Mashable added a new feature today powered by StumbleUpon, allowing you to explore Mashable pages, rate them and get recommendations for Mashable content you might like.
StumbleUpon, as you may know, is a way to discover interesting web content based on your interests. Realizing that our readers would love to see a custom version [...]

Though I’ve never tried it, I guess coffee just doesn’t taste as good coming out of an aluminum bag. That’s the only reason I can think of for inventing this astronaut coffee cup.
The On-Orbit Coffee Cup uses surface tension to hold liquid in zero-g. It was invented by astronaut Donald Pettit after what we [...]

Time for our daily dose of leftovers—those items across the tubes that caught our eyes today but didn’t quite make the cut:

Google Me Business Cards: Best or Worst Idea Ever? Provided you’ve had a say in what Google has to say about you, it’s a fun idea. [Gizmodo]
LEGO Business Card Don’t rank well on Google? [...]

While it used to be a bit of a media darling, it’s not often that we write about MySpace anymore, but they continue to plug along - as one of the most popular sites on the Web. And, they continue to roll out new features for their user base. For many, these features may fall [...]

You can already import activities from YouTube into your activity stream on social networks like Facebook and FriendFeed, but now the video sharing site is expanding its API to give all developers access to this data.
The expanded API includes YouTube activities like favoriting, uploading, and commenting on videos, which the company hopes will [...]

The proposition: You and a bunch of strangers are live streaming mobile-phone video of some event or disaster. A server stitches it all together and instantaneously publishes a rich, immediate patchwork of the action.
I love this system, but not necessarily for the same reasons that its developers at Microsoft Research do. I want to see [...]

Lifehacker readers apparently love a live CD that is all work and no play. Backtrack, a security-oriented live CD packed with useful tools, took home the crown for top live CD. In a relative close second, the ever popular Linux distro Ubuntu gave a strong showing followed by another Linux distro, Knoppix. If you’re interested [...]

The online world is an imperfect place. Gmail goes down, chunks of blog posts disappear, and user are deceived on a regular basis. Most of us who spend time online are aware - and have come to expect - these foibles and hiccups. But now, throngs of mainstream media outlets are entering the fray with [...]

Three years ago Google launched Google.org, an attempt to “use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges of our age.” And they’ve been very successful in that regard, providing more than $100 million in grants, creating tools like Google Flu Trends, and leveraging technology like the recently launched Google PowerMeter. But [...]

It’s the last day to apply for what’s been hailed as the “best job in the world” by the Australian tourism board: writing a weekly blog post, maintaining a video blog and uploading photos while exploring Australia’s Islands of the Great Barrier Reef.
The six month Island Reef Job - essentially being an evangelist [...]