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 Disney has wrangled Annie Leibovitz to shoot celebrities in Disney character roles. At least the images are beautiful. It's time to start flying AirTran whenever possible. Their flight attendants are smart enough to kick a family off a plane that won't quiet their screaming child. Iraq has fallen apart so rapidly, most of the residents who supported democracy at one time have moved to other, safer countries. Now Iraq is just a throbbing civil war with no end in sight. "The moderates are mostly gone. My phone includes at least a dozen entries for middle-class families who have given up and moved away. They were supposed to build democracy here. Instead they work odd jobs in Syria and Jordan. Even the moderate political leaders have left. I have three numbers for Adnan Pachachi, the distinguished Iraqi statesman; none have Iraqi country codes." Aries Spears freestyles as LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, DMX, and Jay-Z. [thanks Ryan] [YouTube] Without the Limbic system in the brain, we would have no consciousness. Wired Magazine's redesign uses four new typefaces created by the indispensable type foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones. After reading the first new look issue, it seems that many people may have trouble reading some of the articles in small type. Wider Angle co-conspirator Kaci and her parents took me to see David Copperfield in Cincinnati many years ago and his final trick was "flying." It's pretty impressive, but the system's limitations were pretty obvious. Here's how the rig works. Scuba diving cat has custom scuba suit. [YouTube] Still baffled by the Baby Einstein commercial in the middle of the State of the Union. There's a point at which a parent's encouragement of a child's interest in business might want to be redirected to slightly more healthy hobbies that won't disappoint the kids so severely. "With the news full of 20-somethings who are making millions of dollars with ideas hatched on their laptops and in their dorm rooms (as the founders of YouTube, MySpace and Facebook have done), more and more teenagers are hoping to become the C.E.O.’s of their own companies, without ever leaving their bedrooms." Public signs in Vienna will now include women as well as men. [via Cut N Paste] This bride is seriously freaking out about her hair. [thanks Jared] [YouTube] I prefer Blimpy sub sandwiches to the Blimpy Big Brother all-seeing military airship in space. A list of the 100 best fonts in the world, as listed German something German. [via kottke] Help Flavorpill build wells in Africa to help thousands of people get and stay healthy. Buy a $20 bottle of water and they'll match your gift, getting them 1/100th closer to a new $4000 well. The more bottles purchased, the more wells they can build. charity: water How to make beats. [thanks Kirk] [YouTube] Genetically modified plants could extract harmful metals from the earth in a process known as phytomining. [via We Make Money Not Art] The digital music forecast predicts major labels moving to a non-DRM mp3 format as standard in one to two years to reduce consumer frustration that has come bundled with everything restricted. Designing for the New York of 2106, partially flooded from rising sea levels. [via kottke] The iRec is a $180 dock for the iPod that records at 640x480 at 2.5Mbps and includes a timer.  An impossibly large floating crane lifts submarines out of the water and puts bridges into place. "Boom length: 132m. Lifting capacity: 3700 tons! It's Yoshida - [Japan's] biggest floating crane, built by Mitsubishi heavy Industries Division." Leggings for men? No. Absolutely not. Never. I'll be getting a computer with Vista Ultimate on it soon, but I'm concerned that the DRM concessions Microsoft has made for the OS have crippled it too much. Helvetica, the documentary, appears to be real. There was a screening of about 10 minutes of clips at Pentagram in New York. A model walking on a runway slipped and fell twice in roughly ten seconds. Newscasters from NBC4 in D.C. could not contain themselves, and rightfully so. As a Digg commenter noted, it looked as if she was walking on a marshmallow. Video in Windows Media. Bill O'Reilly floundering on The Colbert Report. [YouTube] The concern about organic foods being flown to other countries (healthier for the soil, worse for the air) is beginning to become mainstream. "Apparently the Soil Association, the UK’s leading organic certification body, has just launched a year long consultation into whether air freighted food should be banned from carrying the organic label." "Lord Mackay of Clashfern has protested against UK legislation that would make it illegal to refuse to give gay people equal treatment... He states, "What they are saying is if you are offering services you must be prepared to allow people to practise actions that you believe are wrong." Yes! Yes that's exactly what it means, you bloody idiot. It means precisely that you have to allow people to practice actions that you believe are wrong. Not in general. Not every action, but actions that cause you no damage! Get a job!" - Tom Coates at Plasticbag Lots and lots of products at the grocery store with fruit in the name or on the packaging have no fruit in them. I almost got some Minute Maid lemonade last week until I saw "0% Juice" in tiny type. Stephen Colbert destroying Bill O'Reilly on The Labels: Sunday Reader  The new Royal Sapien podcast is now on the feed. You can subscribe via iTunes, subscribe at ODEO, get the XML, or listen on Wider Angle. powered by ODEO Labels: Royal Sapien  This year's State of the Union Drinking Game comes to us from the lovely and talented boozehound Rachel Maddow. Here's when to drink. It should dull the rage. Good luck, see you on the other side.  Boeing recently showcased a full-scale model of their new 747-8 passenger jet featuring rounded, well, everything to make the cabin seem more inviting. Unfortunately the coach passengers still get about 3" of leg room. We give and give, but the oceans just don't seem to appreciate our tremendous generosity. "Some 200 tonnes of oil have leaked from a fuel tank on the stricken cargo ship MSC Napoli, beached off the Devon coast, coastguards have confirmed. The ship has also lost some 200 containers overboard, including two holding 'dangerous but low-risk' goods." When a photo or act is potentially tantalizing and arousing but not explicitly sexual, who determines what, exactly, porn is? "Sam's example, a 12-year-old Japanese actress named Saaya Irie, publishes pictures of herself in bathing suits and cute little outfits. Are we reading suggestiveness into them? Or are they making suggestions that we can't help but notice?"  Darren Firth has some astoundingly beautiful work up at his site Keeps Me Sane. This is his submission to the second edition of Grafuck, posted [via Design Is Kinky] Google wants to control the Internet when bandwidth use becomes so heavy the regular Internet is crushed. By building local data centers and connecting them with their incredible amounts of leased dark fiber, the most of any company, Google could take over our data. "By renting instead of buying, Google was able to acquire its fiber assets primarily in secret. The game was over before most of us even knew there WAS a game." Glenn Reynolds from Instapundit suggests that since Windows Vista's DRM could make commercial HD video look sorta crappy, that could be a great benefit to homemade productions. [via BB]  I had not seen this excellent photo/shop of the Pirate Keyboard. As mentioned previously on Wider Angle, Google had a little talk with publishers at the New York Public Library last week called Unbound. "The event was largely a response to Google's controversial Library Project and corresponding Book Search tool, which have met strong opposition from the publishing industry. At 'Unbound,' the tech-savvy authors, publishers and analysts more or less agreed that to grow and profit in an increasingly digital world, the publishing industry will have to expand its boundaries." iJigg is a cool place to listen to new music, but where to buy and download? You mean I have to Google it myself?  OMG! A DIY Wii laptop. It's so beautiful. Advertising/Design Goodness posted a very funny cartoon illustrating 8 types of creative critics/clients that we all deal with. I've had clients that were many of these types combined. What makes a product or design have an IT factor is closely related to tapping the dominant emerging cultural aesthetic right before its peak. "The Polaroid SX-70 camera, for instance, hasn't stood the test of time, and in most people's minds Frederick's of Hollywood Lingerie has been superceded by Victoria's Secret. But it says a lot that the single object in the book that looks truly dated is the one that was discontinued and then revived: the VW Beetle." Really?!? with Seth & Amy from SNL this week. [YouTube] The Jeep DLD (Digital Liquid Display) waterfall they licensed for trade shows. [YouTube] Labels: Sunday Reader  Advertising is more pervasive than ever before. We know this. But we haven't seen anything yet. Garage Orchestra Hands Out Demo At Boston Philharmonic Show. The excellent record label V2, home of Moby and the White Stripes among others, will be closing. By June, every Netflix customer will be able to view videos online in their browser. Hours of viewing per month will correspond to DVD rental plan: $18/mo = 18 hours of video. Not only to CEOs frequently get massive amounts of cash for driving companies into the ground and retiring, but they usually get some extra stuff too. "[P]rovided to retiring Anheuser Busch Chairman August Busch III: 'draught beer services and packaged products to your residence.'" Book means cool, yes, but T9 is beginning to catch on in more significant ways. "[C]hildren are learning correct spelling because machines have made it quicker to use the elongated input - something hitherto unprecedented anywhere by anything." [via Kottke] DJ Cannon and DJ Drama, two of Atlanta's most famous and influential hip-hop mixtape DJs, were arrested after an RIAA task force flagged them for bootlegging. "These DJs, members of a crew called The Aphilliates, are nationally known, and the records they use in their mixtapes are provided to them by record companies."  Pink tank over Amsterdam from Love, Peace, and Terror. [via BB] "FEMA has lost and/or failed to account for a sum of money that is almost half of Department of Homeland Security's entire budget and 130 times great than the amount of money that the Department of Homeland Security is willing to spend to secure the homeland." The government has become a corporation designed to exploit its employees and extort its citizen consumers. Beautiful robot routine from some breakers in Japan in a spot for Uniqlo. [YouTube] A lion hugs and kisses the person who saved it, freaking everyone else out fearing a mauling. Super cute video included. Homeland security won't let people ship products from the stores that support Dave Eggers's writing programs [like the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.] because they're too sinister looking, though they mostly contain normal air. Cingular officially changes back to AT&T branding this week, undoing their years-long campaigns reminding us that AT&T Wireless is Cingular. If I hold down the 5 button, it calls the Death Star. Outstanding musical college prank. [via OOMSA] Engadget, now the number one blog on Technorati, was slammed with 10 million pageviews on iPhone Tuesday. The porn industry has decided to go with HD-DVD and not Blu-Ray for high def DVDs. Important to keep in mind that porn standardized VHS and not Beta. Breathtaking Guinness ad showing evolution in reverse. [YouTube] McSweeny's List: Comments on My Short Story I've Received From My Creative-Writing Classmates. "The fact that this story exists is the ultimate argument against Creationism." [thanks Allyson] Stonehenge is not alone. "[N]ew discoveries suggest that many similar monuments may have been erected in the shadow of Stonehenge, possibly forming part of a much larger complex, experts say." The disposal of surplus sodium in a lake from 1947. [Google Video] It appears that Timbaland stole music from the Finnish demoscene. The iPhone will not run OS X, despite what Apple insists. The BSD based operating system on which OS X is built, Darwin, does not run on the Samsung ARM processors that are going in the iPhone. Google will be making a deal with the NYSE and the SEC to offer real-time stock quotes for free on Google Finance and the personal homepages. Pirate Bay is planning on buying the independent nation of Sealand. Donate to the cause and secure a citizenship for yourself.  Nicholas Feltron's personal annual report from 2006 is beautifully designed and surprisingly interesting for being so narrowly focused. [thanks Allyson] Cory Doctorow will be speaking at two events in NYC this week, Google Unbound (January 18, New York Public Library, 8AM-5PM) and Freeculture NYU (January 19, 5PM). In keeping with its excellent theater in New York's West Village, the Independent Film Channel is slowly undergoing a makeover as a groundbreaking, controversial organization that can push boundaries in television content and media distribution. Balls hitting people in the face. [YouTube] Stephen Colbert's "black friend" Allen (Jordan Carlos) writes that there aren't any non-white writers at either The Daily Show or The Colbert Report. [thanks Maria] Fascinating and unsettling satellite photos of active and abandoned military planes, submarines, and ships in a very small area of Russia. Wow. Ten excellent foods to help fight high cholesterol. "Rich in both pectin and fiber, along with powerful antioxidants, including quercetin, catechin, phloridzin and chlorogenic acid, apples help lower bad cholesterol while raising the good kind." New Scientist posted a list of five impressive materials that act in unique ways and included video. "Dilatants - fluids that get more solid when stressed. The classic example is a mixture of cornflour and water - it's runny until you hit it when it becomes solid." [via kottke] Labels: Sunday Reader  Sales job kicks off for Bush Iraq plan. "WASHINGTON — The White House is embarking on a weekend campaign to sell President Bush's new Iraq strategy to the nation amid fierce criticism from Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill."
Since I love the Snap link previews but some users don't care for them, I've had a hard time deciding whether they should stay or go. Today Snap made my decision easy for all the right reasons.
There's now an options box in the top corner of each preview that lets YOU turn off the Snap previews on Wider Angle or every site on the Internets with just a click. So if you find the previews annoying, click "options" and customize your WA experience. If you think they're both interesting and time-saving, you can decide how long the box should wait before appearing over the link (the current default is one half-second).  Since the Wii can access the Internets, some parents are worried that it won't be a good parent substitute. "[M]om is keeping an eye on an industry that she says tricks and targets kids into learning too much, too fast. 'We need to keep them protected from people who want to invade a fun game like the Wii,' Schroeder said." More popular NYC clubs were shut down this weekend - Crobar, Pink Elephant, and Sol - for drug and alcohol violations. Smashing Telly is a great streaming tv blog with all kinds of great shows. [via kottke.org] Spicy foods can kill cancer cells. More jalapeños, please. "[Molecules] bind to proteins in the cancer cell mitochondria to trigger apoptosis, or cell death, without harming surrounding healthy cells." When you hear a company say they take something very seriously, like a data leak or oil spill, that's a not-so-subtle code for We Don't Care. US Airways has offered to buy Delta for $10.2 billion, upping their previous offer from $8.5 billion. Whole Foods isn't doing very well in the stock market, but their food markets are profitable and growing steadily. "Grocery stores tend to be messy, waste-producing, low-wage establishments. Whole Foods, which pays above-market wages and benefits, is generally welcomed with open arms and makes an excellent anchor for upscale shopping, housing, and mixed-use developments."  Aside from the obvious, notice the level of trading right after noon. The keynote began at about 12:10pm.  Just finished watching the liveblog over at MacRumors of Steve Jobs's keynote from Macworld. As expected, he announced the iPhone. It's not what anyone expected. It's much better. The basics are as follows: The Apple iPhone will be released in June of 2007 after getting FCC clearance. It will be available in the United States exclusively on Cingular with a price of $499 for the 4GB model and $599 for the 8GB. Europe follows in cal4 2007 and Asia in 2008. It accesses wifi and Cingular's EDGE network for its built in Safari browser and POP and IMAP email. The phone runs OS X and features iPhoto, widgets, and Google Maps integrated with built-in GPS. Yahoo! will provide free push email to iPhone users, like Blackberry does. The interface has no buttons and features a 3.5" widescreen multi-touch surface so users can drag and use more than one thing at a time. Battery life is estimated at 5 hours for talk/video and 16 hours for music. Oh, and it's 11mm thick. That's just scratching the surface. Full glossy info is now posted on the Apple site and the keynote with photos is at Engadget. Also announced today for February shipping, Apple TV, which streams media from iTunes and the Internets to your television.  The Simpsons and Futurama reimagined as Anime by spacecoyote at DeviantArt. The number 6174 is relatively interesting. Mathematically. Popgadget has some previews of products to be featured at CES this week. Engadget has dependably complete coverage of the massive expo in Vegas. Macworld is in San Francisco this week. Will there be an iPod Phone? Will it be called iChat Mobile? Will it look like a wider nano with a slideout keypad or have a full-screen touch interface? CDMA or 3G or both? I want it for Cingular, so I hope CDMA is an option. Will it have built-in wifi and bluetooth and come in 4GB and 8GB models? Will carriers subsidize the price or will it be affordable on its own? Will it have email capabilities and separate batteries for the computing/music and phone functions? Steve Jobs's keynote is on Tuesday. Disney lawyers forced a blog's ISP to shut down the blog after it posted audio clips of hosts on a Disney-owned station broadcasting hate. So the blogger sent letters to the station's advertisers so they know what's going on.  Cute overload. OMG! How can you conserve energy and keep your computer cool and quiet? Use a swimming pool for water-cooling your PC. The 50 greatest cartoons of all time with video links included. [thanks Mike] Nauru is an independent nation island in the Pacific Ocean that sustained vibrant life and forests atop phosphate reserves for millions of years. Over the past few decades, human residents have destroyed the entire island, leaving only talc-like windy grainy fog behind a thin and creepy layer of vegetation. They have an airport and require everything, including fresh water, to be imported. In order to pay for the stuff, since their resources are all but gone, they receive large sums for facilitating terrorists and organized crime. Lifehacker has some decent iTunes tips that you may not already use. I rely on smart playlists to fill my iPod with new stuff automatically. [via Plasticbag.org]  I would absolutely love a robotic pet. Introducing Pleo. Have you been to Amazon's new site Endless.com for shoes and bags? It has the same free shipping that Zappos does but doesn't carries Etnies, so that's a deal breaker for me. Your experiences? What makes great design better than really good is attention to every detail. Check out these reports on different types of the same thing at rbird. Coming in May to the garden of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in NYC: Design for the Other 90%. "This exhibition highlights the growing trend among designers to create affordable and socially responsible objects for the vast majority of the world's population (90 percent) not traditionally serviced by professional designers." [via Eyeteeth]  Ami Sioux has a new book out that is thoughtlessly unavailable in the U.S. called REYKJAVIK 64°08N 21°54W, the first in a five-part series. She asked people to hand-draw maps to their favorite places in the city and she followed them to photograph these special places. I am gasping with joy. Taschen is making their store in SoHo NYC permanent! The interior is designed by Philippe Starck, but it's still great. Their biannual warehouse sale is January 19-21. See you there. Element Labs has developed some beautiful LED designs. [via Core77] Feliz 2007 from Doubleyou. [YouTube via information aesthetics] Top 25 food hacks at Slashfood, including how to make bad vodka into great vodka using a Brita filter. (Vodka should not have a taste. Spending money on expensive vodka is a waste of your precious money.) [via Fark] Dark matter has been mapped in 3D across half a million galaxies. Manhattan buildings are really, really dirty. Most buildings around lower Manhattan and the village look this way. I can't imagine how the city would look if everything were cleaner. More like How to dance like white people. [YouTube via Allyson] Labels: Sunday Reader  Rarely do I discuss the workings of Wider Angle since the site management and features should be fairly transparent, but there have been a lot of changes made for you!!! that I want to highlight briefly. First, Wider Angle migrated to new servers this weekend. After hosting with iPowerweb for a few years and getting increasingly frustrated that their FTP would refuse Blogger posting requests for days at a time, I moved all the files and hosting to my Dreamhost account which is not only more stable (and getting more stable all the time) but has literally 100x more bandwidth and storage than iPowerweb. So the site may load more quickly, maybe not, but posts will actually be posted on time now, which is a great improvement. (Dreamhost also hosts Royal Sapien, Olaris Records, The Pi Factory, etc.) Second, you can now get here from widerangle.org. It was about time. Third, and this has been happening gradually, almost every link on Wider Angle has an AJAX mouseover associated with it to either preview a link in the posts or easily display a price for all the Amazon links on here without having to click anything. I've received some pretty good feedback, but what do you think? Helpful? Annoying? Thanks for reading, thanks for sending in links, and thanks for the encouragement I receive from all of you. I only spend money on the site (you noticed that the Google ads stayed up for about a week before I pulled them) so to call it anything other than a labor of love would discount the dedication this blogging thing evidently requires. Thanks for making it fun, and have a very happy new year.  Neatorama has a list of 13 photos that changed the world. With a simple signing statement, George W. Bush can now legally read your mail and e-mail without a warrant. Absolutely unconstitutional. [thanks Steven] Borderline unconditioned backbencher obsolesces athwart homemaking credenzas. Random word generator. Google needs to hire about 200 people every week and can't find enough qualified applicants with their methods, so they're using an algorithm to rate extensive surveys given to potential employees in order to find matches that humans might not. Thomas Jefferson edited a version of the Bible for himself, ridding the novel of the superfluous magic and superstition to isolate the lessons to be learned from the teachings of Jesus whom, it has been noted, was way cool. Mapping people's faces to combine ages in photographs... or something. Looks cool. Beware, if you or hundreds of thousands of people link to a file on another server from myspace, you just might get goatse'd. [via waxy] Play around with Ample Design's Visual Acoustics Flash musical game. [thanks Patti Ann] If you're planning on mailing a package with the USPS, if it looks innocuous enough, it will probably get to its recipient just fine. But don't send unwrapped bottled water, it will just be consumed. "The Postal Service appears to be amazingly tolerant of the foibles of its public and seems occasionally willing to relax specific postal regulations." Illustrator CS3 should see great improvements including easy Flash integration. Watch a Picasso painting be created. This is one of the most interesting things I've ever seen. [Google Video, via kottke.org]  According to Last.fm, which tracks my listening habits (as you've seen over in the right column), here are my top 50 artists of this year. 1. The Flashbulb (Definitely my favorite artist of the year) 2. Underworld 3. Royal Sapien (I listen to my own stuff. Wanna fight?) 4. The Faint 5. Hybrid (The new album was a little disappointing but their DJ sets keep me alive) 6. Sufjan Stevens 7. Air America Podcasts (Rachel Maddow Show every day) 8. Imogen Heap (Now with 2 Grammy noms, she's still great) 9. Solvent 10. Nada Surf 11. John Mayer (I loved exactly half the new album) 12. Jill Sobule 13. Fiona Apple (Still listening to the Jon Brion version of Extraordinary Machine) 14. Rilo Kiley 15. BT (This Binary Universe is stunning) 16. Air 17. Phoenix 18. Beck 19. Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins 20. The Books 21. Radiohead (sad white boy music or not, it's some of the best of the 20th century) 22. Jon Brion 23. Matthew Herbert 24. Above & Beyond (the album Tri-State is shockingly great) 25. Jim Boggia 26. The Album Leaf 27. Harry Gregson-Williams (primarily for Chronicles of Narnia score) 28. 16B (How To Live 100 Years is a great album) 29. Kanye West 30. Ulrich Schnauss 31. [untagged] 32. Four Tet 33. Marc Maron (he makes me feel better) 34. Squarepusher 35. Janet Jackson (nothing post Velvet Rope) 36. Ivy 37. Metric 38. The Postal Service (yes, still) 39. Garbage 40. MRI 41. David Cross 42. Chicane (surprised he's this far up on my list) 43. The Boats 44. Lamb 45. Daft Punk 46. High Contrast (timeless crisp DnB) 47. Porn Sword Tobacco 48. The Go! Team (still puts me in a great mood) 49. Telefon Tel Aviv (waiting patiently for a new album!) 50. Azure Ray  Happy New Year to all! [Amazon's UK warehouse 3 days before Xmas] Please download my Happy 2007 mix over at Royal Sapien and my remixes of Imogen Heap's "Have You Got It In You" and "The Walk" right here. You can also find a tasty new streaming player at my record label's site, Olaris Records. The 50 best hacks for your life of 2006 at Lifehack. Citypages in Minn/St. Paul has a great roundup of the best DJ compilations of the year. In order for me to buy a DJ mix rather than simply download one, it has to be very carefully put together and incredibly produced. Do you know Peekvid?  What intern is responsible for this reprehensible piece of "advertising" for MSNBC? In one sentence, what would you tell the future? "1. You can't win. 2. You can't even break even, either. 3. You can't get out of the game." Some good thoughts in this top 10 mistakes in web design. "[I]t is best to avoid any designs that look like advertisements." At SAME (So All May Eat) in Salt Lake City, you pay what you can afford for a delicious, healthy, organically grown meal. If you can't pay, you can weed the garden or wash dishes. A parrot has been shown to known over 950 English words, understands tense and conjucation, and can use prefixes and suffixes. "This was despite the researchers discounting responses like 'What ya doing on the phone?' when N'kisi saw a card of a man with a telephone, and 'Can I give you a hug?' with one of a couple embracing."  18th century bordello party in Paris. [via Waxy] Nowhere on the web are comments dumber than YouTube. Love xkcd. Prince Harry will be going to Iraq to serve in the Army. Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais at the BBC Radio 1 Christmas Party. Must have RealPlayer or Real Alternative. Ancient pyramids that dwarf their slightly more famous counterparts in Egypt have been discovered in Bosnia. "At 267 metres tall, the Pyramid of the Sun blows the Egyptian opposition into the weeds. If that wasn't enough, it is simply one of a number of pyramids located in the same region - there are also the Pyramids of the Sun, the Dragon and, most recently discovered, Love." The Daily Show on Time Magazine's Person of the Year. [YouTube] It turns out that it's really hard for black families to get nannies in cities all over the country. If you use short, wide glasses to drink from, you'll drink a whole lot more than if you use tall, slender glasses, and feel more thirsty. You Don't Know Jack is back online! They're now producing a daily game show free on their site, and it's just as good as ever. A year after producing her own curriculum to teach math at an elementary school, a 23-year-old teacher increased her students' test average from the 16th percentile to the 77th percentile. The PS3 is dead, and Sony may go with it. "As soon as people realized that you couldn’t make a profit with PS3s on eBay, they started returning them to the retail stores. It wasn’t rare to walk into a Circuit City or Best Buy the week before Christmas and find 3 or 4 returned Playstation 3s."  Install Orb 2.0 on your computer and stream all your media (videos, music, photos, documents) to your Wii in the Opera browser... free! "If you had a circle the size of the observable universe, and you wanted to compute its circumference with an accuracy equal to the size of a proton, the number of digits of pi that you'd need is only 50." Photoshop CS3 will not be 64-bit. The climate catastrophe of global warming has caused a fashion catasrophe of no winter season, which has caused a retail catastrophe for clothing stores with stacks of coats still lingering. "The NPD Group, a retail research firm, predicts that sales of outerwear will plunge at least 20 percent this holiday season, compared with last year..."  WiiKitty has dozens of cute kitties with Wiis. If you have a webcam, a corner, and a lazer pointer, you can use DAVID software to make a 3-d scanner. Gothamist has a beautiful photo spread of the Revere Sugar Refinery in Red Book, Brooklyn. Giant squid photographed alive! Studio360 asked Pentagram to redesign Christmas, and so they did. HOWTO: Fight. "Nothing will rattle your opponent faster than you screaming a steady stream of shit at him while you’re engaged in combat. The crazier you sound the better." Best of indie pop for 2006 from PopMatters. Tickle Me Elmo TMX on Fire. [Google Video] Labels: Sunday Reader |
   
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