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BookRenter Rents You Textbooks on the Cheap [Textbooks] →
BookRenter is a solution to the problem of buying books at inflated prices and selling them back for pennies on the dollar to your college books store. Rent your books for a fraction of the…
Art Lebedev's Segmentus clock gives you a digital reading using its analog hands →
Remains of the Day: Why DRM Doesn't Work Edition [For What It's Worth] →
Designer Brad Colbow details how to download an audio book from the Cleveland Public Library (or why DRM doesn’t work), YouTube adds closed captioning to all videos, and a Google employee…
Funny Or Die Presidential Reunion Unites SNL Stars for Web Hit [VIDEO] →
Comedy site Funny Or Die has brought together current and former stars of Saturday Night Live (plus Jim Carrey) to create a skit called “Presidential Reunion” that has racked up…
Beautiful Decay: 10 Amazing Modern Ruins Throughout The World →
Many of us find a strong attraction to urban decay, to the monuments of yesteryear that crumble into ruin today. Urban archaeologists, both credentialed and freelance, explore these…
The Human Body as a Subway Map →
Sam Loman [just-sam.com] created an original take on illustrating the inner structure and workings of the human body as the tight intertwining of different systems (e.g. arterial, digestive,…
The Web as a Database →
One of the things that’s great about the Internet is that it’s open to everyone. There are a million sites, all different, and everyone is free to invent their own way of doing things. Of…
Valve mystifies gamers with Portal update →
Portal’s eerie symbolism was ramped up another notch this week when Valve announced a patch that has gamers playing what seems to be an alternate reality game within the platformer. The update to…
Google's SEO Report Card →
Webmaster Level: All
How many of Google’s web pages use a descriptive title tag? Do we use description meta tags? Heading tags? While we always try to focus on the user, could our products use an…
Jet ski + jet pack = "Jetlev" →
It looks dangerous and is, reportedly, incredibly expensive, but there is no denying the near-maximal awesome factor of the Jetlev Flyer. Power comes from a four-stroke engine…
Google Index to Go Real Time →
Google is developing a system that will enable web publishers of any size to automatically submit new content to Google for indexing within seconds of that content being published. Search industry…
C8-H10-N4-O2 Coffee Cups →
This amazing coffee cups were developed by students at the Israel’s Shenkar Academy of Engineering and Design under the supervision of Alex Padwa and David Spectre. It’s the most…
Digitally printed tiles make magnificent murals →
Once you’ve dressed up your garage door like an airplane hangar, your next trick is to make your shower look like it’s sitting at the bottom of a gigantic waterfall. That’s easy with these…
