The geniuses at Google, the world's most arrogantly clever ad sellers, have announced plans to target ads to Internet users based on their "interests." You can opt out — but there's a catch. Susan Wojcicki, the Google vice president who's also the sister-in-law of cofounder Sergey Brin, announ...

Quite often, among our friends or acquaintances, there is someone who has astonished - or appalled! - us with a few magic tricks. The Ease of Learning and Performing Basic Magic Tricks Most children and adult libraries have a selection of books on the how-to of a wide range of magic tricks. These sh...

Quite often, among our friends or acquaintances, there is someone who has astonished - or appalled! - us with a few magic tricks. The Ease of Learning and Performing Basic Magic Tricks Most children and adult libraries have a selection of books on the how-to of a wide range of magic tricks. These sh...

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Only lawyers and nerds get excited about debating a website's terms of service. And yet Facebook managed to turn a change in its legalese into a PR nightmare. Here's an anatomy of the debacle. The story broke on Sunday in Consumerist (a website recently sold by Gawker Media to the publisher of Consu...

Empowerment. A buzzword of today's business establishment. The employees are empowered to make decisions. This gives them the power to make decisions without having to seek out management approval for every move they make. Its a good feeling, knowing that I am in charge, and I can do what I need to ...

How to Hallucinate With Ping-Pong Balls and a Radio Makes you wonder how much of the rest of our reality is only a conventional illusion.Tags: hallucination mind illusion purkinje perception Preston L. Bannister { random memes } Precisely (in an as-precisely-as-you-can-map-reality sort of way).Tags:...

The Hopside Down glass is an optical illusion you drink beer out of: a glass with a bottle inside. The only downside is that it screws you out of a full pint. [ProductPage via NerdApproved]...

Hope and change has come to Google Maps. The official residence of the vice president, obscured until Dick Cheney's last days in office and residence, now shines in satellite sunlight. A reader tipped us off that Google Maps now showed a clear overhead image of One Observatory Circle (above), the ad...