Not everyone has the talent to be a professional in the arts, but that doesn't make that itch not worth scratching every once in awhile. While serious types often spend lots of cash on the latest design software, more casual…
Continue Reading →Twitter is a great way for fostering discussion amongst your friends, telling strangers how your doctor's appointment went, or staying up-to-date on Shaq. But sometimes you just need Twitter's important opinions on one particular topic. Thanks to OneRiot's new Twitter…
Continue Reading →Google's "unsend" setting has already saved thousands of savvy net-izens from mistaken late night e-mails. The new iPhone Bad Decision Blocker application goes one step further, by blocking specific contacts at preset times. So the next time you want to…
Continue Reading →Comics meet couture in a clever mashup at Barney's New York. This display for fashion designer Azzedine Alaia repurposes two mannequins as the iconic black and white spies from Mad's long-running comic, Spy vs. Spy. Barney's is known for its…
Continue Reading →The San Francisco Ballet is facing many of the same issues confronting cultural and arts organizations all over the country: aging audiences, global recession, pricey tickets. To counter act these trends, they introduced some great programs to build community interest.…
Continue Reading →With the advent of the Internet, magazines and newspapers fought to keep their readers loyal to the paper versions. When things started looking bad they released some of it online. Now, as publishing companies start hacking and slashing to keep…
Continue Reading →London's got a reputation for having a seedy underground. Anything goes: drugs, hookers, knives ... bingo? Last week I ended up in the underbelly of the Underground Rebel Bingo Club. Under the guise of a neighborhood watch meeting the "too…
Continue Reading →We love sheep. They're soft, they're adorable, and they provide those of us who are knitters with wool. But we especially love sheep when dozens of them are covered with LED lights at night and herded so that they appear…
Continue Reading →Crowdsourcing is coming to this year's San Francisco Women's Film Festival, the Bay Area's annual celebration of recent contributions to documentary, LGBT, and dramatic film. Indie-Fest recently opened an online screening competition sponsored by the film forum and marketplace IndieFlix.…
Continue Reading →Unless you're out there chasing tornados, braving hurricanes, or watching your garage get pelted with golfball sized pieces of hail, weather is pretty boring. Pin Up Weather is trying to change that for iPhone users. They've got the concept down…
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