Before they were Saul Goodman and Tobias Funke, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross co-created one of the funniest shows ever. It was called Mr. Show (or, more fully, Mr. Show With Bob and David) and it ran four seasons on HBO, from 1995 to 1998. Mr. Show helped give the comedians a huge cult following and major pop culture cachet. Since then, each has gone off on their own, becoming very successful in different ways. Now they’re coming back together.
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross have just sold a brand new sketch comedy series called With Bob and David to Netflix. It’s just started production and will consist of four half hour episodes and a one hour “making of.” There’s more on this pseudo-Mr Show reunion below.
Deadline broke the news of the new show. As of now, Odenkirk and Cross are the only series regulars, but you can expect lots of their famous comedy friends to show up. Remember this image from December?
It’s almost certain Paul F. Tompkins and others were working on this new show. Here’s how they described it to Deadline:
After being dishonorably discharged from the Navy SEAL, Bob and David are back serving our country the way they do best: making sketch comedy. Four half-hours of brand-new comedy featuring all new characters, all new scenes and, most importantly, all new wigs.
I think bringing a short, sketch comedy series like this to Netflix is interesting. It’s basically like you’re just getting a really long Mr Show reunion movie. Four half-hours and a one-hour special can easily be digested in one sitting, unlike most of the other shows that come to Netflix. I’m curious if this series length will be something people gravitate to, or if they’ll put it off because it’s a shorter series.
Are you going to check out With Bob and David when it hits Netflix?
A trio of researchers at Stanford recently published an article in Nature that explains the curious attraction found in droplets of everyday food coloring. The paper is the culmination of hundreds of experiments that began in 2009 when Nate Circa was working on an unrelated experiment as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. Circa noticed that when drops of food coloring were placed on a slide they exhibited bizarre behaviors: identical colors would find matches while different colors would seemingly hunt each other.
Circa soon teamed up with Manu Prakash and Adrien Benusiglio who began working on a series of increasingly refined studies to understand why these single droplets appeared to mimic biological processes, resulting in behaviors that looked like chasing, dancing, or avoidance. One of the keys was the interaction of two different compounds found in food coloring: water and propylene glycol. Tom Abate writing for Stanford explains:
The critical fact was that food coloring is a two-component fluid. In such fluids, two different chemical compounds coexist while retaining separate molecular identities. The droplets in this experiment consisted of two molecular compounds found naturally in food coloring: water and propylene glycol. The researchers discovered how the dynamic interactions of these two molecular components enabled inanimate droplets to mimic some of the behaviors of living cells.
This complex behavior is something called artificial chemotaxis which Manu Prakash explains in layman’s terms in the video above:
The physical properties of these fluids give rise to this immense complexity of behavior. For example, chasing and sensing each other, and very much what we call artificial chemotaxis. Chemotaxis is the idea in biology that one single cell can sense where its enemy is, and it brings up all its machinery, and it chases that enemy to try to eat it.
If you really want to get into the nitty gritty of fluid dynamics and molecular physics you can read the full paper in Nature and a bit of a summary on Stanford News. (via, appropriately, F*ck Yeah Fluid Dynamics)
These Super Mario Super Starry Night sneakers are also super cute. Then again, we love all of TeeFury’s shoe designs. Check them out in the product link below.
Holy shit, northern hemisphere! You're like the dirty roommate!
Using data from the Earth System Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Kennedy Elliott for the Washington Post mapped average grams of carbon dioxide worldwide.
As Elliot notes, "Mapping fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions is a lot like mapping population density, because the source of this type of greenhouse gas is caused by human activity and infrastructure." So you can put away that xkcd comic on population density. But check out the shipping routes coming through in the ocean. Pretty neat.
For April Fools’ Day, Google has launched a backwards version of its search engine at com.Google. Not only is the logo reversed, but all the text and images in the search results are reversed as well.
"Everyone is Skyping instead of meeting face-to-face, and texting instead of having a real conversation. Of course they are not intended to stereotype but rather re-evaluate the way we use technology and gadgets".
Street artist/street modifier OakOak (previously) has been hard at work over the past year, transforming the streets into playgrounds for characters large and small. The French artist is a specialist in street interventions, using derelict objects like bent pipes, cracked pavement and nightly shadows as inspiration for his surprising brand of art.
In one recent example called ‘Peanuts’ he places Snoopy atop a parking meter’s shadow, which perfectly resembles the cartoon dog’s house. In another he creates a likeness of Banksy’s iconic Balloon Girl, only this time it’s Homer Simpson reaching for a tasty pink donut.
OakOak often creates temporal paste ups, sometimes using the same location more than once. See more of his creations at oakoak.fr.
HD do IBM 305 RAMAC, o primeiro da história: incríveis 5 MB
Fato: o melhor upgrade que alguém pode fazer em um computador velho de guerra é trocar o HD por um SSD. O ganho de performance é absurdo, meu notebook de 2011 virou outro depois que adquiri um HyperX de 120 GB da Kingston. Custou um braço e uma perna, mas valeu a pena.
Só que como tudo na vida não existe almoço grátis: o que uso veio para substituir um HD falecido de 640 GB e é claro, perdi muito em espaço local de armazenamento. SSDs ainda são caros demais, utilizá-los para backup, embora fosse o ideal por terem uma vida útil invejável (principalmente para alguém que viu um HD externo morrer com o famigerado “click da morte”; os anos 1990 ligaram e pediram o Zip Drive de volta) e termos modelos de até 1 TB no mercado, ainda é um custo inviável para muita gente.
Isso não impede a Intel e a Toshiba de continuarem investindo em meios de atochar mais memória no menor espaço possível: na última semana, em eventos separados ambas anunciaram produtos para o futuro baseados na tecnologia 3D NAND, que empilha os chips de memória em camadas. É semelhante à técnica apresentada pela Samsung em 2013 com o chip 3D V-NAND, permitindo que ela desenvolvesse chips para smartphones com 384 GB.
Chips 3D NAND de 48 camadas da Toshiba
Com a técnica é possível lançar chips e SSDs com capacidade de armazenamento muito maior do que os disponíveis hoje, mas sem fazer com que eles ocupem mais espaço. A Toshiba, primeira fabricante de discos sólidos apresentou o primeiro dispositivo com tecnologia 3D NAND de 48 camadas, resultando num chip de 16 GB, que segundo a fabricante é mais confiável no que tange ao processo de leitura e gravação, sem falar que sua velocidade de gravação é maior. A empresa japonesa vai enviar amostras para os parceiros, mas adiantou que novos produtos com a tecnologia só estarão disponíveis daqui a um ano.
Chips 3D NAND de 32 camadas da Intel: 32 GB de espaço em cada um
Ao mesmo tempo, a Intel em parceria com a Micron revelou já estar produzindo seus chips 3D NAND de 32 camadas, e também fixaram para 2016 a introdução dos primeiros produtos com a tecnologia embarcada. Eles trabalham com chips de 32 GB e já prometeram uma versão de 48 GB para breve. Ela adiantou entretanto que é perfeitamente possível fabricar SSDs de 3,5 TB do tamanho de um chiclete (provavelmente um mSATA), bem como modelos tradicionais de 2,5 polegadas com suculentos 10 TB de espaço.
O legal disso tudo é que num futuro próximo, com modelos de capacidades maiores no mercado o preço geral do SSD tende a cair, permitindo que modelos de até 1 TB virem commodities e possam enfim tomar o lugar do HD, o que é benéfico para todo mundo. Por enquanto fica o aviso: quando esses SSDs de 10 TB chegarem, é bom que você esteja sentado quando ouvir o preço.
Mal posso esperar pra "Elite: Dangerous" ter pouso em planetas :P
A visualization by Halcyon Maps (previously) shows a sunset scene with the Sun being replaced by other stars of various size and brightness. The visualization only takes size and brightness into account, since the reality is that liquid water and life on Earth would most likely not exist at the same distance from the other stars.
Hovertext: In Robot romantic comedies, everyone finds their perfect mate with no difficulty. The humor comes from imagining doing that without a digital brain.
Australian photographer Ray Collins first picked up a camera in 2007 and used it to photograph his friends surfing around his home after long shifts working in a nearby coal mine. His attention quickly shifted from his friends to patterns and forms he noticed in the waves. Collins, who is colorblind, was also drawn to the interplay of light and water, perhaps more attune to contrast than the nuance of color. He poetically refers to this switch from coal miner to fine art photographer as a balance between his “black life and blue life.”
The accolades, awards, and sponsorships have been heaped on Collins leading to the publication of his first book, Found at Sea, he also has a wide variety of prints on his website, and you can follow his photography day-to-day on Instagram. (via Laughing Squid)
