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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:25:55 -0400

cnet: Say hello to the Xbox One and a Microsoft employee’s...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:23:49 -0400

cnet:

Say hello to the Xbox One and a Microsoft employee’s hand.

kotakucom: The new Xbox One: needs an internet connection,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:23:32 -0400

kotakucom:

The new Xbox One: needs an internet connection, won’t play used games without a “fee”, is very square.

Here’s everything we know.

shesawaspygirl2: shwooop!

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:38:56 -0400

shesawaspygirl2:

shwooop!

cool or not!

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:01:05 -0400

cool or not!

timelightbox: Photograph by John Moore—Getty Images“I sped out...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:58:01 -0400

timelightbox:

Photograph by John Moore—Getty Images

“I sped out to the airport, met up with my charter pilot and we set off in a Robinson R-44 Raven II helicopter into a stiff headwind for the 45 minute flight to the ‘target,’ as he put it,” photographer John Moore tells TIME. He was on assignment for Getty Images on May 14, 2013, tasked with shooting aerial photographs of the iconic JetStar roller coaster in Seaside Heights, New Jersey; now slated for demolition more than six months after Hurricane Sandy had “tossed it in the Atlantic Ocean.”

“I had originally planned to fly later in the afternoon, a little closer to sunset, for the best light,” Moore says, until a tip came in from Getty staff photographer Mark Wilson, who was shooting the scene from the ground, that “the crane was making quick work of it and that I’d better hurry and get up in the air before it was all gone.”

“We flew in circles over the scene for about 25 minutes at varying altitudes, hoping to get a moment when the crane would lift a large piece of the debris from the surf,” he says. The photograph above, featured in this week’s issue of TIME and in LightBox Pictures of the Week, was made “from a height of about 500 feet, shot in the mid-afternoon with a high shutter speed in order to eliminate any possible camera shake from the helicopter.”

“You can see the beach of the Jersey Shore stretching northward, much of it, unlike the jagged pier, restored ahead of the upcoming tourist season, which begins anew with Memorial Day Weekend,” Moore adds. “Local business owners and residents hope the tourist income will help Seaside Heights get back to normal after Sandy’s cruel seas washed so much of their community away.”

—Eugene Reznik

See more of this week’s best photos on LightBox.

Ich Liebe Deutschland <3

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:42:25 -0400

Ich Liebe Deutschland <3

luciferspromshoes: duffiethedirectioner: swagelin62x: lafemmei...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:45:19 -0400

luciferspromshoes:

duffiethedirectioner:

swagelin62x:

lafemmeindienne:

this will never stop being funny

LMFAO

I CANTBREATHE

thats actually iMessage lol

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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:44:15 -0400

luke-pearson: For this article in Wired magazine about buying...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:09:07 -0400

luke-pearson:

For this article in Wired magazine about buying fake followers.

[credit for photos 4 & 6: x] MY HERO

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:04:58 -0400

[credit for photos 4 & 6: x]

MY HERO

mydamngrace: Audition Fail

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:04:20 -0400

mydamngrace:

Audition Fail

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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:03:36 -0400

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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:03:19 -0400

storyboard: ‘The Blue Umbrella’: Inside a Pixar Love Story The...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:02:58 -0400

storyboard:

‘The Blue Umbrella’: Inside a Pixar Love Story

The process began on one of those unusually rainy but otherwise ordinary California days. Pixar camera and staging artist Saschka Unseldwas walking through downtown San Francisco. Something caught his eye. He looked down, studying more closely an object stuck in the gutter in front of him.

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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:00:27 -0400

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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:57:14 -0400

discoverynews: Dust to Dust: Dying Star System Spied Stars like...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:35:06 -0400

discoverynews:

Dust to Dust: Dying Star System Spied

Stars like the sun eventually run out of hydrogen fuel and puff-up into red giants at the end of their lives — a precursor to a suicidal shedding of gas, decimating any nearby planets, eventually leaving a tiny white dwarf remnant. But a nearby star, located around 100 light-years away, has been spotted in the brief stage before the red giant phase of its death throes — and it has a dusty disk usually exclusive to young stars.

Best Comment ever

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:01:46 -0400

Best Comment ever

The Man that changed Technology

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:08:40 -0400

The Man that changed Technology