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An Amazing Kitchen Table from The New York Times

Ryan Tate · 08/31/11 02:50PM

Yes, it's made some awful business decisions, but the New York Times has been savvy when it comes to technology development, maintaining a research lab and corps of programmers who, to take one example, rushed out an app to ensure the Times was on stage at the iPad unveiling. Now the company's hackers want to reinvent how you eat breakfast.

Woman Buys a Block of Wood with an Apple Logo Thinking It's an iPad

Brian Moylan · 08/30/11 02:35PM

The spectacularly stupid Ashley McDowell was approached by two men in a McDonald's parking lot where they offered to sell her an iPad for $300. She only had $180, but they gave it to her anyway. When she got home, she found out it was really just a block of wood with an Apple logo painted on the back.

Pay a Serial Killer to Murder Your Books

Ryan Tate · 08/18/11 04:27PM

It's hot in Japan, and finally coming to the U.S.: For $2 or $3 per title, you can have your book collection lovingly scanned, emailed, and ground into dust. You don't even have to dispose of the corpse. Progress!

Tech News Is So Phenomenally Boring

Adrian Chen · 07/26/11 02:35PM

You never read tech news, do you? Good. Somehow, the story of the accidental early release of a Facebook iPad app everyone was expecting is threatening to turn into a week-long saga. Make it stop! This is the most boring shit ever.

Scientists Invent Utterly Useless Time Machine

Hamilton Nolan · 07/15/11 03:38PM

Nice baboons! Dead trees! Spiral galaxies! Ipad apps! Macaque alarms! Time machines! Rainbow toads! Eyeball pictures! And the latest news about the fishes and their watery friends! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch science—faster than you thought!

The Pope Is Now Tweeting

Max Read · 06/28/11 11:34PM

Someone (God?) gave Pope Benedict XVI an iPad, and today he became the first pope to Tweet (that we know of) when he announced his plans to exhume Pope John Paul II and put his corpse on trial. Just kidding! That was a different pope.

Chinese Teen Allegedly Sells His Kidney For an iPad

Seth Abramovitch · 06/02/11 09:47PM

The Telegraph reports on a teenager in China who allegedly sold his own kidney to afford an iPad 2 and iPhone. He told reporters that he had found an advertisement online that offered 20,000 yuan ($3000 US) for a kidney. So he made the journey to the city of Chenzhou in Hunan Province where, he says, a hospital cut him open, plucked out the organ, and paid him for his time.

AP Reporter Slams Management on the Way Out the Door

Hamilton Nolan · 05/31/11 02:02PM

In your angry Tuesday media column: burning bridges at the AP, Jann Wenner hates iPads, Mental Floss gets a new editor, the Hearst-Lagardere deal is closing, cussing in The New Yorker, dissected.

Typography Insight Makes Learning Fonts Gorgeous and Easy

Sam Biddle · 05/23/11 08:40PM

lot of people can get through life without having to stray far from 12 point Times New Roman. Maybe 13 if they're cheating on a paper. But typography is fascinating—and this app's great for pros and novices.

How Long Before PBS Is Just as Commercialized As Everyone Else?

Hamilton Nolan · 05/23/11 02:09PM

In your gloomy Monday media column: Troubles at PBS, a National Magazine Award-winning story re-examined, ladies love Nooks, Newsweek staffers are constantly griping (with good reason!), and Reuters gets a new op-ed editor.

New AP Stylebook: Now With More Corn Smut

Hamilton Nolan · 05/16/11 02:10PM

In your overcast Monday media column: a new yuppified AP Stylebook, NewsBeast's ad troubles, HuffPo keeps on poaching, Carol Smith to Hearst, and Glamour's iPad revolution.

Angry Birds Gives Fathers and Sons Excuse to Talk to Each Other

Remy Stern · 04/29/11 01:09AM

Back in the 20th century, America's dads passed down viable skills (masonry, woodcarving, mafioso-ing) or bustling family businesses (brick laying, carpentry, the syndicate) to their beloved sons, in hope that their offspring would grow up to become productive, progress-making citizens. But now all dads want to do is play the damn Angry Birds game. What kind of role-modeling is that?

Jesse Jackson Jr. Says the iPad Is Killing American Jobs

Remy Stern · 04/17/11 07:52PM

If you ever doubted that our politicians really know nothing about economics, you must watch this video from Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr (D-IL) who blasts Apple and Steve Jobs for killing American jobs with the iPad.

How to Catch an iPad Thief: College Edition

Jeff Neumann · 04/14/11 03:52AM

Hugo Scheckter is a sophomore at George Washington University. He's also the Managing Editor of the school newspaper, The GW Patriot, and President of Club Sports. In other words, he's a good kid and a go-getter. So when someone lifted his iPad on Saturday night from his dorm — along with some cash and his laptop — Hugo took matters into his own hands.

iPad On Steroids Used As Microscope

Tony Kaye · 03/25/11 03:45PM

Finnish company Multitouch Limited and research lab FIMM have joined forces to create a giant microscope with multitouch technology. One of the creators of the behemoth, Johan Lundin, has affectionately referred to the device as an 'iPad on steroids'.

2-Year-Old Works iPad Perfectly

Junior Mendez · 03/18/11 10:35AM

Bridger just turned two and could possibly teach a few adults a thing or two about maneuvering an iPad. Watch him quickly find apps, draw, fast forward all the while being absolutely adorable.

Stephen Colbert Really Wants the New iPad

Matt Cherette · 03/07/11 11:50PM

On tonight's Report, Stephen Colbert remarked that he'd been depressed for the last few days. Why? It turns out that Colbert's upset that he has to wait *four more days* for the new iPad—he wants it now!