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hayleyfreakinrules: This is why I dress like a badass.

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:57:35 -0800

hayleyfreakinrules:

This is why I dress like a badass.

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Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:53:31 -0800

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Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:29:21 -0800

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Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:00:35 -0800

theparisreview: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons visualized.

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 08:23:45 -0800

theparisreview:

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons visualized.

flamgirlant: Be my Valentine… (via: missfinefabric)

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:00:03 -0800

flamgirlant:

Be my Valentine…

(via: missfinefabric)

It's not always a good thing when fictional products make the jump into reality...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:56:54 -0800

parislemon:

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1987 The classic comedy Spaceballs features a scene with President Skroob (Mel Brooks) enjoying a fresh can of “Perri-Air” from his private stash.

2013 A Chinese millionaire, inspired by last week’s smog epidemic, is selling fresh (and scented!) canned air in an effort to draw attention to environmental issues in China. (h/t to Geekologie) source

It’s time for a real world Pizza the Hut to appear.

Apple TV + HBO

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:49:22 -0800

Apple TV + HBO:

Total bummer, because I would pay for a direct HBO subscription bypassing the cable provider, in fact, I don’t subscribe to cable because I have to get their crappy package and then pay more just for HBO. Sucks.

parislemon:

Edmund Lee & Adam Satariano for Bloomberg:

Apple is in negotiations to start carrying Time Warner HBO Go application on Apple TV by mid-2013, according to two people familiar with the plans.

Great, unsurprising news. But:

HBO Go is only available to customers who subscribe to the network through their cable or satellite service, and would be the first app on Apple TV that requires pay-TV authentication. There are currently HBO Go apps for the iPad and iPhone.

Same old, same old. Imagine how powerful it would be if you could buy an HBO subscription without needing the cable subscription as well? How many millions of Apple TVs would Apple sell as a result? I would bet on many millions. Which is exactly why big cable won’t allow it.

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Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:23:18 -0800

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Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:16:01 -0800

tinuelena: Whose intervention ensured Star Trek saw the light...

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:03:44 -0800

tinuelena:

Whose intervention ensured Star Trek saw the light of day?

Answer: Lucille Ball

Most people recognize and remember Lucille Ball as the lovable and silly star of one of America’s earliest and most loved sitcoms, I Love Lucy. What most people don’t know is that Lucille was a savvy business woman and that she and her husband Desi Arnaz had amassed a small fortune and owned their own studio, Desilu.

It was at Desilu that acclaimed Sci-Fi screenwriter and visionary Gene Roddenberry got his big break. Roddenberry pitched the Star Trek pilot to the studio as a sort of Western-inspired space adventure. While many within the studio balked at the idea, Lucille liked the idea and the first pilot was approved and filmed. The pilot was pitched to NBC and was promptly rejected on the grounds that it was too intellectual, not enough like the space-western they had been lead to believe it would be, and audiences wouldn’t relate to it. Lucille, a fan of Roddenberry’s work, pushed back against NBC and insisted they order a second pilot. Ordering a second pilot was a practice almost entirely unheard of and save for Lucille’s charisma and clout with the network it would never have happened.

Roddenberry shot the second pilot, NBC accepted it, and Star Trek premiered in 1966, thus beginning a new era in the Sci-Fi genre and laying the foundation for half a century of Star Trek fandom–an era that would have never come to pass without the intervention and insistence of Lucille Ball.

Bonus Trivia: After her divorce from Arnaz, Lucille bought out his share of their studio. As a result she became the first woman to both head and own a major studio. (*)

fuckyeah-nerdery: GPOY.

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:00:48 -0800

fuckyeah-nerdery:

GPOY.

agentbartowski: ugh fuck my parents i asked for an apple and they got me some stupid fucking...

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:00:14 -0800

agentbartowski:

ugh fuck my parents i asked for an apple and they got me some stupid fucking computer i am so frustrated how could they do this to me i just wanted a fucking apple i am starving jesus christ they cost like not even a dollar all they had to do was go to the fucking grocery store what the fuck happened