Dennis and I were watching The Today Show, and realized that the staff didn’t know the mic was still hot. We caught this gem this morning.
Here’s some previous hilarity on the show.
Today Show Lunacy
Posted by Dennis Bonilla and Tate Srey.
The Today Show Goes Crazy, Al Roker Babbling
Open Source Death Star Kickstarter
After a failed petition to the U.S. government to build a Death Star, someone has taken up the cause to fund the construction project using the popular crowd sourced funding website Kickstarter. Thankfully, to help keep costs down and to help make the project a reality open source hardware and software will be used. Along with “enough chicken wire to protect reactor exhaust ports.” I can’t wait.
Lucasfilm and ILM will Change how Movie Special Effects are Made
Kim Libreri of Lucasfilm spoke at the Technology Strategy Board event at BAFTA this week, presenting a demo of their motion-capture stage. They are gathering the actor’s motion captured data and putting their virtual characters in fully rendered environments in real time. They are also manipulating the assets, buildings, weather, landscape on the fly.
I’ll be annoyed if I die before I get a chance to survive the zombie apocalypse.
The World is Not Without Good People
With all the horrors we’ve seen from dashboard cameras, it feels appropriate to end a good week with something beautiful. Enjoy.
Hero of Geek Myth #1: Albert Einstein, The Man Who Invented Time.
Relatively speaking, it’s not a bad sketch of the man who invented time. Posted by stateoftrey
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