McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Truly Groundbreaking Marketing Research: Understanding Twitter.
“Twitter seems to be, first and foremost, an online haven where teenagers making drugs can telegraph secret code words to arrange gang fights and orgies.”
LIFE Magazine knows what the Internet likes: Celebrities and Cats
Apparently this is where you buy the elusive Tactical Internet Pants.
Photo of the Day: The global headquarters of the Earth Hour event during Earth Hour.
Take your own advice much?
VR-3000 Portable Quadruplex VTR by Ampex, 1967
Part proton pack, part camera, part back injury. The VR-3000 was the first ever “portable” VHS camcorder. Holy shit and now we have iPhones that can do this and fit in our wee little pockets. It’s ridiculous how far technology has come. Ridiculous, I say.
PRO TIP: Be more like William, Eddie and Bubba.
Dead pixel in Google Earth by Helmut Smits
An 82 x 82 cm burned square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km.
Images are made by finding old photographs of places, printing them out, and then holding the print up in the modern day location that the original photograph was taken. So far, all historical images have been available for free at the Library of Congress.
The Unluckiest Man Alive
Mr. Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on Aug. 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns to his upper body and spent the night in the city. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki just in time for the second attack, city officials said.
Fuck Your FML (FYFML)
The goal of this project is to create a device that will autonomously train crows. So far we’ve trained captive crows to deposit dropped coins they find on the ground in exchange for peanuts. The next step is to see how quickly we can get wild crows to learn the system, and then how quickly they can learn it from each other.
Once we’ve got system down for teaching coin collection we’ll move to seeing how flexibly they can learn *other* tasks, like collecting garbage, sorting through discarded electronics, or maybe even search and rescue. The crows continue to amaze us with their abilities, so who knows?
In the meantime, the idea of mutually beneficial synanthropy is gaining ground. That’s the concept that we can have mutually beneficial relationships with animals adapted to human ecologies. We’re doing some consulting with companies that have animal-related problems to find animal-related solutions - instead of just bombing, shooting, or poisoning them.
Millions of Americans can just forget about the fucking bus ever showing up when it’s fucking supposed to. (via Everything Taking Too Long)
(see also: Everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy)
Space weather!
“Johnny, what can you make out of this?”
“This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl…”
Ikea to Reveal a Concept Car - PSFK.com
Great idea! Especially when the wheels and doors fall off after two or three days of using it.
Fuck, this is going to take me all weekend to put this together. Anyone have a drill with a screwdriver bit?
