Brian Brushwood’s Scam School is a short-format series of online videos that gives you an inside tour of bar tricks, street cons, and scams.
Each episode teaches you a usable bar trick, street con, or scam that you can pull on your friends, and you’ll be entertaining them in no time with these easy to learn tricks.
In the pilot episode, Brian teaches you how to make smoke from out of thin air:
If you liked the You Suck At Photoshop series, then be sure to check out Time Magazine’s interview with co-creators Matt Bledsoe and Troy Hitch.
“It was meant to be a one-off thing,” said Hitch. “But two weeks later, we checked into YouTube and saw that it had 50,000 page views. We went to Rob and said, ‘Hey, we might take a sabbatical from Tim after Tim.’ ” They launched the second episode of Photoshop and within five days, it had 400,000 page views. Digg dug the site, BoingBoing boinged it, and LaughingSquid inked the deal. A star was born.
The battle between Apple and the unlockers rages on, with Apple launching the latest blow in the form of a firmware upgrade that bricks all unlocked iPhones. (Forever.)
For a timeline of the iPhone unlock done up in Star Wars style, check out Gizmodo for a very thorough rundown of what’s happened so far.
‘Tune in next week for the latest episode of…Unlock Wars’