March 5th, 2013

ConcertIn Helps You Sell Your Unused Concert Tickets To Your Friends

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What’s the matter with a little arbitrage between friends? ConcertIn.com is an interesting music discovery system that uses your Facebook social graph to find bands you and your friends like and, if you can’t make the concert, it lets you resell your tickets to your personal circle of buddies. It’s obviously a bit shady – some would call this a scalping site – but creator Jan Horna says that his… → Read More

October 2nd, 2007

Video: How to order a ghetto Big Mac

What does this ghetto big mac video have to do with technology? Not much, admittedly, but it’s a hack. We like hacks here. (Many of us are hacks, in fact.) The video explains how to order what’s called a “ghetto big mac” by “remixing” the McDonalds Dollar Menu. It essentially involves ordering a double cheeseburger, fries, then asking for sauce and a seeded bun. → Read More