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Hotel WiFi Test is a company that tests and catalogs hotel Wi-Fi connections. Users can test their Wi-Fi speed at a given hotel using an…

Host Stephen Colbert tackled the Six Californias initiative before grilling venture capitalist Tim Draper, the man spearheading the plan, on his thought process behind it…

Hemingway is a simple editing app by Adam Long and Ben Long that highlights common errors and suggests alternatives. For example, Hemingway highlights complex sentences…

Google has added a new Explore feature to their Google Maps apps on Android and iOS that allows users to discover places nearby. The feature,…

Socialist is an app by developers The BKRY and Awkward for organizing and sharing lists of things like restaurants, movies, music, and more. The app…

“Literally Everything Else From Your Childhood: The Movie” is an amusing video by The Wil Wheaton Project that harps on the trend of Hollywood’s mining…

I Know Where Your Cat Lives is a data experiment by Owen Mundy featuring public pictures of cats on a world map based on latitude…

Location-based social networking company Foursquare is scheduled to shift all check-ins to the company’s Swarm app (see previous post) tomorrow and start fresh with a…

Mental Floss host John Green discusses a number of regional events in “27 Unbelievable Local Traditions”. For example, Green notes that Austin, Texas celebrates Eeyore’s…

A mayfly emergence from the Mississippi River near and around La Crosse, Wisconsin on the evening of July 20th produced a massive result on radar.…