Office Camouflage
I have no idea what they’re saying in this video, but it’s still funny. You can pretty much just fill in your own dialog.
Archive for August, 2009
Link Round-Up: August 25, 2009
Resources
25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives – The end of the Pirate Bay is nearing. Even if the deal with GGF doesn’t go through the current owners are likely to sell to one of the other interested parties. For many BitTorrent fans this means that they have to find an alternative. Luckily there are plenty of good ones out there.
50 Alternatives to Craigslist – Let’s face it, Craigslist can be a mess. Here are a few sites offering specialized services and a few sites offering general classifieds.
Academic Earth – A growing site featuring videos of university lectures on a vast array of subjects from notable schools around the country.
How to Create Your Own Planets Using Your Panoramas – Here’s a tutorial that shows you how to turn any panorama or landscape photograph into a spherical planet with a just a few clicks in Photoshop.
SignMyImage – SignMyImage is a utility that allows users to embed an invisible watermark on their images. Paid users can use ImageSpider to crawl the internet to find copies of images bearing these watermarks. Could be useful for photographer and graphic designers.
Space: The Final Junkyard – EU Infastructure has posted an informative infographic on the all junk that is orbiting the Earth. It’s an eye-opener.
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Geek Media Round-Up: August 25, 2009
Film
- News: The Kids in the Hall are reuniting for a comic murder mystery that is scheduled to air on CBC in January. Woot!
- GeekTyrant lists 5 Films that Changed the Way People look at Sci-Fi movies. The are probably five or ten more that belong there.
- Movie Moron picks the Top 10 Best Zombie Movies.
- SciFi Wire explains 10 ways District 9 will change sci-fi moviemaking forever.
- Watch the 1953 sci-fi classic The Terror From Beyond Space at Hulu.
Internet
- io9 has posted a gallery of 30 Real Animals with Science Fiction Names.
This Day in Geek History: August 25
1609
Galileo Galilei first demonstrates his telescope to government officials of Venice.
1835
Richard Adams Locke blurs the line between science and science fiction when he publishes his week-long serial “Moon Hoax: Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made” in the New York Sun newspaper under in the name of Sir John Herschel, the real-life astronomer who discovered of Uranus.
1900
Constantin Perskyi presents a paper at the first International Electricity Congress in Paris, France in which he describes an device he refers to as a “television” which makes use of the specific magnetic properties of Selenium. It is the first recorded use of the term “television” in history.
1960
The opening ceremony of the seventeenth Olympic Games in Rome is transmitted live via the Eurovision link. CBS shows video recordings that have been flown to the US, at a cost of US$700,000 for the US television rights. This is the first time that the Olympic Games have been shown so extensively in the US, thanks to the advent of the videotape since the previous Olympics.
1973
The first Computer Assisted Tomography (CAT) scan is taken.
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Geek Quote of the Day
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- - Ken Olsen, Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977.
Photo: Book Desk
I would happily build a house for myself using this method, if only I could find a climate dry enough that it would be reduced to paper mache. Still, I hold out hope that one day my coffin might look something like this…
Source: We ♥ It
Geek Media Round-Up: August 24, 2009
Film
- News: Despite all the buzz, the release of Scorcese’s Shutter Island has been bumped back to February 19, 2010, effectively removing it from all Oscar consideration.
- News: Movie theaters cut back on printing show times in papers as moviegoers go digital.
- At AMC, Mary Robinette Kowal lists Fantasy’s Top 10 MacGuffins.
- District 9 was about Apartheid. Argument over.
- Over at Comic Book Resources, Don Cheadle Talks Iron Man 2.
- Screenhead has a nice list of Top 10 forgotten and underrated Sci-fi movies.
- While many of us are eagerly awaiting the Halo movie, io9 has a gallery of 10 Video-Game Movies You’ll See Before Halo.
Literature
- Free Fiction: Listen to “Foam on the Water” by Cat Rambo at PodCastle.
- Free Fiction: Read “Charms” by Shweta Narayan at Fantasy Magazine.
- Free Fiction: Read “Oil Fire” by Kate MacLeod at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- Free Fiction: Read “The Ruined Queen of Harvest World” by Damien Broderick.
- Free Fiction: Read the short horror story “Yellow Warblers” by Jason Sizemeore of Harlan County Horrors.
This Day in Geek History: August 24
79
In the Bay of Naples, Mount Vesuvius erupts, killing roughly 16,000 to 20,000 people and burying the cities of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae beneath ash and magma. Pliny the Elder, one of Rome’s greatest scientists, dies in the incident.
1456
The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed. Although it is not the first book to be printed by Gutenberg’s new movable type system, it will be the work for which Gutenberg will be remembered, it will mark the advent of the “Gutenberg Revolution” and the “Age of the Printed Book.”
1831
Charles Darwin is invited to travel aboard the HMS Beagle.
1853
The first potato chips are prepared by Chef George Crum, an American Indian, at Moon’s Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York. According to later accounts, railroad magnate Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was dining at the resteraunt, but he sent his fried potatoes back to the kitchen, complaining that they were “too thick.” The chef, George Crum retaliated by slicing paper thin strips of potatoes and frying them to a crisp. Vanderbilt loved these “Saratoga Chips,” and they became an immediate success.
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