Monday morning links serving: The April 20th edition

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-Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009 Over the years a range of GUI’s have been developed for different operating systems such as OS/2, Macintosh, Windows, Amiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and more. In the following article, we’ll be taking a look at the evolution of the interface designs of the major operating systems since the 80’s. [...]

Busted! The sneaky moves of anti-social smartphone users

In this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world — where the experience we’re having right now is less interesting than what we’ll tweet about it later.

Retro Hardware Orchestra

Can you get any geekier than Bohemian Rhapsody played by an orchestra of vintage gadgets? I think not. From the YouTube page: Please note no effects or sampling was used. What you see is what you hear (does that even make sense?) Atari 800XL was used for the lead piano/organ sound Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as [...]

Were You Here Before Oprah?

By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Seeing Oprah start “tweeting” made me realize a few things: Celebrities who are not comedians or geeks twittering is just a bad, bad idea. I realize that this probably just makes me a snob, but Oprah’s credibility goes down once I learn that she can’t use apostrophes correctly. My [...]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer

By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Is it July 15 yet? The new trailer for Half-Blood Prince is pretty awesome. So far it looks to be a great thing that David Yeats (director of Order of the Phoenix) is back for this one, as the dark aesthetic seems to be similar, which is fitting for [...]

New Transformers 2 Sneak Peek Looks Amazing

Some new footage of the upcoming Transformers 2 movie has just hit the web today, and the whole thing looks pretty darn awesome. While the first minute is kind of funny, there’s nothing really exceptional about it. But if the remainder of the clip is a good indicator of what we’ll be seeing in movie [...]

Timescapes Timelapse: Learning to Fly

Captured during Winter and Spring 2009 by Timescapes, “a motion picture company dedicated to pushing the artistic boundries of timelapse and outdoor cinematography,” the following footage was captured in 1080p using a Canon 5D Mark II Camera. Enjoy! Here is a direct link to download the 1080p MOV (352 MB). [Via Vimeo]

Amazing 3D Immersion Technology

A simple pair of polarized 3D glasses, a 10′ x 10′ x 10′ white room, and $600,000 worth of projector and computer equipment, combined with the smarts of the folks at Eon Reality, results in one insanely real experience. [Via Newlaunches]

They Hang Pirates, Don’t They?

By PatB Contributing Writer, [GAS] The Swedish trial of the four members of Pirate Bay is now over, and the pirates are going to jail. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty and were sentenced to a year in the slammer for violating copyright and running the most notorious [...]

Courtroom webcasting ban a “disagreeable” outcome

The good news for lovers of webcasting is that a federal appeals court has ruled that the medium is a form of broadcasting with equal status to that of television. The bad news is that that ruling was made to ban webcams from covering a music filesharing case. The defendant, Boston University student Joel Tennenbaum, [...]

Pac-Man Runs Amok

French prankster Remi Gaillard brings us a real-life version of Pac-Man, and leaves chaos behind! If you enjoy this sort of thing, see a dozen more real-life video games here. [via Metafilter]

Snakes on a Plane (No, Really)

By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] During a passenger flight in Australia, four pythons escaped from the cargo area during the flight. Fortunately for the passengers, though unfortunately for all of us writing punchlines, this went unnoticed until after the plane had landed. A reptile expert searched for the snakes but never found them… the [...]

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