Social Experiment of the Day
Writer Alyssa Kramer recently created a desperately unattractive — and fake — OkCupid profile for her “white trash” alter ego “Marla.” (Embiggen.)
“The goal was to be as incredibly weird, rude, and unattractive as possible to see if guys would still talk to me,” she said.
Much to Kramer’s horrified amusement, Marla the Lowlife garnered plenty of
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$49 Android PC from Via
For the price of a cheap date you could pick up Via’s new APC all-in-one computer. It’s about the size of a smartphone and about as powerful. It comes with Android 2.3 pre-installed, so it could make a decent media streamer or Android development platform. It comes without a case, but conforms to the mini-ITX and MicroATX formats. They’re taking pre-orders and expect to ship in July. [via geek.com]
Readlists
A Readlist is a group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything —bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone. It’s the latest, brand new, Arc90 lab experiment, powered by Readability.
This. Is. Awesome. // Gasp for Air!
I just started a Readlist titled “Advice for Students“. Do you have articles I should add?
Californian lemon tree growing now gamified
We’ve already seen public transport and library indexing both gamified, so it is perhaps no surprise to now see that same thinking applied to lemon trees. Aiming to encourage existing food growing in urban areas, Lemonopoly is an online game that also serves to locate, preserve and distribute the wealth of citrus fruit naturally found in California.
Created by designer Chacha Sikes and programmer Anselm
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