Nateweb http://www.thenateweb.com Lots of randomness... Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:39:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en Wired News - AP News http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/wired-news-ap-news http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/wired-news-ap-news#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:39:41 +0000 Nate http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/wired-news-ap-news

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Uh-oh

Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued

Originally seen at http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FACEBOOK_SCRABBLE?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT.

]]> http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/wired-news-ap-news/feed Fox TV news anchors enjoy plastic coffee http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/fox-tv-news-anchors-enjoy-plastic-coffee http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/fox-tv-news-anchors-enjoy-plastic-coffee#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:43:34 +0000 Nate http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/fox-tv-news-anchors-enjoy-plastic-coffee

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haha fox news.

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Why are these news anchors smiling? Because they’ve been given cups filled with a solid plastic material that resembles coffee.

Two cups of McDonald’s iced coffee (BUY!) sit on the Fox 5 TV news desk, a punch-you-in-the-face product placement (BUY!) to chase down your morning news.

They’ve been on the Las Vegas station set for about two weeks, following the lead of a few TV stations across the country, and they’re still looking every bit as frosty and tantalizing (BUY!) as they were the first day you laid your eyes on them.

But wait, here’s the best part: They’re not real. Fake coffee on the real news, two plastic cups permanently filled with some kind of bogus drink. The anchors aren’t even supposed to acknowledge them, McDonald’s reps explain.

(I want this fake cup of espresso.)
Plastic coffee on Fox News (Las Vegas Sun, via Museum of Hoaxes)


Originally seen at http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/343816048/fox-tv-news-anchors.html.

]]> http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/fox-tv-news-anchors-enjoy-plastic-coffee/feed Favtape.com - Create & share an instant mixtape of your Pandora bookmarked songs or Last.fm loved tracks http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/favtapecom-create-share-an-instant-mixtape-of-your-pandora-bookmarked-songs-or-lastfm-loved-tracks http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/favtapecom-create-share-an-instant-mixtape-of-your-pandora-bookmarked-songs-or-lastfm-loved-tracks#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:16:28 +0000 Nate http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/favtapecom-create-share-an-instant-mixtape-of-your-pandora-bookmarked-songs-or-lastfm-loved-tracks

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Interesting idea!

Originally seen at http://favtape.com/.

]]> http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/favtapecom-create-share-an-instant-mixtape-of-your-pandora-bookmarked-songs-or-lastfm-loved-tracks/feed Mind - Optical Illusions Show How Brain Anticipates the Future to ‘See’ the Present - NYTimes.com http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/mind-optical-illusions-show-how-brain-anticipates-the-future-to-%e2%80%98see%e2%80%99-the-present-nytimescom http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/mind-optical-illusions-show-how-brain-anticipates-the-future-to-%e2%80%98see%e2%80%99-the-present-nytimescom#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:00:00 +0000 Nate http://www.thenateweb.com/the-outside-world/mind-optical-illusions-show-how-brain-anticipates-the-future-to-%e2%80%98see%e2%80%99-the-present-nytimescom

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Saw this a while ago- pretty interesting.

New research suggests that the brain’s adaptive ability to see into the near future creates many common optical illusions.

Originally seen at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/health/research/10mind.html?pagewanted=all.

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Originally seen at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/science/22angi.html?pagewanted=all.

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