Yep, been there, done that.
[Source: Book of Adam on Facebook]
15FPS vs. 30FPS vs. 60FPS [Animated GIF]
Self-explanatory, isn’t it?
Reddit Button Is Not Pressed: The Death of a Meme
Reddit appears to have answered the question of how long a meme will take to die out: two months and four days.
That’s how long what started as an April Fool’s Day post ran for and how long it took the online community to tire of pressing a virtual button.
Back in April a new subreddit appeared complete with a virtual button and a 60 second countdown. It was set up such that any user could press the button and reset the countdown to 60 seconds. However, you had to have a reddit account to press the button, each account holder could only press the button once, and it only worked for accounts registered before the experiment/prank started.
To make things more lively, users who pressed the button would then have a dot appear next to their user name, with the color depending on how close the countdown had come on the last press, with red showing the nearest of misses.
As usual with reddit, it prompted all sorts of online cooperation and competition, with some groups committed to keeping the button live, others working to try to ensure the time would run out and reveal what would then happen, and yet others playing daredevil and trying to work it so the button got pressed at the last possible moment. It appears the system was set up so that when “0” appeared on the countdown, there’d actually be one remaining second for somebody to press the button before whatever happened happened.
In the end just over a million accounts pressed the button. According to The Guardian, the end came amid a campaign that involved users ‘donating’ their account to automatically press the button at a scheduled interval, with 1,440 accounts needed every day to be certain of prolonging the “fun” and avoiding relying on spontaneous presses.
Unfortunately the people coordinating the donated accounts didn’t adequately vet their creation date and eventually one of them turned out to have been created after April 1st and the relevant button press was rejected. It’s possible that may have happened before, but on this occasion no other user was around to press the button manually.
Those expecting fireworks were out of luck. The completed countdown simply led to a message reading “The experiment is over.”
Hackerman From ‘Kung Fury’ Releases Tutorial On How To Hack Time
If you saw the wonderful, brilliant, hilarious movie we posted last week, Kung Fury, then you certainly remember the character of Hackerman. His computer skills were all but unrivaled, and without him on the team, they would not have been able to achieve the time traveling which was an essential element to their journey. But how did Hackerman do it?
Well, guess what? You are about to find out!
This tutorial video will give you further insight into the great man’s mind, as well as some more laughs at the sake of Kung Fury. You’re welcome, now go out there and change the world!
[Via LaserUnicorns]
Tags: best movie ever, funny, hackerman, hacking, how to hack, kung fury, satire, viral
We Finally Know Why Batman And Superman Are Fighting in ‘Dawn Of Justice’
Okay, Dawn of Justice looks pretty badass, no denying. But many were wondering, why are two DC mega heroes fighting when the next movie clearly shows us they are on the same team (I.E. Birth of Justice = Justice League). Seems the official plot synopsis clears this issue up a bit for anyone wondering:
Fearing the actions of a god-like super hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.
Honestly, I don’t need any more reasons than “it is going to look awesome on film”, and I am pretty sure that is what all the execs behind-the-scenes were thinking.
(Image, H/T ComicsAlliance)
Tags: batman, batman vs superman, comic book, comic movie, dawn of justice, dc, plot, Superman
Mad Max’s Imperator Furiosa Does Tampon Commercial [Video]
I doubt the ladies from “Mad Max: Fury Road” would use tampons in a post-apocalyptic world, but if they did, Imperator Furiosa would make a perfect spokeswoman!
“The Lost World: Jurassic Park” Gets the Honest Trailer Treatment [Video]
Jurassic Park 2 sucked pretty badly, so in honor of the imminent release of Jurassic World, the folks from Screen Junkies gave the “Honest Trailer” treatment to the movie.
Before Jurassic World, there was The Lost World, the first Jurassic sequel that brought us more dinos, more Goldblum, and – gymnastics?!
LEGO Let the Wookie Win [Video]
“Droids don’t pull people’s arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookies are known to do that.”
Apparently Han Solo learned this bit of wisdom through personal experience. What he hasn’t learned, however, is that upsetting a droid can be even worse.
The Beach Bod [Comic]
Self-Healing Plane Wings Based On Human Scabbing
Self-healing aircraft wings could be a practicality according to a British professor. The same technology could work on crash helmets, phone screens and even nail varnish.
The Royal Society will host a presentation this week about the technology from the Wass Research Group, based at the University of Bristol. The group’s leader, Professor Duncan Wass, previewed the work in the Independent newspaper.
The technology is based around the self-healing properties of human skin, including scabbing. To achieve this, the group came up with a pattern of “microspheres” to be embedded in the carbon in a plane wing. When the carbon is impacted, the microspheres crack and release a liquid. They also release a catalyst that, before the impact, was kept separate from the liquid.
The set-up is designed such that the liquid has time to seep into and fill the cracks in the carbon before reacting with the catalyst and polymerizing: that is, turning into a solid material that “glues” the cracks shut.
In principle, this should allow a wing to repair itself mid-flight after an impact such as a bird strike. In practice, the plane would likely land as normal but then be kept grounded until the material had set completely. This could take anywhere from two to 24 hours depending on the temperature: the colder, the slower.
Wass suggested a dye could be added to the material so that ground staff could detect damage even if it hadn’t been noticed during the flight. He thinks this would likely involve a dye only visible under ultraviolet light “because you don’t want an aeroplane wing with a big red splodge on it showing that it’s been damaged.”
While the Wass Group is concentrating on planes, the technology might also be used on sports and safety equipment. L’Oreal is also said to be interested in adapting the concept for nail varnish.