The folks over at Online Education put together the below InfoGraphic of twenty interesting things that happen every minute. It’s a big file, so I’ve plopped it after the jump.
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The FitBit oozes cool in both looks and function.
Monday night I got the email thousands of fitness freaks and/or gadget geeks have long been awaiting: my FitBit, ordered months ago, was finally ready to ship. True, I haven’t waited 13 months on pre-order status like some, but I was jazzed to finally be off the list and ready to ship. Unfortunately, upon checking my status manually to see if my Bit had actually shipped, I discovered that there was a problem charging my credit card… meaning that I’m still not off pre-order status.
No, despite the wait, my credit card did not expire while waiting for this to ship and charge. I’ve yet to figure out why it didn’t charge, but I’m not at the point where I am ready to say this order is cursed, but I just want my dang FitBit.
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Congrats to The Fump for putting together this great BSG mashup of “Battlestar Rhapsody.” Warning, many spoilers, so don’t watch if you haven’t seen Battlestar. And if you’ve not seen Battlestar Galactica and have the ability to get past the Sci Fi element, I recommend renting or even buying it. It was a damn fine series and some of the best social commentary on TV (at least this side of The Wire).
In no way does this review intend to do anything but convince you that, despite its faults, Avatar is the Must-See movie of our generation.
Let’s get one thing out of the way now: in no way am I panning Avatar. That movie was incredible on so many levels. Visually I was mesmerized and made every effort to take every detail in. I was astounded by the depth of it all and the plot was easy to follow with key, defined characters there for the understanding in a simple manner.
This is perhaps the only movie that I have told a 65 year old senior law firm partner and a 11 year old European kid that they HAD to go see, immediately, in theatres. As a general rule, I hate going to crowded theatres and prefer to hold out for the latter half of a film’s run or even just wait for Netflix and my 60” high def TV. But Avatar is a once in a generation type of flick. The type of movie that changes the way cinema is shot and produced forever. That’s not hyperbole… that’s reality. And if people need evidence, just check the vast number of producers that are lining up to use Cameron’s new technology.
Why, one asks? Well, how bout the fact that Avatar has made it into the black after just 12 days of worldwide release. It’s not a stretch to say, with $600+ million in the bank and no drop in receipts, that Avatar could pass $1 billion by the end of the New Year’s weekend and be well on its way toward being the first film to legitimately challenge Cameron’s last theatrical release (Titanic
But here’s my problem, Avatar is a brilliant movie, but like Titanic it’s actually a pretty crappy film. Huh?
Again, I think it’s worth noting that I loved the hell out of this movie. I plan on seeing it at least two more times in IMAX. The 3D was brilliantly done in that it set the mood without dominating the film. The CGI rendering is so amazing that you think it is live film. The Navi are so realistic that it makes you want to Darth Vader strangle everyone who screamed out “Jar Jar!” when seeing the trailers.
Cameron has created in Pandora a universe that’s almost hyper realistic. The only thing I can compare it to, visually, is seeing the World Cup or Monday Night Football in High Definition for the first time after a lifetime of bunny ears analog viewing. There were several times I just wanted to pause the projector and drink in the careful level of detail and striking brilliance of what Cameron’s team created.
It all was so amazing that I didn’t care about the following beefs, which I set forth below.
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BillShrink.com has an interesting entry on the world’s most profitable companies. Particularly intriguing is the breakdown of what one could do with Exxon profits.
The great lesson learned from the graphic is that, yes, it is never a bad time to invest in energy producers.
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I came across the attached on Google Reader. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that this source (reflectionof.me) is the originator and there really isn’t any sourcing of the data. That said, when you think about it, it looks legit.
Source: http://reflectionof.me/relative-prices-of-different-liquids-1
I’ve taken a look at some of the more interesting and well crafted promos for LOST’s finale season. Below are what I deem to be the best. Your thoughts?
Spanish TV Cuatro Promo. This promo was amazingly well put together using all old footage from old seasons.
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The folks over at The Oatmeal have really made a quick mark on the comic/ infographics community online. In the past I linked to their infographic on How Every Zombie Apocalypse Goes Down.
Well, they’ve put together another doozy on The Three Phases of Computer Ownership.
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Kudos to YouTube’s keesvdijkhuizen who posted this awesome compilation. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that they rock out to White Lies’ “Death.”
Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" has been hailed by many as the best English language fiction of the young millennium.
I just completed reading the post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his boy fighting to live on. Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road
I hustled to read the book as the movie version is already out, starring Viggo Mortensen as the Man with Robert Duvall as the Old Man and Michael K. Williams as the Thief. For those unfamiliar with MKW, he is better known as Omar Little from The Wire and is one of the best casting calls that I can recall. Most telling, perhaps, will be the casting call on the book’s central character, the Boy, played here by Kodi Smit-McPhee. Although the movie has been out in limited release for a while, this is a review of the book only.
The problem, of course, is that I’m having trouble figuring out how to put my thoughts on the book together. So part of this review will be an exercise in discovery… a review that hopes to draw out the substance underlying itself.
As a whole, “The Road” has been almost universally hailed; however, it also is risky. McCarthy utilizes a challenging theme, dangerous taboo and a staccato means of writing which all represent big gambles. For the author of The Border Trilogy (“All the Pretty Horses”, “the Crossing”, “Cities of the Plain”)
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