Recent portrait of Supreme Court
from @ebertchicago
Front row: Associate Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Antonin G. Scalia, and Clarence Thomas.
Back row: Associate Justices Samuel A. Alito, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor.
Top Five :)
5> Bud, Bong and Beyond HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
February 3, 2010
NOTE FROM CHRIS:
It looks like marijuana — THE GATEWAY DRUG!!! –
is slowly being legalized in more and more states.
TopFive refuses to take a position on this very
controversial issue, except to ask if you could
please run to the 7-Eleven and bring us back a
bag of Cool Ranch Doritos and a microwave burrito.
The Top 20 Names for Marijuana Stores
20> Pot Barn
19> Brookstoned
18> Aeropotsale
17> THC Friday’s
16> Spliffany’s
15> Victoria’s Secret Stash
14> Best Bud
13> Tokes ‘R’ Us
12> Yankee Cannabis
11> Herb DePot
10> Grass Spliff Avenue
9> Fillabong
8> Williams-Sativa
7> Pipe Boys
6> Starbuzz
5> Bud, Bong and Beyond
4> Abercrombie & Spliff
3> Things Forgotten
2> Laura Hashley
and Topfive.com’s Number 1 Name for a Marijuana Store…
1> Whoa*Mart
[ Copyright 2010 by Chris White/TopFive.com ]
It’s a Party
Join TV geek Adam Savage, and a cast of EFF legends and luminaries at EFF’s 20th birthday party! Our birthday fundraiser on February 10th will celebrate two decades of digital freedom-fighting in San Francisco’s world-famous DNA Lounge.
Adam will present a unique look back and forward to the founding and the future of digital rights. DJs Adrian & the Mysterious D, the duo that founded the seminal, globe-trotting mashup party “Bootie,” will get people moving with their genre-mashing blend of tracks, with guest DJs dropping sets throughout the evening. It’s a once in a lifetime event for those who love freedom, technology, and celebration!
EFF’s 20th Birthday Fundraiser
with Adam Savage and Surprise Special Guests!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, at 8 PM
DNA Lounge
375 Eleventh Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
We’ll be asking for a $30 donation at the door to fund our work defending your digital freedom. Purchase tickets in advance from the DNA Lounge!
This is an all ages event. Please RSVP to events@eff.org.
VIP Event with Adam Savage, John Perry Barlow, Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore, Mark Klein, Steve Jackson and more!
Join EFF for a special VIP event with Adam Savage, and EFF founders and lumanaries! For a special donation of $250, you’re invited to attend our VIP event before the birthday party, where you can meet many of the amazing people who helped EFF reach this historic milestone. Special VIP donors receive free admission to the birthday party, which starts immediately afterward, as well as a commemorative EFF 20th Anniversary poster. The VIP event begins at 7 PM.
For access to this special reception, visit the VIP Event page.
Urban Word of the Day
February 3: Vaguebooking
An intentionally vague Facebook status update, that prompts friends to ask what’s going on, or is possibly a cry for help.
Mary is: “wondering if it is all worth it”
Mark is: “thinking that was a bad idea”
Example:
“Have you talked to Mark? He’s vaguebooking again. I wonder if he’s back with Mary…”
Opposite:
Tammy is: “in line at the grocery store”
If you like it then you shoulda putta ring on it
NathanFillionRT @thedanband: happy “song of the year” single ladies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WQHcQ3ueYA
Awkward family photos
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2010/01/20/the-final-frontier/
I think this is the best family picture EVER. I am jealous. Sadly, we’ll never be able to have one because Bob and I will both want to be captain.
Ooooh! Ooooh
I just got tickets for Avatar at the IMAX. WooHoo! I’ve been dying to see it in 3D, this is even better!
I love SciFi. More than anything. Genre-wise, anyway.
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How ‘Avatar’ May Predict the Future of Virtual Worlds
CNet (01/24/10) Terdiman, Daniel
The technology James Cameron and his team developed for the film “Avatar” may provide a sneak peek of the future direction that three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds will take.
The movie’s breakthrough is a camera system that captures live footage of actors and instantly integrates them within virtual environments. Some experts speculate that it and other augmented reality tools will form a core technology for mainstream 3D virtual world interaction.
“It will get more sophisticated when whole worlds are mapped onto the sim-reality complete with avatars–other people–and bots,” predicts expert Bruce Damer.
Jerry Paffendorf, who helped organize the Accelerating Studies Foundation’s Metaverse Roadmap report, expects that the world will eventually be fully immersed within real-time graphical overlays. He says this virtual world evolution is in a nascent stage, incarnated in the prevalence of augmented reality applications “that let you look through the camera to see things that aren’t physically there: Either data overlays like directions or where tweets are coming from or a digital doggy prancing on your kitchen counter.”
“Avatar” producer Jon Landau says the virtual production technology invented for the film will eventually become a consumer technology. He envisions people using it to recor