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The Case For The Dedicated E-Reader: When It’s Time To Go Off The Grid| With the advent of the iPad and the plethora of cheaper Android tablets that are due to flood the market over the coming months, theres an increasingly popular theory in the tech industry: the days of the dedicated e-reader are numbered.  Last week we published the latest forecasts from Informa TeleCLASSIC: Texting FAIL| epic fail photos- CLASSIC: Texting FAILQuotables: Stop Laughing at Megan Fox| “When I talk about my husband [Brian Austin Green], I feel as if people roll their eyes. It’s like when you’re 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, ‘Do you think I’m stupid?’ They can’t grasp that I’m old enough to be married.” Megan Fox, quite possibly one of my favoriWeird Website(s) of the Week: Sad Don Drapers Love to Party| Today’s weird website is a two-fer, and they’re both equally weird. The first is a site called Panda Loves to Party, which is entirely comprised of non-photoshopped photographs of pandas devouring birthday cakes and wearing party hats and generally yukking it up (despite being in captivi
small measures: DIY seasonal allergy treatments| *Image from Science Daily.  As the days become shorter, cardigans and scarves begin returning to wardrobes, seasonal apples make their welcome reappearance (we stopped at an orchard and picked up a bushel of Cortlands yesterday, along with apple cider donuts-the best!!!), and leaves begin to color,Nokia's OPK is out, Microsoft exec in as President and CEO (updated)| The rumors were true. Nokia just announced a change in leadership: Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is out, Stephen Elop, the current head of Microsofts Business Division, is in. Thats right, the very Finnish Nokia will now be led by a Canadian. Before Microsoft, Elop, a computer engineer by education, held senMasters of the Universe villains by Matt Kaufenberg| Skeletor, Beastman, Trap-Jaw and Hordak by Matt Kaufenberg.  I believe hes selling sketch cards for only $5 each right now.*Buy Hordak toys at Amazon.Site Memory: Evernote for Websites| The most popular note type created by Evernote users is a webpage. It seems that people love to save webpages in Evernote! Now Evernote is making it even easier for sites to get saved into notes with the announcement of the Evernote Site Memory Button. This is something of a departure from the histoLil' Vampire Pacifier for Your Favorite Bloodsucking Baby| Lil Vampire          Pacifier - $4.95       When milk is not enough, heres the Lil Vampire Pacifier from the NeatoShop          for your favorite bloodsucking baby: Link    [...]Do Teachers Disappear on Weekends and Holidays?| How one teacher fights back against the perception that teachers cease to exist outside the classroom.	The other day, I overheard one of my female students say that on weekends and summers, teachers cease to exist. “It was like so weird,” she was telling her classmate, “I was at thCreepiest vintage kid ad? Deep South Peanut Pie| Where to start with this old Karo Corn Syrup ad touting 'Deep South Peanut Pie?' Between the creepy, naked (!) kid with the bowler hat over his (?) privates (!), the ornate type used for 'Deep South Peanut Pie' (and the attendant innuendo!) and the glistening image of the pie itself, it is a kind ofJapan PM widens lead in party leadership race      (Reuters)| Reuters - Prime Minister Naoto Kan has widened his lead over powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa ahead in a party leadership vote, Kyodo news agency said on Friday, days before the contest that could set Japans fiscal priorities.
RYAN LESLIE! “I’M ALWAYS EVOLVING!”| yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'RYAN LESLIE! “I’M ALWAYS EVOLVING!”'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = ''; yahooBuzzArticleCategory = 'Featured'; yahooBuzzArticleType = 'text'; yahooBuzzArticleId = window.location.href; DATZHOTT FILM PRESENTS! Ryan Leslie: “I’m Always Evolving&#82XTina Announces The Fall Of Bionic| It was a quick death, to be sure, but frankly, one that needed to happen. It was weighing her down too much. Christina Aguileras first foray in returning to music was a complete bust, but thankfully, she has finally listened to our advice and has told sources she is moving on. During a press confereOn the Street....Chelsea Piers, New YorkIntroducing Our New Football Writer| My name is Jason Lisk and I am a recovering footballholic.  I have been mostly clean for 137 days, but that’s about to change. I’ve been writing at the pro-football-reference blog for the last several years, so for the 98.3% of you who have never read the p-f-r blog, have a tolerance fLuVPad: Japanese Company To Sell 10-Inch Android Tablet| And yet another tablet. This time, we get an Android 2.2-powered model [JP] from Japanese company Mouse Computer. The so-called LuvPad AD100 (what a name) features a 10-inch multitouch LCD screen with LED backlight and 1,024×600 resolution.Sign Win| epic fail photos - sign winLong Exposures + Facebook Albums = Gorgeously Layered Photos| We sign in, and within 10 minutes, we’ve seen photo albums of our our Art History professor’s gem collection and our crush’s trip to the Kennedy Space Center (swoon!). Facebook hands us a magnifying glass, showing us see each others’ lives in an astoundingly close-up view. PhCreative 404 Error Messages| While recently Stumbling around the interweb, I encountered a webpage that wouldn’t load properly – a pretty common occurrence when you spend as much time online as I do. What made this particular web error special was the message I saw. Rather than the typically boring, text-based errorTron hoodies back in stock at Threadless| Tron and Sark hoodies and t-shirts once again on sale at Threadless.ViewSonic MB-P702, the color e-reader and HD video player you didn't yet re| A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and the same usually goes for tablets. But in the Great Venn Diagram of slate form factors, the ViewSonic MB-P702 seems to hover around the intersection of tablets and e-readers. Its got a 7-inch 800 x 480 resolution touchscreen LCD display and functionA monstrous goldfish| It took Raphael Biagini ten minutes to reel the creature out of a lake in the south of France – moments after fellow anglers told him they had spent six years trying to snare the legendary ‘giant goldfish’. The giant goldfish weighs around 30 lbs (13 kg), click on the picture to reThe Nexus One Was Google’s Dream. The Carriers Were Freddy Krueger.| 'Your mobile phone should be free.'  That was Google CEO Eric Schmidt talking to Reuters in November of 2006. It was just about a year before the Android project was first unveiled. It was also just a few months before the iPhone was introduced (Schmidt was a member of Apples Board at the time). AtThe Truth Behind Big Ben| (Image credit: Wikipedia user Karrackoo) Westminster Palace on the Thames river in London is the place where the parliament of the United Kingdom meets, both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The palace, along with Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret’s Church, is a UNESCO World HeritWhich Presidents Help You Make More Money?| It depends on how rich you are. As this chart, from Timothy Noah's interesting series on inequality in America, shows, over the last 50-odd years, income growth rates have been more equitable and more favorable to the less well off under Democratic presidents.	The obvious rejoinder to this dataJust look at this awesome banana boat.| Just look at it. Banana Boat. Wood, string and banana. 2010 (Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen, Denmark) (Thanks, Austin!) Previously: Just look at this awesome banana skateboard. Boing Boing Just look at this awesome banana Viking helmet. Boing Boing Just look at this awesome slow-moving performance artist whFla. pastor, imam at odds over Quran-burning deal      (AP)| AP - Two religious leaders are at odds about whether a deal was struck to stop a Quran-burning at a tiny church in exchange for moving the location of a mosque planned near ground zero, with the churchs pastor leaving the door open to still go through with his plan.
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