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An Interview WIth the Mac Start-Up Chime’s Creator [Interviews]
Feb 26th
Jim Reekes is one fascinating guy. He created the start-up chime you hear every time you restart your Mac. He uses the word “ear-conic” in a sentence. And in this (slightly NSFW) interview with Dutch TV, he brings the awesome.
The segment starts out in Dutch, but the interview is all in English. Other fun tidbits Read more ...
Ask an Expert: How To Watch Porn on Your iPhone [Nsfw]
Feb 24th
Apple’s moral App Store crusade has been devastatingly and alarmingly effective, laying waste to
over 5000 apps the company
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How to Flirt in the Real World Using Facebook and Twitter [Bad Valentine]
Feb 13th
Last Wednesday I married the love of my life. This is the short story of all the things I did before I met her, a guide on flirting using Twitter, Facebook, texting, and sexting face-to-face, in the real world.
Since I came to New York, my romantic life has been a rollercoaster. A very fast one, with 9G turns. If there is a city in the world to flirt and date anywhere and anytime, it’s NYC. You don’t need the web to meet people. Every cafe, every bar, every party seems like a huge playground for singles to engage in conversations and start love affairs. However, the web can help while you are meeting people and after, all in Read more ...
The Steam-Powered Vibrator and Other Terrifying Early Sex Machines NSFW [Sex Toys]
Feb 13th
As long as humans have had genitals, we’ve found artificial ways to stimulate them. But it took the repressed Victorian era to create the vibrator, a device aimed at curing a disease that doesn’t exist.
It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, a time where those without honeybears to take out to dinner are probably feeling a little lonely. And you know what happens when people get lonely: they go to town on themselves. According to Pamela Doan of Babeland, one of the biggest sex toy shops around, sales were up 22% overall last Read more ...
Fear and Loathing On a Tech Support Call [TechSupport]
Feb 12th
A lot of people incurred the wrath of Hunter S. Thompson over his long career, and we can now add the “fools,” “bastards,” and “idiots” who worked at his local electronics shop to that list.
Warning, the video is NSFW if you work with old people or humorless prudes.
Take your average septuagenarian’s frustration with technology and add Thompson’s well-documented volatility. That will only offer a hint of how amusing this call—an expletive-ridden threat to the people who set up his new JVC DVD player—really is.
It’s also reassuring to know that Thompson, who wrote a Read more ...
