Category: Entertainment

As reported on Businessinsider.com by Kirsten Acuna If you were watching the Screen Actors Guild Awards, you may have noticed something odd when Jennifer Lawrence went to accept the award for Best Actress. Her dress visibly ripped or slipped revealing her thighs as she made her way to the stage. Here’s the GIF via Tumblr:   Tumblr   Many, including a few fashion sites, thought her dress ripped in half:   @Stylelist / Twitter     @Styleite…

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As reported on Wired. BY HUGH HART The Dark Knight Rises by Jock E.T. poster by Daa McCarthy Tron poster by Eric Tan Tron: Legacy poster by Eric Tan The Iron Giant poster by Evan Tong Evil Dead poster by Olly Moss Star Trek by Olly Moss Lord of the Rings poster by Mike Sutfin Lord of the Rings poster by Paolo Rivera Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan by We Buy Your Kids The Empire Strikes Back by Tyler Stout Close Encounters of the Third Kind by…

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek NME reports that French electronic music duo Daft Punk has left Virgin / EMI to sign with Sony’s Columbia Records, and that the group will release a new studio album this spring. Daft Punk’s last album, the soundtrack for Tron: Legacy, was released in 2010 — the new album slated for this year will be the group’s fourth studio album since its debut album Homework was released in 1997, and its first official release…

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As reported on The Verge. By Adi Robertson Using programs and tutorials online, it’s not difficult to mathematically translate images into audio. When clever listeners use a spectrograph program or tool on the sound, it’ll then reappear as a monochrome image. So what do you do with that audio file? Mix it into a song, of course. Twisted Sifter has made a reasonably exhaustive collection of spectrograms that appear in songs, most famously the Aphex Twin track known as…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Tony Manfred AP Two games involving four of the biggest soccer teams in Europe were blanketed by a snowstorm yesterday in London.  The snow was light enough to play through, but heavy enough to make for some awesome scenes. In the afternoon, Chelsea beat Arsenal 2-1 in west London as the snow was just beginning to fall. At night, Tottenham tied Manchester United 1-1 in north London through a constant snow shower.…

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As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Ingraham While many people may think of sailboating as a fairly tranquil activity, Paul Larsen has long equated sailboating with extreme speed. In Wired, Adam Fisher has profiled the Australian-born Larsen’s search for the perfect speecboating runway, which he found off the coast of the small African country Namiba. This windswept coast is where Larsen has spent the last decade attempting to break the boating speed record — recently by piloting the Vestas SailRocket…

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