1. Collection of easter eggs from Deus Ex Human Revolution.



2. "The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype, San Francisco Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield now tells SF Weekly that 'three or four' SFPD officers accompanied two Apple security officials in an unusual search of a Bernal Heights man's home."



3. The Grant Morrison interview got all the link love, but the truly interesting article in Rolling Stone is this one: How a high school jock from Texas rose to the top of one of Mexico's most powerful and ruthless cartels.

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1. News Corp does enough terrible things that you shouldn't have to make up claims.

2. Google's first social network Orkut was briefly very popular in Finland:

Orkut [the Google engineer who built orkut] is Turkish, so we had no idea when we launched it that in Finland evidently that same word means “multiple sexual climaxes.” When people saw a product called orkut, they thought it was a dating service or sex site, and it took off quickly. As soon as they saw what it actually was, interest cooled somewhat.

3. To take a screenshot on an iPhone, hold down the lock button and the home button at the same time for about one second until the screen flashes white. Via.

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1. Some interesting predictions about the future of the legal profession. Via.

2. Apple not only censors emails sent by Me.com users, but doesn't even tell the users that their emails have been blocked?

3. The keys to finding a job in Hollywood.

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Zombie Snow White Macbook sticker on sale for $20 at Etsy. Via.

*Previously: Adam and Eve laptop sticker.

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1. How to make a Princess Leia cinnamon bun headband.

2. Gizmodo's latest must have iPhone and Android apps.

3. Want to tell if someone's lying? Skillfully question them (rather than looking for microexpressions).

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1. New specimen box by Alex CF.

2. I couldn't post anything new before I left for work this morning because Blogger was once again not working (third time this month? fourth?). Meanwhile, Tumblr unveiled a beautiful new app for the iPhone.

3. There's some question as to whether his math's way off, but here's an assertion that Apple's brand new top secret data center is mostly a shell for show.

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Yesterday, Steve Jobs pitched the Cupertino city council on building a new Apple campus. Yes, it's multimedia. And it's fun to see how he reacts when the councilman gives him advice on how to make his presentation at 4:25.

He makes even a building sound like a magical feat: "We've come up with a design that puts 12,000 people in one building. When you think about that, that's rather odd." I wonder how unusual that number is? Via.

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1. Lifehacker's top 10 privacy tricks. I especially like, the suggestion to use temporary credit cards to avoid repeat billing.

2. Bill Belichick gave a commencement speech saying that no championship team in the last decade in the four major sports had the league M.V.P. from that year on the roster. Not remotely accurate, but it sounded good.

3. Gizmodo's updated list of must have iPhone and Android apps.

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1. The LA Times says you shouldn't buy a car this year. You can click through and find out exactly why, but the article's existence is awfully interesting - - the car companies must have stopped buying ads, right?

2. The Nike + GPS running app is currently free at iTunes. Via.

3. I want to get a wifi router for my parents and need something simple and dependable. (It'll be mostly used for a Kindle, Dell laptop, iPhone and Droid.) Any suggestions? (I have a Cisco ValetPlus, which I've been less than thrilled with.)

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Malcolm Gladwell's new article is about the early days of Apple:

By 1979, Apple was already one of the hottest tech firms in the country. So Jobs proposed a deal: he would allow Xerox to buy a hundred thousand shares of his company for a million dollars—its highly anticipated I.P.O. was just a year away—if PARC would “open its kimono.” Jobs was given a couple of tours, and he ended up standing in front of a Xerox Alto, PARC’s prized personal computer. Describes the innovations the Alto featured, including the mouse, icons, and “windows.” Xerox soon began selling a version of the Alto. It was slow and underpowered—and Xerox withdrew from personal computers. Jobs, meanwhile, raced back to Apple, and demanded that the team working on the company’s next generation of personal computers change course. He wanted menus on the screen. He wanted windows. He wanted a mouse. The result was the Macintosh, perhaps the most famous product in the history of Silicon Valley.

The article is for subscribers only. There's also a slideshow of early mouse designs. It all started with a butter dish and roll-on deodorant stick.

*Buy vintage Macs at eBay.

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1. This review will make you think strongly about buying a first gen iPad instead of the iPad 2.

2. And if I had a tablet, I'd definitely sign up - - a year of Marvel's Unlimited Digital Comics is $60, and right now it's 30% off with the code Thor302011.

3. Portal dual screen wallpapers.

*Buy iPads at eBay.

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1. Flickr posted a collection of fennec fox photos.

2. What impact did the tsunami have on Apple's ability to keep producing iPhones etc? They claim it had "no supply or cost impact."

3. Portal turret Easter egg. Also, an explanation for who the bald guy is on Valve's splash screen.

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Bieber-izing a desk.




Bringing Jar Jar Binks onto the subway was a rare misstep by Improv Everywhere.







Think Geek announced the Apple Store Playmobil set.





Windlets are a hot new blind box toy, made of wind. Via.





Games Workshop's latest book shows how to roll dice.




Canned Air from Prague. Via.



Hulu has been devolved to 1996.

*Buy Playmobil toys at eBay.

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Genius from Dean Trippe - - this would be a terrific app from DC - - your iPad or iPhone could function as a viewer into the Phantom Zone. They could have an Arkham Asylum version, too - - every time you open it, you look into a different villain's cell.

UPDATE: My mistake, this is apparently the source for the image.

*Buy iPads at eBay.

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1. There's a blog devoted to pictures of Paula Deen Riding Things.

2. English Muffins recipe.

2. Gizmodo lists the essential iPhone and Android apps.

*Buy iPhones at eBay.

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Wallpaper-sized lightsaber battle between Google and Apple. Via Reddit, source unknown.

*Buy iPhones at eBay.

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1. Dr. No and Goldfinger posters by Jason Chalker.

2. There's a new Sucker Punch trailer. It's notable mostly for being incredibly similar to the last trailer.

3. The terrifying secret behind why people crave iPhones.

*Buy Sucker Punch goods at eBay.

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