Reuben Wu of English band Ladytron is also a photographer, and his Aeroglyphs blew me away: "an ongoing series of large temporary geometries traced by light carrying drones in space. " Prints are available in his online shop.
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Nathan Freihofer is a Tik Tok star with 3 million followers. After the 23-year-old field artillery officer delivered a humorless "joke" about the holocaust in his annoying narcissist hyena voice, the army took immediate action, suspending him from duty and launching an investigation. In the short video, Freihofer said he would […]
8bitdo makes the only game controllers I like, and they just announced a proper six-button Arcade Stick [Amazon] for October release. It works on Nintendo Switch and Windows, connects via Bluetooth or USB Type-C, and supports custom mapping and macros. The list price is $90, it's 30x20cm, and they make a point of its mounting […]
Leaked Dune trailer 👀 pic.twitter.com/92lOheE2py — Hunter | ⊃∪∩⪽ (@HunterIsDune) August 31, 2020 A trailer for Denis Villeneuve's forthcoming Dune played at the premiere of Tenet last night. Everyone in the audience, it seems, filmed it on their phones and posted it to social media. Here's a reasonably good angle. "What's in the box?" "Pain."
Porn actor Ron Jeremy was charged with rape and sexual assault earlier this year. Today he was charged with 17 more counts along similar lines, including one alleged victim who was only 15 years old. The number of charges and their severity could send Jeremy, 67, to jail for the rest of his life. The […]
Police come out, hand woman an inflatable sausage, then arrest her. pic.twitter.com/zTa8ht8rED — Soundtrack to the End (@_WhatRiot) August 31, 2020 In this footage, police approach a protestor in the street. One offers her a large inflatable sausage. When she accepts it, she is arrested.
If you use Blender, "give your textures and models a knitted yarn look" with the new "Wooly" shader that makes anything fluffy. A shader changes the surface appearance of an object or scene; procedural refers to a programming technique that creates a convincing illusion of natural or random origin. Here's video of it in action:
Countdown is a long-running UK gameshow featuring various alpha-numerical challenges. One round gives constestants 30 seconds to figure out the longest word from a series of random letters drawn proportionately from rows of vowels and consonants. This results in annoyingly suggestive sets such as TINEYATPH, which seem to promise (but do not actually provide) full-length […]
The New York Times's Kevin Roose says that Facebook has become "a completely parallel universe, in which Trump's response to Covid-19 has been fast and effective; in which these riots in Portland and other cities are the biggest news story in the world." He dived in to the data and was shocked by what he […]
We decided to check out Reese's Bats [Amazon], which present the company's classic chocolate-coated peanut butter snack in a Halloween-themed form. This is what bats are now.
The Pyongyang Broadcast Network channel on YouTube looks like it might be an official organ of the DPRK, with its stern propaganda videos and comically oldfangled portraits of the Kim family. And now it's running numbers videos—inscrutable recitations of numbers and words similar to the cold-war radio broadcasts of legend. Here's a report in Yonhap, […]
A drone floating serenely off the Florida coast, checking out the beaches and towers, almost gets sliced and diced by a chopper racing by. "The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation of a near collision off the Hollywood coast," reports CBS Miami. The hotel you can see at the beginning of the clip is […]
Chadwick Boseman, the star of Get on Up, Marshall, and Black Panther, is dead at 43 of colon cancer. Boseman died at his home in the Los Angeles area with his wife and family by his side, his publicist Nicki Fioravante told The Associated Press. Boseman was diagnosed with colon cancer four years ago, his […]
Keep America Great is one of Trump's key slogans in the 2020 presidential race, appearing on its merch and media. But his campaign failed to secure keepamericagreat.com, the corresponding domain name. Joe Biden bought it instead, and it now features a list of Trump's broken promises.
I recently had the laundry moved from the basement to the second floor of our house. We had a small extra room the exact width of a set of machines, with a disused (but seemingly sound) drainpipe conveniently placed in the side wall. What luck! The general work of running water and 240v was accomplished […]
Airplane Mode is a new game that simulates the exciting experience of a long plane flight in economy class. From your seat, you can watch the jet taxi and take off, enjoy snacks and meal service, dig around in your personal item carrier, play sudoko, read a book, fiddle with lights and air, or watch […]
Lake Charles in Louisiana voted only two weeks ago to keep a slaver monument installed on courthouse property. Hurricane Laura had other plans, toppling it like a domino. The Calcasieu Parish Police Jury voted 10-4 Aug. 13 to let the South's Defenders Monument remain on the grounds of a courthouse in Lake Charles. … Twitter […]
