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According to sources across Twitter, Apple’s new iOS 4 for the iPhone will be available for download around 1 PM ET. If any of you are as eager as I am to get your hands on the final product, then I’m sure you’ve been checking iTunes every few minutes. Occasionally, Apple plants the download on their Software Update site a ...

Imagine we lived in a world where everything was still handled manually. Including computing. If you can’t afford a computer this is a cheaper alternative to shelling out hundreds for your very own PC. Computing is lazy anyway. I personally prefer to hand-press my blog posts. Link

We have a soft spot in out hearts (and occasionally a hard spot in our pants) for stuffed animals and plushies. It’s one of the many childhood comforts that have crossed over into adult territory. So the opportunity to create an accurate stuffed animal of my likeness or any of my idols is too awesome to ignore. I Am A ...

If you don’t live in the Gulf area, it’s hard to really grasp the massive impact of the BP oil spill. You can look at all the satellite imagery and superimposed splotches on maps all you want, but to really understand the magnitude of this disaster, I had to use If It Was My Home. If It Was My Home ...

Can we get a version of this sans Ghost Rider? Cageflix is a single-use Netflix online app which uses the Netflix API to add every Nic Cage movie to your queue with one click. That’s right, all 49 of them. Wait… 49 of them? Jesus. Link [via]

Farmville is no longer just a Facebook sensation. Soon enough Zynga’s going to be porting their benchmark farming game for the iPhone. Once the iPhone version is released, forget it, there’s going to be no way to avoid it. So all of us farm haters better just get used to it. Even without the iPhone, Zynga has all but dominated ...

The typewriter. The ultimate forerunner of the word processor. We don’t give the typewriter enough credit for changing the world of the press. Providing fanboys of the 1880s to create fan fiction which could be read by tens of readers, instead of just himself. But since we’re in a new era. In fact, there’s probably been multiple new eras since ...

Looking for a surefire way of getting laid tonight? Grab yourself an iPad and cover that bitch in chocolate. Present it to your woman. Result? Super-horniness. Thank me later. Hey, it’s more romantic than Chocolate Weapons at least. Stefan Magdalinski created this idea as a birthday for his Apple-crazy Asian girlfriend. I’m pretty sure he’s still reaping the benefits as ...

But can they make Madonna look human? That’s the test of any true photo manipulation. Link

This alternative ending was the originally planned ending for the widely watched LOST finale. ABC pulled the ending at the last second because it was viewed as being too provocative. And for once, I agree. This filth does not belong on national TV. Please, tell your kids to go in a different room or at least shield their eyes before ...