Is just so damn cool. It's funny, because everyone I've shown it to so far goes "whoa!" the first time they see it in action. Piclens is an add-on for Firefox (you need to have the latest version) that's appears as a tiny icon at the corner of your browser window (mine's beside the Google search bar). Once clicked, it shows you a window where you can browse images and videos from Flickr, Google, YouTube, etc. in a fast and awesome way. Basta. Get the mini-app here.
I was wondering when it would show here, and was already starting to worry if it ever would, since it was released in the US way before The Dark Knight.
I have a feeling Urduja is to blame for WALL-E's lateness, since it was in theaters at that time, and it's easy imagine its producers pulling some strings to prevent such a strong competition for our kids' attention. Well, now that that's over and done with, it's time to enjoy Pixar's latest masterpiece. Yee-haw.
I'm not much of a science guy, but I've been hearing a lot about the Large Hadron Collider (a particle accelerator, which also goes by the way cooler monicker, atom smasher) lately and its scheduled start of operation sometime this August. Really exciting stuff, what with the possibility of the LHC accidentally creating a tiny black hole or some devastating freak quantum phenomenon during one of its experiments, which, of course, will have the downside of instantly annihilating our planet in the process. For sure, this is going to be hard-on month for physicists everywhere, hehe.
And here's some nerdcore rap that explains the LHC to us laymen and women. Just watch it, bitchez.
Wow, the MMDA actually came up with a sensible idea. After months of horrible traffic and construction delays, the elevated U-turn at the C5-Kalayaan intersection finally opened this weekend, and seeing it working in tandem with the new traffic flow scheme had me hooting in delight.
A lot of people (me included) were skeptical as to why such a spacious U-turn slot was being built there in the first place, when few motorists needed it, and the ones that did were able to turn around at Market! Market! with no problems at all. Well, little did we know that the authorities involved planned to seal off the Kalayaan crossing at C5, so now vehicles that want to get to the other side need to take the elevated U-turn. Kind of like the U-turn route underneath the EDSA-Quezon Ave. flyover, but with the U-turners at C5 having to do the climbing instead. An added discomfort for these drivers, for sure, but the trade-off is that vehicles along C5 can now zoom straight across, since there's no longer an intersection to wait at, translating to less traffic and more gas savings. Hooray!
Now that Starbucks Corp. has disclosed the 600 locations it wants to shutter, a phenomenon is taking hold: the Save Our Starbucks campaign.
Here for the full article.
Oh why didn't we see this coming? That sly, devious motherfucker. I can easily imagine maniacal laughter escaping from the walls of its marketing department right now, that reddish glow creeping out of its slightly opened door.
In a corner office on Microsoft's leafy, low-rise campus in suburban Seattle, a bespectacled, slightly portly middle-aged man has been packing up his belongings. Bill Gates logs off today after 33 years in day-to-day control of the world's biggest software company.
Gates, 52, is retiring in order to spend more time giving away his $58bn (£29bn) fortune.
More at guardian.co.uk.
One of the things I love about my job is that my photoshoots can vary wildly from one another. This morning I might be doing a simple product shoot, while at night I might be going to a morgue to photograph dead bodies. Not that I'm belittling product shoots—in fact, they have a meditative, in-the-zone effect on me that I really look forward to when I get them. But this is for another post.
Anyway, about two months ago, FHM editorial asst. BA and their mascot, Bong (a.k.a. Superbong!), joined a cosplay competition for a feature. BA was decked out as Hellboy and Bong as Street Fighter's Dhalsim. While they were having their makeup and body paint done, I, comic book fanboy that I am, snatched up the Hellboy props and handed Mae my camera for a quick pitik. Well, BA, who weighs three times more than me, filled out the costume better and even won an award in the competition. For the whole low-down, the feature appears in this month's FHM.
