The National Institute for Preventive and Health Education (INPES) has hired Koji Morimoto of Studio 4°C to produce an anti-smoking PSA. “Attraction” is an interactive story about three friends who find a diamond shaped light that is the key to an underground rave just for smokers. Players use their mouse or webcam to navigate the world, including a comical scene where you must literally shake some sense into your friend

As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month the Sunday funny pages went pink to raise awareness… but little money. Donations have been underwhelming ($6,870.24), perhaps because no one reads newspapers any more. But you can read all the participating comics online @ comicsgopink.com and don’t forget to donate! You can even bid on the original promotional piece seen left, by Bizarro Cartoonist Dan Piraro

UglySchmucks.com doesn’t use any fancy algorithms to match singles, the only requirement is that you have low expectations. In fact, members are encouraged to vote out those who are “overtly attractive” so that they can focus on inner beauty. “This is a central community for them to get together and meet others like themselves,” says founder Joe Deluca. “I’m capitalizing on people being ugly. I’m giving these people a tool

Judah Guber & Steven Wolf are betting on, and in some cases against, your future. Recent grads themselves, Gruber & Wolf created the website Ultrinsic.com, which allows college students to gamble on grades. The website uses an algorithm that analyzes the student’s transcript, course difficulty, and the wager amount to determine the odds. The best payouts will go to long-shots like graduating with a 4.0 GPA, which returns $2,000 on

The F.C.C. is supposed to ensure that all internet traffic is treated equally, net neutrality, but ever since a court decision in April put its power to do so in doubt, companies have been moving full speed ahead with bandwidth throttling. Google and Verizon are in private talks to redefine what net neutrality means. Google CEO Eric Schmidt maintains “People get confused about net neutrality. I want to make sure

Ashton Kutcher no longer has the most followers on Twitter. Britney Spears overtook him this week with just under 5 million followers. But don’t worry, Kutcher is doing fine. In fact, his twitter account (aplusk) is so popular that it’s literally busting at the seams. A new web app for Twitter called eBoobs measures your popularity using breast size (just like real life). And Kutcher’s 38DD’s don’t lie, he’s still

According to Google Adsense Terms of Service (TOS) simply linking to pornography (legal or not) is a violation, that is unless a website has enough traffic to make it worthwhile. Manga & anime (Japanese comics and cartoons) frequently involve characters of questionable age in sexual situations but there’s nothing ambiguous about the genres known as Lolicon and Shotacon, in which  clearly prepubescent girls and boys are blatantly sexualized. While no

Despite being downloaded by over 100 million people since its release  in January, there are still some people who didn’t know about the Firefox update (like this –>guy<–) so Mozilla started actively inviting users to upgrade this week. Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox, assures users that “The offer screen will only appear after 60 seconds of keyboard inactivity to ensure we don’t get in the way of anyone’s activities.” In

Conan O’Brien has decided to take the money and run rather than be bumped to 12:05 AM. NBC will pay out a reported $40 million, $10 million of which will be give to Coco’s crew. According to O’Brien’s publicist “That has been the first point in his discussions and would be a dealbreaker if his staff isn’t taken care of.” Conan couldn’t save everyone on the show though. NBC will

So I was trying to watch some adult videos (and I don’t mean sophisticated) but they kept freezing. Now I have a lot of fetishes but stuttering women isn’t one of them. Problem: Windows Task Manager showed CPU usage spiking 100%. However, the memory usage for each program was unchanged. At first I thought it was some sort of virus, so I ran a bunch of different anti-virus software but

Youtube user & self-described black man, Desi Cryer, recently uploaded a video titled “Hewlett Packard computers are racist” which demonstrates how his webcam has no problem tracking white faces, but as soon as his “blackness enters the frame, it stopped.” HP is certainly looking at Desi now. The video has reach over 1.2 million views. HP says that they are looking into the problem and that “The technology we use

Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto likes to asks customers “How far should toilets evolve?” Their newest model the Neo 2 may go a little too far. Say hello the world’s first talking toilet. The prominent armrest has loads of audio buttons including functional ones like Otohime (Sound Princess), which masks unpleasant bodily sounds to not-so-functional ones like reciting Senryu (Japanese poetry). Not surprisingly, the toilet likes to talk crap. It’s particularly

We’ve all seen those ridiculous fitness ads promising unrealistic results, often showing before and after pictures of what looks like completely different people. But Villanova University, an online school specializing in Six Sigma certification, sets slightly more attainable goals – like graduating! As you can clearly see from the before and after pictures, they’re not like those other schools where… um, people don’t graduate

No longer will the definition link on Google’s search results page redirect to you to Answers.com, instead you’ll be taken to Google Dictionary (google.com/dictionary). Its minimalist design is a double-edged sword. It’s less cluttered with ads, but there’s also less info (the stuff you want). There’s no wiki, less idioms, a weak thesaurus, and the pronunciation sound clips are hidden! The clips only appear when selecting translations from the drop

Like a lot of women, Cathinka Chandler likes to sleep on her side but this caused her unabridged books to keep falling off the shelf so to speak. So she created the Kush, the world’s first bookend for your boobs! The Kush keeps your “books” stacked and helps prevent page creases. And according to kushsupport.com “The slip-resistant surface and contoured shape help keep Kush in place as a woman rolls