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Study Finds Most Gay Male Sex Workers Not Crazy, Drug Addicts, Or Gay
In White House down at 51:00 the villain is searching through a...
firehoselove it when movie interfaces feel the need to use both an acronym and the spelled-out meaning of it
In White House down at 51:00 the villain is searching through a database to delete his “record”. On the bottom right you can see scrolling C# code.
The appears to be a Microsoft example of decrypting data. So, kind of relevant.
womeninspace: Kristin Fisher, daughter of astronauts Anna...
Kristin Fisher, daughter of astronauts Anna Fisher and William fisher, looks into mission control during the first mission of her mother. Kristin was about 15 months old when her mother traveled into space.
Source: KristinFisherHand (Instagram of Kristin Fisher)
"Little Girls Are Better At Designing Superheroes Than You" is a...
"Little Girls Are Better At Designing Superheroes Than You" is a small project where I draw superheroes based on the costumes of young girls.
This original submission is MEGA MUSCLE GIRL
SHE WILL SAVE YOU
WITH HER MUSCLES!!
loungezombie: katyissuperawesome: zethian: Legolas what the fuck happened to your elf...
firehoseI can see the face of the VFX guy being told he has to make Orlando Bloom's eyes blue in every frame because nerds
Legolas what the fuck happened to your elf eyes
LEGOLAS WHAT THE FUCK DID YOUR ELF EYES SEE
fun fact: Orlando Bloom’s eyes are naturally dark brown, but when playing Legolas wears blue contacts. but in the LOTR films sometimes they forgot to put the contact lenses in.
In the Hobbit films they seem to have taken extra care to remember the contact lenses…
that is actually hilarious
In the commentary they also discussed that Orlando scratched his cornea for some time and couldn’t wear them so they tried to digitally alter them as often as they could. Also budgets are a thing that exist.
Apple's Phil Schiller unfollowed Nest CEO Tony Fadell on Twitter
firehoseOH BURN
Apple SVP of global marketing Phil Schiller has long been a vocal proponent of Apple products, unafraid to cast an unfavorable eye on the company's competitors. Now, only days after Google announced the purchase of Nest for a whopping $3.2 billion, Schiller has opted to unfollow both the company and Nest CEO Tony Fadell on Twitter.
Schiller, it can be inferred, must not be pleased with the acquisition — especially considering Fadell's being an instrumental former colleague at Apple. With Nest now firmly in Google's grasp, the move looks like a principled stand against Mountain View. Indeed, this isn't the first time Schiller has taken a hard line against Google. Earlier this year, the marketing chief called Android a 'cheap replacement for a feature phone' in the run-up to the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4. He even dropped his Instagram account after the app landed on Android last year, saying it "jumped the shark" in making the move to the OS.
Schiller may think Nest jumped the shark
Despite Schiller's apparent displeasure, Nest devices still have a comfortable place in the Apple Online Store. However, even though Fadell told The Verge earlier this week that he hopes customers can purchase the thermostat and smoke detector "wherever they want to purchase them," it may not be long before both products get the boot.
- Via 9to5Mac
- Source Phil Schiller (Twitter)
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Idle Cars
firehoseMeanwhile, in Portland
I am very sorry that I hassled you about leaving your car idling for so long. When I see people doing that it is frustrating because it seems ignorant, piggish, and disgusting. In this case I grew increasingly frustrated because your car exhaust was coming into my car. I could not have known that your kid/s have a rare and terminal hereditary disease, and that this requires you to run the heater for them. It did cross my mind that you were lying so that I would feel bad because people do crazy shit like that, but your level of anger did not indicate this. That level of anger accompanies a life that is painful and difficult and deserving of compassion, not criticism, I am so sorry.
Shoppers fret about authenticity of Target emails - San Jose Mercury News
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Shoppers fret about authenticity of Target emails San Jose Mercury News NEW YORK -- An email sent to the roughly 70 million Target customers who may have been affected by a pre-Christmas data breach is causing panic among those who fear it could be an attempt to victimize them again. Target says the email, which offers free ... Credit info breach left questions, concernsMuncie Star Press Shoppers fret about authenticity of Target emailCherry Hill Courier Post Actually Two Attacks In One, Target Breach Affected 70 to 110 Million CustomersForbes New York Times -FOX 4 News all 657 news articles » |
Political Roundtable
Horizon Is The Cure For Vertical Video Syndrome We've Been Waiting For
firehoseno, it's not; it just auto-crops video to be horizontal, resulting in shitty, low-res clips
the solution is to rotate your damn phone, or just get used to the fact that home video is moving to a vertical orientation and get over it
iPhones Are Making Banks Rethink Brick-And-Mortar Branches
firehosegreat; war on poor beat
banking not inaccessible enough already, yet mandatory for participation in society? require a smartphone!
Putin: Gays Must 'Leave Children In Peace'
Chrome Is the New C Runtime
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Almost None Of The Bills Introduced Into Congress Ever Becomes A Law
Darren Sharper arrested on felony charges
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Former NFL safety Darren Sharper has been arrested on felony charges in Los Angeles.
Former NFL safety Darren Sharper has been arrested on felony charges, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's web site. The 38-year-old former NFLer was arrested on Friday afternoon in Los Angeles and is being held on $200,000 bail.
The exact charges against Sharper are unknown at this point.
Sharper most recently played for the New Orleans Saints and was a key member of their 2009 Super Bowl winning season. Sharper also had stints for the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers in his 14 year NFL career.
Sharper currently is an analyst for NFL Network.
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You can get Dunkin’ Donuts in Bulgaria and Oman, but not in Minnesota
Dunkin’ Donuts, with its neon-sprinkled confections and sugary coffee drinks, might seem like a peculiarly American craze. But the American donut and coffee chain is a surprisingly global business, with a presence in more than 30 countries. The company generated about 20% of its revenues in international markets in the third quarter, compared to about 24% for rival Starbucks.
In one of the clearest signs yet of its parent Dunkin’ Brands’s global ambitions, the company this week signed a ”multi-million pound” sponsorship agreement with English soccer team Liverpool Football Club. This makes sense; Dunkin has an extensive footprint in Asia (where it was embroiled in a racism scandal last year) and recently announced plans to enter the UK; Liverpool is one of the biggest teams in England and also has a large and devoted fan base in Asia.
But the even more surprising thing about the donut maker is that while its overseas expansion is ticking along nicely, inside the US, its footprint remains heavily concentrated in the northeast.
It has no presence in large swathes of America’s northwest, and a very limited presence in many major states in the interior and west. Currently, it only has two stores in California, and none Minnesota (though it plans to expand in both states over the next two years). As the Wall Street Journal reported this week, nearly two-thirds of the company’s stores are in 10 northeast cities: it had more stores in Rhode Island than in all of Texas.
By contrast, when it comes to Starbucks coffee shops, you’re within 170 miles of one when you set foot anywhere in the continental US. So America doesn’t so much run on Dunkin as do globe-trotters and the diehard Dunkin lovers of the American northeast.
SayIt is the civic software for publishing “smart” transcripts
MySociety, the "e-democracy project" behind FixMyStreet and FixMyTransport, has launched a piece of civic software called SayIt, which publishes transcripts of speeches in a way that is easy to access and share.
SayIt is an open-source tool that has been built in collaboration with the Poplus network. The aim is to provide a resource for people who want to run websites and apps that can keep track of what politicians and other powerful people say. Transcripts can be stripped out of PDFs—a search-unfriendly data format—and published to SayIt so that they are easy to search and analyze.
The mobile-optimized publishing tool has built-in search functionality and allows people to link directly to any part of the transcripts. SayIt can be used as a hosted service or it can be built into a third-party website. In fact, MySociety says that SayIt's main purpose is to be built into other sites.
VPN Encryption Vulnerability On Android
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'No plans' for a Halo movie, says Microsoft
tastefullyoffensive: Animals Wearing HoodiesPreviously: Animals...
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Necromancy is - and will continue to be - fucking sweet, so I invented a thesis to have an excuse to play around with forces beyond my control
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German, NYU
Mr Chicken: the genius who paints London's fried-chicken signs
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London's fried chicken restaurants are a bizarre and wonderful institution -- generally, they have American-ish names (Dixy Fried Chicken, Southern Fried Chicken, Carolina Fried Chicken) and KFC-ish logos, all carefully titrated to be just far enough from the KFC version to keep the Colonel's savage attack-lawyers at bay. I photograph these places semi-compulsively, but I never knew (until today) that all their signs were designed by a single virtuoso fried-chicken sign-painter named Morris "Mr Chicken" Cassanova, who warrants his own chapter in Siâron Hughes's 2009 book Chicken: Low Art, High Calorie. A post on Creative Review excerpts Hughes's interview with Mr Chicken:
Siâron: In London, how much of the signage would you say you’re responsible for?Morris: I would say 90% of the logos that’s been used out there now, was originally designed by ourselves. People see them and try to change them around a little bit, and you will see somewhere along the line somebody will have something looking similar to that. It’s not all about the bits and pieces that goes with it, they will automatically try to copy it.
Siâron: There’s lots of mimicking America going on isn’t there?
Morris: Yeah, yeah the majority of shop owners out there they want for some reason or other, because Kentucky Fried Chicken is an American company, they wants to give the impression that they are linked with the American fast food chain. In the past Kentucky usually have a little logo, a little slogan, “American Recipe,” people used to copy that. I mean a lot of people still try, and we say, “Oh that’s old fashioned, people not using that again.” Because they try to pull the wool over people’s eyes, you get your Dallas, it’s American, you get your California, it’s American, you get your Mississippi it’s American, and so forth and so on, and people just use those names to link with America just as well as they’re using their recipe, y’know. You hardly ever see a sign saying English Fried Chicken, or with an English name or anything like that.
Siâron: You’ve already mentioned how the menus aren’t necessarily very American anymore?
Morris: No it’s not so American anymore, because people eventually found out it doesn’t matter anymore, once the product is good and it’s selling that’s all people is interested in. In the early days when Kentucky first came over everyone was brain-washed, y’know? It’s American and it’s good, it’s gotta be good because it’s American. It’s not just chicken shops it’s pizza, too. You get people like Domino Pizza or Pizza Hut. You find other little shops they learn how to do pizza and wise up to it, once the quality of your product is good you’ve got companies like Perfect Fried Chicken, which looks different and changes their logo.
Meet Mr Chicken (Thanks, Alice!)
tacticalwarhead: Creepy military units around the world. From...
Creepy military units around the world.
From top to bottom: Taiwanese special forces, Taiwanese special forces, Iranian army, French special forces, Danish frogmen corps.
Kobe Bryant and Rajon Rondo call each other names, lovingly
This, between borderline sociopathic competitors, is real flattery.
Kobe Bryant and Rajon Rondo are both otherworldly basketball players, both champions, and both -- most everyone agrees -- pretty bizarre, hyper-competitive, occasionally disagreeable guys. Their teams faced off Friday night in Boston, the Lakers without Kobe and the Celtics with Rondo for the first time all year. As both have dealt with rehabbing injuries amid losing situations, the two were asked about one another, and exchanged pitch-perfect compliments:
Kobe on how Rondo will survive the rebuild: "From what I understand he's an asshole like me, so he'll manage."
— Paul Flannery (@Pflanns) January 17, 2014
Rondo, on being called an asshole by Kobe: "That's a great compliment, coming from Kobe. I feel the same way about him."
— Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) January 18, 2014
Awwwwwww guys.
It had to happen.
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It had to happen.
Humble Weekly Sale: Bohemia Interactive madness
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Rufus Deuchler's Adobe Creative Cloud Alerts for Designers #5 - January 16, 2014
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▶ Typing Audio sound For Relaxation - YouTube
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