Nov 14
The tips in Windows 95 were close to useless. Everyone turned them off. If they’d been like this, though, we’d have lapped them up like sweet golden nectar. More »
Nov 13
Nov 13
Expressing the depths of the love you feel for you partner is difficult enough as it is. It’s even harder when technology conspires against you as it does in Above Average’s latest video, Baby I Lobe You – An Autocorrected Love Song. More »
Nov 13
The GIF has been around for over 25 years, and 2012 was a huge year for the file format, and probably its most popular year yet with animated GIFs showing up all over the place. With that said, it makes sense that Oxford Dictionaries has named “GIF” the 2012 word of the year in the US, with “omnishambles” claiming the title in the UK.
GIF beat out words like YOLO, second-screening, and superstorm for this year’s crown. In the Oxford English Dictionary, GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format and is defined as “a lossless format for compressing image files,” while the verb usage is “to create a GIF file of (an image or video sequence, especially relating to an event).”
The UK’s word of the year, omnishambles, is a term that was coined by the writers of the British comedy show The Thick of It, and it’s defined as “a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.” You may remember when the word was playfully changed to “Romneyshambles” when 2012 US presidential candidate Mitt Romney questioned England’s preparations for the London Olympics, which obviously upset a lot of UK residents and officials.
Oxford’s head of the US dictionaries program, Katherine Martin, said that “GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining traction as a verb, not just a noun.” She also noted that the GIF is “a tool with serious applications including research and journalism, and its lexical identity is transforming to keep pace.”
[via Oxford University Press]
Oxford Dictionaries names “GIF” as 2012 word of the year is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Nov 13
Everyone has a friend who packs all the gear, but has no idea. When it comes to photography, that means mates who run around with their shiny new DSLR, mouthing off about their love of photography, with next to no idea of how to use any of their kit. This video boils that right down. More »
Nov 12
Nov 12
Describing any form of technology in simple English can sometimes be tricky. But try describing a space craft, and suddenly things get much, much harder. More »
Nov 09
Nov 09
The Onion’s TED parody series strikes again, this time with a savvy exploration of the biggest rock on Earth. And if that’s not big enough for you? My friends, don’t worry. We’ll just bring a bigger rock from space to Earth. More »
Nov 09
According to Conan O’Brien, Wes Anderson is the latest director to throw his hat into the ever-growing ring of potential future Star Wars directors. Check out his audition tape which is somehow even more Wes Anderson than Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums combined. [YouTube via Coudal] More »
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