Early Adopters Through History
Once again, CollegeHumor actually comes up with something funny.
Cookie Monster Auditions for Saturday Night Live
Help Cookie Monster Host Saturday night Live… Â He can’t be any worse than some of the higher profile actors they have had on there…
Adam Savage: TSA saw my junk, missed 12″ razor blades
Security Theatre at it’s finest!
Watch 15 minutes of Tron Legacy behind-the-scenes footage
Collider got hold of some “B-roll” showing the making of Tron Legacy, including some priceless insights into how the virtual world was brought to life, and how Bridges was transformed into his much younger alter ego, Clu. Plus in case you missed them, there are four clips from the movie.
4 clips from Tron Legacy:
iOS 4.2.1 – New Safari Features
As you know iOS 4.2 is a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device available now. Apple has not yet updated the developers documentation reflecting this, but Maximilano Firtman has discovered some of these changes.  This new release provides some major changes on HTML5 and W3C future standards support, like WebSocketsand Accelerometer support, print support, new JavaScript data-types and better SVG support.
Specifically, he has discovered support for:
- Accelerometer & Gyroscope support through the DeviceOrientation API
- WebSockets API from HTML5
- Updated HTML5 Form Support
- Partial XHR-2 Support
- Print Support
- New JavaScript data types
- New DOM events
- Enhanced SVG and Canvas support
For more details, check out his detailed blog entry on this, which also includes web based samples…
Space 1999
An unused cover to Space: 1999 by Gene Day! Found here, at Jon’s Random Acts of Geekery.
How Not to cheat your way through college..
Using statistical analysis, University of Central Florida professor Richard Quinn determined that dozens of students had cheated on a test, told them in a lecture (video below), and over 200 students confessed after the lecture.
From Kottke.org