Setapp Lets You Show Off Your Apps, Get Recommendations

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If you’re a geek, one thing you no doubt love is finding new and interesting apps and showing them off to others. A new site, Setapp, will let you do that and discover more apps you might love.

Signing up is simple: you can connect with your Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn ...
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Au Revoir, Minitel: Pioneering French Proto-Web Shuts Down After 30 Years

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This past weekend marked the end of an area as France shut down a pioneering network that gave millions of people in the country their first taste of online access: Minitel.

Starting in the early ’80s, the Minitel network was a joint venture between France Telecom and La Poste, the French ...
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9 Ton Mayan Chocolate Temple

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Whether you believe that the world will end in 2012 or not thanks to the Mayan calendar, a 9-ton pyramid made out of chocolate is still pretty cool.

Qzina Specialty foods created this replica of the Kukulkan temple in Chichen Itza, Mexico, which comes to us via Laughing Squid. The sculpture ...
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Flying “Back To The Future” RC Paper Car

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The only thing cooler than a Delorean is a flying Delorean. The only thing cooler than a flying Delorean is one made out of paper.

Instructables user Nelson_Yepez came up with the design.

“Like a lot of people I have always been a big fan of the Back to The Future franchise. ...
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LEGO Mindstorms NXT Submarine

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Perhaps the only thing cooler than building stuff out of LEGO is building a submarine out of LEGO.

That’s exactly what Captain Greybeard did. LEGOs don’t have a real problem going underwater, but the electronics in the Mindstorms NXT kit sure do. The Grey November solves this problem in a low-tech ...
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Brain-shaped Phone Hoods

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Phone booths might be something of an endangered species these days with the ubiquity of cellphones, but one project might be a bit smarter than all the rest.

Carla Pires de Carvalho Fernandes has designed a rain-shaped pay phone hood for the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She’s one of  several ...
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