Tag: SUPERLATIVES

This week, the Internet turned its collective attention to the coronation of the U.S.'s new King President, Aretha Franklin's hat, and a ponytail to match Joe Biden's bodacious plugs. YouTube's best Obama impersonator, Alphacat, swore himself in, and he didn't even have to deal with a Chief Justice messing up the words. Aretha Franklin's hat turned into hot, sequined viralness, and ended ...

This week, the Internet prepared itself for the Obama Inaugural by pumping out a lot of videos about cats and babies, and made fun of some celebrities. Other things happened too, and they just about blew our minds... Atom invented a cool Obama speech generator, mad-lib style. Now you can decide which words will be wrapped around hope and change. Not wanting to be left out of all the ...

Thanks to blogs, music geeks can now not only hear about the blogging community's top 50 albums of 2008, but actually hear the top 50 albums of 2008, we learned from ReadWriteWeb. Over the course of 2008, the folks at Hype Machine -- a sort of musical meta-blog -- tracked and compiled posts from hundreds of music blogs to come up with the Music Blog Zeitgeist, a three-headed list of 2008's most ...

This week, we focused our energies on scouring every corner of the internet to bring you the most ridiculous holiday gifts money can buy. And as the snowflakes fell outside our office windows and covered the streets with beautiful gray slush, we were left pondering memecycles, Festivus, and mankind's role in the universe. Onto the goodies! The 'Golden Girls' necklace will keep Bea Arthur ...

It used to be that you could pretty much get any address on the Web for free (or a small administration fee), but those days are long over. Now, if a company wants the perfect Web address for a new site, they may well have to shell out quite a bit of money. While most domain names (aka Web addresses) are still relatively inexpensive, there are a few that are well out of the average surfer's ...

It was a short week, because in the middle we all shut our laptops and went home to stuff ourselves and take naps. But before that happened, some real craziness went down. The LIFE Magazine picture archives opened, giving the world access to a century's worth of iconic images. We found one that spoke to us -- a woman in an orb. Horses became the new cats. Midget ponies demanded to ...

If you thought 220 million pixels was a lot, well, you'd be right. But given how things are in Texas relative to everything else, we'd say there's no denying that 307 million pixels is indeed a lot more. Dubbed the world's highest resolution tiled display, Stallion has just been unveiled by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. Designed for studying ...

Maybe it's the vast green pastures separating towns and cities or just the lousy weather, but in 2007, residents of the Republic of Ireland spent the most time per head talking and sending text messages on their mobile phones. This is just one of several statistics disclosed on the International Communications Market report by British regulator Ofcom, Reuters reports. The Finns may have more ...

No matter how dire Motorola's situation may be, it's still been able to cling to one last title keeping it firmly entrenched in the ranks of the world's mobile manufacturing elite: US phone sales. For years, Motorola has ridden the RAZR gravy train to success on its home turf more than any other, keeping more globally relevant rivals like Nokia and LG at bay. No longer, though -- Samsung has ...

We in America get up in arms every time we hear about a waste of taxpayer dollars or abuses by public servants. It seems that Australia is trying to upstage the States when it comes to ethically questionable behavior from public employees. According to the Northern Territory News, an unidentified public servant, who has since left his post, racked up a $200,000 ($135,380 in U.S. dollars) mobile ...

In order to cheer you up during these economically painful times, we figured the best thing to do would be to share the excess of those who are better off than you. We're not sure what is more hair-pullingly annoying: The fact that this guy has enough money to build himself an underground driveway (complete with hydraulic-powered lift) to store and hide his Lamborghinis, or the fact that he owns ...

Speed-record legend Richard Noble and driver Andy Green of the England-based Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) project want to break the current world land-speed record of 994 miles per hour, with a goal of reaching a speed target of 1,050 miles per hour. In order to achieve this target, Noble and Green will need $16M US and three years of development, but they are enthusiastic and believe that ...

We have only one word. Why? Why on Earth wouldn't anyone make an hour long ringtone? Why would anyone want to hold the Guinness book world record for the longest ringtone? Japanese cell phone content provider Dwango has crafted a 61-minute, 40-second-long ringtone that it claims is the longest handset melody in the world. Dwango has some experience in the realm of absurd ringtones, having ...

Sony's taken the crown in the race for thinnest LCD HDTV. At just 9.9mm thick the KDL-40ZX1 nearly halves the depth of Hitachi's former champ (likely throwing up in the bathroom right now) and comes within a whisper of Pioneer's ultra thin concept. Featuring a LED backlighting, a 3,000:1 contrast ratio, 120Hz MotionFlow tech, x.v.Color and BRAVIA Engine 2 image processing this is about as close ...

A woman in England has been using the same pacemaker for over 25 years. According to Guiness World Records, it is the longest lasting pacemaker in the world. Leslie Iles, from Essex, England, had the pacemaker implanted after repeatedly fainting and falling. After a series of tests, doctors realized that her heart was beating a mere 30 times a minute. That is half of a normal heart rate. Most ...