50/50 “Balls Trimmer” clip (safe for work). Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Anjelica Huston. I cannot wait for this to come out. Watch the full trailer on YouTube.
I like head-shaving scenes because (if they’re real) there is no way you can screw them up—there’s only one take, and once the hair’s gone, it’s gone. You can’t reshoot chronologically earlier scenes unless you get some really good wiggage.
Desktop, August—September 2011. Blasphemy.
francis ford coppola plots out the intensity of the scene in his notebook.
the godfatherAwesome!
Watches on rotation. That watch on the left is almost as old as I am. Hat-tip to Ernest for making me go NATO.
Qaddafi with Mubarak and Ben Ali, One Year Ago
Taken less than a year before, the photo captured the ear-to-ear smiles of the leaders of several autocratic regimes. At the center of the photo stood Gaddafi, smiling and resplendent in his golden-brown robes and trademark sunglasses.
To his far left stood then-Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, laughing, and looking for all the world like he was invincible. To his right stood then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, with Gaddafi’s elbow jauntily on his soldier.
- Stas: I had the biggest erection last night because of you.
- Me: Really? I'm not even one of the Tans running for president.
- Stas: They only hold erections once in five years, then it goes down.
Sometimes, reporters became unwitting targets of violence. An ITV trainee journalist saw his car burst into flames as rioters moved down the Liverpool street where he lived.
This is stupid. Being in the press does not preclude you from being a victim—journalist or not, his car would’ve gotten torched anyway. The only difference is that you can tell more people about it.
Apparat — Black Water
Music video for a track off Sascha Ring’s new album which drops next month. Listen to another track—Ash/Black Veil—on One Thirty BPM.
Hey hipster! Hey liberal arts! Use this in your paper!
Maslow 2.0: A New and Improved Recipe for Happiness
What are the ingredients for happiness? It’s a question that has been addressed time and again, and now a study based on the first-ever globally representative poll on well-being has some answers about whether or not a pioneering theory is actually correct.
Read more at The Atlantic
More on the Straits Times iPad app
Yesterday’s Digital Life: “In the app’s first 10 days, it had to be updated three times, as the team fixed bugs and stability issues … my advice to users is to update the app whenever it is available in the App Store.”
While yes, updating an app (or anything) whenever an update is available comes under best practices, this could also be interpreted as “we didn’t do enough testing and rushed out a product that wasn’t ready”. Like I’ve said—if you’re going to hype an app to the stars, it had better deliver the kitchen sink. At least they’ve updated the app page to not rip off the Apple website so much:
