"Super Mario Beatbox" by Hikakin (Everything Via viaviavia via anditstillis[home page] unless otherwise noted). Check out his (Hikakin's) Google-translated blog here.
[UPDATE] Click here for more dope beatboxing by Hikakin.
Sorry, my Japanese isn't that good, but it's a hardcore violin rendition by a talented musician, who plays while watching some Mario gameplay.
Dig this "New York Fat Cap Chair" by artist Sander van Heukelom (website here) ...
... & this "Hooded Fat Cap Chair" below ...
... Or click here to see a gallery, (which can be viewed as a slideshow,) of custom chairs.
So Gizmodo got their hands on the newest version of the iPhone before its release (as you may have heard - click here if not), but what an irritated Steve Jobs answered Gizmodo contributor Ryan Tate inquiry about the "revolutionary" nature of the iPad, well . . .
I didn't plan to pick a fight with Steve Jobs last night. It just sort of happened: An iPad advertisement ticked me off; I sent the Apple CEO an angry email; he told me about "freedom from porn."
The war between Google and Apple continues to heat up: The Wall Street Journal reports that Google will launch a music service tied to its search engine later this year and that it will follow this with a subscription music service in 2011. Details are vague, and Google has not yet announced deals with any record labels, but the Journal says the first step will be an online store that will show up when users search Google for a song or artist. The long-term goal is a cloud-based subscription service that will work with Google’s Android mobile phones; such a service would allow users to play music on their phones without storing it there.
...To be fair this is a free Google blog and I use Gmail...and I found most of these images using Google Image Search...and I use Google Wave...and have used/at least looked at a Google Calendar and Google Notebook...and my brother has an Android-based phone...and I want one...and I have an iGoogle page...and my cousin uses Google Voice...not to mention Google Chrome (browser; see below) and Google Chrome (the forthcoming operating system), among other things...
Cool Chrome Brower ad. . .
"Google Chrome Speed Tests."
Oh, have you heard about Google's illegal Wi-Fi snooping?
Google's misadventures in Wi-Fi data collection continue, as attorneys general from about 30 states are weighing a large-scale investigation of the company over their use of Street View cars to illicitly gather Wi-Fi network information. This could get ugly.
Have you heard about Google Internet-tizing printed books? (Click here for Google's side/forum) and
as for Rupert Murdoch's (I have to admit things like this make me take a shining to Google; he's pissed about Google aggregating news - power to the people?) side:
"We are seeking justice and fair compensation for visual artists whose work appears in the twelve million books and other publications Google has illegally scanned to date," ASMP General Counsel Victor Perlman said in a statement. "In doing so, we are giving voice to thousands of disenfranchised creators of visual artworks whose rights we hope to enforce through this class action."
Hell, despite it's indiscretions -which I no way condone, justify or excuse- Google might be the only corporation I don't hate on. Hell, I mean they even took on the Commies for U.S. ...
Google China has been in the news due to its rocky relationship with China for some time, and today those issues have culminated into a major move.
You might also be interested in checking out China's censored search engine, "Goojje" -
The way the name works is this: Jie Jie (Goojje) is mandarin for sister, while "ge ge" (Google) means big brother (er, shouldn't that be the other way round?) The Web Monster (ie, the real one) is being exhorted to stay by its sino-doppelganger, with a message on Goojje that reads, "Sister was very happy when brother gave up the thought of leaving and stayed for sister."
+ Pac-Man is so named because "pac pac pac" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for eating.
+ "All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books." - Jean-Paul Sartre (Too bad my French isn't good enough to be really highbrow/uppity and quote it in the original.)
So, what am I forgetting to mention? Google Earth? Google Moon? Google Mars (and Easter Eggs?!?!) . . . Google Maps? What else?
And so as not to be accused of only hating on Apple (though I do actively dislike their Hipper-Than-Thou marketing/aura/aesthetic), I'll re-up on my Hatorade and send some negative vibes Microsoft's way as well (click here to check out a mad nice Microsoft subvertising/busted ad graphic).
You can check out some of the crazy shit that individuals/communities are doing (like changing the name of "Topeka," Kansas to "Google" - see below) here.
