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Hypnotic Animated GIFs from Mat Lucas
UK-based artist Mat Lucas works by day as a graphic designer and by night runs a Tumblr of experimental art called 89—A. Lucas tells me that many of his GIFs begin as a problem he’s facing while learning various graphics and video applications like Cinema4D, After Effects, and Photoshop. The byproduct of his experimentation are often ethereal geometric forms that pulsate, rotate and contract in various hypnotic patterns. Above are some of my favorite pieces but you can see much more here. If you liked this also check out the work of Matthew DiVito and Paolo Čerić.
Here's The Beautiful First Trailer To Miyazaki's Next Animated Film
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William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, A Book by Ian Doescher
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars is a book by Portland-based creative director and author Ian Doescher that reimagines the story of Star Wars in the distinct style of William Shakespeare. It was published by Quirk Books and features twenty fantastic illustrations by artist Nicolas Delort. Hardcover and e-book editions of the book are available to purchase online at Amazon (e-book) and Barnes & Noble.
Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. ’Tis a tale told by fretful droids, full of faithful Wookiees and fearstome stormtroopers, signifying…pretty much everything.
Reimagined in glorious iambic pentameter—and complete with twenty gorgeous Elizabethan illustrations–William Shakespeare’s Star Wars will astound and edify Rebels and Imperials alike. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.
Here is a trailer for William Shakespeare’s Star Wars from Quirk Books:
images and video via Quirk Books
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This is the greatest knock knock joke in the history of all knock knocks jokes ever.
Still one of my favorite posts on Tumblr.
i odnt know what this is from, i just thought it was an awesome fucking gif.
Have You Ever Felt so Lazy You Just Slid Down the Stairs?
HP Keeps Installing Secret Backdoors In Enterprise Storage
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Mastermind of 9/11 Attacks Designs a Secret Vacuum Cleaner
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“Hot latex beds”: The strangest searches that bring readers to Ars
Search engine traffic brings plenty of readers to Ars Technica, most looking for gadget reviews and technology writing. After looking through site logs, the top 20 incoming search terms for the first half of 2013 were largely expected:
- ars technica
- arstechnica
- ars
- iphone 5
- ps4
- porn
- blackberry z10
- raspberry pi
- blackberry 10
- xbox one
- htc one
- tablet
- youtube
- images
- revenge porn
- ars tech
- ios 7
- bitcoin
- wii u
Pretty standard stuff. But what about the oddball requests—you know, the true outliers that are so strange they appear only a single time in our logs? Well, they're present, too, and by the tens of thousands. Here are a small selection of the stranger search terms that somehow led users to Ars in the last six months:
- my downspout frozen
- can you change condo bylaws if someone is not paying hoa fees to not vote
- club of the month discounts
- u.s. military policy on pornography
- how dip i determine a neighbors wi-fi passkey
- how bad does it hurt to dislocate your kneecap
- can you be prosecuted by your ip address
- joining air force without agreeing to the policy
- why are cats so fascinated by laser pointers
- west wing the american president similarities
- too hot outside central air unit not cooling house
- mold in brita filter
- should i watch amelie dubbed or with subtitles
- how to make a cheap repurposed fire pit
- hot latex bed
- is youth xl the same size as adult small in shirts
- naked picture posted that was not distributed; how do i get it removed? no way to contact website owner
- are robots taking our jobs or creating them
- can apple detect my pirated music
- cause of turbulence in pipe flow
- why di they put bike seats so high
- sore tongue after eating fresh pineapple
- awesome evil names
Some of these queries are quite difficult to answer; others are surprisingly easy. Amélie should be watched dubbed, for instance, while Apple can probably see that you're a dirty pirate but is unlikely to act on that knowledge. (Update: Amélie should of course be watched subtitled. The writer responsible has been locked in a room with nothing but dubbed versions of Gérard Depardieu films.) As for evil names, try Franz von Schicklgruber.
Download me—Saying “yes” to the Web’s most dangerous search terms
Danielgut
There’s a saying—"there’s no such thing as a free lunch." On the Web, however, it sure seems like there is. In the time span of a lunch break, a few keywords in a search engine promise free entertainment, just several clicks away. We all know the catch, though. These freebies can come with freeloading adware, malware, and other unwanted programs and plugins. This was particularly true in the Internet’s early days, but in the past decade, tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo—the three major players in search today—have deployed significant resources to prevent adware and malware from compromising their Web browsers, e-mail services, and websites. It can't be that bad in 2013, right?
Answering this question required a little experiment, one inspired by the documentary Super-Size Me. That film chronicles Morgan Spurlock’s month-long fast food “diet” during which he limited his exercise and knowledge about healthy eating, had to order everything on the McDonald’s menu at least once, and never said no to an upgrade offer.
The Web version of this is simpler and better for an individual's (physical) health. From a clean computer fresh off an OS install, enter some of the most popular, plausible generic free keyword searches on a popular Web browser. Next, open all of the links in the search results (ads and otherwise) and download the first thing on the landing pages, recording where it went and what it did. Like Spurlock, I would limit my knowledge about what was safe or risky and take no (Internet) precautions beyond the default settings. The same rules applied for installing the program afterward. And in the Web's version of "would you like to super-size that?" I had to say yes to whatever was offered. There would be no avoiding a Web culture of excess and extras.
I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore
"Sir, look at me—did you have any shoes on?" asked the emergency medical tech. "Were you wearing shoes when you were struck?"
"Huh?" I wondered, a little dazed. "What's with the shoe obsession?"
Let me back up. My family and I moved from Chicago to Asheville, North Carolina last autumn, ostensibly to get closer to nature. Mostly, this has been great. We still have an urban center we can walk to, but the woodland behind my house hosts all manner of flora and fauna. We've traded rat-infested dumpsters for trash bins overturned by bears; instead of skyscrapers, we now have mountains. Unfortunately, mountains don't have lightning rods.
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April 17th, 2013: When I was a kid my dad told me that the person who designed the 386 went insane afterwards, and while I can't find any information online to confirm that story today, it did make my 386DX seem a little more badass. Hey, out today is Adventure Time #15, a stand-alone story! It's available at your local comics shop and all sorts of places AND it's exciting because yesterday it was announced that the series is up for three different Eisner awards! And Meredith Gran's Adventure Time series is also nominated. IT IS A GOOD YEAR FOR COMICS You can read the first few pages of AT #15 here!
– Ryan |
Episode #124 - Stolen
0:00 - 0:32 - Introduction and theme.
0:33 - 36:00 - Some people just feel like home, y'know? Like Nic Cage in Stolen.
36:01 - 38:56 - Final judgments..
38:57 - 58:32 - Flop House Movie Mailbag
58:33- 1:08:11 - The sad bastards recommend.
1:08:12 - 1:09:45 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.
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Wikipedia synopsis of Stolen.
The trailer that launched a thousand jokes:
The Enlightenment Guide To Winning The Lottery
François-Marie Arouet knew how to get into trouble. After a very public scuffle with a nobleman nearly ended in a duel, the young playwright was exiled from Paris, the city where his plays were only just coming into fashion. He lived in dreary England for two whole years before slinking back to France, where he lived in the house of a pharmacist. There he experimented with various potions and poultices, but nothing would cure the vague sense of impotence and dread that dogged him.
Finally in 1729 the gates of Paris were opened to Arouet again, but he was still ill-at-ease. At a dinner party held by the chemist Charles du Fay, Arouet, better known by his pen-name Voltaire, found the cure he had been looking for. He met a brilliant mathematician called Charles Marie De La Condamine, who promised a panacea better than any Voltaire had found at his pharmacist.
It wasn’t medicine--it was money. Condamine had a plan that would make both him and Voltaire more money than he could ever scratch together by writing plays or poems, enough money to allow Voltaire to never have to worry about money again. He would be free to live how he wanted and write what he wanted. The plan was simple. Condamine planned to outsmart luck herself. He was going to arrange to win the lottery.
Night Takes Rook
Engineers need to have faith in their designs, but not many would necessarily be confident enough to put their lives at risk just to prove it. It takes a great deal of faith to design a lighthouse for the most dangerous reef in the English Channel, especially when no-one has ever built a lighthouse on the open sea before. It takes rather more to actually build it. And one approaches the shores of hubris when one decides to visit said lighthouse with a massive gale on the way. But when Henry Winstanley, an 18th-century English eccentric, designed and constructed the world’s first open-sea lighthouse on a small and extraordinarily treacherous group of rocks fourteen miles out from Plymouth, he was so confident in his building that he blithely assured all doubters he would be willing to weather the strongest storm within its confines – a boast he had the chance to live up to when he found himself in his lighthouse as the most violent tempest in England’s history approached its shores.