Captain Eo #bts (at Tomorrowland – Disneyland)
The six young men and women who danced to Pharrell Williams’ hit song “Happy” in a video that went viral on YouTube, and were arrested for it, were released on bail today, one day later. However, the director of the video, Sassan Soleimani, remains detained. (source)
Six young men and women, who were arrested and detained in Tehran for making a video in which they danced to Pharrell William’’s hit song “Happy”.
The description originally accompanying the video stated: “People of Tehran are happy! Watch and share our happiness! … We wish happiness for all the people around the world…. “Happy” was an excuse to be happy…Hope it brings a smile on your face.” Apparently this is now a subversive message in Iran.
One U.S. Supreme Court justice referred to Netflix as “Netflick.” Another seemed not to know that HBO is a cable channel. A third appeared to think most software coding could be tossed off in a mere weekend.
The people ultimately responsible for making legal rulings in the modern world are often dangerously out-of-touch with it. [via Lawrence Hurley @ Business Insider] (via huffpostpolitics)
what’s on the netflick tonight honey
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Internet shchminternet, am i rite guys?
This guy made his own automatic Wolverine Claws. It’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life. And he seems like the perfect person to be trusted with this power.
This is so cool. 9 year old steve would be trying to figure out how to do this himself.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The Dance of Reality by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Official US Trailer) (by abkco)
I can’t wait!!!
Woah, I have been not paying enough attention to film. This is awesome news.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
iMessage Discriminates
I recently switched from an iPhone to Android, and discovered shortly thereafter that my phone number was still associated with iMessage, meaning that any time someone with an iPhone tried texting me, I’d receive nothing, and they’d get a “Delivered” receipt in their Messages app as though everything were working as expected. (source)
I’d say at least once a week for quite a number of months now I’ve come into issues texting friends with iPhones. One of us will inevitably have issues with text messages, and resort to another form of chat. I had been blaming it on the carriers, and having too many messaging apps on my phone. (Seriously, 2014 instant messaging is about as bad as 1998) Here’s hoping apple fixes this soon.
Internet Machine: A multi-screen film about the invisible infrastructures of the internet.
The creation of this installation offers us the sensation of “being there” and, through physicality, materiality and context, it aims to refute the idea that these spaces are immaterial and post-geographical, the incorrect myths that surround them, such as the myth of the “cloud”.
Alton Brown makes even the most ridiculous of demonstrations delightful.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
If Stuntmen from the old movies don’t have your full respect then I just don’t know what to say to you
l tried really hard not to reblog this
Yeah, it is indeed really hard not to reblog a fucking thing.
Dudes, really important note: this is not a stuntman, this is Buster Keaton, the star of all these films. He did all of his own stunts. All of them – well except one in the film “College” because he didn’t have enough time to learn how to fucking pole vault for the scene. He was practically an Olympic-grade athlete and did stunts so dangerous that his cameramen were told to keep rolling the camera unless one of two things happened: Buster yelled “cut!” or if Buster died. That was it. And he nearly »
“Moral outrage is exhausting.
And dangerous. The whole country has gotten a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome from the newest popular sport of Extreme Finger Wagging. Not to mention the neck strain from Olympic tryouts for Morally Superior Head Shaking. All over the latest in a long line of rich white celebrities to come…
“Just another jerk with too much money.” I love you Kareem.
The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don’t beat them when they’re bad.
Peter Welch (Programming Sucks)
VC Pitches In A Year Or Two
Entrepreneur: I plan to launch a better streaming music service. It leverages the data on what you and your friends currently listen to, combines that with the schedule of new music launches and acts that are touring in your city in the coming months and creates playlists of music that you should be listening to in order to find new acts to listen to and go see live.
VC: Well since Spotify, Beats, and Apple have paid all the telcos so that their services are free on the mobile networks, we are concerned that new music services like yours will have a hard time getting new users to use them because the data plan is so expensive. We like you and the idea very much, but we are going to have to pass.
Entrepreneur: »
AIM added elements that appeared years ahead of other companies. It rolled out voice chat before Skype. It added file transfer. It launched chat bots people could interact with, as well as a stock ticker and a news ticker.
The Rise and Fall of AIM, the Breakthrough AOL Never Wanted (via kenyatta)
I’m still bummed that I can’t log into my old AIM name anymore.
The Brave Sage of Timbuktu, how one librarian saved Mali’s illustrious past from jihadists
Total bad ass.