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Dec 06
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Bartman remix

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Nov 09
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(Source: thefrogman, via roboshark)

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Nov 06
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» http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-science-majors-change-their-mind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

Why Science Majors Change Their Minds.

An interesting read about retooling science programs to make them more interesting. I have my own opinions about science education, and I think ‘intelligence’ is not really enough to be a determining factor for shoving kids into science.

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Oct 19
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I laughed till I cried. Thanks @lantern

(Source: grabs)

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Oct 12
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Avengers Trailer!

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Sep 20
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A great critical analysis of a Dark Knight action scene from an editing perspective.

via nz-ny

The Dark Knight: In the Cut

Interesting to see it dissected from an editing POV. Got a lot of respect for Nolan but this is kinda baffling..

Which part? Well, almost all of it. In his action sequence primer In the Cut, Jim Emerson exposes Christopher Nolan’s Achilles’ heel and explains why the chase scene in TDK makes no real world sense.

Via.

(Source: nz-ny)

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Sep 17
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Fwd:Fwd: as usual WeirdAl knocks it out of the park

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Aug 31
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Sexy lego design of a TRON lightcycle - via geekdad

Sexy lego design of a TRON lightcycle - via geekdad

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Aug 30
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seldo: This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it. The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot: Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph: Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right? Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.

seldo:

This is genuinely Microsoft’s idea of a “streamlined”, “optimized” UI for Windows Explorer. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it.

The post is a sort of masterpiece of crazy rationalization, but I think my favourite part may be this screenshot:

Here, they proudly overlay the UI with data from their research into how often various commands are used. They use this to show that “the commands that make up 84% of what users do in Explorer are now in one tab”. But the more important thing is that the remaining 50% of the bar is taken up by buttons that nobody will ever use, ever, even according to Microsoft’s own research. And yet somehow they remain smack bang in the middle of the interface. The insanity is further enriched by this graph:

Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the menu bar, and only 10% of users use the command bar. Nearly everybody is using the context menu or hotkeys. So the solution, obviously, is to make both the menu bar and the command bar bigger and more prominent. Right?

Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.

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Aug 12
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aledlewis: Just Another Sleazy Joint One of my pieces for the iam8bit art show! Signed limited edition of 60. Mash-up of: Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) (1988) - and Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’.

aledlewis:

Just Another Sleazy Joint

One of my pieces for the iam8bit art show! Signed limited edition of 60.

Mash-up of: Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) (1988) - and Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’.

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