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This is fucking creepy. I don’t care about that stupid expression “art for art’s sake,” because when my dead relatives are involved, it’s just fucking weird. See this bird feeder? Looks nice and cheeky, right? Wrong. It’s made from bird feed and human ashes. Yeah, like cremation and all that. The idea is that the bird eats it and you’re ...

News agencies from around the world are reporting that Google’s ultra-popular Gmail service has been down since this morning. You can still send and receive mail using a third-party program, like Mail.app or Outlook, but apparently, for most international users, the web service isn’t working. I tried logging on at 9:30am here in New York and had no problems. But ...

Winners of the iPhone 3G case contest will be announced by Wednesday. In other news, beef brisket is good for the heart. USA! USA! USA! Last.fm calls TechCrunch out on their bullshit story Easily share your Windows-based Internet connection Goddamn that’s a nice digital camera Another MIDI solution for the iPhone PSFK makes an excellent point about video auctions Angry ...

Anyone with a Playstation 3 cannot deny the appeal of the LittleBigPlanet Sackboy. He jumps, he runs, he grabs and dresses in drag. Of course, some of us would like to bring our Sackboy outside of the game and into our lives. While some have accomplished just that, no one beats designer Maggie Wang’s creations. Her Sackboys not only look ...

While World of Warcraft still reigns supreme as king of the MMOs, Blizzard has an unusual competitor entering the market: NASA. The government space agency is developing an MMO that takes place around 2035 and focuses on “being in a habitat on a planetary surface and doing things like mining Helium-3 for fuel, operating a hydroponics facility to grow plants ...

Here’s some video of the iPhone app iBoobs. It was rejected by Apple for App Store placement due to obvious reasons. Apple is a prude and thinks that boobs have a place on Baywatch but not the iPhone. I’m sure every guy would have shelled out 99 cents for some jiggling boobs, though. Look at ’em go! I think Harry ...

I haven’t touched a laser in years due to the fact that the novelty of it all wore off years ago. But John Biggs, the intrepid editor over at CrunchGear, decided to dust off his boots and do a video review of the Spyder II GX laser from Ultimate Lasers. Comparing it to my penis, he says it’s “really, really ...

The X11 Window System, which is commonly used on Linux and sometimes on Mac OS X, has made its way to a new OS: Android. Using custom-built display drivers, hacked Debian shells, a VNC server and a T-Mobile G1, hacker Ghostwalker was able to get X11 up and running on the Android. This gives him the ability to run anything ...

The iPod is hands down the most popular music player on the market nowadays. To really get the most out of it, you’ll need to whip out your Arduino microcontroller and the soldering iron. Using a new library written to allow control of an iPod through a the 13-pin connector, you’ll be able to write programs that can get the ...

I. I just died in your links, tonight. It must have been something you posted. Holy shit, it’s Atlantis! Denture soap that would fool your grandparents A wallet that holds your iPod Nano Sweet Noby Noby Boy t-shirts Want…new…Mercedes BRABUS…vehicle More info on the iPhone version of MGS Box o’ clouds Peggy Sue? Far from her Have great links you ...