Mrdesplainesdick!
Seriously, who does that?
Robinson's mother, Mary Kirby, defended her son, saying, "he had to be high on something. It’s very out of his character."
Vans takes you back to a heated contest showdown between Hosoi and a rookie Wookie. Check the footage here.
Scientists have found that the game is less random than it appears because winners tend to replay their winning choice and losers try something else — but according to a predictable pattern.
Researchers from the FOM Foundation and the University of Amsterdam believe they have discovered the method by which ancient Egyptians transported statutes and large stones used to build their pyramids: wet sand. The scientists were able to reduce the friction of sand by pouring the correct amount of water on it, enabling them to more easily transport an object along its surface.
The formation of capillary water bridges increases the shear modulus of the sand, which facilitates the sliding. Too much water, on the other hand, makes the capillary bridges coalesce, resulting in a decrease of the modulus; in this case, we observe that the friction coefficient increases again.
The theory is seemingly supported by the discovery of a wall painting discovered in the tomb of 12th Dynasty ruler Djehutihotep, which shows a figure pouring water out in front of a statue transported by sled.
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The latest video game in the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, has been revealed by publisher Activision and developer Sledgehammer Games. The video game looks at battlegrounds and warfare of the future, features the voice and likeness of actor Kevin Spacey, and is scheduled for release on November 4th, 2014.
Mrdesplainesi have a pic someplace of a dude eating mayo outta the jar on the el.. so nasty!
You can definitely have too much of a good thing.
Mrdesplainesstill a dickhead for riding that thing..
Flash floods around the Pensacola, Fla. area covered sidewalks and stranded cars, but they couldn't stop one man and his really tall bike. They all laughed at him and his impractical contraption, but who's laughing now?
In this video, a guy ties his motorcycle to two ropes that are attached to a sturdy tree branch then rides it back and forth. The daredevil builds up quite a bit of momentum, after getting the hang of his dangerous custom swing.
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A keyboard by East London technology start-up ROLI, with soft keys that allow musicians to alter the pitch, volume and timbre of individual notes, has come out on top in the Designs of the Year 2014 product category (+ slideshow). (more...)
What a nice surprise to find for a morning shower.
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Mrdesplaineswhat bad fortune..
I have, on at least one prior occasion, said that I hoped to one day die in a giant vat of cookie dough. A terrible story out of Houston, in which a 26-year-old man was found dead inside a giant industrial-sized fortune cookie mixer on Sunday, makes me feel like I should take it back.
Mrdesplaines90z shoe for paul..
Nike is channeling vintage Andre Agassi with this latest edition of the Nike Air Tech Challenge II, featuring an OG colorway lifted straight from Agassi’s early days (back when the tennis phenom’s mantra was “Image is everything”). The shoe is built with a white leather base, dressed in perforated detailing at the toe box and quarter panels, plus accenting pops of blue and red throughout the mid-top silhouette. Cascading cubes replace the signature paint splatter traditionally associated with the Air Tech Challenge, but the ’90s aesthetic remains firmly intact. The kicks launch this Saturday at Invincible. Stay tuned for word on a U.S. release.
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After our detailed look at the Parisian model, Nike gives us a more complete look at the next set of cities they’ve chosen to honor for driving style, design, and sport via their “City Packs.” Comprised of three new Free Run OG’s, the pack celebrates Tokyo, Milan, and Paris, each featuring their own unique color scheme fitting of the feel of their urban landscapes, including a Dark Olive suede and black for Tokyo, a Royal blue and grey for Paris, and Milan received shades of brown and red. Continue after the jump to see more looks at each and head to your favorite local shop to cop, including Hype DC this week and globally beginning May 17.
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MrdesplainesWHATTA KOOK!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Gothamist, for bringing us Kalan.
Law school graduate Brian Sloan has crowd-funded this plug-in device, which is apparently good for at least “1,000 hours of continued use”.
He has been crowdfunding this contraption on Indiegogo – on which point:
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Let's hope Abrams brings this little guy back. Photo via Flickr user State Farm
Star Wars is one of the most beloved film franchises of all time. The original movies spawned mountains and mountains of merchandise along with hundreds of novels, comic books, TV shows, and Christmas specials—making George Lucas a very wealthy guy in the process—which attests to the fact that everyone loves Star Wars, except for the people who really love it, who tend to hate it.
Let me paint you a picture of the inside of a Star Wars fanatic's head: Imagine watching two amazing movies that created a rich universe, a fantasy worth escaping into, a nuanced struggle between good and evil whose conclusion would inevitably be even more thrilling than the adventures that preceded it. Those movies were Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, and they are the only Star Wars movies worth liking. And people like them. A lot. They like them so much that even as Lucas systematically shitted on his own legacy by making Return of the Jedi and three vomit-inducingly horrible prequels, people continued to love Star Wars with the earnestness that only children should possess. A lot of this has to do with the fact that for many fans, Star Wars and their childhoods are inextricably linked, to the point where even after they realized Lucas had been making children's movies all along, they continued to hold out hope that perhaps, just once, the creator of the Force would decide that making a well-crafted film that would appeal to adults was better than churning out another shitty, very expensive kids' movie that moves a lot of toys off shelves. For a large part of my life, I have been one of these people.
I say that to say this: Yesterday, the cast of the next Star Wars movie was announced. The as-of-now unnamed film, helmed by J. J. Abrams (you're either going to know everything this dude's done or not care enough to click his Wikipedia page), will star OG Star Wars actors Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels (C-3P0), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), and Kenny Baker (R2-D2), along with a bunch of newcomers including Andy Serkis, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Max von Sydow, Domhnall Gleeson, and Adam Driver. In case you don't recognize those guys by name, Andy Serkis played Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, and Adam Driver—rumored to be playing the main villain of the film—is best recognized as Hannah's boyfriend on Girls. Understandably, fans of Star Wars are not excited about one of the stars of a show that is basically Thought Catalog made flesh coming into their universe.
But I'm not here to complain about Driver. I'm here to tell you, as an almost embarrassingly knowledgeable Star Wars nerd, there are three ways the film will go, and I'm not very excited about two of them. They are as follows:
1. Given that the film is being directed by Abrams, it's tempting to say that the director will treat his source material about as gently as he treated Star Trek when he rebooted the franchise. In that case, the dude literally ripped a hole in the space-time continuum and created an alternate timeline that he could fuck around in. Still, the presence of the original cast suggests this probably won't happen, unless Abrams has brought them back as a red herring to appease fans, giving them cameo appearances (he did this with Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek) before veering wildly off in his own direction, creating an effective but ultimately bland sci-fi action movie that happens to contain elements of the Star Wars universe. The plot to this nonexistent movie would feature a Jedi academy helmed by all of the characters from the original movies and resemble the Harry Potter books crossed with Die Hard 7 or whatever, but in space, with an unnecessary Ewok scene. That would fucking suck and be the final nail in the coffin of a franchise whose coffin already has a healthy number of nails in it. In this version of the new Star Wars, the dude from Girls personally kills every original cast member in the first scene.
2. It's possible, if not probable, that Abrams will choose to adapt some of the reams of available source material from the Star Wars Expanded Universe, such as The New Jedi Order or Legacy of the Force novels—which are dense, convoluted, and not very fun to read. While pleasing fans nerdy enough to have powered through these books, if Abrams chooses this path Star Wars: Episode VII won't make much money, as most people are not going to be all "Hell fucking yes! Give me some Ganner Rhysode!" The plot would resemble one of the Star Trek movies that they let William Shatner direct crossed with one of the episodes of The Wire that is devoted to union politics, and will feature a 30-minute scene in which Luke Skywalker, now head of the Jedi Council, debates Bantha domestication policy with Han Solo as well as a character played by the boyfriend on Girls. I would watch the shit out of this movie.
3. The dream scenario: Abrams miraculously doesn't fuck it up and comes up with an original story that pays homage to the truly great things the Star Wars movies have accomplished and the good parts of Lucas's legacy while not getting bogged down in the minutiae that tends to plague well-loved franchises with annoying, protective fan bases. This movie would allow each original cast member to have a significant role in the film while also managing a seamless torch-passing between them and the next generation of Star Wars actors. The plot of this film would resemble that of a Kurosawa movie, there would be zero Ewoks or Jedi academies, and the dude from Girls would die in, like, the third scene.
Since this world is deeply unfair, the new Star Wars will probably somehow manage to combine the most disappointing elements of scenarios one and two, causing sadness. Good luck, J. J. Abrams!
Drew Millard is the features editor at Noisey and is down to talk about the plots of Expanded Universe novels if you follow him on Twitter.
Ohagi the cat doesn’t let anything distract him when stalking prey. His his concentration is locked, his green-eyed laser beam is focused as his little kitty butt goes into full wiggle, lining himself up for the kill.
The cast of the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII movie has been announced. Joining actors Harrison Ford (Han Solo), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia Organa), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), and Kenny Baker (R2-D2) from the original films will be John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow. It’s unclear exactly which roles the new actors will be filling.
Shooting is set to begin a couple weeks from now, according to director J.J. Abrams, with a screenplay by Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan. Star Wars: Episode VII is set to release in theaters on December 18th, 2015.
Director J.J. Abrams says, “We are so excited to finally share the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again. We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud.”
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Mrdesplainesi shared this only cuz the pic of ozzy is amazing...
Parents’ amps go to 11.
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The Guitardoorbell is a half-size acoustic guitar that sits above a doorway, alerting you with a strum every time someone opens the door. Created by Dave Lynch, the owner of Guitar Workshop in Sacramento, the device is a fully functioning instrument that can be removed from the mount and played.
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It's Saturday afternoon and you're in an empty subway car (that apparently wasn't cleared out by the overpowering smell of poop). There's only one logical thing to do—twirl around like the hills are alive with the sound of music— and Jordan Muller did it.
Former math teacher and stay-at-home dad Nathan Shields of Saipancakes has created an awesome series of pancakes that resemble characters and creatures from the Star Wars films. We’ve previously written about Nathan and his creative pancakes.
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Nevermind, you eediot! by Dennis Salvatier
WHOA…GNARLY! is an upcoming group art show at Ltd. Art Gallery in Seattle featuring artwork that celebrates great pop culture moments from the 1990s. The show will open on Friday, May 2nd, 2014 from 10 PM – 2 AM and be on display until June 15th. You can RSVP for the event online via Facebook.
Here is a list of the featured artists:
Gregory Attonito, Mike Bell, Barry Blankenship, Robert Bruno, Craig Church, Mona Collentine, Nick Comporone, Maxime Crouzet, Laurel Dodge, Jaymee Donelson, Leslie Gauthier, Lauren Gregg, Stephen Hayford, Blain Hefner, Andy Helms, Jim Horwat, Suzanne Kaufman, Nan Lawson, Jason Liwag, Dev Madan, Vikram Madan, Karin Madan, Jason Middleton, Mikeatron, Melissa Monosmith, Mike Oncley, Vlad Rodriguez, Dennis Salvatier, John Seuferling, Kevin Jay Stanton, Derek Sullivan, Karl Tangle, Emiliz Tolibas, Rich Werner, Dan White, Shanti Wintergate, Seth Wolfson, and Ken Wong.
Power Rangers by Jaymee Donelson
Gremlins 2 The New Batch by Maxime Crouzet
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Friendly harbor seals swimming around near the Farne Islands, UK were more than willing to accept head and belly rubs from SCUBA diving photographer Jason Neilus who captured the beautiful animals on GoPro video.
Yes, those are the rare 2003 Supreme x Nike Dunk High… Since sneakers are now an essential part of any fashionistas’ wardrobes, online publication Refinery29 recently visited several New York City-based sneakerheads to see what’s in their stashes. Representing the Melting Pot that is NYC, the list starts off with Wendy Lam of Nitrolicious and her NYLON x Nike Dunks, Mike Salzano of DeadStockNYC and his pristine Supreme x Nike Dunk High, Complex‘s Gina Battle, who secured a pair Nike LeBron 9 GS “South Beach”, Lisa Toff’s ASICS Gel Noosa TRI, and Ant Hull of MTV with his incomparable collection of Winnie the Pooh x VANS. More than just a showcase of their collections, the profile highlights each individual’s take on style and common love for kicks. Read the full report over now at Refinery29…
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Today in #cool #teens, here's a Japanese kid who attached his toothbrush to the slide of the Airsoft version of a Glock 18c pistol, turning it into the most ridiculous automatic oral hygiene system in the world.
