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6:59 PM (5 hours ago)
Hardcore: Sixteen Shot Drinking 'Battleship'
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This is a homemade (you can tell by the beach towel) drinking Battleship setup. If you do the math (which I had a friend do for me on account of the double digits), the loser winds up taking 16 shots. That's a lot. Unless they're playing with beer (which I suspect), then it's Add star
Oct 7, 2011 (21 hours ago)
Failbook: The Great Asteroid of 1998
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12:19 AM (33 minutes ago)
Parenting: It’s a Double-Parent-TRAP!
That Sunday dinner sounds like a minefield.
Take a time out in FAIL Blog’s newest site, Parenting FAILS!
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Oct 6, 2011 (2 days ago)
Hakuna Matata for reals
Elton John is the photographer, obvy:
Those two words will solve all your problems, Mischa M.
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Those two words will solve all your problems, Mischa M.
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Oct 6, 2011 (2 days ago)
Westboro Church Announces Protest of Steve Jobs’ Funeral…on an iPhone
The fringe crazies at Westboro Church are going to protest Steve Jobs’ funeral for…well, for reasons I can’t possibly explain. As best I can tell, they believe this titan of capitalism should have done more to support their particular religious views. I don’t know. But, their tweet is delicious…
Well.
If you think Steve Jobs’ funeral is worthy of protest (!), shouldn’t you maybe not want to use his one of his products to announce it? I mean, according to them, he gave God no glory and taught sin. (!) And yet, they will use his greatest innovation to spread the word of their protest. Couldn’t they find a Droid phone for this?
Write your own joke in the comments.
Well.If you think Steve Jobs’ funeral is worthy of protest (!), shouldn’t you maybe not want to use his one of his products to announce it? I mean, according to them, he gave God no glory and taught sin. (!) And yet, they will use his greatest innovation to spread the word of their protest. Couldn’t they find a Droid phone for this?
Write your own joke in the comments.
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Oct 7, 2011 (23 hours ago)
Steve Jobs didn’t
- Steve Jobs did not create products. He created an organization that predictably and reliably created emotionally resonant products.
- Steve Jobs did not make movies. He made a company that predictably and reliably made blockbusters.
- Steve Jobs did not wrest market share from competitors. He created new markets that attracted and sustained competitors.
- Steve Jobs did not design anything. He gave others the freedom to think about what jobs products are hired to do.
- Steve Jobs did not re-engineer processes. He brought engineering processes to works of creativity and the creative process to engineering.
- Steve Jobs did not develop new management theories. He showed by example that innovation can be managed.
- Steve Jobs was not a visionary. He put the dots together and saw where they led.
- Steve Jobs was not a futurist. He just built the future one piece at a time.
- Steve Jobs did not distort reality. He spoke what he believed would become reality at a time when those beliefs seemed far fetched.
- Steve Jobs was not charismatic. He spoke from the heart compelling others to follow him.
- Steve Jobs was not a gifted orator. He spoke plainly.
- Steve Jobs was not a magician. He practiced, a lot.
He was curious.
He was patient.
He was foolish.
He was hungry.
These things many others can do. Maybe you can.
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8:44 PM (4 hours ago)
We've All Been There
I guess it's not too hard to figure out what's been happening to this photographer a lot lately. Funny.
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Oct 7, 2011 (20 hours ago)
What birds do when we aren't looking
This started out as one drawing, and soon became a little series. I created the fake book cover for fun, which liberated me from having to write "what birds do when..." on each drawing.
I like the quietness of black and white, and I was really aiming to make this series quiet and understated. It also means I don't have to fuss over the colour schemes of various birds :)
I can't seem to part with the original drawings, so they're not for sale. But I'm thinking of making more of these birds doing non-bird things, and putting them together in a little book. Do you think anybody would be into something like that?
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Oct 6, 2011 (2 days ago)
See an Arrested Development–Themed Ben & Jerry’s Flavor
In honor of the recent news that Arrested Development will be back (on some television-providing entity), Jon DeFreest has whipped up another Ben & Jerry's flavor, this one in honor of the Bluths' — and the Blue Man Group's — most double entendre–inclined member, Tobias Fünke.
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Oct 6, 2011 (2 days ago)
Sony A77 reviewed: A 24.3 megapixel game-changer?
Popular Photography does add a single caveat to the largely very positive conclusion: video enthusiasts should probably hold tight to see what Canon and Nikon counter with. Especially if you're in possession of multiple lenses. Aside from that, what's stopping you? Dig in to all the nitty-gritty details below, and we'd advise cutting down on those impulse eBay purchases -- this magnesium-alloyed beauty will certainly make a financial dent when it lands, if not a physical one.
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Oct 6, 2011 (2 days ago)
Steve Jobs Succumbs to Alternative Medicine
I’m sad that today I’m adding a slide to one of my live presentations, adding Steve Jobs to the list of famous people who died treating terminal diseases with woo rather than with medicine.Seven or eight years ago, the news broke that Steve Jobs had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but considering it a private matter, he delayed in informing Apple’s board, and Apple’s board delayed in informing the shareholders. So what. The only delay that really mattered was that Steve, it turned out, had been treating his pancreatic cancer with a special diet and other alternative therapies,
Most pancreatic cancers are aggressive and always terminal, but Steve was lucky (if you can call it that) and had a rare form called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which is actually quite treatable with excellent survival rates — if caught soon enough. The median survival is about a decade, but it depends on how soon it’s removed surgically. Steve caught his very early, and should have expected to survive much longer than a decade. Unfortunately Steve relied on a diet instead of early surgery. There is no evidence that diet has any effect on islet cell carcinoma. As he dieted for nine months, the tumor progressed, and took him from the high end to the low end of the survival rate.
Why did he do this? Well, outsiders like us can’t know; but many who avoid medical treatment in favor of unproven alternatives do so because they’ve been given bad information, without the tools or expertise to discriminate good from bad. Steve was exposed to such bad information, as are we all.
Eventually it became clear to all involved that his alternative therapy wasn’t working, and from then on, by all accounts, Steve aggressively threw money at the best that medical science could offer. But it was too late. He had a Whipple procedure. He had a liver transplant. And then he died, all too young.
My whole family loves Apple devices. Steve made our lives better, and I think I can say that pragmatically and without any Apple heroin in my veins. Not only that, he created my profession.
His lifelong friend Bill Gates tweeted:
For those of us lucky enough to get to work with Steve, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely. b-gat.es/qHXDsUI saw another tweet today from @DamonLindelof that I thought was beautifully worded:
Steve Jobs. On behalf of every dreamer sitting in his or her garage who is crazy enough to try to change the world, you will be missed.We can’t say for sure that Steve would still be alive and making lives better were it not for the alternative therapy, but the statistics suggest it very strongly. If you insist on unproven therapies, fine; but also try the proven ones. Nobody likes to either write or read a post such as this one.
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Oct 5, 2011 (3 days ago)
Portraits from world beard championships
Matthew Rainwaters was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, which is the part of Los Angeles nobody likes to talk about. He did a lot of skateboarding when he was younger, broke a lot of bones, and spent hours filming his friends; making skate videos eventually brought him to still photography. Once a veggie patty broke his nose in an epic food fight: in total he has broken 23 bones, spent more than a year on crutches, and has a metal plate holding the left side of his face together. He lived abroad for a very brief time and returned to California to work in a special effects studio that made monster movies. He graduated photo school at 23 and started teaching high school in Los Angeles a year later. He now lives in Austin and takes pictures for a living.
This work is from his series, Beardfolio, which has just been published by Chronicle Books. Rainwaters will be signing copies of ‘Beard’ at Domy Books in Austin this Wednesday, October 5.
How did this project, Beardfolio, come about?
‘The beard project started a little over four years ago when I first moved to Austin. I met an art director at the studio one day with a burly beard and he was talking about shaving it off after winning a local contest. I knew the next World beard and Mustache championships was about two years away so I convinced him into growing it out and competing while I would photograph the whole thing’.
Where were these portraits taken and over what time period?
‘We traveled to Anchorage in May of ’09 and I photographed everyone as they were done competing. Everything was shot in one day but took months to edit through. I probably have about 85 portraits that I really think are great and maybe an additional 200 that are still sitting unretouched on my hard drive’.
Many of your subjects are members of the Austin Facial Hair Club. Does Austin have more facial hair aficionados than other cities or is this simply a growing trend?
‘There are seven guys from Austin published in the book but the Austin Facial Hair Club has definitely grown since I shot this. It’s definitely a growing trend especially with the help of shows like Whisker Wars documenting the competitive aspects of facial hair growth. As far as Austin being a hub for facial hair aficionados it’s hard to say… there are a lot of great beards here but there were a lot of serious competitors from all over Alaska, the Germans have some of the more elaborate beards I’ve seen, and the mustaches coming out of LA are pretty award winning’.
The book signing and release party for ‘Beard’ is this week in Austin. How did Chronicle Books come to publish this work?
‘I was introduced to Chronicle through a few friends that were designing a book for them. I was given an email address of one of the editors so I sent a few samples and introduced myself. That got the ball rolling and a few years later I feel like the project is officially complete with the publishing of BEARD’.
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