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gizmodocom:

Downtown Goes Dark on Foursquare

By Sam Biddle

As saltwater poured into Manhattan, Manhattanites fled to higher, electrified ground like Wi-Fi rats. But other than tweets, we had no proof—until now. New Yorkers’ Foursquare checkins, charted by the company itself, show a massive exodus northward, out of the Dead Zone and into techie comfort.

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reportagebygettyimages:

The latest cover of Time, ‘Lessons from the Storm,’ was shot with an iPhone by Ben Lowy.  

(vía benlowy)

discoverynews:

how beautiful and complex!

ianbrooks:

Space Shuttle Flight Decks photos by Ben Cooper

I’ve played enough video games during my tenure to safely assume that I could easily jump behind the joystick of one of these beauties and immediately be sailing at a smooth near-lightspeed. It’s gotta be that easy, right? My secret to success: mash every button until it does something you want. Ben Cooper took these absolutely gorgeous fisheye shots of the space shuttle flight deck interiors, with prints available at launchphotography, to post up on your wall and gaze longingly at.

(via: Boing Boing)

(vía ganyet)

Mountain Lion Review: What Happened to Apple’s Innovation?
Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com

Mac OSX Lion seemed unpol­ished, and, worse, not inno­v­a­tive. When Moun­tain Lion dropped a cou­ple weeks ago, we were pumped: It was a rel­a­tive­ly rapid update, and we hoped it would address our con­cerns. Hrmph.

I’ve been using Moun­tain L…

etfelicitofill:

Mourinho esperant ahir al arbitre per dir-li: “Como te gusta joder a los profesionales” #etfelicitofill

via llourinho:

No hablo de árbitros pero ayer me quedé a esperarle en su coche.

Que xungo no? Segur que quan van expulsar a Ramos el que li va dir va ser: “se lo has dicho, le has dicho que le espero fuera, no?”