The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. 23 of The Most Perfect Kissing Moments Ever ~ ThePhotomag. IbIjQsNzkVWEj.gif (512×288) Chris Hansen. Sad Arnold: Inside the Battle of Hoth: The Empire Strikes Out. How did the Galactic Empire ever cement its hold on the Star Wars Universe?
The war machine built by Emperor Palpatine and run by Darth Vader is a spectacularly bad fighting force, as evidenced by all of the pieces of Death Star littering space. But of all the Empire’s failures, none is a more spectacular military fiasco than the Battle of Hoth at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back. From a military perspective, Hoth should have been a total debacle for the Rebel Alliance.
Holy Shit. Must Drink More Milk: Giant Monster. iKuHzGzsgeese.gif (248×244) Ibof5u2K5KgIUG.gif (370×286) 01.jpg (550×502) The Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology Explains How We're All Part Machine. Every time your phone buzzes, you reflexively reach to check on it, soothing it back to sleep like some sort of weird pocket-baby.
Through social media, we receive tiny snippets of information about our friends’ and family’s lives, without ever having to be physically near them. And who hasn’t stayed up until 3 a.m. chasing pictures of high school friends across Facebook, only to have a fitful night of sleep when we finally doze off? These experiences and concepts aren’t new, but our language for describing technology hasn’t necessarily kept pace with our experience of using technology. With her new Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology, Amber Case has set out to put words to those experiences — to help introduce terms like “panic architecture,” “ambient awareness,” and “junk sleep” to a wider audience. Also, there are pictures. Cartoons from the Issue of February 11th & 18th, 2013. The Publishing Process in GIF Form. At first you're thinking of writing a novel and you're all...
But then you have an idea! And you go... But then you hit page 50 and you're all.... List of inventors killed by their own inventions. Franz Reichelt (d. 1912) attempted to use this contraption as a parachute.
Reichelt died after he jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing his invention, which failed to operate properly as a parachute. This is a list of inventors whose deaths were in some manner caused by or related to a product, process, procedure, or other innovation that they invented or designed. Direct casualties. Internet Explorer ad: Microsoft taps 1990s nostalgia to tout IE10. Screenshot / YouTube Slap bracelets. 56k modems.
Tamagotchis. LA Gear Lights. And… Microsoft Internet Explorer? In a new ad, Microsoft aims for the hearts of “Generation Y” with a slice of 1990s nostalgia so thick you could cut it with a diskette. Fun Switcher. Adventure Time (2010. Through wood and wasteland, penguins cuddle at the outset of the wonderful Land of Ooo.
Pendleton Ward’s cartwheel of an opening sequence to his Adventure Time series sports all the warm fuzzies of a My Little Pony rainbow and Conan the Destroyer’s Atlantean Sword. The unaffected acoustic theme, which Pen also sings, establishes the fever dream folk tales that follow. Foresight Engine Asks The Crowd To Change The Future. No one can predict the future.
Many people working together, however have far better insights than those working alone. The Foresight Engine, designed by the Institute for the Future, takes advantage of this phenomenon to create "microforecasts," essentially crowdsourced ideas about the future, offering innovative insights about what could be. Foresight Engine "games," conducted with hundreds or thousands of individuals, are tackling everything from ways to cure neurological diseases--"How would you advise the President to reinvent the process of medical discovery? "--to ideas for rebuilding the city of Christchurch in New Zealand after February’s devastating earthquake. The results exceed the scope of anything one could assemble in a single room. The Institute keeps Foresight simple.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's Golden Globes glory. Something rather important happened last night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Something groundbreaking. Something record-setting. Something that, in years to come, people will look back on and say, "Yes. Yes, that was the night that a new day dawned. A night when humankind made just that little bit more progress": Tina Fey and Amy Poehler proved that hosts of an awards ceremony can actually be funny. Ever since it was announced that Fey and Poehler, two of the funniest and most talented people working in American TV today, were to host the Golden Globes there was and continued to be talk about them breaking barriers for women. But Fey and Poehler offered something different.
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Jan. 13, 2013: Bloomberg reports that pubic lice are on the wane worldwide, as young people become increasingly likely to remove some or all of their pubic hair. Let me google that for you. Beautyriot.com - Musical monsters - Page 8.