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Doctor Who Review: "The Name of the Doctor" (SPOILERS)

Wait, so this WASN’T the 50th Anniversary special? It’s an episode in which every single incarnation of the Doctor we know (and also…) is featured, and in a way that makes sense and isn’t stupid. It’s full of past characters and references and mystery and intrigue and loss and sadness and endings and beginnings and…. Man, “The Name of the Doctor” had everything. It was even about what it said… more

One Step Closer To The Orgasmatron

It was bound to happen: Researchers at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, if this video is to be believed, are looking to develop a device that transmits the feeling… more

Music For Barcodes

Because there really is an “app for that,” here’s an app — just 99 cents! — that makes music from bar codes. It’s called Barcodas, and what you do is… more

Instant Meme Nostalgia

Urlesque is, as a stand-alone site, no more, a victim of the changes at AOL in the wake of the Huffington Post purchase, but the memories will linger on. The… more
 

The Zombie Network

By now, you know that Friendster is erasing pretty much everything anyone’s posted there, clearing the decks on May 31st and converting to some sort of “social gaming destination”; accounts… more

Using A Video Game To Help Kids Walk

There’s nothing wrong with using game consoles to just play games, but it’s amazing what people can do with them with a little… no, a LOT of ingenuity. This, for… more

Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde Writ (Very) Large

Looking to waste a lot of time? Here you go: The World’s Biggest Pac-Man Game, built by Soap Creative to show off HTML5′s capabilities in the new Internet Explorer 9 (… more
 

Screw Your Elevator Buddies!

I’m not sure which would make me happier: hacking an elevator to get to my floor before anyone else, or seeing the other people’s expressions after I did so. Either… more

The Flying Tweets Of London

So I’m a sucker for videos showing graphical representations of stuff like… well, like this, an animation of the Twitter traffic in London during a 24 hour period, created by… more

Hacking The Kinect To Help Guide The Blind

The Kinect is inspiring a lot of hacking — getting it to work with a PS3, for example — but some folks are seeing it as something that can enable… more