You Belong With Me: The Same-Sex Version

Date March 9, 2010

A re-imagining of Taylor Swift’s You Belong With Me made by students from the University of Rochester for a new audience.

IPOD Touch

Date March 9, 2010

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We all recognize a good idea when we see it!

Descendants

Date March 9, 2010

Descendants is an animated short film by Heiko van der Scherm about two flowers, and the curiosity and treachery between them. In a manner that reminds me of the rabbits of Watership Down, the flowers are anthropomorphized, but still motivated primarily by the plant life cycle.

Starring Whoopi Goldberg. Run time: 14 minutes, 32 seconds.

First Official Tron Legacy Teaser Trailer Debuts

Date March 9, 2010

Tron Legacy Trailer

Disney has finally debuted the teaser trailer for Tron Legacy online. This is one of those drop everything, watch now kind of trailers. As excited as I am for Iron Man 2, I am even more excited for Tron Legacy. Ididn’t expect this trailer to be online this early, but the viral game from earlier was already solved, and here it is for your viewing pleasure in glorious high definiton at the viral site: program-glitch-esc.net. This is only a teaser and it’s our very first look at any real footage from the movie, so don’t be let down if you wanted to see more action. The song used in this is a Daft Punk song specifically made for the trailer as well. Enjoy!

Watch the teaser trailer for Joe Kosinski’s Tron Legacy:

Loondon

Date March 8, 2010

loondon.pngAll Jonah wants is to be happy. He’s courageous, loyal to friends, and kind even to strangers. Unfortunately, Jonah is one of “the malformed”, rejected by society because of his hunched back. He lives at a fair with the other outcasts. Then one day the wind blows him a handbill advertising a celebration in glittering Loondon. Could this be the answer to Jonah’s dreams? You’ll need your point and click skills to find out.

Using the mouse, click around to cause Jonah to walk, and on hotspots (highlighted by arrows) or speech bubbles to interact with the scenery or talk with people. Most of the time you’re just looking for whatever can be clicked, and that will advance the story, making this more on the “interactive art” side than the “game” side, but there are two minor puzzles.

Second Official Trailer for Marvel’s Iron Man 2!

Date March 8, 2010

Iron Man 2 Trailer

“I am Iron Man!” Robert Downey Jr. appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night following the Oscars to debut this brand new trailer for Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 which you can watch below! We all saw the first trailer for Iron Man 2 in December and although that looked awesome, I have to say, this trailer looks even better. We finally get to see lots of plot details in this, including more of Scarlett Johansson and a bit about how Sam Rockwell (as Justin Hammer) meets Mickey Rourke (as Whiplash). There are so many awesome scenes in this, I can’t freakin’ wait! What a way to kick off the summer. Watch the trailer below and enjoy!

Watch the second trailer for Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2:

A Lava Lamp on Jupiter

Date March 8, 2010

Neil Fraser wondered if a lava lamp would still work in the higher gravity environment of Jupiter. How such a question ever occurs to anyone is a matter of wonder in itself, but Fraser went ahead and built a ten-foot wide centrifuge in his living room to conduct the experiment to answer his question.

The centrifuge is a genuinely terrifying device. The lights dim when it is switched on. A strong wind is produced as the centrifuge induces a cyclone in the room. The smell of boiling insulation emanates from the overloaded 25 amp cables. If not perfectly adjusted and lubricated, it will shred the teeth off solid brass gears in under a second. Runs were conducted from the relative safety of the next room while peeking through a crack in the door.

Highlight this text for a spoiler: Yes, the lava lamp worked in 3G.

Fair & Balanced

Date March 5, 2010

PALIN: I studied journalism, my college degree there in communications. And now I am back there wanting to build some trust back in our media. I think the mainstream media is quite broken and I think there needs to be the fairness, the balance in there — that’s why I joined Fox. Fair and balanced, yes. You know because, Jay, those years ago that I studied journalism it was all about the who, what, when, where, and why, it was not so much the opinion interjected in hard news stories. … As long as there is not the opinion under the guise of hard news stories — I think there needs to be clear differentiation.

Jon Stewart addresses the subject much more incisively than I can:

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Darth Vader Riding A Cat Into Battle

Date March 4, 2010

Damnit, Darth, you’re terrorizing the entire house. I swear, where’s Luke riding a teacup pig when you need him? Haha, what do you mean he’s in his room with Leia and the door’s locked? Doesn’t he know? No?! Holy shit this is gonna be hilarious! But first: I need for you to order one of those fake “always positive” pregnancy tests.

Trampoline Dog

Date March 4, 2010

Now I want to run out and buy a trampoline just to see what my dog Slurpee would do on it.