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In case you’re wondering what this graphic means: One year ago today, Verge writer Paul Miller quit the internet for a full year. In three hours, he’s rejoining the memetic forces, in an event that The Verge is milking tonight, big time. Because hey, why not? Anyway, people voted that the first thing he sees when he rejoins the ‘net is the Harlem Shake. Let’s introduce him in style right?
A visual comparison of every jumbotron in the NFL
Cowboys Stadium currently boasts the largest jumbotron in the NFL — a behemoth of an LED measuring 160 feet wide and 72 feet tall — but how does Dallas’ Texas-sized display compare to the rest of the NFL’s set ups? That’s the question that graphic designer Daniel Beaton set out to answer with a straightforward infographic.
The Vikings’ jumbotron is basically a 27-inch TV.
Happening now: Microsoft’s top-secret product launch. That’s Steve Ballmer, above. No word on what it is, but this screenshot seems to suggest the depressingly-killed Courier is making a comeback.
EDIT: Nope, their once-table-sized Surface tablet is getting a reboot as a Windows 8 tablet.
From a WSJ Mossberg/Swisher talk:
ANOTHER AUDIENCE MEMBER: You’re basically saying somebody robbed my house and they drove a car down a road to get to my house. So you have to do something about the road or something about the car.
MR. EMANUEL: That’s a stupid example, but that’s OK.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Is it? It’s exactly what you’re describing. How is it AT&T, Verizon and Google’s responsibility to keep your stuff safe? They’re not policemen. They don’t police things.
MR. EMANUEL: They decide when they want to police stuff and when they don’t. Child pornography—they can actually filter that. They stop those people.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: But you can still get child pornography on the Internet.
MR. EMANUEL: Stealing is a bad thing and child pornography is a bad thing.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: I agree. Where we’re not in agreement is, you can’t tear up the road so people can’t get to your house.
MR. EMANUEL: You know something? You need to sit down. That’s a bad example. Go sit down and think of something else and come back and I’ll scream at you again.
Because Ari shoots first without asking questions, he didn’t realize the guy he talked down here is Joshua Topolsky of The Verge, also known as the most famous tech journalist in the room besides Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.
In honor of the apparent internet version of lent, which involves a Verge writer giving up the Internet for a year, and this funny parody, we’ve decided to give up blinking for a year, so we don’t miss anything. Here’s SFB editor Ernie Smith getting his last few blinks in.
We’ll let you know how it goes.
First, congrats on the launch. This is really impressive design. There is a lot going on here. You will not be bored by the info here. Buuuuuuuuuut … is this too far from the roots of the technology blog of lore? This is a format that seems heavily tied to the front page, far afield from we’re used to seeing from Joshua Topolsky joints. (See: Engadget.) The real question to ask here, and one that’s worth asking: Is this what Web design should be in November 2011 — a big picture, scroll-heavy, eyes-all-over-the-place mish-mash? No, we shouldn’t be limited to the blog format, which certainly has its limits. But in an era where we read links on a Twitter feed and stories in Instapaper, isn’t this a style we’re moving away from? We love the ambition. There are great ways in which the SB Nation engine really shines (see how it handles this HP timeline, for example, or the cleanness of the product review listings). We wish it pulled back just a little in a couple of places, though. Sometimes, the eyes need a break.
We like to think that Siri is really Steve Jobs, in AI form. Also, this site is the funniest thing on the internet today, by far.
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