Archive: May 27, 2010

Click to enlarge I did some work on my bike last night. And today I’m at a wedding, so here’s a mobile post of a photo of my bike after the work was completed. It’s all black everything now (almost).

What is your country best at doing? This chart of #1′s will tell you. [via]

I actually think this is pretty neat. LaCie just announced the Rugged Safe external hard drive that incorporates a fingerprint scanner (similar to those seen on some laptops) for added security. The Rugged Safe hard drives come in 500GB and 1TB versions for $189 and $299 respectively. I use a Rugged drive daily and this [...]

Congratulations to Makenzie Melton for beating out 33,000 other submissions in Google’s Doodle 4 Google competition. The Doodle 4 Google competition invites students K-12 to answer a simple prompt with an illustration. This year’s prompt was “If I Could Do Anything, I Would …” For making the best doodle, Makenzie Melton wins a $15,000 college [...]

AT&T created this ad to demonstrate their nationwide coverage using Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s famous orange Gates as inspiration. The Gates certainly would have been a bit more interesting if it were done at this scale. But shame on AT&T for blatantly stealing this idea. [via]