Yes, it’s true, we haven’t been around for a while, and for that we apologize. If you miss your Tek Lado friends, here’s where to find some of them: Follow Nick Lohr on Twitter here. Follow Liz Spikol at the new site she’s editing, Curbed Philly. Contact Mel Gomez via email. Follow Samer Kalef on Twitter here. As for this [...]
An Israeli law center, Shurat HaDin, is threatening to sue Twitter unless it shuts down an account that the center says belongs to Hezbollah. The center describes itself this way: Shurat HaDin—Israel Law Center is an Israeli based civil right organization and world leader in combating the terrorist organizations and the regimes that support them through lawsuits litigated in courtrooms [...]
GoDaddy has long been king of kings of domain registrars, and even when CEO Bob Parsons shot an elephant and crowed about it on video, most non-PETA-affiliated users didn’t flee. But when GoDaddy trumpeted its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), users took notice. SOPA was proposed by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who probably has a lot in [...]
While it’s still not clear who the perpetrators were of the first Stratfor hack, that same group is now claiming responsibility for a system breach of Special Forces Gear, a somewhat, um, intense website, founded by a Special Forces veteran, that sells military and law enforcement gear as well as stupid T-shirts. The website describes the business this way: Ltc [...]
Three guys from Dallas, Brad Alesi, Stu Hill, and Wes Hendrix, want to build an app that publishes reviews of restaurants and bars in haiku form. They’re using Kickstarter to fund the project. Haiku Review uses actual traditional Haiku guidelines – reviews cannot be longer than 17 syllables. The developers say that Haiku Review sets itself apart from other similar [...]
It’s time to get rid of your Death Star wallpaper and go for something more sophisticated. Italian illustrator and graphic designer Alberto Seveso poured ink into water and photographed it at high speed. What resulted are images that look like puffs of silk unfurling in an ethereal undersea universe. Seveso’s design work is pretty amazing in general. Check out the [...]
A few tech sites have written about a woman who, 25 years ago, swallowed a felt-tip pen. This year she came in for stomach surgery and the pen was still in there, and not only that, it still writes. That’s one hell of a writing instrument for you. But for me, the most beautiful thing to come out of this [...]
Google decided to give an early Christmas present to … the world? The company is giving $40 million to organizations for causes such as fighting slavery, strengthening education and making technology more available. It’s a very impressive and admirable feat for Google to help others and have a positive impact outside of their company’s products. Normally I’d have some joke [...]