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December 4
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Mint Explains Why The Real Unemployment Rate Is 17.2 Percent

The U.S. unemployment numbers are out today, and most headlines will show that the U.S. unemployment rate in November was 10.0 percent, down from 10.2 percent in October. That number is…

December 4
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Continuity, a student-made and brilliant Time-Waster

Filed under: Games, Time-Wasters

Here’s something you don’t see every day! A game that I have no source for other than Twitter.

The game’s website would suggest it’s a student…
December 3
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Wolfram Alpha Teaches You Math, One Step at a Time [Learning]

Wolfram Alpha may be a data geek’s dream, but if you’re not all that interested in its more obscure uses, here’s one thing we could all use a little help with: step-by-step math calculations.

Just enter in the equation you want solved (say, for example,

December 1
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A world flag

What the world needs is a great flag, a flag of pure bliss. Here’s one of the intermediate steps to the finished product; it’s an average of all the world’s countries’ flags weighted by…

December 1
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25-Minute Lego Halo Fan Movie: Watch the Trailer! [Lego]

I got a kick out of watching the Matrix’s bullet-dodging scene recreated using Lego over the weekend, but this? Wow. Alex Kobbs has spent six years shooting Lego frame-by-frame to create…

December 1
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Minimum wage machine

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Ever feel like you are just cranking away and not getting anywhere in life? Well, at least with Blake Fall-Conroy’s Minimum Wage Machine, you are guaranteed to get paid…

December 1
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OK Go, WTF

A delightfully low-tech but colorful music video from OK Go. Looks like it was shot it one take.

You may remember OK Go from their famous treadmill video. (thx, mike)

Tags: music
November 26
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61 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For [Downloads]

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our…

November 25
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Dragon Skin body armor gains piezoelectric sensors, keeps bullet-stopping abilities

This Dragon Skin armor has been knocking about since 2007, but now that piezoelectrics and intelligence have been thrown into the mix we couldn’t stop ourselves from taking a peek at it….

November 24
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Muppets Take On Bohemian Rhapsody at 1080p [VIDEO]

muppets-bohemianThe below video wins the Coolest Video of the Day, or perhaps of All-Time, Award: it’s the Muppets taking on Queen’s mega-hit Bohemian Rhapsody.

It’s also a good excuse to remind you…

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