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Angry beaver roams through N.W.T. town - North - CBC News

Fri, 20 May 2011 19:25:55 -0400

Angry beaver roams through N.W.T. town - North - CBC News:

There is a joke in here somewhere. #onlyincanada

weirdest thing I’ve seen on the internet in a while

Thu, 19 May 2011 15:49:46 -0400

weirdest thing I’ve seen on the internet in a while

After the Rapture

Wed, 18 May 2011 14:40:40 -0400

After the Rapture

inspiration for your day from NASA

Fri, 13 May 2011 09:01:29 -0400

inspiration for your day from NASA

Birds on a bridge

Thu, 12 May 2011 19:08:55 -0400

Birds on a bridge

Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism - Conor Friedersdorf - Entertainment - The Atlantic

Thu, 12 May 2011 19:07:33 -0400

Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism - Conor Friedersdorf - Entertainment - The Atlantic:

Good reads for later!

The Arbitrary Unit of measure

Wed, 11 May 2011 15:16:23 -0400

Arbitrary Units (AU)… it typically requires 2.3 AU to answer any question related to units of measure where the correct answer is unknown.

eg:
Q: How far is it from here to New Mexico?
A: 2.3 AU

Q: How much does the sun weigh?
A: 2.3 AU

Q: How big is that?!
A: 2.3 AU

Venn diagram of the Conservative Canadian voting pool

Tue, 03 May 2011 13:25:45 -0400

Venn diagram of the Conservative Canadian voting pool

Art installation in Toronto

Mon, 02 May 2011 20:11:46 -0400

Art installation in Toronto

Rebirth Brass Band, New Orleans

Mon, 02 May 2011 20:07:55 -0400

Rebirth Brass Band, New Orleans

Buster Keaton and the World of Objects

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:15:51 -0400

lareviewofbooks:

Geoff Nicholson

“The world is the totality of facts, not of things.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The famous occasion, Los Angeles 1929: after a party in Buster Keaton’s Beverly Hills villa, Buster persuades Louise Brooks and Bill Collier (who’s also sometimes known as Buster) to drive with him to Culver City, to the MGM lot where the studio has provided him with a bungalow, christened Keaton’s Kennel. It’s a big deal for the studio to give a star a bungalow. It shows how much they value him, what an asset and moneymaker he is for them. The place has become a party house, a drinking den: we are, of course, still in the depths of prohibition.

At the bungalow, Louise and the two Busters have a nightcap. Keaton slips out of the living room and returns with a baseball bat, which is not so strange in itself. Everybody knows how much Buster loves his baseball. The living room is lined with glass-fronted bookcases. Keaton takes the bat and systematically smashes every pane in every bookcase, puts the bat aside, sits down, says nothing. Brooks and Collier say nothing either. The three of them carry on drinking. Another Hollywood evening.

Something to bear in mind: the bookcases are empty. Buster isn’t much of a reader. Arguably he wrote one more book than he ever read. His name appears on a ghostwritten autobiography, My Wonderful World of Slapstick, a title that I’d like to believe was awash with irony, but I really don’t think it is. Keaton dictated the book to Charles Samuels and never so much as looked at the manuscript. Why would he need to? What good would it do?

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Very interesting series of videos showing the origins of many Led Zeppelin songs...

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:27:59 -0400

Very interesting series of videos showing the origins of many Led Zeppelin songs...

The giant volcano (technically, caldera) that powers Yellowstone...

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:50:57 -0400

The giant volcano (technically, caldera) that powers Yellowstone is a LOT larger than scientists thought.

Now if you really want to freak yourself out, do some reading into what past eruptions have looked like.

(via Yellowstone volcanic plume much larger than expected)

explodingdog: this scene approximates my perfect day.

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:48:03 -0400

explodingdog:

this scene approximates my perfect day.

Amazing that 50 years ago today, people entered space. Watch...

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:22:13 -0400

Amazing that 50 years ago today, people entered space.

Watch First Orbit - the movie (by firstorbit)

"I’m not sure if I was the first man in space or the last dog."

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:20:00 -0400

““I’m not sure if I was the first man in space or the last dog.””

- Yuri Gagarin

In Space, Nice Guys Finish First - NYTimes.com

Shocking story of German atrocities during World War II, told by...

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:01:34 -0400

Shocking story of German atrocities during World War II, told by the Germans who committed them.

(via Rape, Murder and Genocide: Nazi War Crimes as Described by German Soldiers - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International)

Beautiful images of the giant catfish thrashing in its...

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:57:49 -0400

Beautiful images of the giant catfish thrashing in its underground lair causing earthquakes in 1850’s Japan.

(via Namazu-e: Earthquake catfish prints ~ Pink Tentacle)

"But sometimes conventional wisdom is more convention, less wisdom. And that’s when it pays off to..."

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:57:13 -0400

“But sometimes conventional wisdom is more convention, less wisdom. And that’s when it pays off to take a questioning attitude and challenge assumptions.”

- How “The Fighter” shot 35 days worth of fight scenes in only three days - (37signals)

officialbeastieboys: Make Some NoiseThis wasn’t really part of...

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:47:01 -0400

officialbeastieboys:

Make Some Noise

This wasn’t really part of the plan, but since this track is out there we wanted to let you hear it here first, or maybe second. Enjoy

Mike

I can’t tell you how excited I am about learning there is a new Beastie album coming out.