Multitasker of the Day: An Italian bus driver was suspended after being filmed steering the vehicle with his elbows while working two cellphones at the same time.
The driver can be seen in the video posted by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica talking on one phone and configuring his e-mail with the other, all while transporting passengers to Rome’s Ciampino Airport.
Though using a cellphone while driving is illegal in Italy, it was unclear if the driver would be fired by his employer — a subcontractor “with its own management and board.”
[thelede.]
Via The Daily What
- Google is moving from syntax to semantics for mobile phones. The next generation of mobile phones will have language translation software, allowing you to speak to people around the world without any knowledge of the language they are speaking.
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Animated Short of the Day: Guy Collins returns to animate yet another classic f7u12 comic, the R. Crumb-nodding “Socks with Sandals.”
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Earlier: “The Scrollwheel.”
(Source: thedailywhat)
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This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: Robert Grigsby Wilson elaborates on the “One Last Thing” from part 2 of Kirby Ferguson’s Everything Is A Remix series with an in-depth look at the extensive “scene borrowing” in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill — a film Ferguson calls “the closest thing Hollywood has to a mashup.”
[doobybrain.]
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