Working synthesizer is the coolest Google Doodle ever
Google has been getting quite adventurous with its signature Google Doodles of late, but today's 78th birthday tribute to synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog gets my vote for the coolest yet.
MOREGoogle has been getting quite adventurous with its signature Google Doodles of late, but today's 78th birthday tribute to synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog gets my vote for the coolest yet.
MOREThe Internet's marijuana sites never left the '90s.
They're exemplar of the Web from an earlier time, with tiled clipart as backgrounds and pixelated ads that scream, "Buy now!" The type of folks who frequent these sites tend to meet the How High or Half Baked movie stereotypes: glazed eyes, short attention span, empty bags of Cheetos abound. But today's stoners run the gamut. With the legalization of medicinal marijuana in 16 states and Washington D.C., many more Americans know their way around a bong than ever before.
To the unacquainted, websites such as the epileptic High Times can be intimidating. This new generation of pot smokers are looking for a safe, clean website to learn about their medicine. This is where Leafly comes into the picture.
To commemorate the tech side of 4/20, we spoke with Leafy's CEO Brendan Kennedy and co-founder Scott Vickers about the company's beginnings, getting Apple to approve a weed app and the reaction the pair gets when they tell people they work for a pot startup.
MOREThe Matrix is a groundbreaking, visually arresting Singularity opera about our species' precarious balancing act between the myths of old and the technologies of tomorrow. But for all the film's many achievements (we'll leave Reloaded and Revolutions out of the mix for now), The Matrix is far from perfect. Leading man Keanu Reeves' unique brand of anti-acting comes to mind, as does the issue of the film's dialogue. The silly horrible dialogue.
The Matrix brims with unfathomable fauxlosophical babble like "The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to." Just ridiculous. But how ridiculous is it exactly? Back when the film was released in 1999, we didn't have an easy way to answer this important question. Thankfully, technology has advanced to the point where great cinematic queries such as these can finally be fulfilled!
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