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Hide Pictures in a Histogram


Posted in Cool, Tech by Dan L | 2 Comments

Anyone with even minimal image processing experience will likely have a good grasp on a luminance histogram– a graphical display of the color range and prevalence in a given image. Most ...

Virgin & Victoria’s Secret to host in-flight Slumber Party


Posted in Risque, UUF by Dan L | 3 Comments

It may not be the mile-high club, but it's hard to beat a high-altitude slumber party with underwear models for sheer awesomeness. Virgin America and Victoria's Secret have partnered to ...

Genius Bar Fixing Some Bricked iPhones; How to get yours fixed too


Posted in Apple, Gadgets, Howto, Mobile by Dan L | 4 Comments

Apple may be a cold, uncaring faceless corporation; absent any empathy for your bricked iPhone plight, but their employees are a different story. Mac Genius's have long had the power ...

MIT Entrance Exam


Posted in Cool, Geeky by Dan L | 6 Comments

Think you've got what it takes to study with the big-geeks at MIT? Prove it. This entrance exam, circa 1869, was created to ensure that in addition to the requirement ...

Disney Mobile Bites The Dust


Posted in Mobile by Dan | Comments Off

Today Disney reported they are exiting the MVNO business. In recognition of any inconvenience this may cause you, Disney Mobile will be providing a reimbursement program covering handsets as well as ...

MLB Playoffs to Stream On Joost


Posted in AV by Dan | 1 Comment

Joost reportedly has signed a deal with MLB to make all of the playoff games, as well as World Series available on demand via their application. Don't get too ...

Sprint Verizon Announce USB EVDO Modem with Memory


Posted in Mobile, Random by Dan | Comments Off

Novatel has announced with Sprint and Verizon their second generation USB EVDO modem. The USB727 is slightly smaller then its predecessor but adds a new feature of having a ...

Split-Brain Experiments


Posted in Cool, Geeky by Dan L | 2 Comments

Anyone who took a psychology course in college (and that's almost everyone) should remember the all important corpus callosum– that bundle of nerves in the middle of the brain that ...

Anime GTA Mod


Posted in Random by Jon | 3 Comments

DIsturbing...simply disturbing...such wanton pikachu carnage. As former Grand Theft Auto dabblers, the above mod has to be one of the most simultaneously entertaining and disturbing things we've ever seen. The ...

Rollerman


Posted in Cool by Dan L | 3 Comments

One of my all-time favorite video games is Kinetica for Playstation– a futuristic racer featuring sexy neo-humans in form-fitting jet-powered exoskeletons which enable them to essentially slide along the track ...

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