Yearly Archives: 2010
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The launch of STS-124 — an S.S. Discovery delivery mission to the ISS — as seen from the POV of a solid rocket booster. The real fun starts at 1:54 when the boosters break away and begin their Earthbound descent.
Source: pbs
Legendary sci-fi/fantasy writer Ray Bradbury watching Rachel Bloom’s now-infamous musical number, “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury.”
This is quite possibly the greatest thing that has happened since things started happening.
“The Little Black Book” from Pad&Quill.
iPhone4 and iPhone 3GS cases available now. iPod Touch (2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation) cases coming in September.
Stop What You’re Doing And Read The Hell Out Of This of the Day: So here’s the story so far: The controversial pro-legalization “Yes On Prop 19” ads, which were infamously rejected by Facebook, were earlier today resoundingly rejected by Condé Nast, and Reddit — Condé Nast’s most visible online property — was banned from posting them.
The Reddit mods responded by releasing a statement on the site saying they vehemently disagreed with Condé Nast on this issue, and that they were in the process of “trying to convince Corporate that they’re making the wrong decision.” Condé Nast refused to relent and issued a statement of their own, saying, “As a corporation, Condé Nast does not want to benefit financially from this particular issue.”
No problem, said the mods. “Since we’re not allowed to benefit financially, reddit is now running the ads for free.” Nice. The Redditors, for their part, got in on the fun by ensuring a post titled “YES to Prop 19; NO to corporate censorship” garnered the top spot on the front page, and by spamming many subreddits with the notorious ad until they were all full up (see above).
With seemingly irreconcilable differences between Reddit and its parent company, the question becomes: Where do we go from here?
In an e-mail to The Daily What, Ben Huh, CEO and Founder of the Cheezburger Network, offers a whopper of a solution:
Condé Nast, I’m publicly offering to buy Reddit.
Hi TDWers, I’m Ben Huh, and I run the Cheezburger Network (which includes The Daily What, if you were too Prop 19’d to notice). I have made this offer privately to a few people associated with Reddit, and I’ll say it publicly now:
I believe that Reddit is one of the best communities I have seen on the Internet. I also believe that Reddit would benefit from more resources and less corporate interference. We can offer all of the above. And we’d love to buy Reddit and all those pesky troublesome users that we love so much.
Condé, we’ll be waiting for a call.
Cheers,
Ben Huh.
I, for one, can’t wait to see what happens next.
San Antonio’s KENS 5 Eyewitness News intrepidly investigates a local pack of “teen werewolves.”
This is some Woodward and Bernstein-caliber shit right here.
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Unsportsmanlike Conduct of the Day: A rain delay ahead of last weekend’s baseball game between Western Kentucky and Florida Atlantic afforded the two teams an opportunity to put on an entirely different show, complete with skits, dance-offs, an a faux-wrestling match.
Some baseball was eventually played, but it’s rather doubtful anyone cared.
Armed with a bushel of iPhones, a sweet soundtrack, and the human app known as imagination, Israeli indie rock band IZABO set out to film a music video for their latest single, “On My Way.” It just so happens that somewhere along that way, they inadvertently produced the most creative Apple viral video of the year.
Brazilian post-production-enthusiast Leandro Braga spent 13 days watching nearly every film directed by Messrs. Quentin Tarantino and Joel and Ethan Coen. He then selected 500 stand-out scenes and mashed them up into a fine powder.
The result? Something rather wonderful and tripy, rather like a visit to a Brasilian casino while on mushrooms.
The Clicker Company’s signature universal remote, the “Clicker,” can control up to 8 digital components, has 12 programmable one-touch system control functions, is compatible with most major brands, yada, yada, zOMG BUILT-IN BOTTLE OPENER.
Remember this day, ladies and gentlemen, as the day human ingenuity officially reached its pinnacle.