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What do you do with your old computer parts? If you like to mess around with your hardware, you probably have a drawer full of old circuit boards, springs, screws and other doodads from the guts of your old computers. The stunning tables you see below are created with recycled (or reused) old comput ...

Fail To Succeed: 7 Iconic Successes Spawned From Failure [Chart]

I thought I'd kick the Bit Rebels day off today with a little motivation and inspiration. We've all heard the phrase that we have to "fail to succeed," but do you really know what that means? It's actually not as bad as it sounds. It simply means we have to change our perspective about failure. Let ...

10 Things You Can Learn From Your Customers [Infographic]

Russell Campbell

Getting to know and understanding your customers will help give your business an edge against your competitors. You can learn a lot from your customers, and by getting to know them better, you will start developing relationships that will help build a loyal customer base that no other marketing stra ...

Trendsetting Reversed High Heels Set Out To Horrify Women

After writing quite a few articles about all the weirdness in the world, and in some cases, the heels women wear to make their legs look longer, I have found what might be my oddest find yet. I don't pretend to understand the concept of high heels, especially when it destroys pretty much any good bo ...

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Visual Information & How It Affects Website Traffic [Infographic]

It's easy to feel completely stupid after a class or a presentation where someone has been talking for one and a half hours or more. The classic trend is that you probably don't remember half of what was said. Don't worry, you are not alone feeling in this way. Everyone is not born with a memory tha ...

Technology

How Apple’s iPhone Announcements Affect The Stock [Infographic]

By now the excitement, and for some people, frustration has died down since Apple's iPhone announcement about the iPhone 5. Some people are still trying to analyze what this announcement did to Apple stock, and whether or not this iPhone will be yet another huge success for Apple. Personally, I thin ...

Drink Your Pie: The Warm Apple Pie Cocktail

This is my favorite time of year. The weather is starting to get a little bit cooler in the evenings, and it's a perfect time to experiment with different warm drinks to enjoy while sitting on the porch at the end of a long day. This time, I'm going to share with you a concoction that I haven't actu ...

Geek

Star Wars R2-D2 Coffee Mug With Lid For The Caffeinated Geek

It's Monday, and you are all out of inspiration. You'll have to get through the whole work week before you once again get to relax and do whatever it is you want to do. Taking on a Monday can sometimes be one of the toughest tasks of the entire week. Some people lazy themselves through it and do as ...

Technology

Retro Desktop Main Station iPad & iPhone Dock Feels So ’80s

Sometimes the future seems so boring, and all you want is to head back to the past, if only for a couple days. That's usually how I feel every time there is a new gadget that gets announced. Not that there's anything wrong with new gadgets getting released, but it's happening at an ever increasing p ...

Social Media

Social Media Affects Our Productivity At Work Big Time [Infographic]

Yesterday Richard published an article with 12 Tips For Increasing Productivity. As I read that list which the creator of the infographic put together, something was blaringly missing to me. Although one of the tips said to eliminate all communication, it was referring to the phone and email. It did ...

Design

Retro Phone Booths Transformed Into Massive Goldfish Aquariums

If you were born after 1995, you might not have ever seen a phone booth in real life. They used to be outside of grocery stores, gas stations and restaurants. I remember using them back in the days when people didn't carry cell phones everywhere. What you see in the pictures below are retro phone bo ...

Entertainment

Tequila Worm Salt Made With Real Worms: Great Source Of Protein

If you are familiar with tequila, you probably know there is a worm in the bottom of the bottle. There isn't a worm in every bottle of tequila, but only in mezcal. I paid my way through University as a bartender and cocktail waitress, so I remember seeing that worm often. It kind of looks like a rea ...

Increase Productivity With These 12 Simple Tips [Infographic]

Every once in a great while, we all fall short on our productivity. We procrastinate every second we can, and it's usually what puts us off our deadline. For a company, that can be disastrous and lead to a lot of money spent on nothing. However, it's important to understand that productivity can't b ...