Luke Morris

poynterinstitute:

fastcompany:

fastcodesign:

A Beautiful Cheat Sheet For Two Dozen Espresso-Based Drinks

Ugh. Just when you kinda sorta started to get a handle on the wide world of wine, along comes another new liquid metric for how cosmopolitan you really are (or aren’t): coffee. 

Love this one! Here’s another.

Data presentation at its loveliest and most useful. (At least as far as your Poynter Tumblr curator is concerned)

matthewkeys:

I suck at Photoshop, but I think I improved on today’s New York Post cover.

What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space? Something awesome, that’s what.

markcoatney:

rachelfershleiser:

Might wanna start with the copy chief tho.

I think they meant Copy Chef.

Yoinks!

latimes:

Holi festival celebrations in India

The Indian festival of colors, Holi, is celebrated on the full moon day in the month of March, marking the ceremonial beginning of spring and commemorating events in traditional Hindu stories.

Check out more photos via Framework.

Photos: Rajesh Kumar Singh, Altaf Qadri / Associated Press

Hopefully this is an advancement toward perpetual motion devices.

1) Go to YouTube
2) Search for “Do the harlem shake”
3) Wait 15-20 seconds.

ikenbot:

astronomerinprogress:

Ladies and gentlemen,

I bring you the fabulous Neil deGrasse Tyson

#DATREALSWAG

Well put.

Mario Chalmers: KU Jayhawks Jersey Retirement Ceremony in Allen Fieldhouse (2.16.13)

Mario Chalmers is honored in Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas, as his #15 jersey is retired. Mario is introduced by Bob Davis, “The Voice of the Jayhawks” during halftime of KU vs Texas. KU won 73-47. Saturday, February 16, 2013

The ESPN documentary on the original rules of basketball is on Netflix instant now.

Soldiers of Happiness - Black Ops 2 Montage

Love this NPR Tiny Desk Concert series of shows. Macklemore? Yes please.

jtotheizzoe:

How the Duck Hunt Gun Worked

This settles a mystery that has plagued my now semi-grown-up brain for decades, even more than the memory of that hound’s taunting laughter.

If you’re like me, and you played a lot of Duck Hunt growing up, you never quite figured out how the dang gun worked. I mean, I assumed it was shooting something at the screen, like maybe a beam of infrared, and the Nintendo console would somehow triangulate where I was shooting from, and somehow calculate how big my TV was, decipher some x,y coordinates from that and then determine if I had actually hit the duck.

Of course, none of that takes into account that it still registered the kills when I was cheating experimenting by putting the gun right on the screen and pulling the trigger wildly. Well, thanks to the folks at Mental Floss, I know the truth.

The gun didn’t shoot anything.

It was a receiver! Check it out:

When you point at a duck and pull the trigger, the computer in the NES blacks out the screen and the Zapper diode begins reception. Then, the computer flashes a solid white block around the targets you’re supposed to be shooting at. The photodiode in the Zapper detects the change in light intensity and tells the computer that it’s pointed at a lit target block — in others words, you should get a point because you hit a target. In the event of multiple targets, a white block is drawn around each potential target one at a time. The diode’s reception of light combined with the sequence of the drawing of the targets lets the computer know that you hit a target and which one it was. Of course, when you’re playing the game, you don’t notice the blackout and the targets flashing because it all happens in a fraction of a second.

My sleep tonight will be that much sounder, now that this has been settled. Now if we could just explain that Power Glove …