This is the musical Easter Egg for “Rusty Cage” by Johnny Cash. All you need to do is interact with three bottles around the map. Press the reload button to interact with these three bottles.
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SpaceX’s Reusable Grasshopper Rocket Makes Fiery Leap | Video
The rocket made its highest leap to date, 262.8 feet/80.1 meters, and landed safely on March 7th, 2013. Set to ‘Ring of Fire’ by Johnny Cash. Video courtesy of SpaceX …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Space.com
Kurt Cobain Movie: Celebrate Late Nirvana Singer’s Birthday By Dreamcasting His Biopic
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Since Kurt Cobain committed suicide on April 5, 1994, Hollywood studios have released rock biopics based on the lives of Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Ian Curtis, Notorious B.I.G. and Bobby Darin — and yet not Cobain. Save for “Last Days,” Gus Van Sant‘s 2005 film about a singer not unlike Cobain (played by former “Boardwalk Empire” star Michael Pitt), the Nirvana frontman has been kept off the big screen. With ’90s nostalgia in bloom, however, thanks to multiple boy band reunions and addictive reminders of the decade from websites like BuzzFeed, is the time right for Kurt Cobain: The Movie?
Kurt Cobain would have turned 46 on Feb. 20, 2012; he was 27 when he shot himself in his Seattle home. That means a Kurt Cobain movie could provide Hollywood’s budding leading men with the type of opportunity usually only reserved for superhero films and sci-fi blockbusters: The chance at playing the role of a lifetime.
In the past, actors like Ryan Gosling, Robert Pattinson, Ewan McGregor and Jared Leto have been mentioned as possible onscreen incarnations of Cobain; Courtney Love, the singer’s former girlfriend, who had a child with Cobain, reportedly wanted Gosling for the role. The charismatic star is now 32, however, and with no Kurt Cobain movie on the horizon in the near future, he’ll be aged out of consideration by the time the project actually moves forward.
Stuart Langridge: Fuel pump arrows
Well the first thing, I got me a fuel pump
— Johnny Cash, One Piece At A Time
Above is an icon of a petrol pump, which you will see on pretty much every car dashboard. Most (not all) modern-ish cars also have a little triangle next to the petrol pump icon. That little triangle points either right or left: it is showing on which side of the car the hole for putting petrol in is. So the one above (with the triangle arrow thing helpfully coloured in red) means that the fuel pipe is on the left-hand-side of the car.
I did not know this. It turns out that lots and lots of other people do not know this either. The world seems to be divided into three roughly equal-sized classes: people who already know this and are amazed that everyone did not; people who did not know this and are amazed; and people who say “my car doesn’t have that, is it a US/UK/EU-only thing?”
There is a lesson here, though. This is, once you know what it means, quite an elegant little solution. Now that you know it, you’ll never pull into a petrol station on the wrong side of the pump ever again. It’s clever, it’s simple, and… half the people in the world don’t know about it. There are, I’m sure, conclusions to be drawn about usability studies, iconography, and so on. I mean, spare a thought for the usability testing team on your project at this moment. How do you test this? If you show someone the icon and say “what does this mean?” most people would (probably) guess correctly. The point here is: once you know that the triangle means something, it’s reasonably easy to guess what the something is. But if you don’t know that it’s there for a reason, a goodly proportion of people (myself included) will never think to wonder about it, and so won’t ever learn that it represents a useful bit of information. This has ramifications for how you yourself do usability testing for the things you make.
This has been a party political broadcast on behalf of the “semiotics is useless if you don’t realise there’s a meaning there to discuss, Umberto Eco” party.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu