Internet, we’ve got a confession to make. Yesterday, when we were showing off our awesome offices, we had what the English majors among us might call an ulterior motive. You see, as much as we like to brag about our fantastic working environment, in this case it was just a mask to hid our true feelings. Despite the sheer incredibleness of our workspace, it’s missing something. Actually, it’s missing someone.
The outside of our offices is probably the only "normal" thing about them. That and maybe the bathrooms, which are pretty much exactly like most bathrooms. The rest of the place is AWESOME–Hit the jump and see for yourself.
If you’ve seen our site, you know that it’s pretty cool. Logically, you might even deduce that the place it came from is pretty cool as well. You’d be right–our minds are awesome. But if you meant that the physical place from which the web’s leading encyclopedia and reference resource came must also be pretty cool, you’d be dead wrong.
Why?
Because the Juggle offices are not “pretty cool.” No, we moved to some new digs a few months back and the time has come to make it perfectly clear: the Juggle offices are totally and completely incredible.
Now that they're part of the AOL family, Michael Arrington and TechCrunch will never again be at a loss for coasters.
Listen, people. We try, we really do, to stay up on most technology and Internet-related news. We’d even noticed some of the rumors about AOL and TechCrunch that were floating around yesterday, and were confirmed today when news broke that AOL really was buying TechCrunch. What actually floored us though, was that AOL was still around and buying stuff. We knew that owned Engadget from their Weblogs, Inc. purchase back in 2005, but since then we’d pretty much forgotten all about them after we finally convinced our grandma that AOL wasn’t actually “the Internet.” Now that they’re bringing Michael Arrington into the fold and themselves back into the limelight, we figured it might be appropriate to take a look at 5 other sites you may have forgotten AOL owns. (It’s pretty hard to keep track considering the acquisition spree they went on through most of the 90′s and early 2000′s.) Continue reading ‘AOL Buys TechCruch, is Apparently Still Around. Here Are 5 Other Sites We Forgot AOL Owns.’
To no one’s surprise, RIMannounced a BlackBerry tablet, dubbed the PlayBook at their developers conference today. RIM has seen its share of the smartphone market decline precipitously since the introduction of the iPhone and Android phone platforms, and despite high hopes for the BlackBerry Torch, sales and reviews have been disappointing, to say the least. The move into the tablet market, though inevitable given the popularity of Apple’s iPad and analyst’s rosy projections for the market, means the RIM is playing catch-up in a space that Apple largely created. How they’ll fare at this remains to be seen, but given what they’ve revealed about the PlayBook, here’s our take on where they think they can stick it to Apple.
Is this what happened to the Accuscore robot last week? Let's hope it's fixed this week, for its own sake.
Soooo…about that Accuscore robot that’s been making our football picks…as you may recall after Week 1 we were sitting pretty at 12-4, but Week 2 was a different story all together, as the robot let us down, going just 9-7 and being bested by ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. Even in an unpredictable week, 9-7 is not the kind of number that puts you among the football picking elite. That said, we’re still loving the robot’s Week 1 results, and last week may just have been a fluke. Or not. Regardless, we’re putting the robot on double secret probation. One more middling week and we’re changing horses–in midstream, of all places. The season is too short, and our cause too important to settle for mediocrity.
With that out of the way, let’s see what the robot has in store for us this week, along with our usual “insightful” commentary/rationalizations for the robot’s picks.
Sadly, Philadelphia's SugarHouse looks nothing like this and is just an ordinary urban casino. In a better world it would at least be a syrup factory or even a "cabin in the New England woods"-themed casino.
When we heard that something called SugarHouse was opening in Philadelphia, we were admittedly intrigued. After all, since when is the opening of a “gentleman’s club” in a large city a big deal? A city that size must have at least a few dozen! A quick Google search revealed that Philadelphia’s SugarHouse (yes, it’s one word with an obnoxious capital H in the middle), despite having the same name as “the only 100% legal swingers club in Denver” and a mediocre UK thriller from 2007 featuring Andy “Gollum” Serkis, is just a casino. (What, was the name “BeaverLodge” taken?) The name allegedly derives from the fact that the casino is situated on land that once housed a sugar refinery, but in our mind that doesn’t make it seem any less dirty.
The moon tonight should look something like this, but way cooler. Seriously.
If we’re playing some kind of word association game, and you feed us “Autumnal Equinox” and “Super Harvest Moon,” you’re likely to get back a couple of obscure foreign videogames. However, today and today only, both of these things are actually real phenomena. The equinox, is of course the day when the amount of daylight and night time are most closely equal, and the midpoint between the longest day of the year (June 20 in 2010) and the shortest day of the year (December 21st this year). It’s a fun fact to remember and big with Wiccans, but it’s nothing compared to the super harvest moon tonight.
The current Woot-Off Alert Level is RED, which means a that Woot has again defied our best efforts to predict their behavior and that a Woot-Off is happening right now.
All we can say is damn. Woot is always, always one step ahead. Just when we were thinking about raising the Juggle Woot-Off Alert Level to Orange, from its new baseline of Yellow, the Woot crew went ahead and launched another Woot-Off, this time right on queue after delaying for so long previously. Like terror, you never know when Woot-Offs will strike. What we can tell you though, is what you’ve missed so far.
NBC wants you to watch these people as they work to bring about/ prevent "The Event." Sadly, NBC will also want you to watch whatever these people do for the 4-6 seasons that follow the actual "event."
Tonight NBC will premiere its new 24 and Lost-esque action/thriller/vaguely sci-fi show The Event. Although the initial reviews are fairly good, there’s no way this show doesn’t end up turning into a big fat pile of disappointment and bitter fans. It’s not the format or potential for bizarre twists, which proved workable. No, our beef is with the fundamental premise of naming the show after its defining plot point. Continue reading ‘Rant: Why Shows Like “The Event” Are a Bad Idea’
If the robot keeps picking games this well, we're going to have to keep using this picture.
Week 2 of the 2010 NFL season is upon us, and since it’s Friday we’re continuing our quixotic quest to find the best, easiest way to actually win your football game picking contest. Way way back in Week 1, we used the magic of the Accuscore robo-brain, as reported on ESPN.com to predict the week’s games. The results? Well, they were… pretty good, actually
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