After so many wasted hours enjoying Gizmodo, and the parent Gawker media site, I fear today is the day I say goodbye.  Their new layout is just unbearable, to the point I refuse to even visit the site anymore.  The Gizmodo homepage smacks you with a half page video ad to the face, and forces me a “hot” topic I could not care less about.  Beside’s the bugs that will surely be fixed (page not loading, crashing browser, et cetera) the design just leaves the viewer….lost.  Well I wish them the best, but I can’t stick around for them to make it right again.  Judging from the Gizmodo commenters the new layout is not to their liking either.

“I don’t know enough expletives to adequately describe how shitty this redesign is.”

Says one commenter.  Agreed, says me.   Update: Here is how to get the Old gizmodo gawker site layout back

This link works for now and will allow you get the site you once loved back, especially to check your replies on comments. Click the link for the old gizmodo layout ca.gizmodo.com

Via > Gizmodo

Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, told investigators the reason she killed her child was that she

“became angry because the baby was crying while she was playing a computer game called FarmVille on the Facebook social-networking website.”

While farming on the computer Alexandra told the police she shook the baby.  Angry for disrupting her facebook game time.  She then composed herself by smoking a cigarette and went back to the baby to shake it again.  She claims the baby may have hit its head during the shaking.  What has this world come to?

Via > jacksonville.com

Today apple released the stand-alone application for Mac OSx systems to let users with an iphone 4 facetime with a mac computer…FINALLY!  It works pretty well and the video quality is much better than programs like skype.  Download it here.  The program works by either calling a phone number or an email address, and you can add contacts to apples facetime for mac application by going into your “Address Book” application and then creating contacts or adding contacts.  Once you do that it automatically updates your facetime for mac application and you are ready to call! Enjoy

Via>Apple

Welcome to the new age of steroids. These (APL) Athletic Propulsion Labs Concept 1 basketball shoes have been banned by the NBA for its ability to increase vertical jumping ability.  These alien shoes allow the user to jump higher than they are physically able to without them.  The NBA has now released a statement, banning for the first time ever, a pair of sneakers.  These Athletic Propulsion Lab sneakers because of the unfair advantage players who wear them receive.

For the first time in its 64-year history, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has banned a new line of shoes based on the league’s rule against an “unfair competitive advantage” that increases a player’s vertical leap. The league’s ban on Athletic Propulsion Labs’ Concept 1 confirms the company’s claims that the shoe, with its Load ‘N Launch^™ Technology, performs as advertised. No professional player will be allowed to wear the product in games for the upcoming 2010-2011 NBA season

Thats right folks, and I guess you want to know how much higher the athletic propulsion labs shoes allow you to jump?  How high will your vertical jump increase? Well its all dependent on the user, because the shoes allow the player to use less energy to jump.  It will decrease the time and energy required to land and jump again.  For $300 these shoes can be yours.

VIA > Yahoo! Sports.

Are you ready to become a rocket man? Well the Martin Jetpack for personalize flying please is actually going to be available.  I can see it now,  flying 60mph 8k ft in the air to my buddy johnny’s house to borrow some flour all while hands free facetime-ing my mom…Lets just hope they are installed with some nice commercial rocket parachutes packs too.

The Martin jetpack comes in two models. One is pretty much what you would expect a jetpack to be- it is a device that can carry a person to infinity and beyond, assuming that infinity is less than the 8000 feet ceiling or the 31.5 miles distance that travelling at the maximum regulated speed of 63mph will take you. With a full tank of gas, that would last roughly 30 minutes, although Martin Aircraft expects that to improve as the manufacturing process becomes more efficient. The other model, which will be an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), will be released before its much sexier human-friendly counterpart. Field trials for the UAV will begin in 2011. Depending on the results, the manned flight field trials will begin in 2012.

Via Yahoo! Shopping.