(via Morgan Spurlock: ‘I wasn’t the best looking kid – I was just tenacious’ | Film | The Observer)
Spurlock’s a comer. He gets in your face. What’s amazing is how much I don’t mind it coming from him.
Definitely one of the good guys. Keep doc’ing.
(via Reality Check: Jumbaco from Jack in the Box | A Hamburger Today)
It’s a cheeseburger SANDWICHED between two tacos.
If you order it takeaway, they’ll fill the bag with nacho cheese sauce.
(via #mom)
Get the bot to call yuh mutha cause she’s not on twitter and doesn’t know foursquare. Clever and necessary.
(via The Love Box - Conversations in Paris about love and love after love)
I love this idea. Hybrid documentary and iPhone accessory. Too bad they don’t ship the love to New Zealand.
Dear Mr Scorcese.This is what they did to your movie last night. (by sbiens)
If you haven’t seen Hugo 3D (which you absolutely should), you won’t get how horribly awesome this mashup is.
I don’t want to further celebrate the overly elaborate, brittle plastic structures of nonsense that are constantly fired into our minds to distract us from what’s really important. So if I’d done something actually newsworthy… then I’d cover it. But if it was just more laquered nonsense, designed to distract us from truth, then I would wisely ignore it.
Russell Brand on Katy Perry Split: Best Breakup… | Gather
So much better than “No comment.”
(via Obama Farting Doll » Coolest Gadgets)
If you’re full of shit, this is how others will capitalize on you.
Great talk and Q&A about the dangers of computers as appliances (I’m looking at you, iPad) by Cory Doctorow at the Chaos Communications Conference.
Bottom right proves that life is not all chocolate and lollipops even for an oompa loompa.
(via STRIP Act targets TSA uniform: End ‘impersonation’ of ‘real cops’ - latimes.com)
Not quite the end of ‘Security Theater,’ but maybe an intermission. Maybe.
(via Scientists have figured out how to make entire events disappear | VentureBeat)
If the Pentagon has published this, you’re about to see (actually, not see) some serious shit.
As I’m sure you know, there is a fungus –
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis – that infects the brains
of carpenter ants and it turns them into zombie
slaves, more or less. What happens is that the ants
climb to the underside of leaves near the forest
floor, secure themselves to the leaves and then die,
becoming a food source for the fungus.
Eventually the positioning of the ant corpse serves to
allow the spores to burst out of the ant’s head and
rain down on other ants. This is true. And it’s very
successful. There is fossil record of this occurring up
to 48 million years ago. The thing that’s fascinating
about this to me is that the ant is acting mindlessly
against its own interests and the interests of its fellow
ants by becoming a tool of the fungus. I think a
similar system has evolved in our culture.
guru.bafta.org/sites/learning/files/guru_sws_ck_transcript_final.pdf
Wow. I didn’t think I could love Charlie Kaufman more than I already did. I was wrong. Amazing speech at BAFTA.
The NYTimes has an article today titled, A Year of Disappointment at the Movie Box Office, in which Hollywood executives scratch their heads as to why the domestic gross is $500 million less than 2010. Is it video games? The economy? Bad luck?
I submit the graph above as Exhibit A. I’ll rest my case with the following statement: When your shit stinks, you can’t expect people to go near it.
(via NASA - Comet Lovejoy)
Comet Lovejoy is visible near Earth’s horizon in this nighttime image photographed by NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, onboard the International Space Station on Dec. 21, 2011.
(via Dezeen » Blog Archive » In Case of Riot by Max Arlestig and Maximilian Gebhardt)
Form and function.