You know those business cards you can get for free, but the catch is you have to put another company’s logo on the back? Well a similar service has popped up in an unexpected place—like where the sun don’t shine. A Japanese website called Free-Pants offers free underwear to anyone who doesn’t mind turning their ass into ad space. Of course you and a special someone are the only people they expect to advertise to, but if you really appreciate the free underpants the only sensible thing to do is walk around in just your skivvies so everyone can see who’s sponsoring your ass.
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Google Flight Search Expands into Europe
Getting the cheapest flights is often a concern, especially if you’re traveling internationally. Google Flight Search is a quick and helpful tool for locating the best prices for flyers, but when the service was launched, it was available only for US-based travelers. Google just recently expanded the service to cover more countries.
Google has now launched the service for five additional countries in Europe, including France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK.
The service was launched by Google in 2012 and one of its most important features is the easy-to-use visual flight pricing it offers. At a glance, you can see what it costs to fly into different airports from your home location. This allows you to figure out flexible flights that are near your intended location for less money. The Flight Explorer allows users to see when it’s less expensive to fly, by month or by the day of the week, or to a particular destination.
Hopefully, this is just a first step in a comprehensive launch to cover even more countries.
Picturelife Gives You a Truly Photographic Memory
Pictures speak a thousand words. A couple more hundred, if they’re really good. When arranged one after the other chronologically, you could even use them to tell your life’s story. Doing so, however, will take a lot of time and patience that you may not have.
Lucky for you, you can get Picturelife to do it all for you.
Picturelife is an app that you can use to sync all your photos from various social networking platforms to your computer. The app can grab images from numerous popular sites including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, and Dropbox. After the images are synced, organized and de-duped, you can access and browse through all your life’s shots on your desktop, browser, or on your mobile device via their iOS and Android apps.
Memories are free to make. Unfortunately, they may not be free to organize in this case, because you’ll have to purchase a storage plan in order to start using Picturelife to back up your pictures – unless your life can be summed up in less than about 1700 photos (or 5GB.)
[via Laughing Squid]
WolframAlpha StarCraft Easter Egg: Math of the Swarm
Alex Wilhelm of The Next Web found this neat Easter Egg on WolframAlpha, the nerdy cousin of Google’s search engine. If you type the phrase “zerg-like curve” into its search field, WolframAlpha will crunch some numbers and generate this parametric graph:
It’s a Zergling! WolframAlpha even dishes out a very long parametric equation that the graph supposedly represents. Eager to score a scoop as well, I typed in “terran-like curve” – this is how you become an investigative journalist folks, lateral thinking – and got this:
I didn’t make that up. You know how good I am at Photoshop. Terrans, I guess U2, are Bono. To be fair, the man who can’t count to four also appears if you type in “protoss-like curve.” Go on, try it yourself.
[WolframAlpha via The Next Web]
Twitter Celebrates 7th Birthday with Video
Twitter celebrates its 7th birthday today. On March 21 founder Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet. It said nothing profound: "just setting up my twttr."The video published by Twitter takes us through...
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Does the Internet Have Faith in Humanity?
Have you ever seen a Facebook status that made you lose your faith in humanity? (If not, then you’re probably not on Facebook). Have you ever experienced a random act of kindness that restored it again? Hell, just reading articles on BuzzFeed can make you lose then regain your faith in humanity a dozen times in one sitting. A new website called “The Faith in Humanity” keeps track of tweets that mention whether or not people have lost or restored their faith in humanity. The results are summarized with a bar at the top that tells you which way most people’s faith in humanity is currently skewed. From what I’ve seen the bar is usually a little bit skewed in the negative—you can either take that as a sign that we’re doomed as a species or get inspired to get out there and do some good in order to tip the scales.
Roll20 Online Tabletop Will Be a Critical Hit with Game Masters
It’s been at least a decade since I last played a tabletop RPG, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there are programs out there that augment players’ pens and papers with mice and keyboards. But here’s one that seems very easy to use. It’s called Roll20, a highly customizable web-based virtual tabletop.
I think the best way to describe Roll20 is that it’s an image editor for dungeon masters with a video chat app added on to it. If that sounds intimidating, don’t be. Its tools are mostly straightforward and employ commonly used commands like copy, paste and drag-and-drop. It also has a built-in search engine for assets, so you can go in empty-handed, look for characters, maps and even soundtracks, then setup your play area, all from within the app. It also has a dice-rolling feature that can even show a 3D dice onscreen to all of your party members. Don’t have any tabletop playmates? Don’t worry – Roll20 lets you join public games! How awesome is that? Watch the overview to get a better idea of what you can do with Roll20:
The best thing about Roll20 is that it’s free. The group behind it makes money by selling premium assets like character art and maps, which is entirely optional especially if your DM is awesome enough to make custom art for your adventures. Sign up at the Roll20 website and start building the adventure of your dreams. And your friends’ nightmares.
[via Laughing Squid]
Paid Twitter Alternative App.net Introduces Free Tier
App.net was launched last year, and it was a created as a Twitter alternative for companies and organizations who want a private social networking solution. The App.net social networking service is no longer just for paying members. Earlier this week, they launched a free tier.
Free accounts can follow a maximum of 40 users, have 500MB of available storage, and can upload files up to 10MB. In order to get access, you’ll need an invite from a paid member.
Paid members can earn additional file storage by inviting friends. Both parties will get an extra 100MB if the invited member follows at least 5 other accounts, and the invited member authorizes a third-party app.
Do you guys see a need for an alternative to Twitter?
[via App.net]
Paint Your Pizza: Looks Good, Hopefully Tastes Even Better
Does your pizza have a face? No? Well, it could, if you wanted to give it one. Introducing paintyourpizza.com, where you can show off your mad paint skills and have it turned into an actual pizza pie.
Conceived by Jonas Lund, the Paint Your Pizza concept is simple: just log on to the site, paint a pizza with whoever else is online or paint one yourself, and click to order. You can expect your custom-drawn pizza to arrive hot and hopefully tasty at your door in no time.
I don’t really see any option on the site where you can choose what toppings to put on your painted pizza. I suggest using green sparingly though, unless you prefer a pizza covered all over in leaves and veggies. I’ve posted some of my favorite designs in the gallery below, but there are lots of other fun pizza designs over on the Paint Your Pizza gallery too.
Depending on the complexity of your drawing and the types of ingredients they’d have to use, prices for 18-inch pizzas start at about $30(USD) – assuming there’s a local pizzeria available to do the job. You can have a similarly-sized pie from Pizza Hut delivered to your door for about $13, so yeah, you do the math and see if this novelty is worth it.
[via Geekologie]
Rebels Retaliate to Death Star Kickstarter with X-Wing Kickstarter: A New Joke
Some of you may have thought that the (non) news about the U.S. government wisely turning down a petition to use its resources to build a Death Star had reached its conclusion with the Death Star fundraiser. Apparently this space cow has not been Force Milked dry just yet, because now someone’s asking for money to build a fleet of X-Wing fighters.
The representatives of the Rebel Alliance analyzed their enemy’s plans and have set up several effective countermeasures. For instance, they are merely asking for $11,000,000, way less than the $31.4M target fund for the Death Star. And whereas the Sith supporters only had a drawing of a circle – albeit, a well drawn one – as their initial design, the Rebel Alliance used the power of the Force Google and posted this on their project page:
If that’s not enough to persuade you to donate to the light side, the Rebels have also indicated a desire to build a heavily modified YT-1300 Freighter:
The Rebels are also offering lightsaber construction classes to people who pledge $5,000 and a Jedi training camp to rich padawans who can pledge at least $10,000. I say we start a Kickstarter to help start an organization that prevents people from using Kickstarter for their jokes. Then let’s start another one that calls that other Kickstarter a buzzkill. Plot twist: we’ll only ask for $500 for each fundraiser, then we’ll split the cash and vanish. Jokes on you, backers!
[via Kickstarter via Inquisitr]