Archive: July 18, 2011

This is notable simply for the scale of it all and the fact that this was all a big accident. Phillip Mendonça-Vieira says he set up an automated task to run twice every hour to capture a screenshot of The New York Times’ front page and forgot about it — allowing the task to run [...]

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT This is so tragic and sad. I don’t know the final outcome of this event captured on video, but I can only assume that anybody who gets washed away down a waterfall this high during a flash flood is most likely not living to tell the tale. [via]

The Onion’s A.V. Club teams up with Fiat (cool car by the way) to visit the location of the house seen in the 2001 Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums. I always thought this house was a movie set but apparently it really does exist in Harlem on 144th Street and Convent Ave (see map [...]

carmageddon

Photo by anosmicovni on Flickr I would have had a field day if I were in LA this past weekend for Carmageddon.

The demo video above doesn’t show iUsers being completely bug-free, but the idea that the iPad could potentially hold multiple user accounts is exciting. I’m not necesarrily going to install this right now, but who knows, I might for when guests are over.