2 Years & +200,000 Jelly Beans
All in-camera, zero green screen. How it was made:
(via +DeWitt Clinton, PetaPixel)
Siri on the iPhone 4?
Today, we have a very interesting bit of news, tipped to us by a source close to Apple. According to them, Apple is testing Siri on devices other than the iPhone 4S. The device specifically mentioned to us was the iPhone 4, but we can most likely assume that other devices are being tested as well. This means that we will potentially see a software update that allows Siri to run on older devices. Currently, it only runs on the iPhone 4S, but Apple has given employees access to a special software version that incorporates Siri’s features on to older devices. Hackers and developers are currently working for a port, but if Apple releases this in a software update any time soon, they may not need to.
Grain of salt, and all that.
Andy Rooney tweets from Stellar
“This waiting room is uncomfortable. And why does Heaven have old magazines? And why is there a chair reserved for Larry King? I’m hungry.”
Tito Rooney will read from a prepared statement.
Earlier this week, Andy Rooney had gone to the doctor complaining about shortness of breath and email and thumbtacks.
Andy Rooney may have died, but Yelp commenters will make sure his legacy lives on.
Matt:
(AP) Andy Rooney dead at 92 after a long battle with pretty much everything.
Matt:
Didja ever noti
WHATEVER YOU DO DON’T RETIRE
Did you ever wonder if retirement could kill you?
When I write my twitter retrospective it will be called The Hypocrisy of Death Jokes and Outrage.
“…and these graves. Do they have to be so narrow? I like a little wiggle room. And why always SIX feet? Why not seven? Or six and a half?”
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This is not the first time a fake news story in The Onion has caused real confusion.
Neither the show nor the catalog mentions that 100 years ago this fall, the 29-year-old Picasso was arrested in Paris on suspicion of stealing da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Then, in 1978, he “discovered that we think metaphorically,” and spent the next year gathering as many metaphors as he could find.
As long as the computers are semiliterate, the clerks will have jobs.
Peter Jackson’s video blog while filming The Hobbit
At ten minutes, I was surprised how quickly this went, and how much I enjoyed it. Jackson talks about filming The Hobbit in 3-D, and shows how he and his team are doing it. It’s fascinating both from a technical (he has custom built rigs that incorporate 48 Red Epic cameras) and a story-telling (he has two artists sketch identical scenes in red and blue that render in 3-D to give the cinematographers an exact representation of key moments in the film) perspective. I’m looking forward to seeing the films that will come from this.
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Trees cocooned in spider webs after flooding in Sindh, Pakistan
Yelping with Cormac
And so. This is how the uprising began. How in the towns of that country under the cobalt vault of the sky impassive and immutable the villagers took to arms under the banner of the halfeaten taco. What was to come was not man’s doing but of some celestial machinery. Who are we to ask why? For once the taco was eaten it could not be uneaten nor could the tragedy looming be diverted or waylaid.
Excerpt from “Taco Bell, 2nd Review”, Yelping with Cormac
(via Coudal)
top returns for single letter google searches
a: American Airlines
b: Bank of America
c: craiglist
d: Dictionary.com
e: ESPN
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headline of the day
I’m Not Criticizing Hindus — I’m Inviting Them To ‘Love And Know Jesus’
RETROFY YOUR HI-FI SYSTEM
Just let that neologism roll around your brain like you’re trying to extract all the nuance from a swig of Manischevitz. Then check out the exciting “features.”
Cherchez La Femme — Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band [circa 1976]
on the “Tony Orlando & Dawn” show.
DISCLAIMER:
The intent of this post is anthropological and not to make profit. It is strictly to share with fans and the periodic visitors to this planet from other galaxies a part of the musical history of the aforementioned musical group.
Also:
During these times all the TV shows wanted us to mime the entire performance which we were reluctant to do. A compromise was reached with the shows we finally performed on.
The Future, Today
Spaceport America reminds me that I’m glad I live in the time that I live in. (via Laughing Squid)
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And once you become competent, maybe you have it in you to become an artist, maybe you don’t.
Then came the hackings, the repeated attempts to silence me in the crudest way possible.
Porn stars and genre writers are both trying, in very different ways, to satisfy a basic human need for a transcendent experience, something that takes you out of yourself.
LouisTheCat: my bowl is full of cat food
anus? more like THEnus
Seventeen Evergreen – Polarity Song
Seventeen Evergreen – Polarity Song from Lucky Number Music on Vimeo.
dueling banjos
hit rate history
For a while there it looked like “do a barrel roll” was going to become the new single day hit rate champ, but Emperors Club VIP hung in and still maintains its title. I guess the intersection of sex and politics trumps disorientation and clever.
Higgins-Madewell
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Off the field, I’m all hers. But on the field, I’m a monster. And I don’t want my queen to be associated with a monster.
quote out of context
If you identified with the kids from The Breakfast Club when it came out, you’re now much closer to the age of Principal Vernon.
Jian Sword Dancing
You are morally obliged to watch this if you haven’t yet. (via kottke)
Ask a Mortician
via Jezebel
tweet of the day
A Murmuration of Starlings
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive.
Just lovely. (via The Atlantic)
from the moderated comments
…Um, these kind of suck…
