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Slacktory

  1. gumshoe diaries - detective story

    Gumshoe Diaries: “Kill me, Kate”

  2. Alice from the Brady Bunch with the Step by Step family

    “Step by Step” is basically just “The Brady Bunch”

  3. LastLinesFromGreatBooks - the monster at the end of this book

    #Last Lines From Great Books: A Twitter game

  4. Neo answers a banana phone in the Matrix

    Reddit thread: Tell me your ‘Glitch in the Matrix’ stories

  5. james-bond-skyfall-no-gadets-title

    Why I’m glad Skyfall isn’t all about the gadgets

  6. man surrounded by bayonets

    Today I Fucked Up: A subreddit where fuckups are winners

  7. Finn the Human on Adventure Time

    All the best exclamations from Adventure Time’s Finn the Human

Technology

  1. HE-TEXTED

    HeTexted is a website that crowdsources the meaning of your text messages

    Modern day advice columnists beware, there’s a new Dear Abby in town. Well, more like @DearAbby and she’s more like “virtually in town” and there’s like 500 of her–all chomping at the virtual bit to dissect your text messages. Same idea, though!

    Text messages: officially the world’s worst form of communication (Morse Code was more direct!) that have taken over our day-to-day interactions. Even Twitter can afford you more privacy, so arguably, texts have become the phone call’s cooler, more sexy younger sister. This isn’t a good thing.

    Now, a new website that goes by the name HeTexted (Wait, don’t women also send confusing text messages, or are we just more “likely” to read into them?) has popped up, crowdsourcing the vaguest of communications into three distilled answers: “He’s Into You”, “He’s Not Into You”, and “The Verdict Is Still Out”.

    HeTexted.com

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  2. OS X Snoop Lion banner

    OS X Snoop Lion, From Apple

    Apple and the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg are proud to present their collaborative project. OS X Snoop Lion is a rebirth, inspired by traditional reggae style. And they’re donating ten percent of proceeds to the Marijuana Reform Party.

    See the specs for the new weed-friendly Mac OS. »

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    iOS 5 Easter Eggs

    With the release of iOS 5 I’m sure everyone will be challenging the capacity Apple servers trying to download this latest update. There are many great new features that all of you will love. To see those… go somewhere else. You’ve got Google. Use it.

    However, if you would like to see all of the hidden easter eggs covertly nestled away within iOS 5 then you have come to the right place.

    Take me to the Easter Eggs!

  4. ipad-underwater marked

    Gadgetboy: New iPad Screens Look Different From Old Ones Underwater

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Apple added a third Taiwanese touchscreen supplier in April. (We broke that huge story, and those douchebags at Gizmodo ripped us off without linking back!) Anyhoo, reader johngalt94 tipped us off to a major difference between the new Innolux screens and the older ones made by LG and Samsung. While they look and feel the same under normal conditions, the Innolux screens are clearly different when viewed underwater.

    Read about our test. »

  5. ffffffuuuuu-lion

    The OS X Lion Alphabet: Which Keys Repeat and Which Don’t (And How to Fix It)

    One of the more arcane changes in Lion, the newest version of Mac OS X, is that certain keys don’t repeat if you hold them down. The ones that do repeat are the keys that also have diacritics, like ñ or ø. In some apps like Safari or TextEdit, holding one of those characters brings up a menu of diacritical options. Cool! But it doesn’t work yet in Chrome.

    See the key repeat alphabet and learn how to turn this off. »

  6. Ahmadinejad with nuclear weapons

    Computers Have Bibles Now

    A computer learned to beat the classic strategy game Civilization, says Ars Technica, with a manual to guide it. Apparently the system knew to look for certain phrases, but it had to learn what they meant by testing. Researchers say the computer went from winning 17% of games to winning 54% when it got to “read” the manual.

    That’s cool enough. But what’ll really blow your brain is what happened when it read the Wall Street Journal.

    Spoiler alert: I’m gonna make this about the Bible. »

  7. Giant touchscreen space battle game — Fleet Commander is like an alpha version of Ender's Game. Via Reddit.
  8. Turn all of your progress bars into Nyan Cat — For Windows 7 only (thank god). Via Gizmodo.
  9. Make Everything Okay — with one button.

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