Richard Nixon (1930s)
You’re gonna be a bad motherfucker!
The Simpsons Ended Its 500th Episode With This Plea To Viewers
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Why Spotify Turned Down Adele’s “21”
Multiple sources confirm that Adele was willing to play ball with the streaming service, as long as the content was accessible only to paying subscribers and not to its freemium users. Spotify has a freemium-to-premium model: Users can gain ad-supported access to Spotify’s entire music catalog for free; to remove the ads and gain mobile access, users have to pony up as much as $10 a month. Ultimately, Spotify decided it did not want to split up its content catalog, so as to create separate music libraries for paying subscribers and freemium users. Thus, it was essentially Spotify that decided against providing streaming access to Adele’s content for paying subscribers—not the other way around.
Batman: Arkham City
Mac version screen capture
Lynch
Mountain Lion Feature Highlight: iMessages
Download iMessages for Lion Mac Beta Right Now
Apple Dropped “Mac” From OS X Mountain Lion
Stitchwork Gif
Huh, well that’s awesome.
Zelda
by Zac Gorman
PaperKarma
1. You get junk mail.
2. You take a picture of it with this app and submit.
3. PaperKarma contacts Mailer & removes you from their distribution list.
Very cool.
Harry & Bruce
Seven Theories on Time
1. We May Not Live in the Present
What if we told you that what you think of as “the present” is actually slightly in the past? Basically, your life isn’t a live feed: It’s a delayed broadcast that your brain is constantly editing and censoring for your convenience. The delay isn’t much — what’s 80 milliseconds between you and your brain? Nothing, right? Well, a group of neuroscientists disagree. They’ve come up with some freaky time-altering experiments to prove that this difference can change your perspective of cause and effect.
For example, in one experiment the volunteers were told to press a button that would cause a light to flash, with a short delay. After 10 or so tries, the volunteers were beginning to see the flash immediately after they pressed the button — their brains had gotten used to the delay and decided to edit it out.
But that’s not the freaky part. When the scientists removed the delay, the volunteers reported seeing the flash before they pressed the button. Their brains, in trying to reconstruct the events, messed up and switched the order. They were seeing the consequence first and the action second.