Chris.d.woo

I’m definitely liking a lot of stuff here. Some of those continuity features are pretty great, especially the hand off stuff. I will say it’s still a bit clunky that OSX has to go through the iPhone to actually do the SMS and phone functionality. The new spotlight is going to be the go to thing for my parents, I think.

The iOS 8 stuff I’m less enthusiastic about as they seem to be pretty natural developments of previous features along with a few more items (Safari, Mail) that look to be unifying the iOS and OSX experience.  I don’t think that means we’ll get a full unity of iOS or OSX any time soon — I think we’ll have a desktop and mobile separation for some time to come.

There’s some real awkwardness to that Dr. Dre call though…

newsweek:

Master’s degrees are as common now as bachelor’s degrees were in the ’60s - Vox

That is kind of scary.

Hmmmm…

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michaeltalbot:

Jaden Smith. As Batman. At the wedding of two douchebags.

It’s not Photoshopped.

Suddenly Ben “Fucking multiple Oscars" Affleck doesn’t look like such a bad choice.

I am so confused by this.

brionsalazar:

Some people have been asking about the Geek Merit Badges I used to sell. They are available once again through my Etsy shop. 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/brionsalazar

A comparison of the new Dragon spacecraft and the old Dragon spacecraft. Brings a whole new meaning to “New Hotness.”

Hulu Eyes New Season Of ‘Community’ | Deadline:

Sources stress that conversations are preliminary and it is unclear whether they would lead to a deal, but I hear there is will on both sides. 

We would live in a beautiful world worth saving if this were to happen.

A Russian-Ukrainian Sea Launch-3SL rocket on May 26 successfully placed the Eutelsat 3B commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.

prguitarman:

gallowhill:

Tim Taylor, Domestic Erosion, 2003

That iron is all like “Fuck fuck fuck FUCK FUCK FUCKK”

That is just cool.

thugseme:

JESUS CHRIST I OPENED THE FRIDGE TO GET SOMETHING TO EAT AND THIS FUCKING THING WAS STARING AT ME

Jesus the Happy Meals actually look like the scary ass mascot?

space-pics:

Welp, that just happened.

That is just some straight up crazy right there.

Next Thursday (May 29), the company will unveil the crewed version of its Dragon spacecraft, which SpaceX hopes will be ferrying people to and from the International Space Station a few short years from now.

newsweek:

The Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones reported from India for last night’s show and found that despite a thriving and open newspaper culture, journalistic ethics look entirely different in the world’s largest democracy. “I can just go out and buy a story written about myself?” Jones asked Indian journalist Puja Gupta, around the 3:30 mark. “Yeah,” she replied.

In India, newspapers take the concept of “sponsored content” to the extreme: For a price, anyone can run a fake article or entirely manufactured opinion poll in one of the country’s 93,000 registered newspapers—without any indication that the content was purchased, Jones reported. So that’s what he did.

For $2,500, Jones bought a spot on page two of the Indian newspaper Millennium Post that carried the headline, “Poll Shows US Number A-1 Star Jason Jones Does Best Indian Election Coverage.” It is accompanied by two clearly Photoshopped photos—one with Jones’s head pasted onto a glistening, shirtless, muscled body.

The very-real article ran in the print edition, and it can be seen on the Millennium Post’s website. Anyone who hasn’t seen the Daily Show segment would have no indication that it isn’t a factual article.

'The Daily Show' Runs Entirely Made-Up Opinion Poll in Indian Newspaper

The call by one Russian official to ban Russian rocket engine use on U.S. military launches and to pull out of the International Space Station project by 2020, could have far-reaching repercussions for U.S. spaceflight if realized.

gothiccharmschool:

Oh, these are lovely.

popculturebrain:

amctv:

Time to hit ESC.

The first episode of ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ is available to watch now at AMC’s Tumblr. The first time a show has premiered on Tumblr.

I’ve been looking forward to this after not hearing anything about it at all. Should be interesting…

newsweek:

Problem of the day.

[It’s a game.]  

A game I probably shouldn’t be playing for four hours straight….

"Pi is a number not a process. Secondly, yeah so it’s got infinite digits. So what! One third has infinite digits. There is exactly as many digits in one third as in Pi! As in Ninety nine point nine nine nine nine repeating! Oh and that’s also as many digits as in numbers like, say, FIVE!"

Some fun stuff here. And it’s not really related to Tau!

mattfractionblog:

RIFLEMAN Murder supercut. 

YOU ARE WELCOME

ps he kills alfalfa switzer at 2:46

Fun fact: Deep Space Nine was pitched as The Rifleman in SPAAAAAAACE!!!! But even then I don’t think Ben Sisko killed this many people. And he used biological weapons on defenseless planets!

Also: I’m surprised nobody has thought to take all the old timey western properties and AVENGERS the crap out of them. The Rifleman, Maverick, Alias Smith and Jones, Marshall Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke), and I dunno a (way not terrible) Lone Ranger. It’d be FLIPPING GREAT!

guardian:

Matter will be created from light within a year, claim scientists

Researchers have worked out how to make matter from pure light and are drawing up plans to demonstrate the feat within the next 12 months.

The theory underpinning the idea was first described 80 years ago by two physicists who later worked on the first atomic bomb. At the time they considered the conversion of light into matter impossible in a laboratory.

But physicists at Imperial College London claim to have cracked the problem using high-powered lasers and other equipment now available to scientists. Full story »

Photograph: Lawrence Manning/Corbis

If this is true we’re entering a truly strange era of human technology.

If you don’t think the SR-71 is a sexy plane, I just don’t know what to do with you.

Well-liked children's book character Curious George visits the red planet in an upcoming episode of his TV show.

NASA has shortlisted three potential commercial partners for non-funded agreements as part of the agency's quest to land robotic spacecraft on the moon.

michaeltalbot:

chrisdwoo:

Pour one out for Community. The best comedy everyone on the internet watched but no one else did.

Prediction: It’ll end up either on Netflix, or Amazon Prime Video Whatever it’s called this week.

I doubt it’ll end up on Netflix; Sony Television doesn’t appear to have much in the way of a relationship with that company. Maybe Amazon Prime? (I’ve seen some of their library, specifically The Shield on it before) I think it’s a long shot. I’m guessing it’s the end of the road for the show.

Ikaros is a Japanese spacecraft that was the first to successfully use a solar sail at some distance from Earth.

ABC orders 'Fresh Off the Boat' to series:

As my cousin said on his Facebook, there’s going to be Asians on TV!!!

I can’t remember the last show that was strictly speaking about Asians. I’m hoping for good things.

A Russian Proton rocket carrying an advanced satellite reportedly crashed after launching toward space on Thursday (May 15). The Proton rocket may have crashed in the Pacific Ocean, according to Russian media reports.