Friday, December 31
Thursday, December 30
What Next...Concepts
Morphotel
"A cross between a floating hotel and super slow cruise ship. Called the Morphotel, it has been created by Italian architect Gianluca Santosuosso for the Indian Navy Docks of Greater Mumbai.
His vision calls for the Morphotel to go on an endless journey around the world, stopping occasionally in various ports to become a temporary extension of the city itself, as people and supplies come and go."
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What Next...Etymology
NYT Words of 2010
Pop Culture
belieber: A fan of Justin Bieber, the Canadian pop singer who also spawned ...
the Justin Bieber: A haircut also known as the flip and switch, the flow, or the twitch. Now driving parents crazy everywhere.
G.T.L.: For “gym, tan, laundry,” the life philosophy of the Situation, otherwise known as Mike Sorrentino of the reality TV program “Jersey Shore.” You laugh, but it’s worked for him.
i-dosing: A supposed digital drug. Certain soundwaves, the claim goes, give listeners a high. Skeptics abound, watchful parents are everywhere.
star whacker: The latest in celeb coinage. In October, the actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, begged for asylum in Canada, claiming fear of star whackers, people who had already killed other famous people and were out to get them, too.
Communicating
coffice: In South Korea, a coffee shop habitually used as an office by customers, who mooch its space, electricity, Wi-Fi and other resources. Presumably, they pay for the coffee.
halfalogue: Half of a conversation, like an overheard phone call. The term was coined in the research paper “Overheard Cell-Phone Conversations: When Less Speech is More Distracting” in the journal Psychological Science.
sofalize: A British marketing term created for people who prefer to stay home and communicate with others electronically.
mansplainer: A man compelled to explain or give an opinion about everything — especially to a woman. He speaks, often condescendingly, even if he doesn’t know what he’s talking about or even if it’s none of his business. Old term: a boor.
social graph: The structure of personal networks, who people know and how they know them, especially online. The term probably came from the internal lingo at Facebook, but it has spread widely among technology companies.
Politics
demon sheep: The political ad that captured critics everywhere for being “baaad,” as The Wall Street Journal put it. The Senate campaign of Carly Fiorina used and retired the ad, but other campaigns quickly created their own parodies.
mama grizzly: Coined by Sarah Palin, “mama grizzly” is the conservative woman’s battle cry, referring to mothers who ferociously defend their children or policies that benefit them. Often used with humor. In her new book, Ms. Palin wrote that it’s “bear propaganda” to insist that these bears are cute and cuddly.
poutrage: False outrage, usually put on for personal, financial or political gain.
refudiate: Another Palinism, this time a blend of refute and repudiate. Now used with an eyebrow raised.
shellacking: President Obama’s preferred way to describe what happened to Democrats in the midterm elections. Some might call it a knock-down punch.
Travel
cuddle class: Economy-class airplane seats that unfold into a bed or couch, as proposed by Air New Zealand, which calls them “Skycouch” seats.
porno scanner: A full-body security scanner that provoked outrage at airports and on blogs. Also called strip-search scanners and, more politely, by the Transportation Security Administration, advanced imaging technology.
enhanced pat-down: Frisking in which security workers slide the palms of their hands down a person’s body in a search for contraband or weapons.
Economy
double-dip recession: What economists talked about, and what every Obama administration official feared.
flash crash: The mystery of the financial markets this year: a May 6 market drop of almost 1,000 points.
peak water: Like “peak oil,” a theory that humans may have used the water easiest to obtain, and that scarcity may be on the rise.
QE2: Not the ocean liner, but the abbreviation for the Fed’s latest round of quantitative easing, its purchase of Treasury bonds. The term is usually used by critics derisively, and often in combination with another disaster, the sinking of the Titanic.
robo-signer and put-back: Even for people who never read their mortgage documents, these terms became inescapable as the foreclosure crisis hit. For the record, a robo-signer approves mortgage foreclosure notices without verifying its contents. A put-back is a mortgage sold back to an institutional seller because of problems with documentation.
The Oil Spill
containment dome: After the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, everyone became an engineer. The containment dome? Yes, that seals the leak.
junk shot: Plugging the leak with old tires, golf balls and other debris.
static kill: Sealing the well by pumping in a synthetic mud from the top.
bottom kill: The same technique, only many thousands of feet further down the well through a relief well. How we got this education: the 24-hour spillcam that broadcast the leak.
Things
inception: Popularized by the movie “Inception,” the word expanded from its usual meaning and now refers to ideas planted in the dreams of other people.
double rainbow: A phrase from the hugely popular YouTube video by Paul Vasquez, featuring his breathless amazement at the sight of two rainbows at Yosemite National Park. It spawned parodies, television commercials, dance mixes, Auto-Tune versions, parties and Halloween costumes, and is now used to refer — ironically and not — to something amazing.
E.V.: An electric vehicle. While the term has been around for decades, there are now more cars like the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt, which makes it more than an environmentalist’s pipeless dream.
G.Z.M.: An acronym for ground zero mosque — the shorthand term for a controversial Muslim community center proposed near the site where the World Trade Center was attacked.
vuvuzela: The South African plastic trumpet that invaded, like locusts, the World Cup matches in Johannesburg. Television viewers, as well as participants, couldn’t escape the buzzzzz.
Weird: Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic, an acronym and criticism of the typical subjects in studies by behavioral scientists. That is, they tend to be the easiest to recruit: undergraduates.
What Next...Obsessorizing
Spiked Helmet
115 USD at ASOS. You know, I will wear just about anything however I think I draw the line with this.
ASOS
What Next...Photography
R.I.P. Kodachrome
The end of an era, Kodachrome film is no longer available as of today. The only place in the world that process Kodachrome, Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas will no longer develop it.
"Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away". - Paul Simon
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Wednesday, December 29
What Next...Really?
iDosing
"An audio drug that, according to parents in Oklahoma, is picking up steam in high schools and must be stopped."
Really?
What Next...Really?
Rick Owens Men's Boots
Only Adam Lambert could wear these or afford these 1800 USD boots.
I mean really?
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What Next...Retro Cinema
Mr. Skeffington
"Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge and predictable complications result."
E & I had never seen this before, but TiVo thought we should and we did. Lots of wonderful repartee and over-acting that was custom of the time period.
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Tuesday, December 28
What Next...Video Games
Upcoming Games
JANUARY
DC Universe Online (PS3, PC) – January 11
Little Big Planet 2 (PS3) – January 18
Mass Effect 2 (PS3) – January 18
Dead Space 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – January 25
Heroes on the Move (PS3) – Q1 2011
SOCOM 4 (PS3) – Q1 2011
Sorcery (PS3) – Q1 2011
FEBRUARY
Marvel vs Capcom 3 Fate of Two Worlds (PS3, Xbox 360) – February 15
Bulletstorm (PC, PS3, XBOX 360) – February 22
Killzone 3 (PS3) – February 22
MARCH
Homefront (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – March 8
Dragon Age 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – March 8
Yakuza 4 (PS3) – March 15
Motorstorm Apocalypse (PS3) – March 16
Crysis 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – March 22
F.E.A.R. 3 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – March 22
LA Noire (PS3, Xbox 360) – Q1/Q2 2011
Ico Collection (PS3) – Q1/Q2 2011
APRIL
Portal 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – April 18
Mortal Kombat (PS3, Xbox 360) – April 2011
Driver San Francisco (PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii) – April 2011
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – April 2011
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – April 2011
Brink (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – Spring 2011
MAY
Hunted: The Demon’s Forge (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – May 10
Red Faction Armageddon (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – May 2011
JUNE
Star Wars The Old Republic (PC) Q2/Q3 2011
JULY
Forza Motorsport 4 (Xbox 360) – Q3 2011
Batman Arkham City (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – Q3 2011
AUGUST
N/A
SEPTEMBER
Resistance 3 (PS3) – September 6
RAGE (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – September 13
Ratchet and Clank All 4 One (PS3) – Fall 2011
OCTOBER
Diablo 3 (PC) – Q4 2011
The Last Guardian (PS3) – Q4 2011
Gears of War 3 (Xbox 360) – Q4 2011
Mass Effect 3 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – Q4 2011
Alice Madness Returns (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – Q4 2011
NOVEMBER
Uncharted 3 Drake’s Deception (PS3) – November 1
The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – November 11
Dates are always fluid with new releases.
What Next...Design
Bird & Nest Cloche
"This lovely terrarium features a beautiful vintage illustration transferred onto the glass cloche."
E's mom bought him one of these for Christmas & it's really lovely. It will be even better with an African Violet underneath.
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