Haddie and Dan record this episode in San Francisco at New Relic's new podcast studio. They talk about some Halloween costumes and pumpkins, visiting San Francisco, Ashton Kutcher joining the Lenovo team, getting to use our electronic devices on planes, and more!
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40 Of The Best Halloween Costumes Of All Time
On the lookout for inspiration for a Halloween costume that will blow people away? Look no further than our collection of the best Halloween costumes ever:
Baby Dressed Up as a Glowing LED Stick Figure For Halloween
Visual Burrito created a funny LED light suit Halloween costume for their 22-month-old daughter that makes her look like a stick figure, and the little girl shows it off by running down a dark hallway in this video.
The Loop Magazine app reboots with amazing new, Glide-powered experience | iMore
"Hey, Rene. So I'm making a new version of The Loop Magazine app..."
The psychedelic and grotesque proto-GIFs of the 19th century | The Verge
Richard Balzer’s love affair began about 40 years ago, when he saw his first magic lantern — an early image projector invented in the 1600s. The experience would prove transformative
A Brief History of Dude - J.J. Gould - The Atlantic
Contemplate this, dude: that when I call you dude, there’s a whole range of things I might mean—you’ll understand me from my intonation and the overall context—but each time, I’m also reinforcing a specific kind of social relationship. No matter how I use the word, it always implies the same thing: solidarity without intimacy. It says close, but dude, not too close.
Taxis: Who decided they should be yellow?
In 1915, Chicago entrepreneur John Hertz (of future rental-car-company fame) opened the first Yellow Cab Company in his city. To unify his fleet, Hertz had commissioned a local university study to “scientifically ascertain which color would stand out strongest at a distance,” per his biographer—and yellow won. (Color researchers still agree that yellow is generally the most visible color, though some have suggested that it's chartreuse that the eye most easily detects.)But this often-told story ignores the fact that yellow taxis had already appeared in various American cities before 1915. Businessman Albert Rockwell was operating a fleet of yellow cabs as early as 1909, and he went on to incorporate the Yellow Taxicab Co. in NYC in 1912. If Hertz chose yellow for scientific reasons, legend has it that Rockwell was merely appeasing his wife Nettie, who preferred the color.
Getting to the Bottom of HealthCare.gov’s Flop - NYTimes.com
MILLIONS of Americans negotiating America’s health care system know all too well what the waiting room of a doctor’s office looks like. Now, thanks to HealthCare.gov, they know what a “virtual waiting room” looks like, too. Nearly 20 million Americans, in fact, have visited the Web site since it opened three weeks ago, but only about 500,000 managed to complete applications for insurance coverage. And an even smaller subset of those applicants actually obtained coverage.
Facebook and teen user trends.
Twitter has overtaken Facebook as the social media network that is most important to teens, according to Piper Jaffray's semi-annual teen market research report. Twitter is the new king of teens, with 26 percent naming it as their "most important" social site. Only 23 percent said Facebook was most important, down from a high of 42 percent.
Mark Zuckerberg Admits: 'Coolness Is Done For Us' - Business Insider
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally admitted that Facebook is no longer cool, and never will be again.
How Much Does Your State Fine For Texting and Driving? | Mother Jones
The good news: fatal car crashes are on the decline. The bad news: fatal car crashes involving cell phone use—anything from texting to talking to reaching for a ringing phone—are on the rise. In fact, the leading cause of death for teenage drivers is now texting, not drinking, with nearly a dozen teens dying each day in a texting-related car crash. Stark figures like this have driven 46 states to pass legislation banning texting and driving. But texting fines vary wildly across the country, and you'll end up paying a little or a lot depending on where you got caught.
Morgan Freeman Gives Dramatic Reading of Ylvis' 'The Fox' (Video) - The Hollywood Reporter
Mental Floss Exclusive: Our Interview with Bill Watterson! | Mental Floss
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Apple - Press Info - Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
The Company sold 33.8 million iPhones, a record for the September quarter, compared to 26.9 million in the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 14.1 million iPads during the quarter, compared to 14 million in the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.6 million Macs, compared to 4.9 million in the year-ago quarter.
iPad Air Supplies Expected to Be Plentiful at Launch With In-Store Pickup Available - Mac Rumors
When Apple launches orders for the iPad Air on Friday, November 1, the company will reportedly accept requests for Personal Pickup, according to a source who notified MacRumors about Apple's plans.
Google Glass 2 is coming, finally compatible with prescription glasses | Ars Technica
The next version of Glass will finally be compatible with people who already wear glasses via "future lines of shades and prescription frames." The second edition of Glass will also include a mono earbud, likely replacing the terrible bone conduction speaker in the current version. Still, Mono-only sound remains a bit of a disappointment, as listening to music on Glass would be a very useful feature.
Ohio State Marching Band Forms a Giant Harry Potter and T. Rex
Apple’s Rebound Quarter In Charts | TechCrunch
Amazon.com: Kindle MatchBook
For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases now allow you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free.
Adobe security breach worse than originally thought | PCWorld
This month’s security breach at Adobe is turning out to be much more widespread than the company first let on. At least 38 million users have been affected by the early October incident.
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What wacky things are people searching for!!
Best Sexy Costume 2013: Edgar Allan Ho - Boing Boing
Someone finally gets the sexy costume thing right.
Motorola reveals ambitious plan to build modular smartphones | The Verge
Motorola has unveiled Project Ara, an open-source initiative for modular smartphones with the goal to "do for hardware what the Android platform has done for software." The company plans to create an ecosystem that can support third-party hardware development for individual phone components — in other words, you could upgrade your phone's processor, display, and more by shopping at different vendors.
Ashton Kutcher Is Now a Lenovo Product Engineer - ABC News
Kutcher, a longtime technology investor and self-professed techie, said this is more than just a celebrity marketing move. Of course, it is partially that -- Lenovo would not divulge the financial terms of the partnership -- but Kutcher was very clear that he plans to do more at Lenovo than just pose in advertisements. In fact, he heads to China today to meet with their teams. He said he has become an Android convert and is already testing an unreleased Lenovo phone.
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Apple working on a fix for new Retina MacBook input issues | Apple - CNET News
Apple on Wednesday acknowledged an issue with some models of its newest MacBook Pro with Retina Display that would leave the keyboard and trackpad unresponsive.
Ashton Kutcher joins Lenovo as product engineer
Engineers are at a premium, yet Lenovo landed a new product engineer and celebrity pitchman when it inked a partnership with Ashton Kutcher on Tuesday night.
My friend just posted this pumpkin carving on Facebook - Imgur
N.D. woman to hand out "fat letters" to obese kids during Halloween - CBS News
By MICHELLE CASTILLO / CBS NEWS/ October 30, 2013, 12:06 PMN.D. woman to hand out "fat letters" to obese kids during Halloween335 Comments/14K Shares/291 Tweets/Stumble/EmailMore Most children expect to get candy when they go trick-or-treating. But, if they stop by one Fargo, North Dakota woman's house, they might get an unexpected "fat letter."A station manager told valleynewslive.com in Fargo that a woman identified as Cheryl called into the Y-94 morning program saying that she wanted to make a stand against obesity during Halloween. Her idea? Give children who had extra pounds on them a letter instead of a sweet treat.
Press Release – FAA to Allow Airlines to Expand Use of Personal Electronics
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta today announced that the FAA has determined that airlines can safely expand passenger use of Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) during all phases of flight, and is immediately providing the airlines with implementation guidance.
Man buys $27 of bitcoin, forgets about them, finds they're now worth $886k | Technology | theguardian.com
The meteoric rise in bitcoin has meant that within the space of four years, one Norwegian man’s $27 investment turned into a forgotten $886,000 windfall.Kristoffer Koch invested 150 kroner ($26.60) in 5,000 bitcoins in 2009, after discovering them during the course of writing a thesis on encryption. He promptly forgot about them until widespread media coverage of the anonymous, decentralised, peer-to-peer digital currency in April 2013 jogged his memory.
Is Mavericks always watching you? Not exactly | The Verge
This morning, coder Jonathan Wight has turned up a surprising feature in OS Mavericks, a chunk of code that seemed to reset idle time whenever the computer sensed movement.
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iOS 7 and the Iconography of ‘Alien’ | Iconfactory Design Services
So, where exactly does Alien come into all this? I’ll explain: when I first saw the iOS 7 designs, it immediately put me in mind of a system of symbols developed by artist Ron Cobb for the 1979 film Alien. Amongst the many designs and concepts Cobb contributed to the film, we find a set of icons intended for use as industrial signage onboard the film’s space-going tug “Nostromo”. The “Nostromo” spaceship sets constructed for the film are famed for their immersive and thoughtful design, and were characterized by an absolutely amazing attention to detail. Cobb’s “Semiotic Standard” iconography is visible throughout the film, a subtle touch of world-building that bolsters the perceived reality of the setting.
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