By Jesus Diaz on Sploid, shared by Jesus Diaz to Gizmodo
NASA’s astronomy picture of the day …
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By Jesus Diaz on Sploid, shared by Jesus Diaz to Gizmodo
This video shows the emergency descent of Jetblue flight 1416, which happened yesterday, September 18. Seeing those oxygen masks going down as the cabin fills up with smoke—after one of the engines stops!—is the beginning of one of my worst nightmares. Yet, all passengers seem completely calm about it.
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By Chris Mills
Corporate culture today is often said to be about working slavishly, with an above-all focus on profit and productivity. Nothing captures that idea more strikingly than this (fully functional) …
By Chris Mills
Most humans’ priority when their flying metal tube starts filling with smoke: panic, scream, scrabble for oxygen mask, pee their pants a little. This guy? He pulls out his smartphone and starts video-selfie-ing for all he’s worth.
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By Jesus Diaz on Sploid, shared by Casey Chan to Gizmodo
I come as much as I can to Gothenburg, Sweden, because two simple reasons. First, it’s one of my favorite cities in the world, along with New York and Madrid—I could spend a hundred pages talking about how nice it is. But, most importantly, it’s the home to some of my favorite people in the Universe.
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There are certain sounds that just work when you’re driving out of the madness of the city under the cover of night to a chilled-out place in the wilderness where the stars outnumber—and outshine—the streetlights. Next time you’re on passenger-seat DJ duty, I recommend queueing up …
The growing bedbug issue on New York’s subways sounds pretty awful, but you know what’s worse? All the parasites and invisible germs you don’t see while taking public transit. You might as well be rolling around in a petri dish when you step on a bus, unless you’ve got protection. Say, gallons of hand sanitizer, or Betabrand’s new germ-fighting transit jacket.
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By Darren Orf
Until recently, buying a Windows Phone probably meant buying a Nokia phone. But it doesn’t need to be that way. HTC has just turned its flagship Android smartphone, the HTC One (M8), into the best all-purpose Windows Phone you can buy.
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