Friday, November 17, 2017
Godless
November 22, 2017
Created by Scott Frank and Steven Soderbergh
Starring Jeff Daniels, Jack O'Connell, Michelle Dockery, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Life After Driving
New York Times Magazine:
"What the Car Did – and What it Might Do"
"Can Ford Turn Itself Into a Tech Company"
"The Rev-Up: Imagining a 20% Self-Driving World"
"Full Tilt: When 100% of Cars Are Autonomous"
Q (NYT Business Columnist Kevin Roose): You don’t think that there might be fewer Lyft drivers even 20 years from now?
A (Lyft Co-Founder and President John Zimmer): I think you’ll have way more. The cost of owning a car is $9,000 a year. Let’s say we offer a $500 monthly plan in which you can tap a button and get access to transportation whenever you want it, and you get to choose your room-on-wheels experience. Maybe you want a cup of coffee on your way to work, or you want to watch the Warriors game later, so you’re in what’s basically a sports bar, with a bartender. If 0.5 percent of all miles driven are done on a ride-sharing app, and then if that number increases to, say, 80 percent, it’ll be such a huge industry shift that even if only 2 percent of that 80 percent is done by human drivers, it still represents a drastic increase in the number of human ride-sharing drivers.
2018 World Cup Ball Design
FIFA.org – "2018 FIFA World Cup™ official match ball unveiled: an exciting re-imagining"
"A reinvention of a classic model with a brand-new panel design and the latest technology: in an exciting re-imagining, adidas today revealed the official match ball for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™, which pays homage to the first-ever adidas World Cup ball. The Telstar 18 evokes unforgettable memories of the 1970 FIFA World Cup™ – and of legends like Pelé, Gerd Müller, Giacinto Facchetti, Pedro Rocha and Bobby Moore – and will feed the dreams of those who will play for football’s most coveted prize in Russia next year.
The name of the original Telstar came from its status as the “star of television”. The first ball to be decorated with black panels, the pattern was designed to stand out on black-and-white TVs, and changed football design forever."
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26 countries have qualified for the 2018 World Cup as of today. Six spots remain. The Netherlands, Chile and the United States are all officially out.
(current FIFA/Coca-Cola World Men's Ranking)
1. Germany (1)
2. Brazil (2)
3. Portugal (3)
4. Argentina (4)
5. Belgium (5)
6. Poland (6)
7. France (7)
8. Spain (8)
9. England (12)
10. Colombia (13)
11. Mexico (16)
12. Uruguay (17)
13. Iceland (21)
14. Costa Rica (22)
15. Tunisia (28)
16. Egypt (30)
17. Senegal (32)
18. Iran (34)
19. Serbia (38)
20. Nigeria (41)
21. Japan (44)
22. Morocco (48)
23. Panama (49)
24. South Korea (unranked)
25. Saudi Arabia (unranked)
26. Russia (unranked)
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Thursday, November 9, 2017
The Post
December 22, 2017
Written by Liz Hannah, Josh Singer
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Starring Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks
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