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Everyone uses the Internet a little bit differently. Some people binge-watch entire seasons of TV shows on Netflix or HBO Go. Other people upload videos of themselves playing video games or lip syncing to pop songs in their underpants.

And other people just check their email, read the news once in a while and maybe apply to a few jobs and that’s about it. There are millions of Internet users who fall into that category – and now, we’re pleased to launch a product for them.

Time Warner Cable is now announcing the Everyday Low Price Internet tier, offering download speeds up to 2mbps and upload speeds for 1mbps, available for $14.99/month.

If you’re streaming video every night, uploading/downloading a lot of hi-res photos or doing a lot of multi-player gaming online, this service isn’t for you. But if you just want to email recipes to your kids, share the occasional short video on social media or download songs by 1980s one hit wonders, this is the service for you.

This could also be a great tier for job-seekers and other families who need internet access for homework, weather reports, etc, but have a tight budget.

There are several million people in our footprint that use DSL internet, or are looking to cut costs wherever possible. This is something that we foreshadowed a few weeks ago when we mentioned the “Lite Internet Tier,” but have since settled on the “EveryDay Low Price” name.

What Chinese students think of typical American foods

These Star Trek: The Next Generation hoodies are available at ThinkGeek for $59.99 and are available in Command, Sciences, and Operations!

Now, THAT’S…logical!

[Source: ThinkGeek]

Joseba Elorza is a sound technician who makes a living with his unique brand of digital collage and illustration. The Spain-based artist blends humor, technology, science fiction and anonymous historical photography to create some really splendid digital imagery. You can see much more in his portfolio, and pickup prints in his shop. (via iGNANT)

I can’t really make fun of someone who is helping the less fortunate, but sometimes I really, really want to. 

The Perfect Gift For That Special Asshole In Your Life!

Take a photo, remove the bicycles, done.

Great book.

We really respect the old timers out there and their amazing ways of crafting PCBs; they used black tape on clear acetate sheets to create single layers of PCBs with a photoetching process. Now creating a PCB is a simple matter of opening up a CAD package, but like the old timers we’re still dealing with nasty chemicals or long shipping times from China.

The EX¹, a new robot on Kickstarter - hopes to change that. They’ve created a PCB fabrication process that’s as simple as printing something with an inkjet printer. Just put in a piece of substrate – anything from Kapton to acrylic to fabric – and in a few minutes you have a single-sided PCB in your hands.

The printer dispenses two chemicals, silver nitrate and ascorbic acid, that react and produce traces and pads for the circuit. Right now, the EX¹ is limited to single-side boards, but experiments on creating multi layer boards are ongoing.

In any event, we’re really impressed with how simple the EX¹ setup actually is. Inkjet is a mature, well understood technology with more than enough resolution for simple homebrew circuits, and the AgNO3 + Vitamin C formula could easily be adapted to an inkjet printer modification.

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From A Hamburger Today

Jalapeño Kicker sandwiches [Photograph: Thrillist]

If there's a trend at McDonald's, it's towards introducing more spicy items to the menu. Hot on the heels of the new Mighty Wings comes news that a line-up of four new Jalapeño Kicker sandwiches has been tested at McDonald's locations in Maryland and Colorado, and rumors are swirling that come 2014, they could pop up at a McD's near you.

The four new spicy sandwiches include the Jalapeño Kicker Quarter Pounder and the Jalapeño Kicker Premium Chicken (available with a grilled or fried chicken filet), both of which feature a triple-hit of jalapeños: jalapeño pepper jack cheese, crunchy jalapeño crisps, and pickled jalapeño slices, along with cream cheese sauce, tomato and lettuce. Spicy new additions to the breakfast menu being touted as "better than an alarm clock" on Twitter by Colorado McDonald's include a jalapeño and white cheddar cheese McMuffin and a jalapeño white cheddar cheese biscuit.

Have any SE'ers been able to snag one of the new sandwiches? Let us know your thoughts about these new creations in the comments.

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Gotta give him credit for trying!

I love a good NatGeo video. Especially when it’s composed of stellar time-lapse shots of a country I admittedly used to routinely confuse for Greenland… pretty much through high school.

Well, I certainly know the difference now.

Photographer Stian Rekdal spent 3 weeks in Iceland, and amassed a library of over 40,000 photos taken over 3,000 miles (the video here is only 3,500 of those photos).

I absolutely love the aurora borealis shots from 2:07 on. Seeing one in real life is very high on my list of to-do’s before I die, but with the quality on this cranked up to the full high-def 1080p, I feel this might be the next best thing.

I’m looking for a “real” job in London. No bartending. No English-speaking tour guiding or sitting at a hostel desk in exchange for room and board. I’d actually like someone to hire me on merit — not just because I look cute behind a bar.

Not only is the London job market cutthroat right now, I’m applying for work in an extremely competitive field. By competitive, I mean a bunch of clueless Oxford and Cambridge graduates with no idea what they want to do with their lives are applying for the same internships as me — a Canadian with a two-year visa that screams “I probably won’t stay here, don’t waste your money training me!” A month later, I haven’t had one interview. I’m still trawling through online ads and attending networking events so I don’t have to use my last $500 to buy myself a one-way ticket back to my mom’s house.

You might be in my situation. You may have just returned home from a RTW trip. If you’re looking for a job, surely you’ll recognize at least a few of these.

You’ve just arrived and see all the places hiring…

…so you send out resumes like this…

But you keep getting HR emails that read like…

Then you realize being capable of speaking English doesn’t make you automatically employable anymore…

…so you call a recruitment agency, and they’re all, “We’re in this together…”

But they don’t call you back for two weeks, so you spend a few days like…

Then the recruiter calls you back for an interview with one of their clients and you’re like…

…so you go from looking like this…

…to looking like…

The interviewer asks what you did during that 2-year gap on your resume, and you’re like…

You tell her “cultural immersion,” but it really means some of this…

…occasionally this…

…but mostly this…

After the interview, she says “We’ll call you” and you know it’s…

Your friend tells you not to worry because his brother looked for work for 6 months before he found something…

Group interviews be like…

…and all you want is someone to…

Once you figure out someone at a networking event is hiring, you’re like…

…but they’re all…

So you start to wonder why you gave up this…

…and this…

…for this…

But don’t worry. When you get down, just remember this:

Gird your stomach muscles, oh ye lovers of the elusive, seasonal McRib. Because when you see what it looks like before it’s delivered on its bready bed covered in barbecue sauce, you might not be so excited to actually eat it.

The above photo posted to Reddit claims to show what an unthawed McRib patty thing looks like before it’s cooked, and it’s none too pleasing to the eye.

Of course, it will someday become a 500-calorie glob of meat stuff (sold at a Canadian McDonald’s, it appears), but in this pic it looks like sort of pink cardboardy foam, or maybe something you’d nestle in a box to protect a TV while shipping it.

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Irma Boom is a genius when it comes to books. The Dutch graphic designer has created over 250 books - each of them are completely unique - and about one fifth of her work has found home in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Take, for example, this book that Boom created for Chanel: it has no ink, yet you can read it.

Liz Stinson of Wired wrote:

Most recently, she completed a book commissioned by Chanel, the Parisian fashion house, for its Chanel No. 5 perfume. And in classic Boom style, it’s not what you’d expect. The 300-page book has no ink—each of the crisp white pages is embossed with a drawing or quotation that helps the story of Gabrielle Chanel unfold. It’s clean, understated and ephemeral, and somehow still totally engrossing.

When Boom begins working on a book, she totally immerses herself in the subject. She says Chanel gave her carte blanche to do whatever she wanted with the it, with no artistic pressure or push in any direction. The fashion brand simply provided her with as much information as possible and let it percolate until the idea struck her. In this case, Boom spent time in Chanel’s Paris apartment and studied her life. She witnessed the bottling process and even joined the Chanel team as they picked roses in Grasse, a village in the Provence region of France. “When I was there I immediately got the idea for the book,” Boom recalls. “What I smelled there was so intense, exciting… not visible.”

Read more about how Boom "printed" her invisible Chanel book over at Wired.

Photos: Galerie VIVID