Archive for December, 2010

This is Why The Internet Rocks

December 31st, 2010

MuppetsWithPeopleEyes. Possibly the most creepy blog ever!

French Laundry : The Magazine

Arguably the most famous (and best) restaurant in the world, French Laundry, now has a “magazine” and its called Finesse.

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Blizzageddon? Bah!

December 30th, 2010

So New York City has been burried under snow with the Blizzageddon. But just look at these amazing pictures of snow as tall as four-stored buildings from Japan:

If youre wondering just how on Earth do they clear those roads? They use these massive machines.

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End of an Era: Kodachrome

December 30th, 2010

A follow up to the Kodachrome story I posted earlier. Here’s a selection of some of the final shots ever taken on the iconic film. The Artist says:
Today is the day that Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas, the last lab on the planet to process Kodachrome, stops developing the iconic film forever. […]

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December 30th, 2010

110 Things New Yorkers Talked about in 2010

110 Things New Yorkers Talked about in 2010. What? No talk about its most awesome resident (er, that would be ME) getting married? Pfft!

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End of the Road for Kodachrome

NYT on Dwayne’s Photo in Kansas thats shutting down its Kodachrome processing today.

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    Think you need 8 hours of sleep every night to be healthy? Think again.

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    Epic Funny: The most awesome responses to celebrities’ tweets.

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    Amazing see-thru church in Belgium.

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    See this and weep at your insignificance as it relates to the size of the universe.

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    How much would the Death Star cost to build? How much steel would we need?

    Scaling up to the Death Star, this is about 1.08×1015 tonnes of steel. 1 with fifteen zeros.

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    Yep. Pretty much.

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    Looks like the latest issue of SI swinsuit edition with previous “Crush of the Week” Kate Upton was airbrushed to make her look less sexy. Yea, huh?

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    Wait what? Iran has an army of highly-trained female ninjas? This is literally blowing my mind. As a kid, and even today, I call veiled and women that wear the hijab ninjas! These women are literally ninjas. Like literally! Mind blown.

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    Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon.

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    Wouldnt it be nice if the US had real democracy? Like the one in say… Pakistan? Oh thats right… Pakistan is lawless. I forgot.

    One constantly hears in American political discourse that Pakistan is so terribly un-democratic because the shadowy, omnipotent ISI functions with no accountability or transparency. Yet here they are being ordered by that nation’s highest court to account for serious detainee abuse (this, despite the fact that Pakistan’s problems with Terrorism are, at the very least, as pressing as those faced by the U.S.).

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    Video of production of the second season of Game of Thrones, taking place in Iceland. Without spoilers, in the second book Jon Snow spends considerable time “north of the wall” and this is what is depicted here. Looks like its actually the Jökulsárlón area.

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    New Scientist on the power of math equations.

    Without equations, most of our technology would never have been invented. Of course, important inventions such as fire and the wheel came about without any mathematical knowledge. Yet without equations we would be stuck in a medieval world.

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    Finally - the new Air-like design comes to the MacBook Pro line by March.

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    V for Vandetta creator talks about the origins of the mask and its role in the Anonymous movement.

    Today’s response to similar oppressions seems to be one that is intelligent, constantly evolving and considerably more humane, and yet our character’s borrowed Catholic revolutionary visage and his incongruously Puritan apparel are perhaps a reminder that unjust institutions may always be haunted by volatile 17th century spectres, even if today’s uprisings are fuelled more by social networks than by gunpowder.

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    [NSFW] From the “Why?” Files: A “butt-cleavage” dress.

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    Self-driving BMWs yo!

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    The long never-ending recession in Japan is causing a long-term effect: Japanese are no longer importing American or European items - but making them locally and perfecting them.

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