No doubt you think you know about Morgan Freeman, but after this video you’ll be forgiven for thinking he was a complete stranger to you, instead of the friend to everyone that he so blatantly is. Not only are these facts 100 zillion percent true, but they’re also narrated in the man’s imitable voice. Best video on the internet. Well, for today at least.
This is one way to work out your anger issues, by going completely crazy and smashing the shit out of your Xbox. But if you do, don’t expect to not be ridiculed online once your mom posts the video of you losing your shit to YouTube so the world can see what a giant fatty spoilt brat you are. But if they make a live-action South Park, this guy defo needs to play Cartman.
WANT-WANT-WANT!!!! C’mon, you now that deep down inside your inner-geek really wants a pair of these amazing ski-shoes-bogues-wtfs…SkiBrogues! Quite possibly the greatest invention to mankind since, well since the last greatest invention. Powerfully sold by a guy who has more on-screen charisma than Marlon Brando. It’s a win-win situation!
In case you weren’t aware and you can’t be bothered to look it up on Wikipedia, The Blue Marble is a photo of earth taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on December 7, 1972 from around 45,000 kilometres way. You’ll recognize the photo if you see it, it’s the one where the earth looks like a blue marble. In this short 17 minute doc astronauts discuss the Overview Effect, which is the effect seeing earth from space has upon their attitude to humans and the planet once they’ve witnessed such a majestic sight.
Ever wondered just what the hell color is? No? Not even when you’re really, really stoned? Of course you have, so let Colm Kelleher explain it in his TEDEd vid. It involves light waves and periodic motion and stuff, so probably best NOT to smoke a doobie before watching this as it’ll probably just end up confusing you.
What kind of complete trouncing can Screen Junkies give the brain-warping, tease of a movie that is Inception? Well, quite a bit actually as you’d probably expect, because it’s ripe for the Honest Trailer treatment with its impossible to follow narrative and ridiculous character motivations. Inception, prepare to be assassinated.
You can keep your iPads and Galaxys, this is the tablet of the future. It’s a tablet (or many tablets) that are as thin and flexible as paper, so you can use lots of them together to link the screens and you bend the tablet to interact with the information displayed on the device. Sure, it might look a bit R&D at the mo’, but give it a few years and you’ll be laughing at that clunky iPad you used to have.
Mashups are a ubiquitous practice because digital technology makes it all so easy, but how about if you did a 16 track live mashup on a 23 year old Tascam 1†tape machine? You’d be pretty impressed with yourself, wouldn’t you? Ithaca Audio did just that to celebrate 50 years of the cassette tape, that beloved format which meant you could tape songs off the radio when the weekly chart countdown was on.
Brilliant. These are the changes every YouTuber has been waiting for — instead of having to laboriously type out your intelligent, well-crafted, perfectly punctuated comments you can choose a comment from a drop down menu — all the faves are there — then just double click and you’re away. Incredible. And that’s just the beginning, they even have an auto-flame feature.
In 1947 Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl took off on an expedition across the Pacific Ocean starting from South America and completing in the Polynesian Islands, a journey of 4,300 miles undertaken in a balsa wood raft called Kon-Tiki. It was an epic undertaking which was turned into a film by two Norwegian filmmakers — this is a breakdown of over 500 VFX they used in making it.
Here’s another delicious dose of pictographic internet hilarity to help round out your week. Specially designed for the lazy web surfer, this gallery can be browsed using just your scroll wheel finger; simply scroll down, lol, then scroll down some more. Couldn’t be simpler!
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