Share With Note: 2013-03-17

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Tilda Swinton Naps in Glass Box for MoMa Installation

The Oscar winner surprised museum visitors with the unannounced appearance, which will be repeated at unspecified dates.

1960s 'Batman' TV Show Returning in New Toyline, Comics

"I just came along and embellished it in my way," says Adam West of his iconic role at an event launching retro merchandise.

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Sony Pictures' Amy Pascal Encourages Industry to Rid Scripts of Gay Slurs, Stereotypes

"How about next time, when any of us are reading a script and it says words like f-g ... take a pencil and just cross it out," she said at a fundraiser.

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How FX's 'Legit' Became the Darling of the Disabled Community

The comedy's creators worried its disabled characters might offend viewers, but found those portrayals have earned the show some of its fiercest fans.

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Tech Time Warp of the Week: Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet, 1974

The year is 1974, and Arthur C. Clarke is standing inside one of those cavernous computer centers that held the massive machines of the day.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Twitter Turns 7 Today: What Was Your First Tweet?

Twitter Turns 7 Today: What Was Your First Tweet?

Twitter is seven today -- or at least, it's been seven years since founder Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet. Here's to remembering our first tweets.

When Animals Learn to Control Robots, You Know We're in Trouble

The warnings range from sarcastic to nervous to dead serious, but they all describe the same scenario: Robots become sentient, join forces and turn on us en masse. But we've ignored another possibility: Animals learn to control robots and decide it's their turn to rule the planet. The first signs of this coming threat are already starting to appear in laboratories around the world, where robots are being driven by birds, trained by moths and controlled by the minds of monkeys.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Video: More Of the Adorable Pandas Playing In the Snow!

The San Diego Zoo has edited together some great moments in panda play from yesterday's snow day, in the style of the world's cutest wrestling match of baby versus mama. It's especially cute when little Xiao Liwu goes sliding down his mom's back and onto the slippery snow.

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The Best Street Performers In Los Angeles

The streets of Los Angeles are alive with music, art, pop culture and bizarre shticks. Thanks to the bevy of talented buskers entertaining areas like Venice Beach, Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood Boulevard and local farmers' markets, dull moments are rare and tourists are charmed. Here are some of L.A.'s best buskers.

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Listen to a new song from The Hush Sound

Listen to a new song from The Hush Sound, its first in 5 years

Indie pop band The Hush Sound burst out of Chicago with 2005’s So Sudden, releasing two more records before going on hiatus in 2009 and branching out into ancillary groups like Gold Motel. Last summer, though, the band started writing together and some of the resulting material will be available for purchase on the band’s site tomorrow at 12pm EST.
In anticipation of that, as well as to hype the announcement of the band’s first full slate of tour dates in five years, The A.V. Club is hosting one of the band’s new tracks. “Not A Stranger” is total summer festival bait, perfect for lazy Sunday listening on porches right as the sun goes down.
A full list of the aforementioned tour dates is below.
The Hush Sound tour 2013May 14—Webster Hall—New York, New York

May 15—Theatre Of The Living Arts ...

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13 stand-up routines about real-life celebrity encounters

Filth flarn filth flarn filth: 13 stand-up routines about real-life celebrity encounters

1. Tig Notaro meets Taylor DayneComedians tend to get great mileage out of stories about celebrities, especially when those stories involve awkward personal encounters. For some unspoken reason, it’s become acceptable for stand-ups to incorporate into their acts stories about meeting famous people in real life—and the results are frequently hilarious. The gold standard might be Tig Notaro’s brilliant tale of the time she ran into forgotten singer Taylor Dayne—one of Notaro’s favorite performers, of “Tell It To My Heart” fame—and completely embarrassed herself. Then she saw Dayne again, and in true Notaro fashion, the embarrassment became something to celebrate. The serendipity of her multiple encounters sounds almost too perfect to be true, but the beauty of her simple retelling is that it is. (On a live This American Life, Notaro did the bit, and was surprised by the real Taylor Dayne coming ...

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Can Wind Turbines Make You Sick?

Can Wind Turbines Make You Sick?

In the past several years, scores of people living near wind farms have claimed to have been sickened by noise from the rotating blades. They have complained of everything from headaches and depression to conjunctivitis and nosebleeds. Is “wind turbine syndrome” real? Is it just another imaginary illness stoked by loons on the Internet? Are the victims a bunch of fakers?

Bill Cosby Dances, Mocks His Old Age in Spirited 'Letterman' Appearance

Bill Cosby Dances, Mocks His Old Age in Spirited 'Letterman' Appearance (Video)

The comedy legend showed off his moves and dispensed plenty of laughs in an appearance on the "Late Show."

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British Producer Tim Hampton Dies at 65

Tributes to the producer of Ridley Scott's "Legend," starring Tom Cruise, flood in from former Monty Python members Terry Jones and Michael Palin, Roman Polanski and others.

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