Because it’s Halloween season. And because it’s one of the best costumes (and films) of all time. And because it’s playing tomorrow (Friday) night at the Museum of the Moving Image (in Astoria, Queens). That’s a Japanese poster of the Alien’s perceived anatomy, and the reality of the costume as inhabited by Bolaji Badejo, a 7’2″ Nigerian design student “discovered” in a SoHo pub – who supposedly committed suicide several years after the movie’s release (can only imagine why), and whose name has largely disappeared into obscurity.
Cmon! Everybody does it. “I wonder what Google Image Search thinks looks like me?” These are my results, below, which notably include Barack Obama, an Avatar-ed Barack Obama, I think that’s Tom Cruise, some politicians, Jon Stewart, a crazy guy in a Master Chief helmet, some religious figures, and various footballers and military officers (the jacket flare can’t quite be compared to!), among others:
And there’s a fast and furious way of doing this with any web-located image (Facebook profiles anybody) of you (or anybody!) online: in Chrome, install the Search by Image extension; then edit the extension’s options to ‘Show [camera] when hovering over an image’ and it will then do exactly that, over ANY image (jpg, png, gif!? yup!). From there it’s cakewalk. And what’s extra crazy is that your search result is databased, so there’s a hypertext URI you can bookmark for your results! (I don’t know How In The Hell that works!)
So one of my personal philosophical dilemmas is sand. Not sand at the beach, but deserts. The thought of continental sand really bothers me, it’s something my mind can’t seem to resolve. It also plagues me, thinking that there are huge, vast tracks of land that we can’t do anything with. However all that sand in the desert might be useful after all, if one Abu Dhabi-based professor has his way, making bricks from bacteria that “cement” sand without heat:
I’m not saying it resolves my notions of continental sand, but maybe there’s a sustainable architecture that can at least put me at ease!
[via dvice]
IBM is 100 years young, and unlike some high-value gadget companies they’re actually responsible for a ton of the tech we use or pass by in our daily lives – with a centennial website about their “second century”.
And no, CNN, you’re wrong, Apple in fact did not “invent” the personal computer – that’s just their monthly allowance cheque to you talking.
office killer, turn any JPG into a Commodore-64-esque image at C64yourself:
these two characters will never cease to get old. Wasn’t this like 10 years ago? Cloud vs Sephiroth, with Aeris’s cure ability thrown in for good measure:
regarding this diagram of geek culture, I disagree (or rather dis-associate) mostly with Geek Idols, and relate mostly with Geek Obsessions – what does that say about my personal geekathon?
WHOAH! 99-number alpha-numeric storage! Thank god for Physicians, Lawyers and Stockbrokers buying these things way-back-when, so that eventually they could develop the real technology of the future: a phone inside a watch! Because, you know, talking into your wrist is soooo intuitive.
