Slate is launching an online video site

For original video content from the Slate.com staff

Shopalize, twitter for… shopping?

Is Oprah behind this inanity?

Well, the London 2012 logo sure is… ugly

Apple is gonna sell a billion of these freaking things

I, for one, welcome our robots made of rubbish overlords [via]

Faulty fax, mistaken as threat, prompts evacuation of stores

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: we’ll know that we’re in The Future when people are no longer using fax machines.

Here’s something we should be designing a concept around: fixing the crapiness of this shit.

—Ben

CNN.com beta is up

At a first glance, looks sharp.

Drawing with text, blowing your mind (not to pick nits, but I’m pretty sure the HTML doesn’t validate…)

Caught on Google Maps Street View

Including such hits as “Stanford co-eds sunbathing” and “coming out of a strip club”