Move Over, Chicken Soup!: Eye Candy For The Soul — International Space Station Passes Over Stormy Africa
January 20, 2012
Since some of us require continuous reminders that the earth is really a stunning place and not just a breeding ground for miserable, greedy assholes, here’s a brief video taken from the International Space Station passing more than a really stormy Africa, with the Milky Way serving as a backdrop. Just focus on taking deep breaths and watch it a handful of times, you will feel much better I promise. Just relaaaaaax. Let oneself go and knowledge a greater plane of consciousness. Now quit your job and join my cult. No? It was worth a try!
Hit the jump for the damn, possibly earth ain’t so poor following all.
Milky Way Timelapse of the Day [geeks.thedailywh.at]
Thanks to el diablo (give it to me straight — how many souls do i have to collect for immortality?) and Mark, who are convinced the space station is fake and all these videos are computer generated. Oh come — this is not the moon landing!
Adam Lashinsky’s look ‘Inside Apple’ will be released on January 25th
Inside APPLE reveals the secret methods, strategies and leadership techniques that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit soon after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its items.If Apple is Silicon Valley’s answer to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky supplies readers with a golden ticket to step within. In this primer on leadership and innovation, the author will introduce readers to concepts like the “DRI” (Apple’s practice of assigning a Immediately Accountable Individual to each and every process) and the Top rated 100 (an annual ritual in which 100 up-and-coming executives are tapped a la Skull & Bones for a secret retreat with firm founder Steve Jobs).
Primarily based on quite a few interviews, the book provides unique new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. Lashinsky, a Senior Editor at Significant for Fortune, knows the topic cold: In a 2008 cover story for the magazine entitled The Genius Behind Steve: Could Operations Whiz Tim Cook Run The Organization Someday he predicted that Tim Cook, then an unknown, would ultimately be successful Steve Jobs as CEO.
Even though Within Apple is ostensibly a deep dive into one particular, special firm (and its ecosystem of suppliers, investors, workers and rivals), the lessons about Jobs, leadership, item style and promoting are universal. They really should appeal to any person hoping to bring some of that Apple magic to their personal business, profession, or imaginative endeavor.
Vodafone Smart Tab 7 and 10 unveiled at IFA with scarce details
The tablet rage is only getting bigger by each day. In the process we have seen a lot of big wigs across the tech industry jump in to score a piece of this pie. Vodafone followed the cult at the IFA event in Berlin with its two new tablets-Vodafone Smart Tab 7 and 10. The common list of specs for both of them Specs include 1280×800 screen, 16 or 32 GB of built-in storage, Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.2GHz processor, HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, memory card slot and the tablet-optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. Other than that we don’t know anything about the vendors, pricing or even availability.
[IntoMobile]
Saved by the Bell becomes 8-bit choose-your-own-adventure YouTube Game
Who can forget Saved by the Bell, the Saturday morning teenage sitcom that every person loved. The geeks identified with Screech, the dudes ogled over Kelly, and the girls had Teen Beat pictures of Zack and Slater posted all above their walls. We’re talking true walls right here, not Facebook walls.
The display aired among 1989 and 1993, and reruns are nonetheless becoming proven these days. SBTB has a cult following, which is why The Fine Bros have selected to base their most recent YouTube eight-bit decide on-your-very own-adventure videos on the present. The brothers previously created interactive YouTube games for Twilight and Harry Potter, but this is the very first primarily based on a Television present.
The purpose of the game is to assist heartthrob Zack Morris. Zack is surrounded by men and women who require his assist, so you have to determine who to support: Kelly, Jessie, or Screech. I chose Screech initial since I was always jealous of the other two girls as a kid. Screech desires to get back with his lady good friend and of course, there’s an obstacle that gets in the way. You then have to make a decision what action to take amongst two possibilities. A single will make you a winner, and the other will finish in a game above.
I then attempted Jessie’s game which was far far more entertaining considering that it is based on possibly the very best SBTB episode of all time. Yep, you can play an 8-bit version of the “Pills” episode which features Zack discovering that Jessie is popping caffeine tablets and has the classic line which stayed with the actress for the rest of her life: “I’m so excited…I’m so excited…I’m so…scared.” In the game you have to determine no matter whether to inform Jessie to preserve taking the pills so she can go sing, or tell her every thing is going to be okay and get her support. You can see by the picture below, the former is not the right answer.
Blind Faith: 35 Percent of Consumers Want iPhone 5, Sight Unseen
Shoppers had been prepared to wait hours to be among the first to grab an iPad two the day of its release. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com
It’s a testament to your brand name and image when a plurality of customers are prepared to buy your item with out even attempting it… or even seeing it with their own eyes.
A current survey of close to three,000 people located that 35 % have been willing to acquire Apple’s subsequent-gen iPhone when it hits the marketplace.
Altogether, 2,852 customers responded in the Experian PriceGrabber survey. Of respondents, 7 % said they’d nab the iPhone five inside of its very first week on the industry, 14 percent wished to get it within the very first month, and 51 percent mentioned they’d acquire the iPhone five inside of its 1st year of release.
China to play home to 200 Angry Birds merchandise stores over next three years
Angry Birds fans close to China behold! We bring you good tidings! Excellent sufficient to make you drop your iPhone and run around happily in circles. Nicely, perhaps we’re exaggerating, but we’re pretty positive Rovio’s 200 new Angry Bird retailers all that have been planned to open up in China will leave you smiling. 200 stores will be put up with Rovio Mobile in partnership with a Chinese gaming portal, and will have some quite sweet merchandise on sale. The bestselling game has got itself fairly a cult following lately and is at the moment Apple App Store’s second highest-selling application. Rovio has till date sold a whopping three million Angry Birds stuffed toys and phone cases even though downloads have topped 200 million. The stores destined for China will also stock T-Shirts, cushions and a lot a lot more.
Microsoft finally puts the Zune hardware to sleep for good
iPod haters, today you mourn — a report from Bloomberg says that Microsoft has put the final nail in the Zune’s coffin. The software giant will stop producing new Zune models and instead focus on repurposing the brand as a multimedia software service.
It’s been two years since Microsoft last updated the Zune. The last update to the Zune hardware was in 2009 when the slimmer, sexier and robust Zune HD was released. Since then, the market’s seen the iPod Touch dominate with apps led by cult-hit Angry Birds.
With no killer apps to put the Zune on a map of its own, it was only a matter of time before what could arguably be called the best iPod alternative, ran out of steam.
If you still want a Zune, you’d better get one while it’s still available. For now, Microsoft intends to continue selling the Zune HD, but there’s no telling what will happen once all existing stock runs out.
It’s sad news for die-hard Zune fans, but don’t get all watery-eyed just yet. The Zune might be dead in hardware form, but it will still live on as software. Zune already exists as the music and movies service available on Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7, so it’s not quite fully dead yet.
But man, when Apple gets wind of this, it’s going to be whooping incessantly. The only reason the iPod was a global hit wasn’t because of its annoying shadow-dancing hipster ads, but because of iTunes. Without iTunes, the iPod would be dead. Without the iPod, iTunes wouldn’t have become the one-stop shop for music, movies, apps and books it is today. Microsoft killing the Zune and relegating it to being software is an enormous win for Apple, but a big loss for those who like choice.
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Cat Powered Humidifier and Air Purifier
A humidifier is a handy thing to have around, but just like every other appliance you own it sucks up the power. If you have a cat just lying around that needs some exercise you can take care of two issues at once. You can get your cat a little bit of a workout, all the while making it so that you don’t have to pay for your humidifier to get a bit of power.
The Wool Ball is a humidifier and air purifier that gets its juice from rolling about. Cats, kids, dogs and anyone else that likes rolling around the ball will be enough to keep it up and going. Of course should that lazy cat not be pulling his end of the weight for a day or two you can plug it into the wall as well. This is a design by Yuan Gu and so far it’s not quite up for sale just yet.
Source: Inhabitat
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