Relatively speaking, it’s not a bad sketch of the man who invented time.
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Hero of Geek Myth #1: Albert Einstein, The Man Who Invented Time.
The Science of Hipster Music
Priceonomics created a chart that scientifically measures the hipster factor of music. This is an application of their data crawl service. They used ratings data from the independent music review site Pitchfork and correlated it against the number of Facebook ‘likes’ of the review.
SIMNET goes online in 1987
This is a video displaying the capabilities of SIMNET which was a multi-user military simulator that went online in 1987. A few interesting quotes from the latter half of the video should have you thinking about the future of virtual reality systems.
“…you’ll be able to create anything, from a synthetic battlefield to a synthetic factory, all using the same core technology.”
“Anything that you can conceive of can be put on a network.”
“…all the way down to the guy bringing lunch out to the troops.
Ellen Tweets an Epic Selfie at the 86th Academy Awards and Makes Oscar History
In an attempt to capture the greatest selfie of all time at the 86th Academy Awards, Ellen DeGeneres took the following picture.
Apple Announces OS X Sea Lion!
Due to a dwindling supply of cats to name their operating system after, Apple has announced OS X Sea Lion! Actually, they’ve named it after a surf spot just outside of San Fran. OS X Mavericks. This announcement was made on June 10, 2013.
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