Some beautiful photos of underground tunnels in Russia. [via reddit]
The Lady is dead in the water. "There’s no place for skepticism in Lady in the Water—and no dramatic tension, either. Every member of the apartment-complex surrogate family jumps right onboard the narf express, instantly committed to beating back scrunts with the power of their faith."
Apple will probably be announcing movie rentals through iTunes at their Worldwide Developers Conference in a few weeks.
Royal Sapien's "Triple Nine" Body Shot Remix was featured on Indiefeed's Electronica podcast.
Google's quarterly profit doubled. Revenue rose 77 percent to $2.46 billion resulting in profits of $721 million.
Stephen Colbert interviewed Amy Sedaris a couple weeks ago. They tumbled.
Gawker notes the rise of super-manly-man advertising. "So, your 'body peel' has a snake on the label and comes wrapped in tepidly crass misogyny? Newsflash: You're still gay."
The U.S. is opposed to a cease-fire with Hezbollah. "I think it's a very fundamental question how a terrorist group agrees to a cease-fire," [U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John] Bolton said. "How do you hold a terrorist group accountable? Who runs the terrorist group? Who makes the commitments that the terrorist group will abide by a cease-fire? What does a terrorist group think a cease-fire is?" President Bush replied, "I thought you were gonna ask about the pig."
Seriously, John Bolton should be the one answering those questions.
The AIGA has released their complete, copyright-free set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols on the web. These symbols have become standards internationally and are used freely by anyone who wants them in an effort to lend supreme clarity to signage. [thanks Kirk]
Google has a super accessible search page for people with vision impairment.
A USB HDTV-tuner (the Artec T14A) for $89? Wow!
Lots of people I've talked to about the new iPod design, with the 3.5-inch multi-touch-screen have had one question: won't the screen get all smudgy when you're smearing your greasy paws all over it? Apple thought of that, too. They patented a non-touch technology that detects proximity in relation to the screen so your finger could, potentially, hover over the screen instead of touching it. The screen would hopefully be coated with something like the anti-scratch skins available as accessories now so they don't get shredded. [via digg]
Between all but close friends and lovers, any contact other than a handshake is usually quite rude in Germany. [via BB]
|
 
|
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons License.
|
