By Evan Ackerman Kids, pay attention: even if some crazy Germans decide that it would be fun to put a giant interactive Pong game in a crosswalk, it is never, ever okay to play in the middle of the street. Unless it really looks like a lot of fun, then it’s fine. And Ampel Pong (which means something like light pong, I think)

If you've turned your $60 router into a user-friendly super-router with open-source firmware Tomato, you already know that Tomato can boost your Wi-Fi signal, track bandwidth usage, and set Quality of Service rules with ease. But if you're a big fan of Adblock Plus—the most popular Firefox extension among Lifehacker readers—you can save yourself

[ youtube-logo.png] How many times have you seen a YouTube video and just had to buy a product or a service related to the video? Ok, never. But still, if you want to spend your hard earned cash in these times of looming recession, now you can do it directly from YouTube. Thousands of YouTube partner videos will now get click-to-buy links,

With the presidential election soon upon us, politics are at the forefront of many discussions. Given that “brand management” is such a hot topic, should these political discussions be avoided? Many people that use social media sites like FriendFeed are consultants in some form. Brand or reputation management is a major concern for these people

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Via email... The ladies at Sigma Mu Capito are back. Tiffany moved on, but all the other sisters of Shelley are keeping the flame. Send your readers on over, we sure appreciate good company. You heard, go and visit Shelley Moore Capito's sorority. You'll be glad you did.

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Facebook rolled out Microsoft Live Search today as an integrated part of its search. It gives the exact same results as you would get on Live.com, but in generic Facebook layout. Sorry Facebook, that’s not really all that exciting. Especially for the innovators of the Internet, we know you can do better. So in that spirit,

WebWallpaper Swaps Your Wallpaper on a Schedule from Webcams Windows only: Free, open-source application WebWallpaper loads images from any URL or desktop location and swaps out your desktop background on a schedule. Originally designed for use with webcams, the application works with any image URL you point it to