Danny vs. the internet

Terrible science... infographics!

2014-04-25T11:10:00.001-04:00

You know that amazing stat you read? That incredible "fact" you had to share? Here's a good way to tell if its actually credible... Read below.

Best commercial watching the Olympics so far

2014-02-12T21:17:00.002-05:00

Hannibal Season 2

2014-01-22T20:29:00.000-05:00

This show is awesome. I'm so happy NBC renewed it for another Season. Honestly I didn't think anybody could play the title character as well or as terrifying as Sir Anthony Hopkins...Mads Mikkelsen* is incredible in this role. If you haven't seen Season 1, definitely check it out.

The debut is Feb 28th.

*Le Chiffre from Casino Royale

More Spiderman is better than less Spiderman

2014-01-12T17:04:00.003-05:00

While I did enjoy the Tobey Maguire Spider-man movies, preferred in order they were released*, and did initially think that a reboot this soon after they were done is weird... now my thinking is more Spider-man is preferable to less. (unless they make a movie like Spider-man 3**, no thanks)

Earlier (Amazing) Spiderman link: http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2012/05/spiderman.html

*especially that first one, something about it really gave it some great qualities
**I want my money back, even though they introduced Venom.

How to explain Dakar to Kids and Coworkers

2014-01-08T14:10:00.000-05:00

Thanks to Jalopnik for this infographic*

Watch the daily highlights on NBC Sports -> http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/2014/01/06/nbcsn-to-present-coverage-of-the-2014-dakar-rally-starting-today/

Previous Dakar posts: http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2013/01/dakar-2013-photos.html
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2012/01/its-dakar-time-of-year.html
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/09/rallyle-mansdakarformula-1watching.html

You thought Van Damme was impressive?

2013-12-20T13:11:00.001-05:00

Here's the original

"Chuck"'s response

I refuse to believe ANY CGI was used.

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/chuck-norris-top-50-facts

My phone is used 99% for data...

2013-12-17T17:56:00.001-05:00

I can't tell if I love this or would smack the guy if he did it to me... (is both acceptable?)

I'm pretty sure I'm terrified of Guy Fieri

2013-12-17T13:51:00.000-05:00

both real and SNL portrayal

Earlier Guy Fieri post -> http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2012/01/this-is-gross.html

aaand you will cry.

2013-12-16T08:05:00.002-05:00

Just prior to WWII breaking out Nicholas Winton single-handedly saved 669 Czech Jewish children from their doomed fates at the hands of the invading Nazis. Many of the parents of these children ended up being killed at concentration camps. He was knighted in 2002 for his efforts.

From his Wiki entry:

Just before Christmas 1938 Winton was about to travel to Switzerland for a skiing holiday, when he decided instead to travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help his friend Martin Blake, who was involved in Jewish refugee work,^[4] and had called him asking for his help.^[8] There he single-handedly established an organization to aid children from Jewish families at risk from the Nazis. He set up an office at a dining room table in his hotel in Wenceslas Square.^[9] In November 1938, shortly afterKristallnacht, the House of Commons had approved a measure that would permit the entry of refugees younger than 17 years old into Britain, if they had a place to stay and a warranty of £50 was deposited for a ticket for their eventual return to their country of origin.^[10]

Picture via The Guardian (link below)

Youtube link -> http://youtu.be/6_nFuJAF5F0

More info: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/17/salute-british-schindler-104-nicholas-winton & http://tatianadanger.kinja.com/hero-who-saved-669-kids-from-nazi-camps-meets-them-50-y-1483857898/@jesusdiaz

Well WestJet just got a new fan

2013-12-13T12:30:00.005-05:00

This is awesome, things like this really make me want to smack people less, especially in Canada.

via - http://www.faithit.com/airline-secret-santa-surprise-passengers-westjet/
Airline site - http://www.westjet.com/

I would walk 500 miles

2013-11-19T19:50:00.002-05:00

...through an 80's mall.

The 80's, especially its music (see below) were awesome.

You know what? I'm just going to paste the Today.com page on this. Enjoy.

Galinsky captured this photo while on a road trip in 1989.

When filmmaker Michael Galinsky went looking in a desk drawer one day in 2010, he'd all but forgotten about a series of photographs he'd taken in malls across America back in 1989.

What he found was a time capsule that has since carried people around the country on a wave of nostalgia, as they relive the 80's through his photos — even finding themselves or loved ones in his images.

Galinsky, who shot the photos as a freshman at NYU, saw them go viral that year after posting them online, and was able to raise $13,000 on Kickstarter to publish the images as a book.

“It was pretty shocking,” Galinsky told TODAY.com of the interest in his photos. “It was clearly striking a nerve with people.”

Released late last month, his book "Malls Across America" is already backlogged on Amazon, leading the photos to once again burn up the Internet.

And in the process, something strange has happened that really shocked Galinsky: readers started to identify the people in the photos.

Malls Across America by Michael Galinsky

Jamie Rutina, left, contact Galinsky after seeing this picture, and says it's of him.

"So your gonna think this sounds crazy but im sooo sure that im the guy in picture 11 on the article," Jamie Rutina wrote in a message Galinsky shared with TODAY.com. "You cant see my face cuz im looking down at something, but I know its me, the hair is mine, the coat, the stance/mannerism. I was 20 yrs old then."

Malls Across America by Michael Galinksy published by Steidl www.steidl.de

One man recognized the numbers on this jacket.

“The 'jock' on the left is my uncle! Number 62,” wrote another fan, after spotting a picture posted on Facebook.

David Walczak says this is a picture of his parents.

Another man recognized his father in one of Galinsky’s photos, just hours after returning from his father’s memorial service.

"That photo...is of my parents," David Walczak wrote, in an email Galinsky shared with TODAY.com, of a photo of a couple on an escalator. "I recognized them as soon as I saw it. The really shocking thing is we had my father’s memorial on November 7th, and visited his grave on the 8th...It really feels like my Father chose this vehicle to let my family know he is in a good place."

“It’s really powerful to see yourself randomly in that way. It’s shocking,” Galinsky says, of people who see themselves or people they know in his photos.

And while he has confirmed some of the subjects, he says that most times people mistakenly see themselves, seduced by the casual quality of the film and the forgotten moments he haphazardly captured. “The photos really do feel, for everybody, like their family photos,” he explains. “Everybody does see themselves in it.”

The project began when Galinsky happened upon a Long Island Mall with a college girlfriend and found inspiration for a color photography class project. “We walked in and I said, ‘This is the project.’ It was this vibrant, crazy, public space filled with interesting people, and colors, and light,” he remembers.

Malls Across America, published by Steidl

Later that year, with encouragement from his photography professor, Galinsky set out with a friend and his cheap Nikon FG-20 on a cross-country road trip and captured life in 15 different malls.

He shot covertly, without his subjects' knowledge, inspired by street photographers like Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand.

“Even though there were a lot of big personalities and big colors I wasn't setting out to make fun of anybody,” he says. “I think that’s why it’s working so well [now], because it just feels of the time rather than about the time.”

Galinsky tried to exhibit the photos, but their amateur quality meant he only got one chance to display them—at a rock show—before they were lost to a box. He turned his focus to his band, Sleepyhead, and eventually his career as a documentary filmmaker.

“For me it was always intended as a book but I wasn’t able to do it for 25 years,” he says, compares the work to folk art. “In 25 years it accrues meaning with time’s passage.”

After they spread like wildfire, Galinsky says he stopped feeling ownership over the photos, and that they're now part of the Internet's DNA.

“Once they went viral they really are no longer mine in the same way,” he admits. “They have just become part of the discussion. They’ve become something that is identified with that time frame.”

Scenes of mall madness ’89

More than two decades ago, photographer Michael Galinsky captured the big hair, bad clothes and overall bodaciousness at malls around the country.

Source links -> http://www.today.com/news/spotted-people-find-loved-ones-amazing-1989-mall-photos-2D11591433 & http://gizmodo.com/11-photos-of-1980s-malls-that-will-like-totally-blow-yo-1461537182/1466823578/@alissawalker & http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2507857/Thats-parents-Stunned-readers-identify-family-members-new-photography-book-reflecting-mall-culture-1980s.html

On a related note, There's this -> http://www.craveonline.com/film/articles/556181-exclusive-rob-corddry-reveals-hot-tub-time-machine-2-secrets

Pizza vs. Not-Pizza

2013-11-14T12:29:00.000-05:00

Aka NY Pizza vs Chicago "Pizza"

Daily's Show's Jon Stewart had some choice words on the "battle" between these 2 styles of pizza. Referring to Chicago style deep dish "pizza" -

"ITS NOT PIZZA, ITS A F***ING CASSEROLE!"

Honestly, how is this even a debate?
Fast Forward to 3:25

Source - http://foodspin.deadspin.com/jon-stewart-rips-chicago-pizza-a-new-saucehole-1464376414

Riding a bike in the bike lane... not always possible

2013-10-11T15:33:00.000-04:00

The level of dedication (and potential for serious injury) he's willing to go for his point... Bravo.

Danger Zooooooone

2013-10-10T10:49:00.000-04:00

I agree with the sentiment on Jalopnik. The internet is over.

Jen is very patient...

2013-10-02T14:42:00.001-04:00

Here are all of Batdad's vine videos together (thus far). I wouldn't screw around in that neighborhood (or drink diet coke).

via -> http://www.thehighdefinite.com/2013/09/batdad-is-the-vine-hero-the-internet-deserves/

exit light

2013-09-22T19:43:00.001-04:00

The other day Mariano made his familiar walk from the bullpen at Yankee stadium, as usually Enter Sandman was playing. However, this time the music was different.

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Did you update to iOS7 yet?

2013-09-19T07:57:00.002-04:00

Arbitrary speed limits actually kill more...

2013-09-17T16:11:00.002-04:00

Yes, another Jalopnik link...

Posted below is a great, well-researched analysis on the basis behind speed limits and why they're set the way they are. Short version: They are too low and increasing some in specific areas actually will REDUCE traffic fatalities. Local news just wants a story that catches your eye (even if its not actually factual or researched). Yes there are exceptions to every rule, but that doesn't warrant not doing the research or having the conversation. In many areas that have unnecessarily low limits, they could safely be raised allowing local police to target drivers excessively speeding, not just keeping up with traffic.

The biggest sticking point I have is about how with current laws, certain driving situations can actually be impossible to follow the law (5:00 in the video) - (#10 on both o f these links)

15 min seems long but its well worth the watch.

Source -> http://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-best-takedown-of-the-speed-kills-myth-you-1302382244

Related links:
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2013/03/traffic-vehicle-laws-that-need-to-change.html
&
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2013/03/10-things-every-driver-should-know.html

Great animation on how an Otto cycle engine works

2013-09-17T16:01:00.001-04:00

No real comment here, check out the graphic.

Source -> http://jalopnik.com/this-animated-how-an-engine-works-infographic-is-just-g-1333595474

Joe Isuzu is so hot right now

2013-09-12T20:38:00.002-04:00

Like I needed another reason to drink Guinness....

2013-09-12T19:59:00.000-04:00

Well, If I did this is pretty good.

Earlier Guinness-related posts:
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/05/guinness-foreign-extra-stout.html
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/07/beer-and-and-infographic_18.html
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2010/12/happy-christmas.html

"We laid off our entire engineering staff..."

2013-09-06T07:52:00.003-04:00

"...to show how dedicated we our to this new direction"

via http://gizmodo.com/this-parody-video-shows-how-apple-will-announce-the-nex-1260838976

Earlier links for Apple "product announcements":
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/03/to-you-i-say-f-off.html
&
http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/03/another-ipad-2-parody_06.html

related -> http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple

That skinny kid from 3rd rock

2013-09-04T19:42:00.000-04:00

Wrote, directed and is starring in what looks like a really funny movie.

Check out the trailer below

The fact that the Marble Columns girl is in it is an added bonus... oh and Tony Danza.

Source -> http://donjonmovie.tumblr.com/

Potential for a cover band?

2013-08-12T20:29:00.000-04:00

I think these guys should just shoot these videos between movies... thoughts?

I don't drink Americanos either!

2013-08-07T17:38:00.002-04:00

Backseat Italians - watch more funny videos

Another fiat ad -> http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/11/awesome-new-fiat-500-ad.html