Posts tagged as The Matrix
"Look, Internet -- I've Set Myself On Fire": On Liz Phair's "Funstyle"
Over the weekend, Liz Phair had a surprise: 11 new tracks, collected under the title Funstyle, available for purchase at her official site. This release was surprising for reasons that went far beyond its semi-stealth timing! Seth Colter Walls and I decided to figure out "the deal." READ MORE
Science To Turn Human Beings Into Batteries For Machines
Great. People have figured out how to convert basic human organ function into electric energy. "The act of breathing-of moving the ribs to draw air into the lungs and expel it-can generate about a watt of power," according to an article by Henry Fountain in today's NYT Science Times. "And if the potato actually gets up off the couch and walks briskly across the room, each heel strike can produce even more power, about 70 watts' worth. That energy could be put to work, charging a cellphone, say, or a medical sensor in the body. The problem is how to harvest it." READ MORE
The Cli-Matrix is... just like The Matrix!
Here's an ad that appeared in today's Financial Times. The copy, in part: "The gulf between North and South in Copenhagen can still be bridged – if three key leaders, Obama, Hatoyama, and Merkel, face their responsibilities and wield their true powers. With their leadership, the richest nations can muster the $200 billion a year by 2020 needed to free developing countries, and the world, from enslavement to fossil-fuel-powered machines." SEE? There's nothing you can't do with it.
Lego 'Matrix' Brings Us Closer To Day's End
Because it's that kind of day, and because why not, and because, actually, it's kind of awesome, here is the "Dodge this" scene from The Matrix recreated in the medium of Lego. Did you know The Matrix is actually ten years old now? I bet if you turned on your TV right now you'd be able to find it playing somewhere. Anyway, enjoy. We're getting there! [Via]
Cosmonaut Even Cooler Than That Diaper-Wearing NASA Chick
Wow. Everyone drop everything and recognize game because this dude is a Russian astronaut blogging from SPACE. I mean, honestly, what's the point of even trying to go there? Dude has escaped velocity and WEARS MORPHEUS GLASSES. He punks all of us but makes a goddamn tourist of NASA's Mike Massimino's Twitter account with its dullsville numbers and très terrestrial dispatches. I mean, unless your narrow behind is getting atrophied because there is no gravity where you're standing you're just some dude in Texas. You're only as good as your last space tweet, bruh. Sorry. Plus, this other guy's funny in that way foreign humor is broad as fuck. As in "general". Not like "female" because those hoes are never funny.
