Christmas Light Hero: Ric Turner Rocks Light Display

Christmas Light Hero! Ric Turner, who had lots of LED Christmas lights, time and imagination on his hands, set up a Christmas light display that serves as a house-sized screen for playing Guitar Hero. The Guitar...

Foursquare Shows Geeks Waiting for Holiday Travel

The top intersections between Twitter and Foursquare are airports, which means that the technorati are waiting for their flights to go visit mom and dad. It's sweet if you think about it. Foursquare is mainly used...

Microsoft Loses i4i Appeal over MS Word: $290 Million. Ouch.

Microsoft lost its appeal against i4i, the plucky Canadian firm that sued Microsoft for $290 million for infringing its precious, precious patent. Microsoft has until January 11, 2010 to either fix Word to correct...

Reddit Secret Santa Gift Exchange: Insanely Successful

kickme444 (Dan McComas when he's at home) orchestrated the Reddit Secret Santa gift exchange in his free time. Dan McComas built the front-end and back-end of a dedicated website to link Reddit users from around...

Facebook Changes Privacy Policy... Again

After a bold-faced move to turn your status updates into tweets, Facebook is forced yet again to eat humble pie, a dish for which Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates a phenomenal appetite. Unfortunately, Mark Zuckerberg...

Verizon Droid Ad Likens iPhone to Carrie Prejean

In Verizon Wireless' latest ad campaign for the Droid, running on Google's Android platform, the iPhone is likened to Carrie Prejean. Well that's not exactly true, they didn't pull a blow quite that low but they did...

Twitter: The Next Generation, Tweet in Klingon

Ever felt the need to share your inner nerd with millions of people in 140 characters or less? Well congratulations hypothetical Trekkie, as a marketing ploy for the upcoming MMORPG, Star Trek Online, a website...

Fring iPhone Video Conference App: Puts the CON in Conference

So the iPhone finally offers video calls, chat, conferences, or whatever terminology you prefer and it's legal to boot. Fring, the iPhone app at hand, really puts the con in video conference: it's one-way video...

Windows 7 Beats Mac OSX in Market Share

Windows 7 is beating Mac OSX in market share. Whaaa?! Before you fanboys an' fangirls begin to riot, keep in mind two things: Windows 7 is hot on the heels of vista, which is the crappiest OS ever conveived by man...

Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody Video: Viral Hit of the Century

The Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody video has caused my mouse button to finally break after clicking "replay" so many dang times. As we approach the stress of Thanksgiving, we all need to take a break to watch the...