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Inspiration highlights innovative initiatives and people influencing the tech industry while narrating the tales behind the ideas. It’s a place to honor originality, tenacity, and ground-breaking concepts that encourage others to pursue their dreams and make them a reality.

Doh! Anti-PSP Law Firm’s Website Is A Rip Off

Doh! Anti-PSP Law Firm’s Website Is A Rip Off

Nobody likes the companies the RIAA and MPAA are using to chase Peer-To-Peer file sharers, but I was particularly tickled...

Video Artist Fills His Scanner With Ants – What Are You Doing With YOUR Weekend?

Video Artist Fills His Scanner With Ants – What Are You Doing With YOUR Weekend?

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13703448[/vimeo] Straight outta the wish-I'd-thought-of-that department comes François Vautier, a video artist unafraid to sully precious technology with soil and...

iPhone Captain’s Log App, Stardate July 30 2010

iPhone Captain’s Log App, Stardate July 30 2010

Both closeted and outed Star Trek geeks can now enjoy the Star Trek Captain's Log app for the iPhone 4....

Five Websites That Will Make You A Better, Smarter Geek

Five Websites That Will Make You A Better, Smarter Geek

Let's face it, internet chums. For all the wealth of incredible, mind-expanding content there is online, we spend a lot...

Are The Economics of the Web Making Us Stupid?

Are The Economics of the Web Making Us Stupid?

Whenever someone talks about how the internet is making us stupid, I tend to get a little skeptical.After all, for...

Rushin’ Roulette – Ternovskiy Brings Down the Chathammer

Rushin’ Roulette – Ternovskiy Brings Down the Chathammer

"I believe that Chatroulette was great in the first honeymoon days after it was launched," says Andrey Ternovskiy, the founder...

Will Wikileaks Rock Traditional Media Too?

Will Wikileaks Rock Traditional Media Too?

Now that 90,000 military documents about US military activity in Afghanistan, you can almost be assured that some revelation will...

New Photo App Lets You Travel Through Time

New Photo App Lets You Travel Through Time

You know what the internet loves? Nostalgia. Seriously. I mean, have you ever heard of Tumblr? It's full of people...

“The DMCA Says WHAT? It’s Time to Fix That Nonsense.”

“The DMCA Says WHAT? It’s Time to Fix That Nonsense.”

Woah. This is big. You know how the DMCA says it's illegal to, say, crack the DRM on a DVD...

Prop Designer is One Daft Punk

Prop Designer is One Daft Punk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0TBZeCgL0E Maybe you've heard of Harrison Krix. But you probably haven't, so let me give it to you straight: this...

Does Flipboard Represent the Future of Media?

Does Flipboard Represent the Future of Media?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2vpvEDS00o&hd=1 To say that the media world - particularly print media - is in a bit of a state right...

The Biggest Waste Of Time On The Planet Just Got Wastier

The Biggest Waste Of Time On The Planet Just Got Wastier

Oh man. Guys. Check it. I've wasted too much of my morning on this already, and hopefully, you will too....

Get Down, Get Funky, Get Moist – Only In Japan

Get Down, Get Funky, Get Moist – Only In Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HeUixe_Lpg After this morning, a regular fountain is going to have a seriously hard time impressing me. Built by KOEI...

The Queen Is On Flickr

The Queen Is On Flickr

We are not amused. The royal family now has a Flickr account to add to their Twitter account and YouTube...

Five Apps To Declutter Your Online Life

Five Apps To Declutter Your Online Life

Notifications continue to interrupt customers, inboxes are flooded, and files are scattered everywhere and focus is undermined, a trend that...

Worst. Internet. Job. Ever.

Worst. Internet. Job. Ever.

The web is littered with tales of angry designers, coders and bloggers who just can't get their due. Slaving in...

Netflix Goes North

Netflix Goes North

Every comment thread on the internet that mentions Netflix abides by one simple rule: it must have that one Canadian...

Three Ways The Web Is Changing Our Identities

Three Ways The Web Is Changing Our Identities

So often in the contemporary era, we talk about how the web is changing the world around us: of how...

Yes, I’ll Have The Chocolate Half-Caf Soy Mochaccino Hazelnut Frappe iPad, Please

Yes, I’ll Have The Chocolate Half-Caf Soy Mochaccino Hazelnut Frappe iPad, Please

It's no secret that Apple is big in Japan. That everything is big in Japan is besides the point -...

Ministry Of Sound Oversteps Their Jurisdiction

Ministry Of Sound Oversteps Their Jurisdiction

For the less trendy (and the less British) among us, I'll come right out and say it: The Ministry of...