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MSNBC has a piece that applies to many of the technologically-literate:
Next week, millions of college students and young professionals will head home for the Thanksgiving holidays. We’ll sit with our families in warm, candle-lit dining rooms eating stuffed turkey, reminiscing over old photographs, preparing holiday shopping lists and … Please. Let’s be frank. We are going home to fix our parents’ computers.
The rest of the story can be found here.
33 years old. I feel like an old vinyl LP record.
You may have seen one of the many inversed-space sculptures designed to allow what appears to be a three-dimensional face that can follow your movements.
This site has a paper dragon design you can download and put together from a single piece of paper to achieve the same effect. Video of the illusion in action shows just how effective this simple creation can be.
I’ve noticed some complaints surfacing about the upcoming Tim Burton film based on one of my childhood favorites:
While I too love the original (came out the year I was born), some of the best parts were the hints of something darker just under the surface. From the simple things like “Candy is dandy, but liqour is quicker” to the more complex psychosis of the boat ride.
So I’m hoping that Tim Burton and Depp will inject just a touch more of that, while still keeping the innocence intact. Kind of an inverse of the angst vs innocence they brought to Edward Scissorhands.
Burton hasn’t quite been on top of his game lately, but I’m still hopeful that the earlier magic of his work like Nightmare Before Christmas can make a return.
It’ll be interesting to see if they update Mike TV any. The vices of the others are relatively timeless, but his television obsession seems slightly out of date in a world of videogames and the internet. Not that you couldn’t just expand it to include those, mind you.
Photos taken of the infamous mechanical villians from the set of what will be the 6th episode of the BBC’s new Doctor Who series:
No word on whether this will be the only design, or truth of rumors of an evolution of the design appearing in the same story. However, the above version, at least, hovers, rather than rolls along.