Brian Barrett
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Why A Gold iPhone 5S Actually Makes Sense
Full disclosure: We’ve been seeing the gold iPhone rumours for weeks now but have largely been brushing them aside. Fake Apple rumours are as easy to come by as tangled EarPod cords this close to a new product launch, and this one in particular seemed too outlandish, too… tacky. But gold iPhone reports have reached…
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Why The Hell Are The Xbox One’s Best New Features Behind A Paywall?
You don’t buy a Big Mac and pay extra for special sauce. You don’t buy an iPhone and pay extra for FaceTime. So why in the hell is Microsoft putting some of its most heavily promoted Xbox One features behind an idiotic Xbox Live Gold paywall? Because it can. But that doesn’t mean that it…
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The 10 Dumbest ATM PINs Are Even Dumber Than You Think
In an age of mandatory password complexity and burgeoning biosensory protection, the idea of a four-number PIN for the ATM seems almost quaint. That doesn’t excuse the fact that the most popular PIN is still, yes, 1234. Come on, people.
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Street Artist Replaces Erased Work With Stencil Of Guy Who Erased It
The work of a street artist is perhaps by definition impermanent; you create, it’s found out, it’s erased, you move on. Or, if you’re a young man who goes by the name of DS, you spot the guy who’s erasing your work, photograph him and come back later to immortalise him as a stencil in…