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- Will Ferrell Will Do Anything to Get You to Vote in Comedic PSA [VIDEO]
- Never Worry About a Flat Again With These Airless Bike Tires [VIDEO]
- Kickstarter Project Lets You Wear Facebook Photos in Real Life [VIDEO]
- 5 Common Job Interview Mistakes to Avoid
- This Inexpensive HondaJet is a Steal at $4.5M [VIDEO]
- Read This Touching Email Louis C.K. Sent to His Fans
- See New York Magazine’s Arresting Sandy Cover [PIC]
- Top 10 Tech This Week
- Kids Discover a Halloween Without Candy [VIDEO]
- Technology Creating a Generation of Distracted Students [STUDY]
- Barnes & Noble Drops Price of Nook Color and Tablet
- Consumer Reports Names Top 10 Most Reliable Cars [UPDATED]
- Chris Rock Is Voting for the Whitest Candidate [VIDEO]
- 6 Apps You Don’t Want To Miss
- How Tech Startups Helped During Hurricane Sandy
- Say Farewell: Apple’s Skeumorphism Hall of Shame [PICS]
- Glow-in-the-Dark Highways Coming to the Netherlands
- How is Facebook Addiction Affecting Our Minds? [INFOGRAPHIC]
- 8 Hacks to Make Google Calendar More Useful
| Will Ferrell Will Do Anything to Get You to Vote in Comedic PSA [VIDEO] Posted: 03 Nov 2012 08:34 PM PDT   GIve you a tattoo, eat underpants and human toenails, punch himself in the face ... These are just a few of the things that Will Ferrell will do to get you to vote in Tuesday's U.S. election. In a roughly minute-long YouTube video, the comedian shares a laundry list of tasks he will perform, ranging from the mundane to the bizarre. Viewers can apparently hold Ferrell to his promise, as he proclaims, "I'm not kidding." He concludes the video, posted to Barack Obama's official YouTube page, by endorsing the president. Will you heed Ferrell's call to action? Tell us in the comments below. Thumbnail image courtesy of Eva Rinaldi Photography More About: U.S. presidential election, election 2012, voting, will ferrell
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| Never Worry About a Flat Again With These Airless Bike Tires [VIDEO] Posted: 03 Nov 2012 07:29 PM PDT A Colorado-based designer has developed a unique solution to the dreaded flat tire: airless tires. Brian Russell created a bicycle tire that wraps rubber around carbon nanotube-reinforced composite rods to provide a cushioned, airless solution. While it's still a prototype, the Energy Return Wheel (ERW) offers a much-needed solution to the inevitable flat. What are some creative solutions you've seen for fixing flats? Let us know in the comments. More About: airless tires, bicycle
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| Kickstarter Project Lets You Wear Facebook Photos in Real Life [VIDEO] Posted: 03 Nov 2012 06:46 PM PDT Your perfectly posed profile pics can now get offline attention with a new Kickstarter project. "Top Charms" lets users create wearable charms that hold Facebook photos; it includes a "photo charm kit" and accompanying app. San Francisco-based creator Peter Reis says he wanted to capitalize on Facebook's success by using it as a springboard for his product. "I figured, if I could design a consumer product that incorporated the popular features of Facebook, people would want to use my product too!" Reis says on Top Charms' Kickstarter page. How does it work? First, users edit a photo using the Facebook app; then they must print their image… More About: Facebook, kickstarter
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| 5 Common Job Interview Mistakes to Avoid Posted: 03 Nov 2012 06:02 PM PDT In a time when job seekers can send literally hundreds of applications without hearing back from employers, the invitation to a job interview can feel like winning the lottery. The odds are long, the chosen ones few. Once you've been invited to come face to face with your potential employer, you don't want to mess things up by committing a common, easy-to-avoid job interview mistake. Here are five common job interview mistakes, and how to avoid them. 1. Forgetting the Interviewer's Name When you go to a job interview, your interviewers all have a piece of paper with your name on it, but for you it's not so simple. To prepare yourself, ask for the names of anyone who'll… More About: features, job interview, job search series, mashable
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| This Inexpensive HondaJet is a Steal at $4.5M [VIDEO] Posted: 03 Nov 2012 05:16 PM PDT Thrill-seekers can travel like James Bond -- on a budget -- with the HondaJet from the Honda Aircraft Company. The HA-420 HondaJet business jet can carry six passengers comfortably, and has a unique engine design that helps reduce drag. The two HF120 turbofan jet engines run over the wing, and can maintain a cruising speed of 483 MPH. Straight out of a flight-simulator fantasy, the cockpit is equipped with a customized Garmin G3000 avionics system. The $4.5 million price tag is relatively inexpensive considering that a comparable Gulfstream jet sells for $14 million. The HondaJet has passed all necessary tests, and full-scale production is unde… More About: HondaJet, honda, private jet
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| Read This Touching Email Louis C.K. Sent to His Fans Posted: 03 Nov 2012 04:23 PM PDT
More About: Hurricane Sandy, Louis C.K., new york, saturday night live, snl
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| See New York Magazine’s Arresting Sandy Cover [PIC] Posted: 03 Nov 2012 03:34 PM PDT
SEE ALSO: 7 Ways to Help Victims of Superstorm Sandy Online Images of Sandy's destruction and subsequent tranquility captivated social media users everywhere. Indeed, fake photos and fake news was shared on Twitter. But New York Magazine's cover for this coming Monday, relea… More About: Frankenstorm, Hurricane Sandy, new york
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| Posted: 03 Nov 2012 02:24 PM PDT
More About: Top 10 Tech, trending
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| Kids Discover a Halloween Without Candy [VIDEO] Posted: 03 Nov 2012 01:59 PM PDT What's the best part about Halloween? Candy. Sweet, glorious, chocolatey candy. Now imagine Halloween without it. Like the year before, Jimmy Kimmel encouraged his viewers to upload videos to YouTube of parents admitting to their children that they ate all their candy. And just like the year before, the results were hysterical. The one difference in this year's submissions was clear near the end of the video and probably the most heartwarming part. But we're not spoilers so you'll have to see for yourself. More About: Halloween, YouTube, jimmy kimmel, trending
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| Technology Creating a Generation of Distracted Students [STUDY] Posted: 03 Nov 2012 01:41 PM PDT A new study by the Pew Research Center has found that though digital technology has reshaped the way students conduct research, it has been harmful in the way students process material and their overall ability to distinguish quality content from unreliable sources. 87% of teachers in the study -- performed in conjunction with the College Board and the National Writing Project -- said technology is creating an "easily distracted generation with short attention spans." And 64% of teachers (from middle and high schools) say today's digital technologies "do more to distract students than to help them academically." Teachers, though, remained somewhat optimistic about digital… More About: parenting, technology in education, technology in schools
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| Barnes & Noble Drops Price of Nook Color and Tablet Posted: 03 Nov 2012 01:21 PM PDT
More About: barnes & noble, nook
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| Consumer Reports Names Top 10 Most Reliable Cars [UPDATED] Posted: 03 Nov 2012 12:43 PM PDT
More About: cars, consumer reports, trending
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| Chris Rock Is Voting for the Whitest Candidate [VIDEO] Posted: 03 Nov 2012 11:48 AM PDT
More About: election 2012, trending
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| Posted: 03 Nov 2012 11:17 AM PDT
This week we found an app that stitches together 3-second video clips you record into a movie, and another that lets you delete the photos you send to a friend's smartphone. A popular music app got a huge overhaul this week, and Google put out an update to one of its apps that give Apple's Siri a run for her money. Check out the gallery above for a look at this week's app highlights. Still looking for more? See last week's Apps You Don't Want To Miss for more highlight… More About: android, apple, apps, iOS, iphone, trending
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| How Tech Startups Helped During Hurricane Sandy Posted: 03 Nov 2012 11:04 AM PDT
More About: Hurricane Sandy, Startups
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| Say Farewell: Apple’s Skeumorphism Hall of Shame [PICS] Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:10 AM PDT iBooks Check it out: It's your own personal bookshelf, much like the one you probably have for your collection at home. Click here to view this gallery.
More About: Jony Ive, apple, iDevice, scott forstall, trending
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| Glow-in-the-Dark Highways Coming to the Netherlands Posted: 03 Nov 2012 09:14 AM PDT The Netherlands is hoping to spice up its highways, with a futuristic solution for safer driving conditions and greener technology. By mid-2013, the country will use photo-luminizing powder to replace road markings and ultimately produce glow-in-the-dark tarmacs, Wired.Co.UK reports. The powder will charge on sunlight, soaking up enough energy to power 10 hours worth of highway light during nighttime. Special paint will also be used to draw snowflakes across the roads. The snowflakes will only become visible when the temperature dips to a certain point, indicating to commuters that the surface is likely slippery. Within the next five years, the Netherlands hopes to add intera… More About: Netherlands, driving, trending
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| How is Facebook Addiction Affecting Our Minds? [INFOGRAPHIC] Posted: 03 Nov 2012 08:18 AM PDT
More About: Internet addiction, mental health, popular science, psychology, trending
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| 8 Hacks to Make Google Calendar More Useful Posted: 03 Nov 2012 07:10 AM PDT
More About: Google Calendar, efficiency, features, google apps, mashable, open forum, trending, workplace
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