You’ve been there, I’ve been there — telling someone to smile and pressing that camera shutter down only to realise a few seconds later that your cam was in video mode. Director and editor Dean Fleischer-Camp decided to exploit that premise to some hilarious ends.
Comedian Louis CK caused quite a buzz last year when he decided to stream a show live and DRM-free, while asking only $US5 for the privilege to watch. The result was massive, with CK bringing in $US1 million. The success proved that if you give people an easy, painless way to enjoy your content at a good price, they’ll take you up on it. While nowhere near as ambitious, CK has quietly released one of his older live shows for sale online only, again asking for a mere $US5.
Who needs late-night TV when you’ve got caped crusaders, sick turntablism and crazy acrobats flipping with guns…
A search history? Sure, that can unearth some embarrassing moments. But don’t forget that if you leave your browser history unchecked for long enough, every Wikipedia rabbit hole you go down will be hyperlinked for posterity. And man, have you clicked on some weirdness.
Constantly being bombarded with emails urging you to join your friends’ and co-workers’ professional networks on LinkedIn is incredibly annoying these days. But the folks at Squirrel-Monkey show us that it could have been a lot worse had LinkedIn existed in the ’80s.
The Space Shuttle program is dead and in the process of being buried. We don’t have a plan to return to the outer limits of mankind’s reach any time soon. Well, we didn’t. The Onion is reporting NASA’s aspiring new plan to put a man on a bus to Cleveland, Ohio, by 2013.
Hey there, future person, you’ve misplaced your iPhone 5. Some nefarious person is trying to break in and steal all of your naked pictures. Not to worry, you’ve programed Siri to self-destruct Mission Impossible-style after three incorrect login attempts. Boom.
This chart seems about right. I mean, when I found it in my RSS, I was wearing my Denon AH-D5000 cans and they weren’t doing anything but making me look like Princess Leia. [Poor Drawn Lines via Makeuseof via Geeks Are Sexy]
Advertisements pay our bills here, but man, do people really click on them? Our friends at McSweeney’s found the guy.