Netflix: Plan vs Reality [Image Cache]
We sign up for Netflix plans with grand plans. We will watch movies the day they arrive. We will mail movies back as soon as we’ve finished watching them. But is that really what we wind up doing? [Shoebox] More »
The TSA’s Sense of Humor Makes Me Nervous [Image Cache]
This is a photo of the TSA booth by the security check-in point at Indianapolis International Airport. Take a close look at the wallpaper on the computer in that booth. Nervous yet? More »
Posted: November 12th, 2010
at 6:11am by Rosa Golijan
Topics: Airports, Aviation, Cavity search, Cavity searches, Humor, Image cache, Security, Travel, Tsa humor, airport, airport security, tsa
Even Batman Has An iPad [Image Cache]
Sure, he seems a bit confused about how to fit it into his utility belt, but it looks like even Batman has an iPad. Guess he felt the need to buy one after seeing these other costumed folks holding theirs: More »
Posted: April 5th, 2010
at 5:16am by Rosa Golijan
Topics: Apple, Cosplay, Fun, Image cache, apple ipad, batman, ipad
The Mostest Amazing Scientific Photos of the Year [Science]
Popular Science has a massive gallery of the year’s most fantastic scientific images, and they’re pretty incredible. Here’s our favorites.
See if you can figure out what they are before you read the description.
And of course, check out their full gallery here: [Popular Science]
A Stoplight for the Progress Bar Generation [Image Cache]
Progress bars aren’t always accurate, but at least they’re there, giving us hope, curing our angst, and mostly, diverting our attention from the fact that whatever it is, it isn’t done. And soon, they will invade the meatspace.
We already crane our necks to see the perpendicular streets’ lights cycles through, so the Eko stoplight concept, intended to let drivers know if it’s ok to shut off your car to save gas at a light, won’t really change a whole lot. But it would set a precedent, a standard, and a model for everything else: I want progress bars on my toaster, my pizza deliveries, my teapots, my dryer. No, scratch that: I need them.
And if you think about it, our innate desire to see the bar creep forward (or around, as it were) runs deeper than our slow entanglement with computers. I mean, what is a line if not a progress bar made of people? What about a sliced loaf of bread? A growing child? And oh god, clocks. This is too much for a Monday. [Yanko via Ubergizmo]
Posted: November 30th, 2009
at 12:26pm by John Herrman
Topics: Concepts, Design, Eko stoplight, Image cache, Progress bar, Progress bars, Stop lights, Stoplights
