Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Marco Polo: Find Your iPhone By Yelling 'Marco'
From geekology, Marco Pollo is a $1 iPhone app that runs in the background waiting for you to lose your phone and yell 'Marco'. It then responds 'Polo'. You can also program it to respond to a different name, but it will always respond with Polo. BOOTYJUICE. "Polo." There you are!
I tried Marco Polo around the house, first putting the phone on a dresser. That was an easy one -- I said "Marco" and the phone replied. I also put the iPhone under a couple of blankets, and that worked too. Then I put my iPhone in a drawer in the kitchen, and while the sound was muffled, I could hear it respond. Obviously, if I got too far away -- like two rooms away -- it wouldn't trigger. But I would be quite happy to shout out a couple of different "Marco's" to find my lost phone.
I don't have the tools for precise measurement, but I didn't see any significant drain on my battery while the app was running. My only suggestion for the developers is that once the phone says "Polo", it might be nice if it emitted a repeating tone to make it easier to pinpoint without having to go through the house yelling "Marco" over and over.
Call me an antique, but I still find my lost phone the old fashioned way: tearing the house apart. Then I use somebody else's phone to call and listen for the buzzing (I always keep it on silent). If that doesn't work I accuse my roommates of stealing it, before laying in the shower and trying as hard as I can to remember if I KNOW I had it when I got home from the bar last night. That is never easy. Eventually, I get so angry I catch myself yelling at my penis for no reason. LOOK AT YOU -- YOU'RE LIKE AN EARTHWORM DRYING UP ON THE SIDEWALK.
Rumored "Jurassic World" Plot Spoilers
From iwatchstuff, Following on from the reveal of some new "Avengers: Age of Ultron" details earlier, JoBlo has been in contact with a scooper who has offered similar new minor spoiler details regarding the upcoming "Jurassic World" which is currently in production:
POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD
In the new film, Isla Nublar is indeed a real running theme park, complete with a monorail, shops, rides, and shows. Guests get there via a high speed shuttle boat from Florida. One ride is called a 'Gyrosphere' which allows you to ride around in the wild and get up close to the Dinosaurs.
In order to keep customers coming back, the park operators start splicing dinosaur DNA with other dinosaurs and other species - the pinnacle of their efforts being a combination of a T-Rex, raptor, snake, and a cuttlefish. The monstrous new dinosaur, which has fierce intelligence and chameleon-like camouflage abilities, gets loose and terrorizes the park.
There's also dinosaur on dinosaur fighting, with the "good" dinosaurs (including raptors and T-Rex) trained by Chris Pratt's character. "Jurassic World hits cinemas on June 12th 2015.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Top 100 B-Movies
Pretty good list, though I don't consider Behind the Mask a B-movie. Excellent to see how many of these can be found on Horrorthon's Monster List.
via PASTE
Not every film can be the Citizen Kane of its day. For every high-budget “A movie” that commands significant promotion and funding from its studio, there are piles of B movies that scratch and claw their way into existence without the benefit of things like “a budget” or “a script” in some cases. To compare them with A movies in terms of resources and immersiveness isn’t a fair proposition. Instead, discerning film fans are able to simply appreciate them for what they are.
But what does “best” mean when we’re talking about films often famous for their shoddy construction? It certainly doesn’t mean “best-made.” It also doesn’t mean “worst-made,” or else films like Manos: The Hands of Fate and The Beast of Yucca Flats would make prominent appearances. They’re not on this list because the meaning of “best” here is “most entertaining,” and I defy you to be entertained by Manos without its MST3k commentary or a pound of medical-grade marijuana. If these films are painful, they’re also equally fun.
Whenever possible, I tried to keep the list to more obscure titles. Although John Carpenter’s Halloween is a great example of a superbly made “B movie” in terms of budget, any film fan has most likely seen it already. Gathered here is a collection of some of the most entertainingly cheap and endearingly bad movies ever made.
via PASTE
Not every film can be the Citizen Kane of its day. For every high-budget “A movie” that commands significant promotion and funding from its studio, there are piles of B movies that scratch and claw their way into existence without the benefit of things like “a budget” or “a script” in some cases. To compare them with A movies in terms of resources and immersiveness isn’t a fair proposition. Instead, discerning film fans are able to simply appreciate them for what they are.
But what does “best” mean when we’re talking about films often famous for their shoddy construction? It certainly doesn’t mean “best-made.” It also doesn’t mean “worst-made,” or else films like Manos: The Hands of Fate and The Beast of Yucca Flats would make prominent appearances. They’re not on this list because the meaning of “best” here is “most entertaining,” and I defy you to be entertained by Manos without its MST3k commentary or a pound of medical-grade marijuana. If these films are painful, they’re also equally fun.
Whenever possible, I tried to keep the list to more obscure titles. Although John Carpenter’s Halloween is a great example of a superbly made “B movie” in terms of budget, any film fan has most likely seen it already. Gathered here is a collection of some of the most entertainingly cheap and endearingly bad movies ever made.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Daily Spider-Man! Here's what went through my head reading this: Let's see, what to joke about... Peter sucks, Jameson is stupid, Jameson's a jerk... DOC OCK IS COMING!!! DOC OCK IS COMING!!!
Seriously, I'm so happy to see the back of this story I'll make a Welcome Dr. Octopus cake.
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