#Miscellaneous
Matt Groening Donates $500,000 For UCLA Chair Of Animation. Rad.
Here’s one to file under the “Paying it Forward” category. Matt Groening has dropped a cool half-a-million on UCLA to help them fund a creation of a Chair of Animation. What exactly does that entails?
Glad you asked!
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Study: No Connection Between Torrenting And US Box Office Numbers
Hollywood is one of those Gung Ho institutions pushing for the nefarious multi-headed bills to be pushed through Capitol Hill regulating the Internet. Shackling it down. That sort of jazz. They cite piracy as a major concern and cause of financial loss, which goes against at least one study.
Your Heartbeat Could Become Your Password. Futurism!
This is some science-fiction boner time right here. A team at National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan have translated a human heartbeat into an encryption key. Stealing someone’s password is about to get pretty messy. Puns! Aha!
Senate Trying To Pass SOPA In Sheep’s Clothing? Gasp, I’m Shocked.
Gasp! In things that you should have seen coming, the sentiment behind SOPA continues to thrive on Capitol Hill.
Cliff Burton Would Have Turned 50 Today. Throw The Horns Up.
Today, Cliff Burton would have turned a solid half-century. Rest in Peace, sweet prince of the thrashing old school.
Let’s celebrate with his jams.
Jon Favreau To Direct New J.J. Abrams Pilot ‘Revolution’
…So two overrated directors walk into a bar. Just kidding! Sort of. For what its worth, I like them both. Anyways!, to relevant news: Favreau is directing that Abrams-powered apocalypse drama which is also being produced by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke.
Google Plans To Snatch 2.25 Percent Of Every iPhone Sale. Patents ++
Thanks to some serious patent acquisitions from buying Motorola, Google now intends to gobble up 2.25 percent of ever iPhone sold in Europe. Yeah, like this is going anywhere but court. Get your fucking popcorn ready.
THIS WEEK ON Justified: The Devil You Know
We rejoin Justified with Devil and a man named Tanner having a conversation about a meeting. Quickly its revealed that Quarles is the man Devil is here to meet. Quarles is working his way through the local thugs, so it was only a matter of time he got to Devil. Quarles offers Devil a fast track to the big time.
I’ll give Quarles his due. The man can talk. He sells Devil on the concept of killing Boyd faster than you can blink. Fathers in the greater Lexington area, watch your daughters, Quarles is in town and he’s about to charm the panties off them.
Scientists Have Broken Through To Earth’s Ancient Buried Lake
Lake Vostok in Antarctica has remained in isolation for 20 million years. However, Russian scientists are saying they’ve broken through and made contact with the lake. What is forthcoming is clearly going to be a real-life reenactment of The Thing.
Muhammad Ali x Ryu x Street Art = Yes.
From the streets of Paris comes this ridiculously awesome street art.
