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Dr Grordbort’s Steampunk Adventure in Spaaaaaace!

James — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:21:14 +0000

Based on the designs from WETA Workshop in New Zealand, a group from the Media Design School has produced a short film. It is one-hundred percent awesome retro-futurist fantasy full of wonderful anachronisms.

Apple Announces Giant Solar Array

James — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:49:06 +0000

As kind of a ramp up for March 7th’s iPad 3 event, Apple has announced that they are planning to build a massive 20 megawatt solar array to power its data center in Maiden, North Carolina. It’ll provide 42 million kWh of clean energy each year. To help put that in perspective, the average US household uses between 8500 and 14,000 kWh per year. A similar facility could provide power to 3000-4500 homes. As solar gets cheaper and more practical, it’s great to see companies like Apple getting involved. Hopefully they’ll start incorporating solar power into their products. Maybe I’m just a future-snob, but this is 2012, why are we still using batteries?

Full Article via Inhabitat

Superhero-shaped UAV’s Flying Over New York City

James — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:25:30 +0000

This is brilliant.

Monty Python Get Back Together To Do Absolutely Anything

James — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:16:44 +0000

The living members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus will be getting back together for “Absolutely Anything,” a new movie about a man who is endowed with the power to do “absolutely anything” by aliens. So kind of like Bruce Almighty, but with aliens and Monty Python. I am more excited than a grown man should be about a movie. IMDB doesn’t have a lot of info, but the date says 2012, so I’m hoping for a late 2012 or early 2013 release.

Full Article at Screenhead

Mad Max As A Panda

James — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:45:09 +0000

Yeah, you read that right.

Wastelander Panda Prologue from Epic Films on Vimeo.

Online File Storage Industry Shaken Up

James — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:39:42 +0000

A shockwave has rippled through the online file storage industry this week after file-sharing giant MegaUpload was raided in New Zealand for various copyright conspiracy charges. Within the past 48-72 hours, several other sites have shut down completely or drastically changed the way they work, only allowing users to share files with themselves after logging into the site. This is a massive response to one incident and it remains to be seen how permanent these changes are, but one thing’s for sure: the Internet is going through some growing pains. The next year is going to be very exciting.

Jon Stewart Defends Nerds as Experts

James — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:28:13 +0000

The Daily Show has been silent about SOPA and PIPA but after a Redditor brought it up in person, Jon Stewart agreed to look into it. When the Internet blackout occurred yesterday, he had to chime in. Here’s the video of that:

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MPAA Blog Attacks Ars Technica, Says They Help Pirates

James — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:45:07 +0000

In what Boing Boing reports as a “window to the MPAA’s soul,” the MPAA has published a blog post where they accuse Ars Technica of having a history of challenging efforts to curb content theft. For anyone who regularly reads Ars Technica, this might seem a little heavy-handed. If anything, Ars Technica is only guilty of investigative journalism. They don’t ONLY challenge efforts to curb content theft, they simply fact-check and report on relevant stories. Yes, they oppose unfettered censorship of the internet on behalf of the MPAA. Of course they do. Anyone with any stake in the tech industry does. So now instead of focusing on attacking grandparents and children for file-sharing, the MPAA is going after the media for calling them out.

Link to the MPAA Blog Post

Justin Beiber “Introduces” Speaker Robot

James — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:32:02 +0000

At CES every year, you’re bound to see some awesome new gadgets, but the best part is the stuff that’s just a total WTF. For example, a Vietnamese toymaker has released a robot that has a built-in speaker and they got Justin Bieber to introduce it in a few peculiar way…

Is this NSFW?

Full Article at UPI

Tim Cook Makes How Much?

James — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:06:52 +0000

Contrary to Steve Jobs’ famous $1 a year salary, Apple’s new CEO, Tim Cook, makes a hefty $900,000 a year, but the majority of his compensation comes in stock options. He received 1 million restricted shares of Apple, Inc. stock that will vest in 2016 and 2021. At the time of the deal in August, it worked out to about $376 million dollars.

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