Pretty, pretty, fly, fly photographs.
Terence Chang photographed planes taking off from an airport in San Francisco. By using long exposure times, he made the planes’ lights look like tendrils reaching across the sky…
Continue reading… “Long Exposure Photographs of Airplane Takeoffs”
Movies and TV shows online takes up a lot of bandwidth compared with Web surfing.
Netflix movies now take up more of the Internet pipes going into North American homes than web surfing.
Continue reading… “Netflix Accounts for 30% of Internet Traffic Overtaking Web Surfing”
QR Codes can become art if you are inventive like Scott Blake.
In the past, Scott Blake made composite portraits of people using barcodes. Now he’s getting with the times and using QR codes instead. Pictured above is a portrait of radio show host Amy Goodman…
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3 times the fun as regular chess?
Three-person chess, a game mentioned on by Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory, is now a reality. It requires a specialized board, but other than that, you can just follow the rules at the link. Here’s an overview from the creators…
Continue reading… “Three-Sided Chess”
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Everyone has seen the classic American movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), but what has the cast been up to all these years later?
Continue reading… “Where Are They Now: The Cast of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”
Online retail spending reached $38 billion this quarter, up 12 percent from a $33.8 billion a year ago according to Comscore. This growth is due to an increase in the number of buyers (7%), transactions per buy (9%) and tempered by a decline in spending per transaction (4%).
According to a ComScore report released today, nearly half of those orders included free shipping, at 47% versus 53% for Q’1 ’11, 49% versus 51% in Q’4 10 (the holiday season) and 41% versus 59% in Q3 ’10.
Continue reading… “Almost Half Of All Online Orders Now Include Free Shipping”
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Trying to imagine our online behaviors in an offline world has been the subject of many a viral video.
The latest installment in this vein is “The Offline Social Network.” This clip comes from Australian comedy show Hungry Beast and personifies the ubiquitous Facebook as the sort of earnest evangelicals who ask passers-by about the eventual destination of their eternal souls.
And the result? Let’s just say “What is your sexual orientation?” is as awkward a point-blank question as “Do you know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior?”
This video reminded us of a few other funny Facebook-as-real-life videos, so we’ve put together a brief gallery of viral clips for your enjoyment…
Continue reading… “How Your Facebook Info Would Sound in the Real World”
We know that a piece of toast, if dropped, will fall butter-side down. We also know that a cat, if dropped, will land on its feet. What happens when you strap a piece of buttered toast to a cat’s back and drop them both is called the Buttered Cat Paradox, and there’s an extensive amount of research on the internet devoted to just this conundrum…
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After pop-up restaurants and stores, we now have The Nomad,the UK’s first “roaming pop-up cinema.”
It uses inflatable screens of up to 60 square metres, shows up at unusual places across England and encourages you to watch their films in costume.
Continue reading… “Moving Pictures: Pop-Up Cinemas are a New Trend for Summer”
Here’s one way to bring location-based checkins to the masses — use them to shave off a few dollars at the gas pump…
Continue reading… “Foursquare Checkins Get Customers Gas Discounts”
While Sony is busy pointing the finger at the hacker group Anonymous for the on-going PSN and SOE hacks, Anonymous has problems of its own. This weekend AnonOps, an IRC network where some of the members congregate and plan operations, found itself under a denial-of-service attack. That attack finally ended with a number of its IRC servers being taken over.
The culprit: one of their own, a former IRC Operator (IRCop) named “Ryan.” Depending on who you believe, Ryan was power-hungry and wanted control over AnonOps for himself, or he was tired of the autocracy of the few Anonymous members who made up the group’s loose leadership structure…
Continue reading… “Anonymous Infighting”
It’s amazing how the storage of music and movies and increased exponentially over the years. This diagram illustrates how far we have come from vinyl records which could hold 44 minutes of music to today’s iPods which can hold over 83 days of music.
Continue reading… “Physical Storage Vs Digital Storage”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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