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October 21, 2014
The Hoverboard Is Coming! The Hoverboard Is Coming!
The "Hendo Hoverboard" levitates one inch off the ground and is on Kickstarter today.
One year from today, on October 21, 2015, Marty McFly and company are scheduled to arrive from the past--as seen in Back to the Future Part II. And what a disappointment it would be if our future world didn't have hoverboards for Marty to zip around on. But fear not: Hoverboards really are on the way!
This Ad Campaign Is A Brilliant, Sobering Critique Of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" Laws
Dream Defender's new online campaign uses kid-sized bulletproof vests to take on the gun lobby.
Dream Defenders, a progressive youth organization put together in the interests of black communities, has an eye-catching new ad campaign in Florida that takes express aim at the state's Stand Your Ground laws. It's simple, to the point, and cleverly reframes the debate over gun violence in the state.
Remembering Oscar De La Renta, One Of Fashion's Great Innovators
De la Renta brought exuberant colors and the courtly, personalized service of Europe's great fashion houses to American women.
It takes a very particular design talent to bring elegance and romance to settings as varied as the White House, the red carpet, the boardroom, and the high-society charity gala. Oscar de la Renta, the legendary American designer best known for his dramatic but well-mannered looks, managed to work at that level for more than five decades. De la Renta died yesterday at 82.
Steve Ballmer Defends Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's Comments On Women And Raises
"He allowed good karma to happen and good things happened to him and he was very fortunate, and that's his genuine belief in life."
In an interview today with CBS This Morning, former Microsoft CEO and new NBA team owner Steve Ballmer spoke candidly about a range of subjects. The conversation roamed from buying the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion ("There's just no sport as great as basketball"), to leaving the company he helped build with Bill Gates ("No, actually, nobody wanted me to leave as CEO"), to his former employer's whiffs with Nokia and Windows Phone ("All along the way we've appreciated mobile, but we're not winning in mobile," he said. "There's a difference between saying hey, you were asleep, and saying hey, you didn't put the formula together right. We didn't.")
Death To Page Views! Long Live "Acts Of Engagement"
Chartbeat continues its quest for a more meaningful measure of Internet activity.
For a metric that determines where billions of dollars flow, the page view sure is dumb.
The Cool Accidental Typography Of Satellite Imagery
Now on Kickstarter, Aerial Bold is a font made up of all the accidental letterforms found in satellite imagery.
Most typefaces are purposefully designed. Not this one. Now on Kickstarter, Aerial Bold is a typeface of topography, made up entirely of the accidental letters found in satellite images: buildings, roads, rivers, trees, and lakes that just happen to resemble our ABCs.
CNN, Cartoon Network, And More Go Dark For DIsh Network Subscribers
A contract dispute between Dish Network and Turner Broadcasting means customers are out of luck.
As part of a contract dispute, seven Turner Broadcasting channels, including CNN, have been yanked from Dish Network as of early Tuesday morning. So if you're a Dish subscriber who craves relentless Ebola coverage that's a touch on the hysterical side, it looks like you'll have to get your fix somewhere more nuanced.
October 20, 2014
Battle Of The Blades: The Best Juicer For Your Dollar
The Sweethome juiced 25 pounds of fruit in a quest to discover the ultimate juicing machine.
After pushing almost 25 pounds of leafy, crunchy, pulpy produce through nine top machines, we think the Tribest Slowstar ($380) is the best and most versatile juicer for the home. Its single vertical auger turns at a slow 47 rpm, making it one of the slowest juicers available--key for getting maximum nutrients and enzymes from produce--and it still yielded more juice than nearly every other model we tested, meaning there's less going to waste. It comes with a 10-year warranty on parts and the motor, so you can crank it up every day without worry about wear and tear.
Social Media Actually Reduces Political Extremism, Study Says
Social media users are exposed to more political diversity than they expect, and that has an important and unexpected effect.
Conventional wisdom says that social media leads to groupthink, as users can tune out anyone they don't agree with. But a new study says that social media isn't as much of an "echo-chamber" as it's accused of being--and the effect can make people more politically moderate.
Monica Lewinsky Joins Twitter--To Fight Cyberbullying
The Internet's first mass-scale victim is pushing back.
As part of a campaign to raise awareness in the fight against online bullying, Vanity Fair contributor (and, yes, former White House intern) Monica Lewinsky has decided to jump headfirst into one of the grouchiest, most inhospitable echo chambers on the Internet: Twitter.
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