Many of our users say the accuracy of our spam filter is one of the key reasons they love Gmail. And while we think you should never have to look in your spam folder, we know some of you may want to know why the messages there were marked as spam. So starting today, we’ll …
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WhichFlicks is a website that allows you to sort through thousands of movies and television shows on Netflix. With that many options there is always something to watch the trouble is finding it. With this website you have the ability to sort by Netflix Stars, Rotten Tomato Ratings, date, genre, audience (MPAA rating), and by …
Steve Jobs always wanted the Mac’s interior be as beautiful as its exterior. Does Apple’s new iPad live up to its heritage? Will the iPad Norm and Will “borrowed” from Adam survive the day? Super Interesting!
American Indians and Alaska Natives typically live in more rural and isolated locations of the United States, areas that generally have waited longer for internet broadband access. Many tribal lands still have only very limited connectivity. As a result, many Native people have moved straight to mobile internet, accessing digital content through cellphones that do …
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Some interesting thoughts from Om Malik, founder of GigaOm, after their latest acquisition. He hints that while everyone can blog only certain websites can grab users attention and continue to do so. Media is the new Wild West We are quite strategic about our acquisitions — we acquire media entities only if we love the …
The Story of Water: Surfrider Foundation’s 3 Second Movie Collection In celebration of World Water Day, the Surfrider Foundation, Teva and GoPro challenged our supporters to try and capture the essence of water in just three seconds. These are their stories… Founded in 1993 by the United Nations, World Water Day is a global observance …
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The California Office of Traffic Safety celebrated their fifth year of consecutive declines in traffic related fatalities. In 2010, the number of fatalities in the Golden State dropped to 2,715. That is nearly a 12 percent drop from 3,081 traffic deaths in 2009. And since the peak in 2005, with 4,333 deaths, California’s numbers have …
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Subtitles from Dutch I was running…and…(breathing heavy) At one moment you see the ground moving away, and then suddenly you’re free, a really intense feeling of freedom. The true feeling of flying. A **cking magical moment! The best feeling I have felt in my life. From the project website, humanbirdwings.net – Right here, on this blog I …
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In 1922, the Royal Swedish Academy awarded Albert Einstein the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. The official announcement came when Einstein was on a lecture tour in Japan. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity was, at that time, still controversial and members of the Swedish Academy avoided the issue by granting him the prize for his …
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Another video about the costumes of WonderCon 2012.