Design Of Everyday Things #12 Brilliance of Everyday Objects Problem: Coffee less trips to break room Solution: Let’s keep a track of the coffee levels from where we are sitting The year was 1991, and the computer science faculty at Cambridge University was tired of walking all the way to the breakroom only to find […]
12 Secrets of New York’s Central Park No natural landmark in New York City is as iconic as its beloved 843-acre park. As Columbia University professor Elizabeth Blackmar notes in her book The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, it’s made cameos in high and low culture alike, from the writings of
Jeff Bridges Admits Iron Man Movie Had No Script Iron Man may have seemed as polished as fresh power-armor, but the movie actually had no screenplay at all, says Jeff Bridges. The chaos freaked him out, until he decided to think of it as a $200 million student film. In an interview with InContention, Bridges
Star Wars (film) See also: List of Star Wars characters and List of Star Wars cast members From left to right: Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker: a young man raised by his aunt and uncle on Tatooine, who dreams of something more
Dumb and Dumber The Farrelly Brothers had been trying for years to get their first movie made, and it was only when director Peter Farrelly’s agent encouraged him to make a movie himself along with his brother Bobby. The Farrelly Brothers didn’t know who Jim Carrey was, they were only told that he was known
This King Hated Coffee So Much He Tried to Kill Someone With It There are 92 references to coffee in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, whose protagonist, Lisbeth Salander, wreaks bloody revenge in Stieg Larsson’s Swedish crime thrillers. Indeed, people in the Scandinavian country drink the equivalent of 18 pounds of coffee every year,
Johnny Cash’s Family Condemns White Supremacist: Read Cash’s 1964 Letter to Radio Stations The children of late country legend Johnny Cash remember their father as a peaceful social justice advocate. So when video footage of the neo-Nazi rallies that broke out in Charlottesville over the weekend captured one white supremacist in a Johnny Cash t-shirt,
The Sound of Music: 10 things you didn’t know about the film The Sound of Music is celebrating its 50th anniversary in March 2015, which will be marked with a special festival in Salzburg, Austria, in June 1. It is the fifth highest grossing film of all time. Sort of… The Sound of Music won
The Bizarre Reason Pencils Are Yellow If you’ve ever stared at your No. 2 pencil and wondered “why are pencils yellow?” you can take solace in the fact that around 210 people a month are typing that very question into an online search engine and contemplating this along with you. But really, why are pencils
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (soundtrack) By August 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 writer and director James Gunn had “some ideas listed, but nothing for sure” in terms of songs to include in Quill’s Awesome Mix Vol. 2 mixtape. In April 2015, Gunn said he felt “a little pressure for the soundtrack
