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All the Dresses Worn by Every Best Actress Oscar Winner [On One Poster]

Feb 28. 2014

In light of this weekend's 86th Academy Awards, I wanted to share with you this poster by Media Run. It's not only fun to remember each dress and reminisce back to that person/show/year, it's also interesting to see how women's formal fashion has evolved over the years. Which is your favorite? Mine hails from last year's Oscars: Jennifer Lawrence's white Christian Dior. Maneuverability be damned — it was a dress that epitomized classic couture gowns, and the girl rocked it.  :-D Via Flavorwire....

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Browser Girls

Dec 02. 2013

The comic is pretty funny by itself, but the comments on it are hilariously accurate too! Here's my favorite: IE10 is like the friend that said he would show up to the party early and bring tons of booze that everyone can have, but shows up 3 hours late with a 40 of king kobra for himself. Meanwhile, your good, reliable, friend Firefox just said he would show up, and ended up bringing 2 kegs because he wanted to. Safari and opera showed up together. They aren't the coolest, but they are fun to have around at parties. They don't start drama, and are pretty nice to everyone. They brought wine spritzers though...

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OMGz I Want This Book

Oct 30. 2013

As if being a huge fan of J.J. Abrams who also happens to be a book nerd is not reason enough…

A few months ago, geeks worldwide went into a guessing frenzy when Abrams’ production company tweeted the following:

The secret is finally out, because the mysterious trailer was for a book, which Abrams conceived and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst.

Simply titled S., the book is actually two books in one: the first, Ship of Theseus, written by fictional author V.M. Straka, and the second, the story that plays out between two strangers within the handwritten margin notes and the documents placed between the book’s pages (letters, cards, notes, and such).

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