Check out Obama's laptop. I love the Pac Man sticker placement.
President Geek.
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1. Ugliest dog in the world dead, 9. 2. Touching strangers.
3. Dexter dining table chairs. I want.
4. Celine Dion and her son have matching haircuts. So wrong.
5. Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" is the top selling catalog track on iTunes and the only track to have gone double platinum there.
6. 50 facts about President-Elect Barack Obama that you may not know. These are a few that impressed or surprised me.
- He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
- He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream
- He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
- He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
7. Ballot initiative to overturn an old racist Florida amendment from around 1913 banning Asian-Americans from owning land fails because "voters incorrectly assumed it would prevent illegal immigrants from owning property." IDIOTS. But I was also having a discussion during lunch recently with Krunky Munky about (generalization alert) the lack of political mobilization and activism among Asian Americans which is often crucial in overturning even obvious injustices such as this amendment.
8. Broke man tries to pay bill with a drawing of a spider. LOL.
9. I only read it for the articles, but Grace Kim, a former Guitar Hero publicist, will grace the cover of the November issue of Playboy.
10. Stunning video captured with the new Canon 5D SLR. I WANT.
When not being a musical genius, Louis Armstrong liked to spend his time also creating collages. Neat!
The works are untitled and undated, but he was making them as early as the 1950s; in a letter from 1953 he wrote, “Well, you know, my hobbie (one of them anyway) is using a lot of scotch tape . . . My hobbie is to pick out the different things during what I read and piece them together and [make] a little story of my own.”
Read rest here.
I love this.
From the The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale at the Seoul Museum of Art.
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This thought experiment involving a trolley challenges the consistency of our morals and ethics. I've been pondering it a lot the past couple weeks.
Imagine a trolley is headed towards five people bound to a track; you can choose to save their lives by throwing a switch and diverting the train to another track, where it will only run over one person.Most people would do this, albeit unhappily: it's better for one person to die than five. But change the situation slightly: you're now standing on a bridge beside a stranger, watching the trolley roll towards five people. The only way to stop the train is by pushing the stranger off the bridge and into its path.
Presented with this option, said Banaji at the meeting of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing in Palo Alto on Sunday, most people refuse. In our guts, something seems different about tossing someone in front of the train rather than sending the train at someone -- and neither social psychologists nor neuroscientists nor philosophers know why.
Good thing we have Superman Aquaman around to save the day so we don't have to make these sort of problematic decisions.
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[Forbes Magazine compiled a gallery of their top ten flops from Apple shown below:
Soon after the publication of this article the writer disappeared. The takeaway lesson here: Do NOT fuck with Steve Jobs.
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Created by Austrailian company ENESS, this virtual whiteboard pong game is stunning. It uses an ordinary whiteboard, regular markers and of course some digital magic. Check out the awesome demo. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azP-1Ja1GLc]
Considering that I'm the reigning champ at mini-pong with a six game winning streak against six different opponents ranging in skill level from weak to weak sauce, I would probably rule at this whiteboard variant as well. Bring it on.
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Melanie Berliet writes about what it's like being naked sushi model.
I pleaded to the God of Naked Body Sushi Models to stifle an array of impulses: to laugh, twitch, cry, beg for introductions, and maybe eat a piece of sushi or two. It was then that all these impulses decided to congregate in my right toe. And it was then that I considered leaping from the table, obligations (and dignity) be damned, so I could massage the fucking thing.
Read rest here.
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At the office we finally got the game room complete with Rock Band 2 AND Guitar Hero World Tour. I did kill it today getting 100 percent on guitar. Twice. Okay, fine. It was on medium, but still! Shut up Moye about how you play on Rock Band on expert blah blah blah. Anyway, the game room is pretty sweet. It would be a lot sweeter though if we had THIS guitar. Behold:
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Hahaha!
This is an example of the sort of hilarious "sight-gags" that Al Jaffee drew for the Herald Tribune from 1957 to 1963.
Jaffee conceived of Tall Tales while in desperate economic straits, and hit upon a winning formula for breaking into the lucrative comics syndicate game: rather than drawing a traditional horizontal strip that would compete with the existing material, he opted for a seven-inch-tall vertical strip, which gave editors a lot more flexibility as to where in the paper the strip would run.
Jaffee's comics have now been collected into a book. I want.
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Will.i.am celebrates President-Elect Obama's victory with a new follow-up song to his inspirational "Yes We Can" that was a "viral" success during the campaign. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xJCaw3Pmf0]
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I think singularity has been achieved and it is this: [vimeo http://vimeo.com/926656]
Srsly, with each passing day the Internet seems to become an echo chamber of live puppy cams and precocious Asian kids.
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Check out this CNN piece about Obama's election day tradition of playing some basketball with friends. I especially like the jerseys they wear. Note Obama's slick steal and behind-the-back dribble. Obviously his new professional title would be just as fitting on the courts. Mr President! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFVbt2VOPKE]
Man, if I was a player in the NBA (If you make a Yao Ming joke I will in fact kill you), I'd start a collection of a signed basketball by every one of his supporters in the league to send to him as a present. David Lee of the Knicks will make it happen.
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