I love this! A bath towel that pixelates your body in real life! The Censorship Towel is an art project from the Carmichael Collective, the folks who brought us Piñata Anatomy, but we can hope that this idea makes it into stores sometime. See more pictures at the project site. Link
read more: http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/17/censorship-towel/
There are plenty of free online services that promise to host your digital life, but when you’re serious about taking control of your own data, it’s time to host it yourself. There are dozens of companies willing to take your money in exchange for server space for webapps, blogs, photos, and more—but this week we want to know which ones do you trust for uptime, flexibility, support, and features for the money. More »
read more: http://lifehacker.com/5911258/best-web-hosting-company
![Click here to read "I Don't Know" Is One of the Smartest Things You Can Say](http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17muz6lsfb6qnjpg/original.jpg "Click here to read "I Don't Know" Is One of the Smartest Things You Can Say")
When it comes to our brains, black is white and up is down. Any time we try to achieve a desired result, we end up doing the opposite. Such is the case with trying to be smart. We like to come off as intelligent, and so we often act like we know more than we do to achieve that effect. In reality, however, saying “I don’t know” can be a whole lot smarter. More »
read more: http://lifehacker.com/5910993/i-dont-know-is-one-of-the-smartest-things-you-can-say
Following the recent news that Comcast would not count any of its own Xfinity streaming video services against Internet customers’ 250GB data cap, the folks at Kabletown have announced they is doing away with that cap — and replacing it with tiered data plans.
The good news is that the tiers will actually begin above the 250GB level, with everyone bumped up to a 300GB cap.
The bad news is that those who go over that limit won’t be throttled — as Comcast currently does to cap-busters — but will instead be hit with fees for additional blocks of GB.
(The Comcast statement gives an example of $10 for 50GB over the limit, but it’s not clear if that’s merely a possible example or an actual price to be quoted.)
Comcast isn’t exactly set on how it’s going to price those tiers, so it will begin doing trials in some select markets.
Adds the company:
In markets where we are not trialing a new data usage management approach, we will suspend enforcement of our current usage cap as we transition to a new data usage management approach, although we will continue to contact the very small number of excessive users about their usage.
So while we’re glad that Comcast is realizing that more and more people are using the Internet to view data-hogging video, we won’t be able to judge its tiered plan until we actually see the tiers and their respective overage prices.
read more: http://consumerist.com/2012/05/comcast-to-remove-250gb-data-cap-dont-celebrate-just-yet.html
>Windows/Mac/Linux: Although there are a bunch of ways to backup your Gmail, including really easy to use Windows app MailStore, cross-platform program Gmvault takes the cake for being feature-rich and highly customizable. More »
read more: http://lifehacker.com/5911193/gmvault-backs-up-your-gmail-and-restores-it-to-any-gmail-account
It can be tricky to book a hotel room if you’ve never seen the hotel, and online hotel reviews can be spotty and arguably reliable at best. Simplehoney is a new hotel booking service that promises to take the mystery out of finding a hotel you’ll love to stay in. Think of it like Pandora for hotel booking—you tell it what you like, and it only shows you the good stuff. More »
read more: http://lifehacker.com/5911063/simplehoney-makes-sure-you-never-book-a-hotel-you-wont-love
At REI we have been using the jQuery tablesorter plugin for a number of our tables. Most recently, we have been updating our older layout for Adobe’s CQ5 platform, and we discovered a problem where tablesorter was not properly sorting date columns.
When tablesorter was applied to our table, all the columns sorted as they should, but the date would either not sort at all, or sort incorrectly.
After some false starts we determined it was caused by our inclusion of multiple strings of text with different styles provided by spans.
So the question is, how do you parse multiple strings with a custom jQuery tablesorter parser plugin in Javascript? Apparently, you don’t. All that is required is to extract the text you wish to sort on via tablesorter’s built-in textextraction property.
Our markup looks something like this:
<td> <span class="date">05/17/2012</span> 06:30 PM EDT </td>
We considered adding an attribute to the table cells, but the class is so easily addressable we opted for that.
$("table.sortable").tablesorter({
sortList: [[0, 0]],
textExtraction: function(node) {
return $(node).find("span.date").text();
}
});
Once we added textextraction to the .tablesorter call and targeted the date span, the date column sorted effortlessly.
REUTERS: Romney speaks at a campaign event in Wilmington, DE.
In the Washington Post, testimonials by prep school classmates of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paint the former Governor of Massachusetts as a homophobic bully. So, basically— he hasn’t changed much. Snip:
John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenage son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
With help from other bullies, the story goes, Romney then tackled Lauber, pinned him to the ground, and while the young man was weeping, cut off his hair with scissors.
Romney was not disciplined for the incident, or for the rest of the alleged bullying detailed in the story. Lauber died in 2004, so we can’t hear his side—but friends interviewed in the Washington Post piece say the hair-cutting attack impacted him deeply and remained with him for the rest of his life.
ABC News also interviewed school friends of Romney, one of whom described his behavior as “like Lord of the Flies.” Romney apologized for the “prank” in a radio interview today, but said that “homosexuality” was never on his mind. Oh, of course not. Snip:
Romney’s former classmate, Phillip Maxwell, now a lawyer, described witnessing the incident and said he considered the “prank” the two pulled at Michigan’s Cranbrook School to be “assault and battery.” Maxwell said [he] held the boy’s arm and leg, describing himself and his friends as a “pack of dogs.”
read more: http://boingboing.net/2012/05/10/mitt-romney-was-a-homophobic-b.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
[Video Link] Squirrel Monkey makes very funny and almost believable “what if?” videos that imagine what popular websites might have looked like if they were launched 20 or 25 years ago.
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(Via Laughing Squid)
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