Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
What would the world be like if suddenly our news was no longer filled with the latest wars, shootings, celebrity trash and political garbage?
A little something like this:
Pixelsurgeon created this video by mixing together a bunch of BBC news footage from the ends of shows where the anchors sit and wait for the camera to cut. He calls it “The Day There Was No News”, and I think the effect is fantastic.
Can you imagine?
[Via: Boing Boing]
Motive’s article, To Catch A Predator, which is all about the current trend of factories bringing their hot rod building in-house, is another example of why Motive is quickly becoming the place to go on the web for interesting automotive information.
The full range of tuners is covered, including AMG, M Division, John Cooper Works (JCW), Nismo, SVT/Ford Racing, SRT, Quattro GmbH, F, SS, GXP, V-Series, Super, Alpha, STI and Mazdaspeed, so if you’ve got a brand, they’ve got a tuner for you.
Perhaps the muscle car wars aren’t over after all…
The 2008 Twitter Color Wars has basically taken over the Twitter world recently, and is an interesting adaptation of a technology that, besides things like Color Wars and StrawPoll that people have created, serves no purpose. (Ok, so you can find out someone’s status, but really, where’s the fun in that?)
Twitter Color Wars is basically a popularity contest where the Twitterati rally around a single color and show their support by taking their profile picture in team colors.
The War goes well beyond just a popularity contest though, as games are going to pit teams against each other to compete for total domination.
Game #1 is a round of Bad Ass RoShamBo.
To play, members took a picture of themselves in their team colors throwing their throw of choice, and then uploaded that picture to Flickr with the appropriate tags. Then, a bracket style RoShamBo tournament will be held tonight with a best of three RSB match determining the winner.
I love the fact that this game evolved out of nothing and turned into a something that everyone wants to be involved in. It’s a fun adaptation of a technology that people continue to find uses for, and there’s a lot of potential for additional games.
Which side are you on?
(And to talk a little smack on the other teams, check out SmackTalk.)
Edit: It looks like zefrank is behind it all. Check out the Colorwar story here.
[Via: Mostly Lisa]
Food Fight is “an abridged history of American-centric war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict”.
It’s a pretty entertaining and “chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression”, and definitely worth a few minutes of your time, so watch and see if you can identify all of the parties involved.
[Via: NOTCOT]
The new Dodge Challenger is the heavy artillery of the modern muscle car war.
It’s big, it’s powerful, it’s only offered in the high-performance SRT-8 trim level, and you can have it in any color you want, as long as it’s Hemi orange, silver, or black.
Unfortunately, the interior suffers from a severe case of rental-car-itis, but when it’ll do this all day:
Who’s really going to look closely at the seats anyways?
For a full rundown, driving impressions, and big, bold and beautiful pics, check out Motive’s coverage of the new beast.
1970, here I come!
The battle between Apple and the unlockers rages on, with Apple launching the latest blow in the form of a firmware upgrade that bricks all unlocked iPhones. (Forever.)
For a timeline of the iPhone unlock done up in Star Wars style, check out Gizmodo for a very thorough rundown of what’s happened so far.
‘Tune in next week for the latest episode of…Unlock Wars’
[Gizmodo - Battle Continues: The Complete iPhone Unlock Star Wars Timeline]
When two kings of marketing wage a war, only one can win, and in this case, Kanye gets to keep his crown.
Kanye West and 50 Cent (and Kenny Chesney) all released albums on September 11, and Kanye and 50 decided to make it a contest to see who could sell the most records.
Apparently, it was a publicity stunt that worked, because they sold a combined total of over 1.5 million records, and Kanye had the largest sales total by a single artist in more than two years according to Billboard.
With 957,000 albums sold during the week, Kanye’s “Graduation” easily outdid the 691,000 copies of 50’s “Curtis”; leaving Kenny came in third with a respectable 387,000 for his “Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates”.
According to their agreement, 50 will never again release another solo album, though we’ll see how long that promise lasts after the dust settles.
My opinion: No big loss, as after listening to both, I must say that Kanye’s release was so fresh and so clean, while 50’s seemed to stick to the tried and true, though that’s feeling a bit aged after all these years.
But hey, at least there’s always Kenny!
[Billboard - Kanye Crushes 50 Cent In Huge Album Sales Week]
[Via: Kineda]
Here’s a cool video concept where a bunch of famous album covers wage war on each other. Gotta love guns and music.
[Via: Neatorama]
Monument (If it bleeds, it Leads), is an installation by Caleb M. Larsen that comments on the media’s fixation with tragedy. A computer program scans the headlines of 4,500 English-language news sources, and when one reports that someone has been killed, an algorithm in the machine determines the number of deaths, and a ceiling-mounted mechanism built from Legos drops one bright yellow candy BB per person. During the time the installation is in place, BBs will accumulate on the floor, and an ever-increasing random constellation will form an aesthetic “Monument” to those who have died. Since we are in a time of war, there are periods when hundreds of BBs will fire off in rapid succession, while at other times a lone BB will fall. The paradoxical part of the installation is that something only happens when someone has died, but since viewers want to experience a BB falling, they may secretly be waiting for someone to die so that they can see the event, but at the same time, a lack of falling BBs means the world is temporarily a little less frightening.
[Monument (If it bleeds, it Leads)]
[Via: we make money not art]
