A crew of nearly 200 technicians working for nine months on a 15,000-square-foot soundstage was required to realize the director’s wildly imaginative fantasy world.
—just some of the work that went into creating a realistic Oscar for Michael Bay
“Oh, I get, it’s very clever. How’s that working out for you? Being clever.”
The world’s greatest music collection just might be
3 million albums, 300,000 CD’s, over 6 million songs. Over half have never been listened to; the entire collection has been stored in a climate controlled warehouse. No reserve bidding starts at $3 million.
Paste magazine talks to Scarlett Johansson and David Sitek about that Tom Waits cover album
Sitek, of TV on the Radio fame, produced, there are two tracks with Bowie and it’s reportedly not that bad. Despite my inclinations, I might have to pick this one up.
Marshall Kirkpatrick argues that “social” news sites fail on breaking world news
Compared coverage of Castro stepping down across several social news sites, decides that mainstream news is still the best bet for breaking coverage. Curious that there was no talk of Newsvine.
Library of Congress taps Silverlight to “enhance” access
One of those nifty projects where Microsoft is giving away $3 million - in Microsoft software. I wonder if they get a tax break on that!
Paul Smith, Everyblock dev, talks about one of the most-asked questions: why they decided to roll their own map platform instead of use a third party like Microsoft, Yahoo or Google
Movement Map: 1hr in Front of the TV. I particularly like the cat. [via Kottke]
Office Master is just one of the many Microsoft Source Fource action figures you can collect. [via Daring Fireball]
The same online gun store sold to both the VA Tech shooter and the NIU shooter
Also - you can buy a handgun ONLINE!?!