Go to Google. Type do a barrel roll. This is important to designers there. Their users opinions? Not so much anymore.
I need a new RSS reader, stat.
Here’s a nice interactive chart from NPR. It examines unemployment across the country, breaking it down demographically with respect to age and education.
Watched Thor. It wasn’t terrible. It wasn’t as good or as bad as it could have been. I’m detecting the comic book-turned-movie theme, though. The better ones are the movies without love stories. Thus, Iron Man is the best of the comic book movies, as a function of Tony Stark’s character flaws.
This isn’t an anti-romantic movie statement, just a comic book observation. Thor had to love interest in the comics, one an Earth woman and another from his home realm. I’m embarrassed to say I looked that up on Wikipedia just now. But I’m guessing kids didn’t pick up Thor for the love story. They wanted flying and hammers and thunder.
And since director Kenneth Branagh is beyond blame, this can only fall to Natalie Portman.
Oh someone will blame Loki later, but you’ll know better.
A little something different from YouTube Cover Theater this week. Here are three different perspectives on Hey Ya. Makes you think.
This is the most clever video cover I’ve seen so far:
The obligatory ukelele version, with lovely vocal accompaniment:
Goofy songs deserve goofy covers:
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must go cook dinner.
