Beer is the great equalizer! Regardless of your political association and your feelings towards ex-president and Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter, we can all agree that Carter’s de-regulation of the beer industry was a good thing.
In 2006, a new convert showed up at a mosque in Orange County, California, eager to study the Koran and make new friends. But when he started acting odd and saying strange things, those friends got suspicious. To them, he was Farouk al-Aziz. But his real name was Craig Monteilh, and he was working undercover for the FBI.
The week has been set ablaze since the news broke that Daft Punk will be releasing their new album (Random Access Memory) this coming May. Several video clips and a well placed ad during Saturday Night Live have given the internet so much anxiety, I fear some people might not make it to the album release.
With all the recent news concerning Europe’s financial system, it’s easy to get “down” on the continent’s future but three guys from Brussels are making sure you don’t give up yet! Their “Hello Europe” project is based on the simple idea of communication – that is, communication between the many Euro-Zone/European countries. Their ambitious project is based on the simple concept of matching up people from different countries through large public monitors+cameras. In essential, you’ll be seeing a person/persons from randomly selected European cities and be able to interact with them. Just watch the video above.
Source: Vimeo
What would you do if you walked into a murder in progress? Two guys asked themselves the same question and staged a murder-in-progress inside a New York City elevator. Hidden cameras recorded people’s reactions. What would you do?
Now, stalking your friends on Facebook just got taken to the next level – Zuckerberg and Co. have just added free calling to any of your friends in the US and Canada – through the Facebook app. So get updating and stalk away with heavy breathing and prank calls!
Source: iTunes
Apartment living in large metropolitan cities has always been difficult, especially when there is a direct relationship between income and living space but it would seem that Hong Kong takes this ratio to the extreme.
For all you calorie counters out there, here is what 200 calories looks like in some everyday food. What I learned: eat beans, peppers and broccoli!
A meteor streaked across the sky and broke up Friday morning over the Ural Mountain city of Chelyabinsk, unleashing a tremendous shock wave that smashed windows, collapsed roofs and injured more than 980 people….
Update:
BREAKING NEWS: Baby found in the middle of the Meteorite crash site, he is miraculously unharmed. Wrapped in what seems to be a red cape.
— Rick Malambri (@RickMalambri) February 15, 2013
Source: YouTube – Washington Post
What’s the video equivalent to 140 written characters for Twitter? Apparently it translates to 6 sec of video! That’s right, Twitter has now rolled out a new feature for the Twitter faithful – embeded video clips.
Bacon Pancakes is a song written by Rebecca Sugar, produced by composer Tim Kiefer, and sung by Jake in the episode “Burning Low.” He sings it while making breakfast, which is bacon and pancakes combined.
Source: WSJ
Future lesson: Don’t die unless you have money…..a lot of money. Tom Scott’s video of what our future life might be like…..after death is both captivating and extremely frightening. You know how we say: “It’s expensive to die.” Well, in the future, not only is it expensive but if you don’t have enough money, your actual conscienceness pays the price.
We all notice when gas prices go up and we’ve all noticed how shitty the economy has been since 2008 but do we understand the intimate connection the two have with each other?
Why are oil prices rising and costs going through the roof? Seems like every time the economy starts to get stronger, oil prices go way up, and then the economy crashes again. In his book The Third Industrial Revolution, Jeremy Rifkin reveals the truth about the tie between our economy’s health and gas prices. Epipheo thought we’d help spread the word about why energy, power, and gasoline can cost so much money and be so expensive….
These four guys from eastern Europe know how to succeed in pop business: Play some well known stuff completely cracked up. Watch out for a duet Katy Perry!!!
Nature always finds a way and in this case, the often solitary spider teams up with its fellow brethren to hunt in large packs. Yet another reminder of why I wouldn’t survive one hour in the Amazon.
“The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. The site holds so many bodies that the Yakuza pays homeless people to sneak into the forest and rob the corpses. The authorities sweep for bodies only on an annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol more frequently…”
Ever get a song in your head, that just fuc*ing drives you crazy? It’s never Johnny Cash’s “Walk The Line” – it’s always Haddaway’s “What Is Love.” Well, the boys and girls over at Unhear It have come up with a little website to help you forget that shitty song, that’s stuck in your head.
Duncan Robson, the man that brought you the genius behind the “Three Point Landing” video we posted yesterday, has another gem just discovered. The “Let’s Enhance” video plays on Hollywood’s obsession with finding culprits by using non-existing technology, ridiculously buzz-word-driven dialogue and overly dramatic facial expressions. The finished product is pure bliss – bravo to you Duncan.
Today, I got lost in the bad part of the internet, specifically on YouTube and found this disturbingly-hypnotizing video. If you don’t like seeing cats puking…..to techno music, go to the next post. Never thought I’d ever have to write the previous sentence – oh internet!
This little gem was created by Duncan Robson and wonderfully portrays Anime’s and Hollywood’s obsession with the classic “Three Point Landing.” Warning, if you don’t have super-powers, 20 years of training by ageless martial art teachers or aren’t very flexible – don’t try this at home.
After years of sitting on the sidelines, Polaroid is finally getting into the……(cough)…. photo taking/sharing game, with their release of a Hipstamatic like app. Polamatic has everything you’d expect: filters, social sharing features, borders, frames and even Instagram integration. Those are all great features but lets be honest, the app is 2 years too late and the $.99 price is not helping either.
After years of “us” going public thanks to Facebook, looks like it’s time for Zuk and Co. to take FB public. Rumors have the social network going public within weeks, with an initial stock price of $28-$35. So what does this mean for would-be-investors wanting to get rich – nothing. Anyone not getting in on pre-market trading is just begging to get burned. This is an IPO that is going to make those already invested in FB extremely rich – the rest of us can just continue giving our private info to Facebook.
Source: WashingtonPost