Earlier this week an Indonesian woman gave birth to a 19.2 pound baby boy. After a successful Caesarian section the child cried unusually loud, screaming for, you guess it, his first cheeseburger.
According to LemonDrop.com: “The baby is probably the size it is because his mother is diabetic, a condition which could have raised her glucose levels and thereby the baby’s, giving him more sugar than he needed and making him grow like a superhero fetus.”
[Via LemonDrop]
This year’s Emmy winners are in bold.
Outstanding Comedy Series: Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, 30 Rock, Weeds, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, Family Guy [Tough to choose; my selection – FOTC; my prediction – 30 Rock]
Oustanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men), Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) (!), Steve Carrell (The Office), Tony Shalhoub (Monk), Jemaine Clement (FOTC)
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Kevin Dillon (Entourage), Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men), Rainn Wilson (The Office), Neil Patrick Harris (HIMYM), Tracy Morgan (30 Rock), Jack McBrayer (30 Rock)
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series: 4 nominations for 30 Rock, 1 nomination for Flight of the Conchords (James Bobin, Writer; Jemaine Clement, Writer; Bret McKenzie, Writer)
This Sunday at the Emmys TV Guide caught up with Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords fame. You can see and hear with your own eyes and ears, respectively, the brilliantly hilarious duo confirm that three of their songs from the hit HBO series will make their way to Rock Band sometime soon. This is very exciting news for all FOTC fans out there.
This calls for one thing, and one thing only…BRET’S ANGRY DANCE. Just do it, it relieves so much stress.
[Via Gizmodo]
Yeah people, that’s what I’m talking about! Thanks to contributions from all over, Kid Cudi has sold 104,419 in-store copies of his freshman album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day. He fell just shy of the number one spot behind Muse’s Resistance which sold 125,322 copies. The album landed itself at the number four spot on the charts behind Muse, Whitney Houston and Jay-Z. If you haven’t picked it up yet, do yourself a great favor and get it right this instant. It’s medicine for the soul I tell you. Here, I’ll make it easy for you:
iTunes: Man On The Moon: The End Of Day (regular edition, $9.99) // iTunes: Man On The Moon: The End Of Day (expanded edition, $11.99)
Amazon: Man On The Moon: The End Of Day (regular edition, $10.99) // Amazon: Man On The Moon: The End Of Day (expanded edition, $14.99)
[Via DatNewCudi]
Even the all-knowing orb has its issues.
Nike auctioned two special edition Air Yeezy sneakers. Each of them are one-of-a-kind and were only made available for the sole purpose of the auction.
“One pair features a black leather upper and Jordan VI bottom, the first and only time the shoe will be made available with a Jumpman logo, and the other pair is THE Air Yeezy that Kanye worn on The 50th Annual Grammy Awards.” As cool as these kicks are I cannot see anyone getting tooexcited about wanting to get a sneaker Kanye West wore at an awards show. (Tee-hee…)
However, it’s for a good cause, and they are certainly nice pairs of sneakers that come in equally nice boxes. The auctions ended last night. The Jordan VI-inspired pair sold for $7,400 and the West-worn pair sold for $16,500. DAMN! All proceeds went to the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital that’s located in Portland, Oregon.
See the gallery below for more images of the sneaker, a peek at the box, and the winning eBay pages.
[Via KanyeBlog; The Shoe Game]
Created by Strukt Design Studio.
To decorate the office space of Büro Hirzberger in Vienna Strukt realised a digital wallpaper that illuminates the walls. In this self-initated project Strukt was given complete creative freedom by the client, and developed a system to project video and realtime content undistorted onto any surface.
The basic idea was to light up the black and white striped office wall by mapping the architecture with multitple projectors. The program developed by Strukt is scripted in vvvv and is scaleable to any number of projectors and any architectural shape. Several different visualisations have been realised already, amongst it a Pac Man animation as well as moving stripes, and more are in development. The content could also be made interactive, reacting to people passing the ground-floor offices.
Very, very neat indeed.
Created by Philippe Malouin Design.
While borrowing a friend’s car for the day, I decided to have it washed to show my gratitude. I pulled into an automated carwash, and while inside, I couldn’t help but notice how the carwash brushes completely alter their shape from flimsy drooping hair covered rods to massive powerful beams. Could this quality of transformation be applied to the home sector? Where would a transforming apparatus find use in the home?
The carwash brushes go from limp, to cones, to beams. A lamp could use this whimsical feature to direct light, from a tube of light to a cone, to an open light source. The contraption, with its spinning, would produce a rather considerable amount of wind. Ceiling fans have not changed in the slightest ever since their introduction. Apart from finishes and rotation speed, they have always remained rather dull.
By morphing the ever-changing carwash brushes with a ceiling fan, a new product is achieved and completely redefines ceiling fans. The piece is called Dervish, its spinning qualities remind one of the Turkish spinning dancers going in a trance.
[Via Gizmodo; Philippe Malouin Deisgn]
Though the Xbox 360 Elite recently saw a dramatic price drop (from $399 to $299), it seems like Microsoft was not fully content with this sweet spot. Starting today, the Xbox 360 Elite console will be sold for $299 with a $50 mail-in rebate. So that’s $249 for the best next-gen console on the market; what a deal! This mail-in rebate offer runs through October 5; Microsoft has not specified what will happen to the standard price of the console after that date. Looks like Christmas may be coming early for some folks; get on this!
And the Google doodles have led up to this, a celebration of what would have been author H.G. Wells’ 146th birthday. From the “unexplained phenomena” and the mysterious phrase “all your “O” belong to us,” to the “crop circles,” and now to a scene from H.G. Wells’ famous story War of the Worlds, Google has played us all. Was the Google-plex infiltrated by aliens from another planet? Was Google planning to unveil a new logo or a new product or service? Were they attempting to show the general public and corporations alike the power of the Google doodle and how its changes can support advertisements for movies and so on? NOPE.
Google has officially stated today in a blog post that all the mysterious doodles have led to up to this one event, the birthday of H.G. Wells, and all of the doodles relate to his War of the Worlds. “Inspiration for innovation in technology and design can come from lots of places; we wanted to celebrate H.G. Wells as an author who encouraged fantastical thinking about what is possible, on this planet and beyond. And maybe have some fun while we were doing it.” Yeah, by fun you mean having bloggers like me and crazy alien theorists like the rest of us postulate for days on end thinking about a possible explanation. (Although things started to become clear with the second doodle; the coordinates Google posted on their Twitter page pointed to Horsell Commons, the initial place where the aliens landed in Wells’ novel.) Google puts a cap on this solved mystery and leaves us with this: “The invasion of the logo by alien crafts and pods makes our series complete, but you’ll have to read the book to find out how Wells’ story really ends.”
Well played Google, well played.
Update: It still doesn’t explain Google’s Street View image of these UFOs flying over London! Muhahah….
[Via Telegraph.uk; GoogleBlog]
“Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids” is, once again, the Onion News Network at its finest. Enjoy.
There’s just something about this trailer that’s getting me excited for the movie “Despicable Me.” Maybe it’s the great lineup of voice actors, the cool animation, or the awesome music played at the end of it…I just don’t know.