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Please Hold, Windows: I'll Patch You Through To the USB Bus


We've come along way since the age when every office's communications nerve center depended on its switchboard operators tucked discreetly inside a windowless room somewhere. Or have we?.

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So True: "90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles"

Our obsession with the omnipresent screen, targeted with utter truth by the fake news

The Onion tends to target our cultural soft spots and attack mercilessly, but few articles have hit home more poignantly than the genius “Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles”. So unbelievably true. And it got me wondering: What will replace the rectangular back-lit screen?

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Extreme Shepherding

Using sheep as pixels


[Via Kontraband.com]

This ia a pretty impressive display of DIY creativity using an... unconventional set of raw materials.

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