As predicted, Cee-Lo Green’s new song “F**k You” is sweeping the land. It’s garnered millions of views and is now spurring remixes and mash-ups of all sorts.
There was the addition of a 50 Cent verse:
And now The Dallas Observer has collected some famous movie scenes that have been set to Cee-Lo’s masterpiece. The best one is easily the “Shawshank Redemption” version.
[via Kottke and clusterflock]
In less than two games the World Cup has already brought one thing to light. A lot of people don’t understand offside rules. I think it’s safe to dub it the single most misunderstood rule in all of sports, partly because it differs so much from sport to sport.
A player is in an offside position if he/she is in his opponents’ half of the field and is nearer to his opponents’ goal line than both the ball and the next to last opponent. [source]
A player is on the wrong side of the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped. This foul occurs simultaneously with the snap. [source]
If a player on the attacking team enters the attacking zone before the puck itself enters the zone, either carried by a teammate or sent into the attacking zone by an attacking player. [source]
A defending player is offside if he is less than 10m away from the play-the-ball when the ball is played. An attacking player is offside if he is in front of the ball. [source]
There used to be an offside rule, but it was abolished in the 1990s. [source]
This is not actually a rule of offense, but instead is used to describe the formation of players on the field. [source]
One rule, same name, so many definitions.
Now I’ve never tried 5-Hour Energy, I’m more of a Red Bull man. But I’m told by those who have that a more accurate description would be “2-hour energy and a 3-hour crash.” Which makes their ads even more offensive. We’ve all seen them, but have you ever read the fine print? Check out this gem.
*No crash means no sugar crash. 5-Hour Energy contains no sugar.
How is that even allowed? That’s like saying “Cigarettes have never killed anyone. *Never killed means shot on the face with a bullet killed. Cigarettes do not contain bullets.” Just plain ridiculous.
Below is a chart comparing the Dow and a few different funds on May 6th, 2010. This was prompted by a video posted by a trader that blogs on the site OMGYAK. The curious part is that about 8 minutes before the market plummeted, there were similar drops in these funds. The red vertical bar in the chart below shows that time difference.
So I guess the question is, did these funds know the crash was coming? Or were these funds one of the causes of the crash? The funds in the chart are listed below. My understanding is that there are more funds that follow this pattern, but it seemed like overkill to list them all.
The video is a little tedious and boring for my tastes, but it’s below.
[via Business Insider]
Time magazine’s 2010 list of the 100 most influential people is an absolute joke. Lady Gaga? Anyone who’s qualifications include “diva” are automatically disqualified. Sandra Bullock? Snooki? Are these really the “women” we want to put on a pedestal for our youth to emulate? And so it doesn’t look like I’m just tearing down women on the list, you can’t be serious about Neil Patrick Harris? And Dan Coudreaut, really? The head chef of McDonald’s? You can’t be serious.
Since Time’s list is obviously a joke (I can’t really blame them since you need to sell copies by any means necessary in today’s print publishing world) I feel it would be a disservice to America and the world if a real list wasn’t put out. So below, compiled by me and me alone, is the real 2010 list of the 100 most influential people. They’re in no particular order, but are organized by category. Read the rest of this entry »
Last night I watched a gripping documentary by ESPN titled The 16th Man. It was the newest production from their 30 for 30 series and centered around the release of Nelson Mandela in and the role he and the South African rugby team, the Springboks, played in uniting the country during a time of civil unrest. The show closed with one of Mandela’s more well known quotes:
Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to unite in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination.
The airing of this episode is very poignant. Today on Cinco de Mayo the Phoenix Suns will be wearing their Los Suns uniforms in protest of the the law the State of Arizona passed, effectively setting civil rights back 50 years. As Suns President and GM Steve Kerr said, the Suns want to “make sure that people understand that we know what’s going on and we don’t agree with the law itself.”
The Suns get it.
I have only two things to say about the Adobe vs. Apple platform “war“, because everything else has either already been said [over and over and over again] or wasn’t worth being said and isn’t worth repeating.
In closing I’ll end with a line from John Gruber.
Unfortunately, for Adobe, I mean, they’ve pretty much just gotta suck it.
Sad but true.
Often times when a print project has been completed, everything has been printed and the client has received teh final product there is one last act to be completed. The client usually wants a high-resolution PDF of the final files with the final copy and retouched images. Typically this is not a problem and is easily accomplished. But when you’re dealing with a document that has wrap-around covers and gate folds and photo-illustrations and graphics that span multiple pages, it’s not always as simple. The easiest way to handle these pages is to create a PDF with spread, and then just duplicate the spread and crop those duplicates until you have each of the individual pages split up.
But in Adobe Acrobat 9, just cropping the pages isn’t enough. Because Acrobat doesn’t actually crop the page, it just masks out the unwanted portions of the page, but they still remain in the document and can unexpectedly reappear at inopportune times. I can see how this was done with good intentions by Adobe, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a huge pain in my arse. Read the rest of this entry »
I have an admission to make. I thought Avatar was ridiculous. It sounded way too sci-fi for my tastes. It looked super-cheesy and childish. Boy was I wrong. After reading about how the film came to be and hearing the reviews I started to realize how big this movie really was.
It still took me a while to go see it, I didn’t make it to the theater until last weekend, but it certainly didn’t disappoint. It was nothing short of the transformative experience it was billed as. For most of the movie you lose sight of how absolutely technologically amazing a feat it is. Until every once in a while you momentarily snap out of being mesmerized and for a brief moment comprehend exactly what it is you’re seeing before slipping back into the trance of the story-line, the effects, the scenery, the actors and how they all come together.
Through the entire film, I really only had one complaint. Unobtainium? Really? I know that it’s sort of a tongue-in-cheek reference in the science and sci-fi communities, but would it not have been worth just a little extra effort to come up with something more creative?
Well I guess two complaints. Was the 3-D really necessary? I don’t thinks so. It seems like more of a nauseating novelty than anything else. While it is an amazing technological feat of it’s own, it doesn’t add anything to the quality of the picture, just another buzz-word to put on movie posters. At least we won’t have to deal with it on the DVD.
There’s no doubt that there will be a sequel. What little doubt may have been left at the end of the movie was erased by director James Cameron. Until then, I just need to make sure I pick up a Blue-ray player before Avatar comes out on DVD. I don’t want to imagine watching it any other way.
Rarely does a website come along that changes how people use the web and how websites are designed. This week it seems we have been blessed with two.
The first and most significant, in my mind, is TheSixtyOne. The home page is plain, and appropriately asks “ready?” Because what you see after you enter is a magnificent departure from what we’re all used to. At it’s core it’s a great way to discover a diverse collection of new music but now it’s got a whole new skin.
The second is from a well-respected veteran of the web, Simon Collison. Colly, as he’s known, has completed what was a lengthy and arduous exploration of what a personal website can be. The result is inspiring.
