Covered this week; Tim Duncan retires… certain password sharing is now a Federal crime… Appetite for Destruction logo design… a bi-annual NYC phenomena… the Pokemon Go craze reaches a fever pitch… Apple’s Eddy Cue… death by selfie… places that are closed to the general public… Trumps new homo-erotic campaign logo…
July 11, 2016
26,496 points (14th all-time), 15,091 (6th all-time), 3,064 (5th all-time), 1,392 (7th all-time), 5 Titles… Tim Duncan retires after 19 seasons, on his way to the Hall of Fame.
Sharing Netflix or HBO Go passwords is now technically a federal crime. It’s not that these companies are about to go all Napster on offenders… but this is an interesting quick read on something (password sharing) that I’ve always wondered about…
July 12, 2016
The cross design on the Appetite for Destruction cover was designed by Billy White, Jr. A nice piece on how it came to be…
The maker of Super Mario and Zelda games has added more than $7 billion in market value since last week’s debut of a new smartphone app for its fantasy monster character franchise. The game, which lets users track down virtual Pokemons in their vicinity, has topped the free-to-download app charts for Apple in the U.S. and Australia since its July 7 debut.
Pokemon Go explained.
July 13, 2016
The phenomenon happens only twice a year, in May and July. And it’s become one of the most photographed and popular attractions in New York City. The nickname, coined by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and head of the Hayden Planetarium, is a reference to England’s Stonehenge. At Stonehenge, once a year during the summer solstice, the rising Sun perfectly aligns with the 5,000-year-old stones, signaling the beginning of the season. In New York City, where the setting Sun simultaneously shines on both the north and south sides of each cross street in the grid, the phenomenon doesn’t fall on any special date.
July 14, 2016
Crazed Pokémon Go players have descended on the suburb of Rhodes, near Sydney, like a locust plague of old. Words out that Rhodes hosts three intersecting PokéStops, and the Pokémon-playing world has lost its goddamn mind. Another indicator of the apocalypse.
July 15, 2016
A great interview with Apple’s Eddy Cue.
Death by Selfie, 11 Disturbing Stories of Social Media Pics Gone Wrong.
July 16, 2016
It’s mostly a free world, but there still remains places which are closed to the general public. The next time you want to visit these fun locations, you might want to check with the government… or at least some local security.
July 17, 2016
What would a Trump/Pence logo be if it didn’t imply a little homo-eroticism?
Taking next week off…
