To celebrate Election Day 2012 and to contribute to the Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, we have partnered with Flavorpill and Rock to Vote to bring you the ultimate lunch break — one in which your ass-shaking will directly help raise money for New York City as it recovers from Sandy's impact.

Remember Jeremy Epstein, the ungainly 20-something, who — wearing the same suit he wore at his bar-mitzvah — questioned Barry O. and Willard R. about his job prospects in the Town Hall debate?

A few weeks ago, we asked fans of The Walking Dead to don your finest zombie attire, hit the streets like a pack of flesh-hungry walkers, and then capture the gory details via Instagram.

As you're probably well aware, The Walking Dead is crawling out of its summer grave and back onto TV for a new skin-peeling, shotgun-blasting, mind-blowing season.

The annual Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology, and Society just happened, where some of the world's most incredible cutting-edge artists, technologists, designers, scientists, thinkers, and more came together to celebrate their creations, like NOTCOT editors Shawn Sims and Golan Levin's Free Universal Construction Kit. It generates open source 3D printable toy adapter pieces to connect your Legos to your Lincoln Logs.

Boring desks and soul-sucking overhead lamps can often prohibit a person from achieving true office or apartment zen. Below are ten ingenious and multi-functional pieces of furniture created by designers who obviously know how to take a fresh idea to the next level. Will they fit in your apartment? Perhaps not. Are they fun to look at? Oh, yes.

After a fun and sun-filled trip to Miami, photographer Douglas Sonders is back from the Land of Lebron. The occasion: He used Gizmodo's Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge to shoot some of the flashiest, fastest, ultra-sleek cars he could get his lens on. And although we can only assume he's still nursing some sort of peel-tastic sunburn, he's graciously agreed to hang out in the Jalopnik comments right now in order to answer any and all questions you have about dem cars, his shooting technique, the national treasure that is Miami, and his experience with the ultra-responsive Ultrabook™ that got him through long days of shooting. So flip through his shots, then hop over to Jalopnik and ask away!

As you're probably well aware, The Walking Dead is crawling out of its summer grave and back onto TV for a new skin-peeling, shotgun-blasting, mind-blowing season.

If Miami is good enough for LeBron and Will Smith, it's good enough for Douglas Sonders (one of Gizmodo's Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge photographers). Phase One camera in hand, Douglas landed in Miami with one goal: To shoot the most ridiculously awesome cars he could, and to do it with 80s-action-movie style (any photographer who cites Robocop and Total Recall as two of his biggest influences is all right with us).

Remember the days when books were made of paper, and you had to go to the store to buy them, and if the store didn't have the one you wanted, then you had to wait two weeks until they could order it? Haha! Neither do we!

Pointless texts are flying across cell networks at a staggering rate. Attempting to read, process, and respond to them while driving is a potentially dangerous situation. So, in an effort to help curb the futility of human existence, to cut down on texting-related driving mishaps, and to save everyone a little time and money (text messaging rates apply!), here are 10 types of texts in no particular order that get your friends' blood boiling — all perfect examples of messages that can wait until you're not operating a motor vehicle.

Let's face it — a cubicle, a humming fluorescent light and a square box office building can be creativity killers in the working world. Alternatively, work can be a beautiful thing when done in the right environment. If you're looking to break out of the traditional work place and discover something special, join us to explore ten offices that are amongst the most inspiring workplaces in the modern world. It'll make 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. some of the most enjoyable hours of your day…

She's baaaaack: Seems like photographer Diana Levine survived her fast, loud, and mostly out-of-control hop to music Mecca Austin. Of course, she was there to participate in the latest installment of Gizmodo's Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge, where she shot music-makers My Jersusalem as they did their thing.

Remember the days when books were made of paper, and you had to go to the store to buy them, and if the store didn't have the one you wanted, then you had to wait two weeks until they could order it? Haha! Neither do we!

The capital of Texas is also a capital of live music, and home to enough promising bands to fill its endless rows of it's-a-miracle-the-neighbors-don't-complain music venues on a nightly basis. It's also where photographer Diana Levine trotted off to as part of Gizmodo's Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge.

If you are lucky enough to have a job, why not take the whole "work" thing to the next level and work from home in your jammies? Inspired by all of the mobile-office-enabling features of join.me, we asked tech entrepreneur (and work-from-home pro) Seth Porges to outline some tactics you can use to move closer to that holy grail of becoming a model, hyper-prolific employee who never leaves their zip code.

Welcome to the final installment of A Gentleman's Quest for the Perfect Night Out, a four-part guide written by etiquette expert John Bridges meant to instruct our more testosteroney readers on how to comport themselves during the evening hours. With the help of Clear Men Scalp Therapy^TM, which gives you 100% dandruff protection* (because, after all, perfect hair ensures a perfect night), the guide covers all the man-questions you were always curious about, but were too ashamed to ask your dad. Don't worry. This is a safe space.

If, like the man above, you choose to stride along a public beach wearing your basic brown banana-hammock, just do it with the same level of swag. He doesn't care that his spare tire is gleaming in the late-summer sunshine, nor that his body hair creates a halo around his creatively toned muscles. And he's obviously down with those sunglasses that were purchased at a Taos gas station sometime during the hazy summer of 1981.

Inspired by the smart car not-at-all-blah create a car wrap contest, funny person Alex Scordelis agreed to give us some tips on how to unblah your own life by not being a completely predictable and utterly boring snoozefest of a human being. Read through the gallery, and prepare to live a life in which you thrill every single person you come into contact with.

Welcome to A Gentleman's Quest for the Perfect Night Out, a four-part guide written by etiquette expert John Bridges meant to instruct our more testosteroney readers on how to comport themselves during the evening hours. With the help of Clear Men Scalp Therapy, which gives you 100% dandruff protection* (because, after all, perfect hair ensures a perfect night), the guide covers all the man-questions you were always curious about, but were too ashamed to ask your dad. Don't worry. This is a safe space.