Feb 11
Hate typing on your Android keyboard? No problem. Snapkeys is a replacement for your QWERTY foe that’s unlike anything you’ve ever used. More »
Feb 11
Photos become clutter when they sit unlooked at in piles, bags, boxes or on the hard-drive on your computer.
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Feb 11
A little cologne is mysterious. It says to a woman, “There’s more here, if you dare to look closer.” Too much cologne screams, “I’m concealing something.” Fellas, don’t make your woman run for the hazmat suit. Less is more.
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More on Video
Feb 11
Regular season pro hoops action takes this weekend off for the All-Star Game, while NHL action is in full swing. Reality TV fans have new season of long running series Survivor and The Amazing Race to look forward to, and a new Bond is coming home on Blu-ray. Look below for the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.
NBA All-Star Weekend
Celebs, up and coming players, and the league’s top stars (as voted by fans and coaches) collide this weekend in Houston for the 2013 NBA All-Star Game. As always, there’s some conflict about who is most qualified to play, and the usual controversy about whether or not the dunk contest will be any good this year. We’ll be keeping an eye on the Rising Stars game Friday night to see which first or second year players are the best, and the second half of the ASG itself to see if Dwyane Wade hits Kobe in the face (again).
(All weekend, ESPN / TNT)
Skyfall
James Bond is back, in a nicely shot entry in the series. This flick has a slightly different angle as Bond, M and the rest of the agents find themselves under attack directly, but as usual Daniel Craig is up to the task.
($19.99 on Amazon)
State of the Union
Clear your Tuesday night schedule on several networks, as the President takes the stage for the first State of the Union Address of his second term in office. Regardless of your affiliation or even interest in politics, it does provide a good opportunity to compare/contrast the quality of each network’s feed.
(February 12th, 9PM)
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Feb 11
“It is a figure that is contemplating and invites me to come and think with it.” -Soyoung Lee on a mid-7th century Pensive Bodhisattva
Come think with this serene statue: enjoy it from every angle with a complete, 360-degree view.
Feb 11
Darron T. Smith, Ph.D.: Status Competition and the Threat of Black Male Violence?
Posted in: Today's Chili More gun control is merely a Band-Aid to our social ills and does not address the underlying causes of oppressive and institutional structures that are tightly linked to American inequality as reflected in wealth and income distribution.
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Feb 11
This Song Will Blow Your Mind Today
Posted in: Today's Chili
You have to watch Beck sing Bowie’s Sound and Vision together with director Chris Milk and 167 musicians, including a couple of choirs that will give you goosebumps. It’s a masterpiece. Remember to experience it till the very end. You will not regret it. More »
Feb 11
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 82nd & Fifth: FINE DINING by Chris Lightfoot
Posted in: Today's Chili“It’s the smaller objects that really speak to you directly as an individual, as a person.” -Chris Lightfoot on an Imperial Roman silver spoon and fork
Imagine you’re indulging in an ancient Roman dinner party while twirling this silver spoon and fork combination a complete 360 degrees.
Feb 11
If you’re a fan of RoboCop — and if you were a child of the ’80s, why wouldn’t you be? — then today might be your lucky day. A ten-foot-tall prop of the executive-gunning ED-209 is now available for purchase on eBay for the low, low price of $25,000. Okay, so that’s not exactly cheap for what isn’t even a real working bot, likely made as either a stand-in or a marketing piece. It also apparently needs a couple of wooden planks to stand on its own and was built for the infinitely less cool RoboCop 2. Still, did we mention this thing is ten feet tall? And its leg extensions contain metal bars and pneumatic cylinders? And there are real electrical connections below the legs there? Sure, it might not actually power up, but it’s certainly more intimidating than the robotic officers we have now. So go ahead and bid on it if you have the cash; just keep it away from stairs.
Filed under: Robots
Via: Badass Digest, Kotaku
Source: eBay
Feb 11
Last week I reported on the federal appeals court hearing over the lawsuit that seeks to stop the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012.
A few hours later, I co-moderated two panels on the lawsuit and more broadly on anti-NDAA activism. Some of the panelists included NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, journalist and activist Chris Hedges, and filmmaker Michael Moore. If you’re looking to kill a couple hours, you can watch the panels below. I promise it will be more enjoyable than being judged by a drone court.
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