New Chatroulette: Up, Half-Broken, Still Mostly Sausage-Based [Chatroulette]
The new version of Chatroulette has gone live today, and if you were expecting a brave new world free of men suspiciously pointing their webcams further down than the manufacturer recommends, you’re out of luck. More »
Your Motorola Droid Will Update To 2.1 By Tomorrow [Android]
You’re hanging on the edge of your seat, just waiting for the Droid 2.1 update to be sent down the chute from Verizon Wireless’ HQ and into your phone. Watched paint never dries, but a Droid update does eventually appear—with Verizon telling us it will be rolled out to all handsets “by the end of the week.” More »
You’re hanging on the edge of your seat, just waiting for the Droid 2.1 update to be sent down the chute from Verizon Wireless’ HQ and into your phone. Watched paint never dries, but a Droid update does eventually appear—with Verizon telling us it will be rolled out to all handsets “by the end of the week.” More »
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Your Motorola Droid Will Update To 2.1 By Tomorrow [Android]
Auto Smiley Application Turns Your Real Life Smile Into :) [Emoticons]
Some people get all >:o when it comes to emoticons, but I think they’re pretty B-). This =0 program detects your real life smiles with your webcam and turns them into 
s on your comptuer. :-p, haters.
s on your comptuer. :-p, haters. More »
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Auto Smiley Application Turns Your Real Life Smile Into [Emoticons]
Watch NASA Assemble a Space Telescope Live [Space]
NASA employees take 10 to 15 minutes to decontaminate before entering this clean room. But you can get a look inside from your couch, pre-shower. More »
Not only does it have references to TechCrunch, Mashable, Valleywag, Geekologie—and yes, Gizmodo—but this video also appears to have scenes that were filmed in the Wired building. Yeah, that’s pretty dorky.
If you want to sing or rap along, here are the lyrics:
Now I’m in the blogosphere,
Now I’m in the twitterverse
Fans get so immersed, But I’m a nerd forever
I’m the new Zuckerberg, And since my website
I been cookin dough like a chef servin killa-bytes
Used to be the basement, Back at my mom’s place
Buildin web traffic so that we could sell an ad space
Make way for the, One man businesses
Bail outs finished with, White collar criminals
New sega genesis, Entrepreneur time
Makin big plans, To dominate the online
Yeah, I’m on YouTube, this is one man
Sharin’ google revenue, With songs on my webcam
Science is the new art, Databases day to day
Geeks spreadin’ sheet smarts, Hustle, make the data pay
I could be in Valleywag plus Geekologie
Tell from my avatar, That I’m most definitelyThe New Dork,
Social networks – what dreams are made of,
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re the New Dork
This V.C. money is brand new, The geek is now damn cool
Let’s hear it for new dorks, new dorks, new dorksCatch me up in Techcrunch, Right on the homepage
Hell, I’m on Gizmodo, In a photo bout a phone craze
And Im up in Mashable, weekend trip to New York
Bar pitty, 1oak, parties full of New Dorks
Now I’m pitchin business plans, From the backs of napkans
Micro-lend to Africans, Monetize Kazakastan
Catch me up on linked-in, Dog, C.E.O.
You can see where I be, With the I.P.O.
Now I’m up in skinny jeans, Now a hipster’s lurkin’
Used to be a reject, But now I’m steady jerkin’
Now my glasses mainstream, Now the girlies eyein me
Popular kids copy me, The new swag is irony
Comin’ from the small time, Girls couldn’t find me
Now I scale models, Like I climb on top of Heidi
Start big trends, with tweets that I pass on
You should follow me, cuz I’m friends with AshtonCHORUS
Oh, and if you like this video, then you might want to keep in mind that the folks behind it are who brought us the somewhat awkward “I’m on a Mac” parody and the somewhat awesome Mac or PC rap. Have a listen.
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Make Poker More Challenging By Playing With A Rock Band Drum Kit [DIY]
Ever spiced up Internet poker by busting out a webcam and turning it into a strip game?
Ever spiced up Internet poker by busting out a webcam and turning it into a strip game? Yeah? Well, have you ever done it while using a Rock Band drum kit to control the game? Here’s how.
Poker Listings’ Sean Lind figured out a fairly simple way of turning your Rock Band drum kit into a set of controls for poker. The results are above, but the instructions on setting this up yourself are right here:
Great. Now I can blame my poker losses on my miserable drumming skills. [Poker Listing]
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Electro-hypersensitivity: The Gadget Allergy [Health]
A man hassled a neighbor over his Wi-Fi allergies , and we dismissed him as a member of the tin-foil hat brigade. Now we’re reading PopSci’s look at the Electro-hypersensitivity—the real deal gadget allergy—and we’re feeling sorta like assholes
A man hassled a neighbor over his Wi-Fi allergies, and we dismissed him as a member of the tin-foil hat brigade. Now we’re reading PopSci’s look at the Electro-hypersensitivity—the real deal gadget allergy—and we’re feeling sorta like assholes.
The article opens with an anecdote of Per Segerbäck, a serious electro-hypersensitive who lives in a cottage north of Stockholm. He can be rendered unconscious by a single cell phone call.
The sickness stems not from the gadgets themselves but from the electromagnetic radiation they produce; it seeps from phones, computers, televisions, and pretty much anything else that you’d say defines our modern society as modern. Making matters even worse for Segerbäck and the similarly afflicted is that the science on electro-hypersensitivity is far from a consensus.
Still, fainting from a phone call is hard to argue with. Check out PopSci’s article for the full story of people who really can’t stomach gadgets. [PopSci]
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