Here is a collection of ten designs that challenge and push the borders of UI (user interface) systems that will ostensibly make our lives easier or at the least provide more intuitive technology be it video games, information processing or other enhancements. What the @#%&! is this "F8" button...?
View list here.
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NBC isn't the only company experiencing a bounce from the Olympics. This ol' weblog of mine has been steadily increasing and staying above a thousand daily page views the past few days. Yesterday it went into another gear and saw a peak of 2,325 page views. Thanks everyone, all 2,325 of you, for swinging by. Please come again.
ANDY and his coworkers at Circuit City discuss the awesomeness of THE DARK KNIGHT on their break. Or so they think, because what ANDY is thinking about and what his coworkers are discussing are two very different things. Is ANDY a Dark Knight virgin? Has Andy seen or not seen the greatest movie of the century? Watch to find out! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPaxtJ7tObw]
Thanks to the cast and crew! The experience was a blast!
Ian White as TED Hector Hernandez as ANTHONY Marvin Telp as BEN Mike Callaghan as ANDY
Written and produced by Matthew Rodriguez Directed and edited by Jason Chew Cinematography by Patrick Chang Photography by Karynne Aliaga Special thanks to Randy Harinandan
Like their male counterparts, the Spanish women's basketball team were also photographed making the slant-eyed gestures. Fuck ya'll.
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This (popular?) music video is from my peoples in the Hermit Kingdom. The first 0:37 seconds of the video is pretty good. Actually, I think it's pretty great, especially the vibrant use of colors and well framed cinematography. Feel free to mute it for the rest of the video. See for yourself: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJqbgHzkInM]
What I can't quite figure out is why the two girls are hating on the dude so much. All he seems to do is flirt with them rather harmlessly, and at that he may just be trying to boost the gals' self-confidence. All their exercising, petty competitiveness and rivalry suggests something deep rooted in them. What? He shouldn't wave back when they smile and greet him? That's just rude in all three of my cultures.
And when they find out he's seeing some girl, and even that seems open to interpretation (maybe he was just consoling a friend in his car), their vindictive reaction seems not only completely over the top but also rather psychotic if not illegal (E.g., Messing with his whip. Seriously?).
What say you?
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Here's an annoying internet commercial for Borders Books under the guise of a video of two favorites of cultural elites, Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman flippantly browsing through the selections at a Borders location. How do I know it's a marketing effort from Borders? It was uploaded by BordersMedia on YouTube (brought to you by Google). I don't know why I'm posting this. I want a free copy of Rushmore in exchange. And a Borders gift certificate and apology from corporate for not hiring me during the summers when I was in college. It was very damaging to the self esteem.
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This is a recording of a Fort Hays State University (Where?) professor losing his mind in a profanity laced berserker rage at a debate session that includes mooning the audience (but not the camera thankfully). Professor Bill Shanahan, way to keep it classy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPt8UVU7bXs]
Designer Lucy Merchant brings to life the tables and chairs (Titled "Mommy's Chair") of the sort that are drawn by young children and matches their shaky lines and perspective.
It doesn't look like the most comfortable furniture but I really like the idea. If these were placed in front of children, and they were then asked to draw them I wonder what would be produced.
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Man, this news is a damn shame. Craig Phillip Robinson, the actor who plays Daryl, one of my favorite characters from The Office (One of my all time favorite scenes from this show is Daryl coaching Michael Scott on getting a raise), was arrested after being caught with possessing crazy drugs. Damn.
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Journey back in time and see what your high school yearbook may look like starting with the 1950s at YearbookYourself. I jumped into this time machine as well and posted some of them below. Warning: What you are about to see may be disturbing, and minors and the elderly are advised to look away.
Hahahaha. And my hairstyle hasn't changed TOO much since 1994 it seems.
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Thanks to Belgian-Brazilian brewer InBev's successful takeover of Anheuser-Busch, Cuba might have gained a new ally or supportive voice in their contentious relationship with our US government, whose (anachronistic) attitude towards Castro and Cuba, that is economically isolating the tiny island from the rest of the world, might be one of the most consistent bipartisan policies of US over the past 40 some odd years. In spite of the growing availability of foreign goods in Cuba, banks and companies continue to receive reminders that the US government's stance towards Cuba is enforced, as UBS learned when in 2004, it paid a "$100m fine...for providing new banknotes to Cuba and Iran."
Against this background, The Economist notes that InBev:
...has a joint-venture with Cuba's government which claims 40% of the island's beer market. As a director of a European company with a big investment on the island puts it, the best strategy is to "try to stay under the radar and make damned sure you are here when the United States government finally sees sense."
A US policy change towards Cuba and ending the embargo is something I could drink to and would be almost as refreshing as an ice cold Stella.
If you've been wondering about the relative quiet from the Republican camp about the news of former presidential candidate John Edwards's affair with Rielle Hunter, The Economist (no fan of Obama) reminds us:
Republicans shouldn’t crow over the scandal. After all their own presidential nominee, John McCain, was still married to his first wife when he took up with Cindy.
A Cindy that was also much, much, much richer, younger, and not in a car accident.
A moral tit for tat on this issue isn't one that the Republicans are not going to win. Of course in a political vacuum marital fidelity or lack thereof wouldn't be an issue. Unless they start legislating the bedroom, in which case the guns of hypocrisy fire away!
[Okay, I lied. But I swear, this is the LAST entry on not only Phelps but swimming in general.] Aquaman Shrine has a nice comparison between the King of Atlantis and the King of 8 Olympic Gold Medals. While Phelps has Aquaman beat on height, as Chris Rock said, "Aquaman's a hero. He can talk to the fishes." True. One of his "power is the telepathic ability to communicate with/command oceanic life." Bow down bitches to the King of Atlantis. Hear ye, hear ye.
See the comparison chart after the jump.
Aside from his training, focus, et cetera, Michael Phelps also enjoys a distinct physiological advantage over his competitors.
Generally, a man's arm span equals his height but in his case it's 6'7" -- three inches more than his height. Naturally his arms work as powerful propulsive paddles, giving him a clear edge over others. His lower body, interestingly, is shorter than that of an average man of his height. His relatively short legs result in less drag or resistance. In short, Phelps has an upper body of a 6'8" person but his lower body seems to be of someone who is only 5"10", which also make the perfect plane in water.
His size 14 feet may not dwarf Ian Thrope's size 17 but Phelps' double-jointed ankles allow him to do a ballerina's 'pointe' standing on the tips of the toes. It allows him to whip his feet as if those are flippers and break loose.
I swear this is my last entry on this kid and his remarkable accomplishment. I really tried to avoid the buzz, but it is quite an astonishing story. I just hope he hooks up his relay teammates who helped him immensely the past few days on his record setting swims as Phelps is about to collect some very large paychecks from sponsors and such.
Lebron James and Kobe Bryant at Phelps' 8th gold medal winning race. When these three went out later that night in the Olympic Village and ran game at the Swedish bikini team and the Brazilian twins, Kobe and Phelps began to tease James about not having a championship of any sort on his resume. Allegedly.
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East Village is notorious for shitty music, places, but hot girls. - Ayo
How to write a sci-fi action script as outlined by Cecelia over at FilmIndustryBloggers.
Deep in the [name an uninhabited jungle or galaxy] in an abandoned [name an additionally isolated location such as an oil rig or a logging station], a crack team of [name a division of the U.S. army] special ops is sent to rescue a missing detachment of [name a group of innocent civilians (ie nuns, orphans, the blind, blind orphan nuns, etc)], only to come up against a force that is [sub/super] human. After brutally murdering [Brick Wall/Slate/2×4], the tough [black/latino] member of the team, and maiming [Hard Drive/Motherboard/microChip], the group’s geeky operations strategist, the entity shows itself to be a terrifying [alien/science experiment] shaped like a huge, grotesque version of a [name a species of reptile, crustacean or mollusk] with a [name a sharp and/or slimy noun]-like mouth. The team’s fearless leader, [Wolf/Bear/Panther], quickly realizes that if he doesn’t stop the creature, no one will, and that perhaps this battle, in addition to saving the human race, will help him [atone for/work through some of lingering emotional issues from] his recent [divorce/wife’s death/brother’s drug overdose].
As Cecelia writes, since Aliens and Predator the vast majority of the sci-fi action scripts are derivative of those two movies. Although I think films like Cloverfield and comic book based movies (including Hellboy and the upcoming Watchmen) are filling that niche to a degree.
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I figure I have a pass to post this since I get enough shit (har har) about my last name. However for those of you who are laughing but have last names like Smith or White or Brown (har har), you are so culturally insensitive. Ya'll are assholes (har har).
