace. How-to compendium wikiHow offers a [...]
What’s Your Best Stay-Cool Summer Trick? [Ask The Readers]
Beat the Heat week is in full swing, and while we’re already doing our best to bring you a bevy of solid summer tips, we want you to join in the fun, too.
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So to get the tips ball rolling from our brilliant readers, we want to hear your favorite stay-cool summer tips and [...]