April 2011

Apr 18, 2011 Spike Jonze Presents: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma

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Apr 15, 2011 Thanks, Merriam-Webster

All those Flash ads and auto-play Ask the Editor videos compelled me to send an e-mail of complaint following the Major Redesign of 2004, but I'd still put Merriam-Webster.com in my Fav 5, I call on it so often. Plus, I love the nerdy features, like M-W's Top 10 Rare & Amusing Insults ("Who you calling a...

Apr 15, 2011 New York Farm City

Apr 14, 2011 The life of a studio cartoonist

Art historian Stephen Worth has posted a series of studio gags and caricatures by Grim Natwick, whose drawing credits include Betty Boop and Snow White, as part of a series of posts called "Grim Natwick: The Greatest Animator Who Ever Lived."...

Apr 14, 2011 Sock! Pow! Zok!

Batman, inspired by Ben Newman, drawn by Matt Taylor, who has some of the best lines in Tumblr biography: I'm an illustrator and I live by the sea. I like drawing pictures for money....

Apr 13, 2011 New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. The rules for making money are different in a bubble than in normal times. What are...

Apr 12, 2011 How to be American-born Japanese

アメリカ生まれの日本の子 by yukkie "American-born Japanese Child" aired on Fuji TV's "Let's Play with Mama! Pin Pon Pan" (ママとあそぼう!ピンポンパン) sometime before March 1982, when the show went off the air. It's written by Minami Rambow, a prolific composer (for kids and otherwise) whose credits include a children's record where a ditty called "A Cat Named Cat" is followed by...

Apr 09, 2011 Silent Film App Can Make You a Techie Charlie Chaplin

Nothing adds nostalgia to a just-taken iPhone video like retro visual effects and silent film-inspired title cards. The Silent Film Director app for iPhones can transform any video you take into a ’60s-style home movie or a 1920s-esque silent film, taking that Instagram effect and amping it up a few notches. The app is available in Standard...

Apr 08, 2011 Latte Art

Apr 08, 2011 New Engine Sends Shock Waves Through Auto Industry

Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer's green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine. However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave...