February 2012
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The Ask Lifehacker Podcast: Watch (or Listen to)... →
Lifehacker answers 11 reader questions. This is what you’ll hear:
How do I resize my Windows Bootcamp partition?
What’s the best online survey tool?
How do I get involved with open-source development projects?
How do I access my home server from outside my local network?
How do I get Siri on a non-iPhone 4S?
How can I get the most out of FreeNAS when serving files to multiple...
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Book Stalker: Anniversary! →
bookstalker is an awesome, awesome book Tumblr. Happy 1 Year!
Well, it’s officially been one year since I came up with The Plan, and I have to say it’s been quite a trip. Besides meeting fellow book-lovers, authors, bloggers and misc. cool folk, I’ve also had some pretty neat reading experiences. It was hard to narrow down the list, but I wanted…
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Penguin Books Best Actress Oscar Contest!
Don’t be fooled by their laughter. This is the most important contest on the internet.
Once the nominations for Best Actress were announced (because Best Actor has Gary Oldman, so, duh), the Viking/Penguin Books movie tie-in team immediately split into two halves: Team Glenn and Team Meryl. The losing team in our office has to buy lunch for the winners and will win unimpeded bragging...
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Reading the future: Digital books and what's to... →
Far from killing off the physical page, the rise of ebooks has enhanced our understanding of the written word and the people around it, says Gaby Wood
… things are settling to a point where the physical and the digital have a much more co-operative relationship. For instance, it’s a commonplace that people no longer print their family snaps because everything is taken on digital cameras;...
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Original DIY: A History of Artists Distributing... →
Jim Gaffigan recently announced that he will be producing his upcoming comedy special without the help of a studio, having been inspired by Louis CK’s similar venture from a couple months ago. While this is now considered unusual, at least outside the increasingly inventive world of music distribution, back in the day many creative types chose not to rely on industry backing to get their material...
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Geek or Hipster?
via Geeks are Sexy
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WatchMan proposes to girlfriend with LEGO stop animation short
Now, this is one for the ages: back in 2010, Atlanta film-maker Walter Thompson created a jaw-dropping LEGO stop motion to propose to Nealey Dozier, his girlfriend of four years. The video took 22 hours of shooting and some 2,600 pictures to splice together, a small sacrifice to pay for years of happiness together. Right? Right! Oh, and...
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The Chimerist: Reading in Bed →
If you’re not already following Salon’s Laura Miller & literary critic Maud Newton’s new site, I have no words for you —> thechimerist:
The main reason I bought my iPad was to watch TV in bed. I do sometimes do that, but I use it to read in bed much more often, and more often than I expected to.
I prefer to fall asleep while reading, an excellent way to avoid...
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