Bobby Brown Says: Don’t Be Cruel.
The word ‘anagram’ is itself an anagram.
In the ancient Roman world, the art of anagramming was so highly revered by people of power that it was given the name “ars magna,” meaning great art. By rearranging this, you get ‘anagrams’.
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Instant reblog on anything that has to do with anagrams… obviously. (though it’s apparently debunked) :)
The funniest thing about my name, other than it being an anagram, is that there are only a few close family members who pronounce it correctly. I gave up in first or second grade when I had to keep on repeating the correct pronunciation to no avail. The “z” sounding like an “s” and the “d” sounding like the “th” in “than” rather than the “th” in “thanks” and the accent over the final “i” was just too much for most English-only speaking Americans to handle… and according to some, way too complex for a simple four letter name. I ultimately threw my little second-grade hands up in the air (after a few solid cries) and gave in to “zahdee.” And that is the (partial) story of my name.
The next logical step is real-time communication between the two periods. Now that we have video, combine that with AI and some form of interactive gaming component, and we have time travel… except we don’t travel through time, time travels through to us. …the end of times, guys! At the very least, the end of the concept of time. ;)
Sergey Larenkov takes the Michael Hughes concept one step further!
He seamlessly drops photos from WWII Vienna, Berlin, and Prague into their modern-day counterpart for beautiful collages of what once was.
There are soo many covers of this out there now… but the original is still the best.
(Some background: it’s an Autotune the News version of this news report.)
Twitter: The Movie!
(coming soon! ;)
This is my WebTVWorkshop Tip of the Day. :)
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.
Wow. It’s the future staring back at us! :)
Space humanoid
Robonaut2 is designed as an assistant to astronauts on the International Space Station. It will be sent to ISS in Discovery’s STS-133 mission, set for November this year.
Kinda reminds us of Daft Punk, doesn’t it? :o)
He has a Twitter account: AstroRobonaut
Source: Nasa.
Submitted by Vitor Diel/bumerangue.
Janelle Monae’s latest, inspired either by Marina Abramović or some of the iChat conversations I’ve had the past two weeks.
This chick is the coolest. Love her music and I love the emotional break at the 1:38 mark. Tightrope has kinda been my anthem for the past few months. And the video for that one is awesome. :)
Last week I was on FourCast, a show on the @TWiT network hosted by Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson, with fellow guest Casey McKinnon. I have to say, I had so much fun on this show. It’s basically 50 minutes of predicting future technologies 10, 100, 1,000 years from today. I love, love, love to let my imagination run wild, and I had to kind of hold back from just spilling out the TONS of wild things I think may happen in the future.
If you don’t have time to watch, you can also download the audio track and listen to it at your leisure. Thanks again Tom and Scott for inviting me on!
What do you think will happen 10, 100, 1,000+ years from today?
OMG! Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! I cannot wait until 4Chan gets a hold of this.
What a dummy.
“Barack Obama is the worst president in history”… because Obama has finished his presidency, so we can absolutely look back and make a proper assessment. “Drug cartels in Mexico, tax cartels in D.C.”…because we all know that this administration started *that* whole party… “Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place” …because you were “raised right,” and threatening violence is truly the American way. Mr. Quayle, remind me to never ask you for parenting advice.
Is Your Private Info Way Too Public?
In this 101 crash-course of Epic Fu we show you five simple steps to keeping your online privacy in check. From passwords to location tracking to cookies, we’ll give you the skinny on the simple things you may be overlooking in order to keep your privacy on the web.
Why do we sometimes give up so much of our privacy? Is it a thing of the past? Are you okay with that? What happens when social space moves beyond physical boundaries? Do we end up overcompensating and over sharing? I posted this image a while ago, saying that in the future we’ll have 15 minutes of privacy. What do you think?
If you were to make a 15 minute video about your true self, what would it look like, what would you share, how honest would you be?
This video by kekkomatic, a 23 year-old from Sardinia, reminded me how video helps illustrate our inner lives to the outer world.
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