Already famed as Earth’s first tool-using marine mammals, the bottlenose dolphins of Australia’s Shark Bay have proved handy yet again, by using conch shells to trap tasty fish, then shaking them into their mouths like sardines from a tin. Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/dolphin-fishing/ Pamela Anderson

Just new on Kickstarter but already fully funded in just over a day CineSkates is a set of three wheels that attaches to a Gorillapod Focus tripod and enables fluid, rolling video in an ultra-portable package. “CineSkates can produce shots that have previously been impossible or only possible with bulky and expensive equipment. Here are [...] Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/08/30/cineskates-get-ya-cameras-skates-on/ Sarah Wynter

Whatever changes Apple has been making to the iTunes Store back end lately seems to have caused iTunes app on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad to stream some podcasts as music samples, rather than handing them off to the built-in media player like they’re supposed to. We’ve tested… Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/cle0S4Y2gIY/ Melissa George

Google, in an interesting but not entirely unexpected twist, will not be open-sourcing Android 3.0 Honeycomb for the foreseeable future. Historically, Android is usually open-sourced via the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) a few days or weeks after the code is finalized. While this departure from the norm won’t affect OEMs like HTC and Motorola that have access to internal builds of Android, small-time developers will likely have to wait months before rolling their own [...]

Dropbox offers a lovely client for Android, but it’s lacking true “sync” functionality. You can merely browse your Dropbox, pull files into the device, and manually upload specific files. DropSpace is a little Android app that makes Dropbox on Android work like Dropbox – that is, you get real folder synchronization in the background. When you run the app you’re prompted for your Dropbox credentials. After logging in to Dropbox, you get to select which [...]

Smartphones and tablets might be the current hot technology, but history says it’s all just another fad. Twenty years from now, almost nobody will own either device. Seems unbelievable, but the same technology that makes them hot today will make them not tomorrow. Consider what happened to another “must-have” technology: the fax machine. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/73173.html Melissa Rycroft

You know those fridge magnet kits composed of a whole bunch of words? The ones you put all over your fridge door and then try to arrange into all sorts of juvenile and/or amusing sentences. Well, Farragomate is the social, webby version of that very same pastime. You get to play with a bunch of random strangers in real-time, and make up sentences out of a pre-set collection of words, including some fairly naughty ones, [...]

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When Girls frontman Christopher Owens started planning the band’s latest album with his bandmate J.R. White, he had very few demands. One of them was that it had to have a choir. LISTEN: ‘Vomit’ by Girls http://www.truepanther.com/mp3/Girls_Vomit.mp3 “I let J.R. do pretty much everything he wants with guitar tones and drum sounds and all that kind of [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/free-mp3-girls-vomit/ Tricia Vessey

A union representing 44,000 Missouri public school teachers is challenging a state law that dramatically restricts their online speech with current and former students. The lawsuit targets the legislation as a First Amendment breach. Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/online-student-teacher-communications/ Tricia Vessey