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Studio@Gawker · 10/12/12 10:59AMThis Electronica Festival Is More Exciting than Sitting at Work
Notcot · 10/03/12 10:59AMThe 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.
10 Pieces of Furniture You Probably Don’t Need But Should Look at Anyway
Freshome · 10/02/12 02:59PMBoring 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.
Talk to a Man Who Shoots the World's Most Expensive Cars for a Living
Seth Porges · 10/02/12 10:59AMAfter 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!
How to Make Friends and Eat People (and Win Some Walking Dead Swag)
Studio@Gawker · 10/01/12 10:59AMHelp Kill Books Once and For All
Studio@Gawker · 09/19/12 02:59PM10 Kinds of Texts You Don't Need to Send or Receive While Driving — or Ever
Studio@Gawker · 09/19/12 10:59AMPointless 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.
10 of the Most Insane Offices You'll Ever See — and You'll Never Work In
The Coolist · 09/18/12 02:59PMLet'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…
Ask a Photographer How to Shoot a Band And Get Away With It
Seth Porges · 09/18/12 10:59AMShe'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.
Help Kill Books Once and For All
Studio@Gawker · 09/12/12 02:59PMMake Your Boss Be Okay with You Never Coming into the Office Again
Seth Porges · 09/10/12 10:59AMIf 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.
How To Entertain After Hours
John Bridges · 08/30/12 10:59AMWelcome 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 TherapyTM, 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.
Unsexy Man Does Not Care, Walks Around In Tiny Bathing Suit
Studio@Gawker · 08/29/12 10:59AMIf, 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.
Five Ways to Make Your Life (aka, You) Less Unbearably Boring
Alex Scordelis · 08/27/12 10:59AMInspired 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.
How to Not Look Like a Slob at Dinner
John Bridges · 08/23/12 10:59AMWelcome 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.
How to Be Sharp in a City Full of Predators
Studio@Gawker · 08/20/12 10:59AMAs cliché as it might sound, the city really can be a jungle. Between subway seat-stealing sharks, carnivorous coworkers and prideful packs of hyena-like shopgirls, it's easy to feel like a quivering antelope fearfully grazing near the watering hole/ water cooler. So how can you be sharp amongst so many predators?
How to Make the Perfect Cocktail
John Bridges · 08/16/12 10:59AMWelcome 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.
Last Thursday Was Pretty Much the Best Night Ever
Rose Annis · 08/15/12 10:59AMThe library is just about the last place most people expect to be on a mid-summer night. And yet, in a city over run by cheesy clubs, crowded streets, and noisy, sweaty tourists, the hallowed stacks of the New York Public Library might just be the perfect escape – especially when said stacks act as the backdrop to one of the season's best events.
How to Dress Like a Real Man
John Bridges · 08/09/12 02:59PMWelcome 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), it will cover 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.