Deep dives into niche interests, curiosities, experiments, hardware, software, science, and ideas that appeal to technically curious and enthusiast audiences.
7 Things NOT Said at the First Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love getting together with family to share a large feast and playing "how many belt buckle holes I can drop". Afterwards its lying on the couch watching football and the breath-taking blows of the kids jumping on my stomach. And this year (if you are me), deser ...
The Big Bird of Twitter
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?! Or in this case and story, which came first, the tester or the founder?! Did you ever wonder who the first Twitter account went out to?
With the roll out of the new Tweetie2 application, it now allows you to see what your "membership" number is. For exam ...
Bloody Alien Lego Man
I’m in a time warp when my son and I play with Lego’s. When I was a child, I used to love using my imagination to build the most unique Lego creations, and I still love playing with them today.
We’ve written a lot of Lego articles on Bit Rebels, so I know I’m not the only one with a fondness for ...
Google Wave: A Dizzy Business Meeting
Recently, we had our first BitRebels business meeting on Google Wave. Although, I am not sure how much "business" was being conducted with the dizziness of all included. As much of a tech-junkie group we all are, it was more like we all passed the peace-pipe around and wandered into a closed-door me ...
Check Out The World’s Largest Diamond
A diamond is a symbol of beauty, love, wealth and strength (it's the hardest known natural material). Diamond engagement rings can be traced back to the 1400s and are still a strong tradition today.
I did not realize until recently that diamonds come in a rainbow of colors. Of course, the color ...
Out of the Ordinary!
What catches your attention most when you go around shopping malls or supermarkets. Most of the time its the ones that are out of this world or the unusual ones. Most products produced are packaged or designed to be unusual just serve that purpose, gets you to stop and look. Found some neat ones ...
How To: Correctly Eat A Chicken Wing
So, I just learned, I’ve been eating chicken wings wrong my whole life. I’m just glad I found this out now. I love chicken wings and since I don’t eat much sugar, chicken wings are my vice. I eat them almost daily. I love them extra hot, extra crispy and covered in blue cheese dressing.
Sure, eat ...
Google Doodle | Sesame Street Celebrating 40 Years!
Who does not know Sesame Street? I think everyone has grown up with the television show. Sesame Street recently celebrated its 40 years and Google helped celebrate it.
The air is still sweet on Sesame Street as the world's longest-running Children 's television program celebrates its 40th birth ...
Money | Secrets on your Bills
Did you every really look closely on your dollar bills? Ever found anything interesting on there that you never saw before. Well, let me tell you that it's not the easiest thing in the world to find some of them Everything from aliens to owls are on there. Yup, that's right. Never seen them? Just lo ...
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” | Legolized
He is the biggest star to ever grace a music video on MTV. He is the legend no one else will come close to. He changed the music industry forever and opened the door for black artists to have their videos on MTV. Michael Jackson did so many things all of us deadly people could just dream of doing. H ...
Creative Flash Mob | Invisible Dogs
Recently over 2,000 people walked invisible dogs in New York one afternoon. Their instructions? Walk your invisible dogs as if they were real dogs, and boy did people ever take that literally!
What was the purpose of this? From what I can see, just to have fun. The participants obviously had a ...
Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me!! | Flying Banner Ads!
In a trade show, getting people to go to your booth is quiet a challenge specially if there are so many participating companies there with you. Companies employ different tactics to ensure that consumers get the chance to at least check out the booth and have the opportunity to tell consumers what ...
Domino Madness | Do you have the patience?
I am one of those that were never able to get rid of my fascination for domino's. And I don't mean the pizzeria now. Even though they are making some delicious pizza every now and then. No I mean the wooden blocks (usually) that has that multipurpose feature. You know it's a game from the beginning ...
The Goatee Template | Hannibal Lecter Style
Ever wanted a Goatee? Well, you could get the perfect one using this new and awesomely beautiful Halloween attribute looking shaving template. When I first saw it I thought it was breathing apparatus or some kind of bullshit talker filter. Never in my wildest dreams could I think it was a shaving te ...
Ultimate Tutorial | How to be a Nerd
Checking this post out you have unleashed the ultimate question of "How to be a Nerd". Yup, you obviously wanted to know, right? So, in order not to disappoint you I have found a truly inspiring video tutorial a' la cartoon style that will push you well over the starting line. You should always reme ...