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Time Magazine has a screenshot of God’s Inbox (PDF). Guess what? He’s a Mac user!

Maybe He’ll do something about spam.

“Turn 24 hours of insanity into 15 minutes of fame.” On November 10th, Apple will post a list of three elements that you’ll need to incorporate into your story, which must be completed in 24 hours. Winners will score a copy of Final Cut Studio, a copy of Shake, and an 80GB video iPod.
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Okay, you can’t really attend Stanford for free, but Stanford on iTunes is the next best thing and it’ll save you about $31,000 a year. Stanford University is offering a wealth of free audio and video content—lectures, learning materials, music, sports, and more—via Apple’s iTunes Music Store. We’re talking the good stuff, including video […]

PostSecret describes itself as “ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.” The postcards are beautiful, moving, raw examples of outsider art. The site posts about ten new secrets every Sunday, and a book, PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives is scheduled for release in […]

Who needs cable? AmericaFreeTV offers seven video channels, plus a test channel streaming H.264. Channels include Sci Fi and Horror, Movie Classics, Comedy, Music Videos, Snow Boarding videos from Deluxe Snow Crew, Indy Reels, and Training videos from Multicast Tech.
Okay, these channels aren’t going to replace HBO or Showtime, but when I landed […]

UbuWeb is “a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.” It’s a treasure trove of alternative media. You won’t find the latest releases from Hollywood here, but if you have an appetite for Dadaism, Surrealism and the avant-garde, UbuWeb offers an eclectic archive of films, sounds, poetry, […]

When a scammer tries to score a free PowerBook on eBay by using a fake escrow account, the seller concocts a counter scheme with the aid of the Something Awful message board. If you’ve ever been ripped off on eBay (I have—once), you’ll find yourself rooting for MyNameIsJeff.
Read the hilarious Powerbook Prank […]

Don’t be a flake; Make-a-Flake. It’s harder than you think, but it’s also a great way to get your mind off the cold.
Actually, it isn’t that cold here (in Petaluma, California). Still, this site, developed by Look and Feel New Media and sponsored by Jockey, is a fun example of Flash. You can make […]