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A few months ago, Holiday Inn announced that they would be initiating a program that will turn your smartphone into a hotel room key. Over the last few weeks Holiday Inn hotels in Chicago and Houston have started to roll out the trial program which they call “MobileKey.” Participation in MobileKey, where available, is still optional, so it does allow ...

Seriously… bad idea. These Egyptian commercials for Panda Cheese are about as awesome as you can get without showing nudity. My personal favorite? The hospital one is particularly offensive, but I have a soft spot for the office scene as well. Panda’s rule. [via]

Whether it be an awful landscape or a classic in need of a little modern kick, Jon Hansen’s got the solution with his Cross Cultural Contamination project. Hansen picks up terrible Thomas Kinkade rip-offs and other paintings seemingly made for cheap hotel rooms and spices them up with Navy Seals, Street Fighter, Godzilla and other pieces of pop culture. A ...

After years of rumors and months of procrastination, Blockbuster has finally filed for bankruptcy, effectively reducing their debt from $1 billion to $100 million. Blockbuster announced, via press release, a �pre-arranged��bankruptcy in order to �recapitalize� and �substantially reduce its indebtedness.� Unfortunately for most stock holders, your debt caused by Blockbuster is still your own. The Chapter 11 filing reads �Under ...

“Eat Your Heart Out & The PRETOX Potion” is the world’s only cake shop with an age disclaimer. It’s pretty much the R-rated bakery. Each cake is mixed in with something called an ALIBI ‘potion.’ This ‘potion’ of herbal supplements is a �pretox�, preparing your body to absorb toxins and even prevent a hangover. But that’s not all that makes ...

Leonardo da Vinci, a man of a million talents and designs which number in the hundreds, perhaps even thousands. One of Da Vinci’s classic designs is his improvements to the catapult, a weapon which was used through hundreds of years of war. Now, you can build the Da Vinci Wooden Catapult right in the comfort of your own abode. This ...

It’s marshmallow cereal, without all of the damn cereal in the way. CerealMarshmallows.com sells individual 7 oz. bags of cereal marshmallows. Whether you want to add them to your cereal, pour them into some hot cocoa or just gobble them by the handful is up to you. You can buy up to 64 7 oz. bags at a time, though ...

You’ve worn it all over your body all of your life. Fingers, wrists, ears, nipples. Jewelry. So common among both men and woman that without it the world’s economy would sink into a diamond-filled abyss. What we’ve come to know as “conventional” jewelry really wasn’t always that conventional. It takes time for normalcy to kick in. Imme van der Haak ...

Galaxy S users have been plagued with a GPS that barely works and in some, excuse me, most cases doesn’t work at all. Samsung released an over the air firmware update today that supposedly addresses the GPS issue for Samsung Captivate users and also improves additional device functions, such as media scanning time, add the full version of QuickOffice and ...

You want to know how I got this prosthetic? My father was a designer… and a fiend, and one night he goes off artsier than usual. Mommy gets the Tupperware lid to defend herself. He doesn�t like that – not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the plastic to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me ...