Bluthex: because any good fan will have a little bit of anxiety about the return of their favorite television show.
I think I'm most worried about how Netflix is planning to release all 10 episodes AT ONCE. My head may explode from joy.
Something To Calm Your "Arrested Development" Reunion Nerves
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5 Reasons Lena Dunham Is Just Like Us
Other than having her own T.V. show and all, her interview on “Chelsea Lately” last night proves she's kind of just like us all.
Reasons Lena Dunham is just like us:
1. She has trouble walking in heels, so instead does a quick jog type thing:
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Happy 4/20 From A Calgary Hemp Store
I give this ad high marks.
Award-winning print ad from 2007 for Grassroots in Calgary.
There, now you don't have to smoke any sticky icky (sure thing, bud).
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Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Based on a true story, QUILL: THE LIFE OF A GUIDE DOG is the sweet tale of a yellow Labrador Retriever guide dog for the blind named Quill. And now I'm crying.
Source: youtube.com / via: theclearlydope
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The Worst Bug In The World
At least, when you're crammed into a subway car with 4,000 other people trying to ignore the smell of farts .
We're at a point where getting people to move huge chunks — if not most — of the media they consume to the cloud, or some kind of synced / cloud hybrid thing, actually makes sense: Netflix, Kindle, Spotify, etc.
So basically my entire music collection — at least the part of it that I actually listen to — resides on Rdio now. I love Rdio, for a lot of reasons, and I haven't synced new music through iTunes since Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues.
But it has one occasionally show-stopping bug, particularly since it seems to happen to me right before I jump on a plane or the subway or anywhere else cell signals dare not venture: The Rdio app pretends I haven't synced any songs to play offline, even though I've in fact synced hundreds of them. They just — poof. And then I don't have any music to listen to, just the sounds of people rustling, squeaking, swaying, farting. And what if I was going somewhere and wouldn't have internet access for a month? I do not know where that is because I would not go there, but what iffffffffff. And it's not just an Rdio problem, apparently.
In Rdio's case, This sudden music death was a more frequent problem with an older version of the app, which stored synced music to a directory that could be subject to "cleaning" by iOS, erasing all of your music. But that supposedly hasn't been the case since an Rdio app update in December, which stores the music files in a directory that won't be nuked by iOS cleaning. And even if it is Apple's fault, it doesn't matter, in a sense: Rdio and similar apps promise me (and every other user) that offline music syncing will work and be reliable. So it's on them to make it work, or they shouldn't offer the feature.
It's a lot harder to make the case that people should move their media lives to a cloud-y service when that service can't guarantee that it'll be just as reliable as local storage, or at least very close to it, where the margin of difference is small enough that every other benefit of the cloud service makes that reliability trade off worth it. It's close enough in Rdio, but every time this happens I feel like the margin shrinks, just a little bit.
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See The Super-Creepy Photos A Secret Service Agent Posted Of Sarah Palin
Turns out one of the agents implicated in the Colombia prostitution scandal has been creeping on Palin, and posting the evidence to Facebook.
David Randall Chaney retired from the Secret Service yesterday amid allegations that he was among those who hired prostitutes in Cartagena last week. This isn't the first time he's engaged in questionable behavior. In 2009, he posted two pictures of himself with Palin taken during the 2008 presidential campaign, commenting, "I was really checking her out, if you know what i mean?” Well, now we do:
Via: livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com
Via: livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com
Last night, Palin told Fox News's Greta Van Susteren that she was none too sorry to see Chaney go. "Check this out, bodyguard," she said, "you're fired!"
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19 Insane Ads With Hitler Selling Everything From Tea To Deodorant
Today is Adolf's 123rd birthday! So here are a bunch of Hitler ads from countries all over the world — including Germany!
Rasayana anti-stress tea, "Make Peace With The World." Digging that shirt, even though it's a Photoshopped Iron Cross. Via Turkey.
Some brand of herbal laxative tea. The "demon" being, I guess, Shit(ler). Via Thailand.
a bela Sintra wine, via Brazil.
Amundsen, a Czech Vodka. Der Führer is distilled into an insane bunny. Nice.
Source: adsoftheworld.com
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Socially Awkward Merit Badges
These are a few of my least favorite things. I'm getting nervous just looking at this.
Via: laughingsquid.com
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Best 4/20 Flying Junk Food Animated Video
Take a magic ride through artist Lulinternet 's world of french fries, ice cream, and pizza in her special 4/20 video.
Via: lulinternet.com
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The Death Of The Double-Click
CLICKCLICK. Your kids probably won't recognize that sound.
Clicking on an icon selects it, double-clicking opens the file. That relationship has always been dependable; something I've always been able to count on whether I'm using a Mac, a PC or a Linux machine. Select, open. Preview, execute. Highlight, do. But the double-click gesture, which you can still probably hear in your office if you listen closely enough, is on its way out.
Double-clicking is dying.
Do something with your phone. Now watch your thumb. You'll never see a double-tap outside of a game, maybe. Pick up your tablet. Watch your finger. Lots of tapping, none of it grouped. Now, even worse, get your hands on a new MacBook and and look at what's really different about the software. You'll find lots of new gestures, and an iPhone-style app launcher. There's a screen called Mission Control for managing desktops and apps. You can still double-click on the old stuff — the lists of icons in Finder, the app title bars — but there's no double-clicking to be done with the new. Ditto for Windows 8 — Metro is a touch-based mono-tap utopia. Apple and Microsoft, the companies that invented and standardized double-clicking, respectively, are the same ones who are putting it to sleep.
The Apple Lisa was the first computer regular people (well, regular people with 10,000 spare dollars in 1983) could buy that had a graphical user interface. The interface, though, wasn't fully Apple's. It wasn't until Steve Jobs visited Xerox's campus in 1979 that he was fully sold on the GUI concept; so sold that he and his team borrowed liberally from the Xerox Alto, a personal computer that never quite made it to market, in designing their first GUI.
One feature they could definitely take credit for, though, was the double-click. Xerox didn't come up with that; Apple designer Bill Atkinson did.
Atkinson took Polaroid photos to document milestones in the Lisa development process, many of which have been collected by his cohort, Andy Hertzfeld. One bears a note about "double clicking" on a tab to close it; this may be the first known documentation of the behavior.
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10 Stars Who Came Out As Straight
Just because the rumor mill says they're gay, doesn't mean they are. Some celebrities are content to let folks ponder but others defend their sexuality.
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The Facebook Page For "Fight Club" Is Doing It Wrong
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The "Kathy" Theme Song Is The Jingliest Jingle
Now it's stuck in all of our heads.
This is the theme song for her new show, appropriately named, "Kathy." Fun fact: Adam Schlesinger, the guy who wrote this song also wrote "That Thing You Do."
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Watch The Full Length CatCam Movie
The best cat-eye-view film of 2012 is available to watch for free on the Tribeca Film Festival site.
LINK: CatCam the Movie
It's only 16 minutes long, and you get to see the world through a cat's eye view. You have to create a free account to view the movie, but it takes 2 seconds.
I saw "CatCam" during SXSW last month and was totally charmed by the delightful 16 minutes of cat and tech and Herzog-eqsue laconic German cat owner. The documentary is about a cat owner who fashions a tiny camera for his cat to wear on his collar, and includes footage and images from the actual catcam.
The short film has been making the rounds on the festival circuit, and it's now playing Tribeca Film Festival here in New York. Highly recommended if you like film, cats, people, fun, home electronic engineering, photography, and wonder.
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Yahoo Sports Blog Went A Little Sexist On This One
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This Baby Monkey Is Very Shy
His giant, dewy eyes will shatter your heart into a million pieces. This poor little fella is named Loango, and he was rejected by his mother shortly after birth. Fortunately, he's being hand raised by zookeepers in Paris.
Loango, a crown male Mangabey monkey stands next to his keeper on April 18, 2012, at the Jardin des Plantes's zoo in Paris. The baby was born in the zoo in March 5, 2012, and then rejected by his mother. This birth in a zoo is part of the European breeding of Endangered species Programm (EEP) to promote their breeding.
(Getty Images / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD)
(Getty Images / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD)
(Getty Images / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD)
(Getty Images / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD)
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"3 Second Rule" Is The Worst Thing You'll Hear All Day
Fair enough, Lisa Gail, fair enough. At least she knows how to keep her man in line.
Source: youtube.com / via: reddit.com
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11 Animals That Declared "NOT TODAY"
Sometimes you just have to upset the natural order. Never underestimate the power of an underdog.
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Is It Okay To Force Your Friends To Follow You On Twitter?
Don't feel terrible if they don't. Here's what you should do instead. Plus, when leaving voicemails are not a dick move.
Is it okay to harangue somebody into following you? Or feel guilty because your friend isn't following you on Twitter?
There is a truth we need to accept as being inalienable from the nature of Twitter as it is presently designed: Twitter is built on passive-aggression, insecurity, and terror, and it won’t put up with your touchy-feely bullshit any longer.
No, you cannot harass someone into following you, just like you can’t make someone be your friend. That is embarrassing and pretty much guaranteed to turn out badly. Do you know how many times I’ve tried to make people be my friends? Dozens. (Hundreds.) Of those people, how many do you think have become genuine friends who don’t harbor any deep-seated resentment towards me? Just one. His name is Phillip. I keep him Duct-taped to my wall, and I know he cares about me, because when I hold a spoonful of peanut butter in front of his face and refuse to give it to him until he says he’s really really glad we’re friends, he says so.
Look, we all want our own Wall-Phil. (That’s Phillip’s nickname.) We all want our friends and admired acquaintances to love us as much as we love them, and to show that love by following us on Twitter. You can feel bad if your friend doesn’t follow you. I do. When someone I admire doesn’t follow me on Twitter, I have to print off her or his avatar, build a very small coffin, and bury it. I have to pretend that person died and that’s the only reason she isn’t following me back. It gets to be a real hassle. But I’d never ask for a follower directly because THAT would be weird. Here’s where the passive-aggression comes in. You want your friend to follow you on Twitter? Start starring the shit out of his or her tweets. Remind him or her everyday that you are there, waiting. Watching.
I'm pretty active on Twitter, and do a good deal of link sharing and animal-GIFing. What's your advice on people who respond to/mention your tweets IRL... repeatedly? I've lost count of the number of times people have brought up my tweets in in-person conversations. Is that not an incredibly awkward thing to do? Why not just tweet back after reading the original post on Twitter? Can you write a Twitter etiquette rulebook? Etc., etc., etc. HELP. These people are annoying.
Luckily for you, my first book, Birds of a Feather: Laughing, Loving, and Learning on Twitter, is forthcoming. Unluckily for you, it has yet to be sold. Or written.
In the meantime, let’s get at the complexities inherent in your question. It sounds like you’re pretty popular on the Twitter, but it also sounds like your celebrity leaves you feeling empty and soulless. If everyone loves you so much, why do you feel so alone? If everyone is hanging on your every word, why don’t they let you know your words are appreciated until well after the fact? I understand. It’s lonely at the top. I took an upset victory over the reigning spelling bee champion in my fifth grade class, and the power was at once exhilarating and isolating. I was so cool that it was legitimately intolerable. I had to move. Well, I mean, just to middle school, with everyone else. But still.
No, but really: it is definitely an awkward thing to do to reference a person’s tweets IRL after some time has passed. I don’t know why! It just IS weird. It makes a perfectly legitimate activity (reading a friend’s tweets) feel like snooping – like you’re only bringing it up because you got caught. HOWEVER. I don’t know ANYONE I have Twitter relationships with IRL, but I assure you that if I did, I would probably end up talking to them about pertinent tweets at least some of the time. Why? I don’t like @-replying to start conversations if I can help it. Really clutters up my timeline. I’m guessing your weirdo friends and I have that in common. We’re all type As, and we’re all sorry.
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"Nobama" Water And Other Republican Swag
At the Republican National Committee State Chairman meeting, GOP vendors vie for sales contracts. The Spalding Group brought these samples from DefeatObamaStore.com
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