The long time love birds, which have been known to maintain a wonderful long distance relationship (unlike other celebs), have finally started to act like the rest of the celebs. The hot couple, Usman and Amrita Arora, has decided to call it off. The couple have been in long distance relationship for quite long, and […]

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So, another horror movie is gonna be out from RGV’s bag releasing on 22nd august…

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Filed under: Gaming, GPS

An enterprising nerd by the name of Ryan VanMiddlesworth is clearly a bigger Portal fan than you, since he’s cobbled together a GLaDOS-simulating voice pack for Garmin Nüvis. Just don’t try to prevent “GLaGPS” from constantly trying to divert you to cake-related points of interest, else you may find yourself tossing your Garmin into an incinerator. Video after the break.

Continue reading GLaDOS GPS voice pack just wants to help you find your way. To the morgue.

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Filed under: Cellphones

MetroPCS may not have the largest wireless footprint in the States, but they did take a jab at the larger two CDMA carriers by announcing their intention to take on any Verizon and Sprint customers ready to jump ship — as well as any “compatible” devices they may want to bring along with them. Sprint already supposedly does this (although we’ve still yet to hear of it actually really happening), but the specifics of MetroPCS’s MetroFlash seem equally unclear. It doesn’t sound like they’ll reprogram just any CDMA device that walks through their doors, though, just the ones they’ve had a chance to test on their network. Definitely kills the buzz (and the number of devices that can be ported), but a little open is still kind of better than totally closed, right?

[Via Seattle P-I and Mobility Site]

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Filed under: Computers, Google

While the anti-Google movement is already in full-swing amongst the nerdarati, it seems that the company is still enjoying its “good guy” reputation with the mainstream. According to a study released on last week, the company has the single best reputation in all of corporate America. (Which is kinda like being named prom king at Zombie High School, but we digress.)

Google has become famous for its perks — from allowing engineers to spend 20 percent of their work time on side projects, to free, unlimited snack bins full of everything from salted cashews to dried mangoes — and this probably didn’t hurt its case.

“The ratings they get focus on how they treat their employees, their workplace environment,” said Robert Fronk, senior vice president at Rochester, New York-based Harris. “They absolutely get tremendous credit for the social responsibility, which for them is also linked with their vision and leadership.”

On the other end of the spectrum, unsurprisingly, was nearly the entire U.S. airline industry, which has cut employee salaries while raising ticket prices and tacking on fees for every conceivable perk for consumers. The percentage of respondents whose rating toward the industry was favorable fell to 26 percent from 31 percent last year — the single the sharpest drop of any of the 11 industries counted in the survey.

Rounding out the top 10, from second to ninth, were health care company Johnson & Johnson, Intel Corp, food companies General Mills Inc and Kraft Foods Inc, Warren Buffet’s investment and insurance enterprise Berkshire Hathaway Inc (sweet Web site, by the way), the 3M Co, Coca-Cola Co., and Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co.

Johnson & Johnson? Kraft Foods? Really? Perception is a powerful thing. [Source: Reuters]

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Filed under: Before the bell, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Google (GOOG), Time Warner (TWX), Whole Foods Market (WFMI), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Alcatel-LucentADS (ALU)

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) was raised to “neutral” from “underperform” at Merrill Lynch, according to 24/7 Wall St. The financial website also reports that Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ:WFMI) was cut to “neutral” from “buy” at UBS.

Citigroup added Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to its Top Picks Live list, according to Briefing.com. The news service reports that Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) was also added to the list.

Societe Generale raised its rating on BP (NYSE:BP) to “hold” from “sell” according to MarketWatch.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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And you all are heartless. Your favorite “A thing walks into a place” joke was:

So a baby seal walks into a club…

Congratulations, Cheeseduck on your horrifying joke!

I don’t get it guys…

In second place was Pancake’s:

So a blind guy walks into a bookstore, picks up his guide dog by the hind legs, and begins swinging him around in circles. The store clerk runs up to him and shouts “What are you doing?!” The blind guy says “Just having a look around.”

Congratulations.

What is with you guys and animal abuse? But I’m glad you all enjoyed yourselves and submitted some new (and some old) favorites to share. Next time someone starts an old tired chestnut, you now have a newly loaded arsenal to try out.

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Grow On You by LucyandBart.

LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.

Playing with suggestive photography for high impact, they seem obsessed with the body metamorphosis. I call their work organic prosthesis, because they mainly use organic material in their body extension. For instance, they grow seeds on a fabric, which gives the impression of a body grown of grass and soil. The following pictures show the germination from day one to day eight.

I love their work with foam. The foam transforms the body in a gentle way. Here the artists embrace the prosthetic impulse …

Posted by Cati Vaucelle @ Architectradure

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Filed under: Dessert, Baking

I shamelessly stole this idea from the Betty Crocker website but I did manage to change it up to make it a bit more interesting. It turned out very well but it had me cussing more than I imagined it would.

I started with two leveled cakes that were made in loaf pans. I did one in chocolate and one in french vanilla for a little variety. The vanilla one was cut in half to make the two smaller blocks. For the chocolate block, I managed to find chocolate marshmallows to cut in half and use for the top of the block but let me assure you that these sound a lot yummier than they actually are. The smaller blocks got strawberry marshmallows which I highly recommend for sm’ores or just nibbling. The large block was covered in blue buttercream icing and smoothed for a flat surface. Then I covered each marshmallow half, set in it’s spot and attempted to even them out as well. Those little buggers can be quite uncooperative.

Next, I covered the green block and set it at a small angle against the first one. The final block was the one that presented a couple of small challenges in order to sit on its side. I iced the bottom edge of the block while holding it then placed it next to the other pieces. The top portion of the block was resting on the points of the other two and I must say that marshmallows make for a squishy support system at best. They also tend to slide off when at an angle so, for the yellow block, they were secured with toothpicks as they went on.

The cake turned out cute although I never managed to get it as smooth as I wanted. Looking back, maybe the reason I found the cake, which was actually pretty simple, a chore is that it wasn’t my original idea. Normally, all the little challenges I encounter when making a cake are fun and interesting but apparently that is only true when the concept is mine in the first place.

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