Entertainment

Spotify For iPad: Visual, Thoughtfully Designed

Clean and visual — Spotify has adopted the paged app design which visibly stacks layers of the app on top of each other as you navigate deep into its belly.


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US Pay TV Operator’s Commercial-Removing DVR Being Sued Into The Ground By Networks

Over in the States, Dish Network’s new Hopper DVR has kicked up quite a storm. FOX is suing Dish, and Dish is suing, well, everyone.


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David Attenborough’s Quite Serious… Even When Narrating Steamy Tortoise/Shoe Love

David Attenborough’s voice is the one I hear whenever looking at nature; that’s a credit to his long and incredible career. He’s also not above making fun of his image, mind you.


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Hitchhiker’s Live Reunites Original Radio Cast For Limited Tour

A way too limited tour, in my estimation. Aussie tour producers — get onto getting this local, will you? Or failing that, anybody got a spare plane ticket to the UK they don’t need for mid-year?


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Your Favourite Cartoon Characters Reading The Star Wars Screenplay Will Blow Your Mind

George Lucas tried to improve the original Star Wars trilogy with CG enhancements, but little did he know those beloved films could be even more awesome by re-casting the leads with our favorite cartoon characters. Bender as Darth Vader? Yes, please. Also: the voices of Fry, Pinky and the Brain, Ironhide, Batman and more!


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The Downside Of Living In A Digital World

Hurrah for digital media! We’ve got everything we ever wanted at our fingertips within a second or two — or maybe half an hour if we want it in 1080p. There’s just one thing that bothers me: What have we given up in return?


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Kickstart Monday Morning With New Dr Who

Bleagh… It’s Monday morning again, isn’t it? I need a pick-me-up. I know what would do me good — some new Doctor Who to watch. Oh look — here’s some!


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Inside Kanye’s Seven-Screen Movie Pyramid

When Yeezy premiers a film, it’s safe to assume he’s not going to gather some people inside an auditorium and hit the lights. Why do that when you can commission a massive pyramid to house a seven-screen cinematic palace?


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You Can Appear In The Steve Jobs Movie

If you’re looking to break into Hollywood, have a style sense trapped in the ’70s, and don’t mind being involved in the Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs biopic, your chance has arrived. Just reply to this sad Craigslist ad!


May 27, 2012
Entertainment

Nat Geo’s New Documentary Series ‘Links’ History’s Greatest Tech

Technological invention is a process, not an act. Even the most rudimentary technologies, like wheels, are based on previous discoveries. As such, one can trace the origins of today’s most advanced machines back through history to their earliest ancestors — or one could just watch the National Geographic Channel’s new five-part documentary, The Link, and skip all the research.