#Miscellaneous
An Alzheimer’s patient hears the songs of his era and comes alive. Music is a hell of a drug.
This is a bit of a departure from the usual tripe we throw around on OL, so pardon the sentimentality I’m rocking this morning. I drove by the ocean at sunrise and the super villain in my black, black heart died a little, and then I came back to find this on my Facebook newsfeed. Haven’t had your morning cry yet? Hit the jump and, as some walking tree once said, RELEASE THE RIVER.
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Video: 9-YEAR-OLD Builds Cardboard Arcade; It Gets Flashmobbed. Heartwarming ++
This is some heartwarming riffage right here, guaranteed to make everyone save the most resolutely douchey people smile. Caine Monroy is a 9-year-old who spent a summer vacation building a cardboard arcade. Swagometer already buzzing. Caine totally was sweating the day people would come and rock out at his arcade…but it never happened. That is, until this filmmaker came upon it.
Hit the jump for the video.
MINIMALIST Posters Explain Complex Philosophies With Basic Shapes. F**k My Degree.
Well here’s some peanut butter on my balls just prior to the dog nibbling it. This assortment of gorgeous minimalist posters summarize complex fucking philosophical ideas more succinctly than my dumb ass and my philo-minor. Yeah well, fuck you, posters! Minimalize that.
No seriously they’re hot.
JOSS WHEDON Drawn By CLIFF CHIANG For GQ Magazine. Geek Immortal Is Immortalized
Cliff Chiang dropped a pretty radical drawing of Joss Whedon for the May issue of GQ. Talented artist commemorating talented writer/director? Sweet.
Hit the jump for deets and a full look at the drawing.
Sony Cuts Another 10,000 Jobs Amid Multibillion Dollar Losses
Sony isn’t having the best year, and it is responding by lowering its global workforce by 6 percent.
Another Foxconn Employee Gives iPhone Release Deets; Disagrees With Previous One
There are conflicting reports coming from multiple employees at Apple fetishists’ favorite concentration camp regarding the iPhone 5. Depending on which overworked and broken soul you ask, you’ll get a different answer.
FACEBOOK Buying INSTAGRAM For $1 Billion. Service Officially Not Cool
…Just kidding, Instagram. I still love you. You can tell my love is true because I’m going to continue using you in light of recent news.
AOL Sells 800 PATENTS To Microsoft For $1 BILLION. G’damn.
AOL. It was a glory of my adolescence years, letting me into my first batches of both pornography and interactions with like-minded gamers and deviants. These days AOL ain’t doing so well, and that makes me frown.
Video: The ‘AKIRA’ Bike Is Real, Bombing Across Japan For Charity
Shinji Tejima is a wild dude, dreaming the dreams of rock stars. The good man has spent what would be over $120,00 in American bucks to build a replica of the motorcycle seen in Akira. Now that this monument to a pop cultural icon is done, he’s riding this futuro-steed across Japan in the name of the charity. Dude is ballin’ hard.
NASA made a 30MB gif of the Texas tornadoes. My browser weeps.
I was at work, rendering a 3D model of the thalamus, when I heard about the Texas tornadoes. Well, to be fair, my co-worker came tripping into my desk and exclaimed, “TORNADOES ARE THROWING 18-WHEELERS IN THE AIR LIKE FUCKING GRADUATION CAPS.” Now that is a statement that buys you ten minutes of my undivided attention.
