Adapt or Die. Here are 89 Life Hacks That Will Make Your New Year So Much Better. As you go into the New Year, remember that things can be better than previous years. Maybe you'll get a raise, date someone new or even adopt an adorable pet to welcome into your family. But, if you fail at all of those things (sorry, if you do, but the chances are you may), here are life hacks that you can use to make your 2014 a lot better. Even if you don't get a raise. One Winged Angel by The Black Mages. Power Chords, Bobby McFerrin Style | Wired Science | Wired.com. GoogleFight - compare 2 phrases. YouTube - Monty Python - How to Irritate People. Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die | Magazine. Before we can start to rebuild geek culture, we first have to destroy it.
Photo: Chris Buck; styling: Jill Roth; prop styling: Nanci Bennet; grooming: Paul Castro/Aim Artists The problem with the Internet, however, is that it lets anyone become otaku about anything instantly. In the ’80s, you couldn’t get up to speed on an entire genre in a weekend. You had to wait, month to month, for the issues of Watchmen to come out.
We couldn’t BitTorrent the latest John Woo film or digitally download an entire decade’s worth of grunge or hip hop. But then reflect on the advantages. Why create anything new when there’s a mountain of freshly excavated pop culture to recut, repurpose, and manipulate on your iMovie? None of that’s necessary anymore. Here’s the danger: That creates weak otakus. The coming decades—the 21st-century’s ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s—have the potential to be one long, unbroken, recut spoof in which everything in Avatar farts while Keyboard Cat plays eerily in the background. Le guide sur Paris qui soulage | Paris, Ã l'air livre. Crédit CC gnackgnackgnack (flick) Méthodiquement, Cécile Briand recense, traque, explore Paris de l’autre côté de la lunette.
Comme elle l’annonce fièrement dans son guide, elle a mis les pieds un peu partout dans la capitale pour vous concocter une sélection de premier choix : pour chaque arrondissement, un plan piqué de numéros comptabilise avec aisance et minutie ses fructueuses découvertes au fil de ses balades. Suis-je bête, j’ai omis de vous préciser un petit détail : Cécile a listé 200 lieux dans Paris où l’on peut se… soulager. Oui, 200 lieux dans lesquels toilettes et commodités riment… mais pas seulement.
On en parle. … est doublement réversible. Crédit CC flyin Zi (flickr) …est à glisser dans votre poche, votre sac, blouson ou même le creux de votre petite paume. Crédit CC Roryrory (flickr) Palais de Tokyo Le concept. Oui, oubliez le lieu d’aisance malodorant entre deux courants d’air, oubliez ces espaces réduits offerts à la vue de tous. . … le centre culturel Irlandais. Straight to the Spam Folder: Astonishing E-Mail Messages You'll Never Open - PC World. Colorful People Don't Need Color (from reply@captainmonochrome.com) So color is something you don't need if you have it but do need if you don't?
Augggh--it's an infinite loop! Good-natured Whale. Well, (from unknown@mysterymiddie.com) I, for one, welcome even-tempered, healthy whales. no more. (from festers@mairie-lartiste.fr) This is what happens when you try to publish your novel as a series of 286,000 tweets. Real University diplomas. (from leoninegherkin@grinchmanlawoffices.com) Most people go to Real University for the football games and the parties, anyway. Online Bachelor's Degrees you deserve (from fidelcuantro@meretriciousmagazine.com) That B.S. in video studies from YouTube U. is rightfully mine! Diplomas for everybody. (from gaped3@thai-overtime.com) Unclear whether this is a campaign slogan or a drink order in a bar. Doctorate degree can be yours. (from pyrrhicvictor@theodrekk.com) I don't know...
Real manliness is renewable at any age ? (from reprehensible@soultorque.com) So do I. Play Minecraft Creator's New Typing Game Right Now | Game|Life. Notch’s new browser game will make you feel bad about your typing skills. Screengrab courtesy Notch Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson revealed a new game for browsers over the weekend. It’s a typing-speed-test game called Drop, and it works on Windows, Mac and Linux. As far as typing games go, Drop isn’t particularly complex. Just type the letters as they’re highlighted. Hitting the wrong key causes the swirling mess of letters to speed up, and if you don’t touch the correct key quickly enough, it’s game over. The surrounding elements — thudding electronic music and a swirling, expanding cube in the background — are mostly there to distract you.
Geeky Gamers Build Working Computers out of Virtual Blocks. Ben Craddock has been busy gathering Redstone. He collects blocks of the virtual material from deep within the game world of Minecraft, then pulverizes it into a powder and sets to work. For most Minecraft players, Redstone might wind up in a virtual torch that will light their way when the sun goes down or open doors to underground traps in the game. But Craddock, 21, who goes by the handle ‘theinternetftw,’ has something else in mind: He’s trying to engineer a single bit of memory that’s small enough to snap onto a 16-bit arithmetic logic unit, or ALU, a key component in a working computer that he’s already built out of virtual stone blocks inside the game. “We have lots of programs designed to [help us] learn to build chips,” says Craddock, an undergraduate student in computer science at the University of Georgia, whose Minecraft computer simulation video rivaled Britney Spears in popularity on YouTube last week.
It didn’t take long for him to get hooked on it. See Also: Star Wars Uncut / Watch the Movie. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... In 2009, Casey Pugh asked Internet users to remake Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. In a few months time, thousands of fans responded with extraordinary creativity from around the world. Star Wars Uncut has been featured in documentaries, news features and conferences around the world for its unique appeal. In 2010 we won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media. Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The "Director's Cut" is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection. Many thanks to Aaron Valdez (video editor) and Bryan Pugh (sound design/mixing) for the countless hours they put into this masterpiece.
Alt Text: The Nice Guyâs Guide to Realizing Youâre Not That Nice. There are any number of geek guys running around out there without the love and companionship that many people and all golden retrievers deserve. Sometimes these guys sit down and try to figure out why they’re living a life devoid of love, romance, sex and discussions about whose hair it is in the shower drain. They undertake a deep self-assessment, questioning all their long-cherished beliefs about themselves, and this is what they conclude: They’re too nice. And that’s hilarious! Guys, you’re not “too nice.” That’s like saying you can’t get seated at an L.A. restaurant because you’re too famous. I know lots of nice guys, fellows who are much nicer than me, and nearly all of them have what ’70s-era singer-songwriters call “special ladies.”
I also know tremendous jerks with girlfriends, but that just proves there’s someone for everyone. Which brings us back to you! For some reason, you think “nice” means “completely devoid of sexual energy.” See Also: Make Parking a Cinch with This Parking Guide Infographic. Les six techniques pour gagner Pierre-Feuille-Ciseaux. Block Posters - Create large wall posters from any image for free!