iFixit’s teardown of the Samsung Galaxy S 4G doesn’t exactly contain a ton of surprises — until the very end, that is. Apparently, there’s been some talk that Samsung used magnesium instead of aluminum for some of the components, and the best way iFixit could find to test that was to file some dust off the frame and set it ablaze (magnesium’s reaction is noticeably different than aluminum). Spoiler alert: it’s magnesium. Hit up the link below for the full blow-by-blow account.
Google has used its Street View technology to bring 17 of the world’s great art galleries right into your home. The recently launched Art Project offers online visitors the chance to view thousands of paintings which they might not otherwise have the opportunity to see, add their favorite images to a personal gallery, and share their gallery electronically with friends. Each painting uploaded to the site from the participating museums is viewable in detail using a custom zoom viewer, and one painting chosen from each of museums is available in extreme detail – the 17 special images were shot using “gigapixel” photo-capturing software providing pictures containing 7 billion pixels worth of information.
I spent my afternoon at the Tate Britain in London and The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and look forward to visiting the other museums soon.
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Harry Hanrahan has compiled The Other 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time.
It’s a sequel to his previous video The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time.
Eirik Solheim made a wonderful time-lapse video of one year in 2 minutes created using 3500 high resolution photos all shot from the same location during 2010. Eirik made similar videos in 2008 and 2009.
via The Daily What
‘Social’ makes it sound like you’re, you know, talking to someone. When, in fact, you’re totally alone.
