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Showing posts with label Cool Stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cool Stuff. Show all posts
6.17.2011
Friday Distraction
A beautiful series of vintage inspired travel posters of US cities and National Parks by Anderson Design Group. Enjoy.
6.30.2010
Zoë Keating’s 'Into The Trees'
The extraordinary avant-cellist Zoë Keating, has finally released her new album, Into the Trees. You can stream it right here. If you like what you hear, for just $8 you can purchase all eleven tracks for immediate download in your choice of format. Enjoy!
5.04.2010
Twitter Cooks Up The Blackbird Pie Tool To Bake Tweets Into Your Website
Twitter has rolled out a new tool that lets you embed a tweet on a website. Using Blackbird pie, you can create an embeddable tweet by entering the URL for the chosen update.
From there, click Bake It, and Blackbird generates the code to embed the tweet on your website. Here’s one of mine from last night:
Via Mashable
From there, click Bake It, and Blackbird generates the code to embed the tweet on your website. Here’s one of mine from last night:
I now firmly believe that the only reason Justin Bieber's always trending is the hive 'WTF' of Twitter asking why he's always trending.
David M
davidinindy
David Mdavidinindy
Via Mashable
3.06.2010
Reason Number 4,587 For Why I Love Science
There is a five-story, blood-red waterfall pouring slowly from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley. Its story, at Atlas Obscura, is nothing short of remarkable:
Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.
Via: Buzzfeed.
1.30.2010
A Beautiful HD Timelapse of Vancouver, BC
This is just stunning. Of the cities that I’ve visited, Vancouver is one of my favorites. I look forward to seeing it featured this winter during the Olympics.
1.06.2010
Zombocalypse Now – A Review
Zombocalypse Now by Matt Youngmark
My rating: ★★★★★
As a child of the late 70s/early 80s, I loved the choose your own adventures books so when I read about this book on some Geek site a while back, I HAD to do it. It was awesome!!
You're a snarky, chain smoking chainsaw wielding stuffed pink bunny. You're in the middle of a Zombie-apocalypse, living in a world where stuffed animals walk, talk, and intermarry with the human population. There's even a moment where you let out the battle cry "Leeeeeeroy Jenkins!"
I was killed by ponies, deer, mackerels, kittens and a pack of Catholics. I teamed with a cop named Mittens (who isn't a stuffed animal) and survived only once. The author states that there are 112 different endings (only 7 that you don't die). Go buy, rent or borrow it now! View all my reviews >>
12.15.2009
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11.17.2009
Becoming Human – The Last Human Standing
The third and final installment of Becoming Human, the NOVA series about our hominid relatives, airs tonight on PBS. I’m really enjoying the series. If you missed the past episodes, they are currently online at PBS’ Video site.
Tonight: The Fate of the Neanderthals:
NOVA examines the fate of the Neanderthals, our European cousins who died out as modern humans spread from Africa into Europe during the Ice Age. Did modern humans interbreed with Neanderthals or exterminate them? The program explores crucial evidence from the recent decoding of the Neanderthal genome.
How did modern humans take over the world? New evidence suggests that they left Africa and colonized the rest of the globe far earlier, and for different reasons, than previously thought. As for Homo sapiens, we have planet Earth to ourselves today, but that’s a very recent and unusual situation. For millions of years, many kinds of hominids coexisted. At one time Homo sapiens shared the planet with Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and the mysterious “Hobbits”—three-foot-high humans who thrived on the Indonesian island of Flores until as recently as 12,000 years ago.
“Last Human Standing” examines why “we” survived while those other ancestral cousins died out. And it explores the provocative question: In what ways are we still evolving today?
10.23.2009
10.22.2009
Really Amazing Color Photos From Pre-Bolshevik Revolution Russia
The Denver Post shared these photos on it's blog. The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii traveled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people.
Man and camel loaded with packs; between 1905 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
Old church of Saint Nicholas the Wonder Worker, Nyrob; 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
Georgian woman standing on a carpet, outside, near a tree; between 1905 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
Dagestani types, Man and woman posed outdoors; between 1905 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
To learn more about the Prokudin-Gorskii, the process he used to create the color photographs, and see his collection, you can visit the Library of Congress, who purchased his glass negatives in 1948.
Man and camel loaded with packs; between 1905 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
Old church of Saint Nicholas the Wonder Worker, Nyrob; 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
Georgian woman standing on a carpet, outside, near a tree; between 1905 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
Dagestani types, Man and woman posed outdoors; between 1905 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
To learn more about the Prokudin-Gorskii, the process he used to create the color photographs, and see his collection, you can visit the Library of Congress, who purchased his glass negatives in 1948.
9.08.2009
Argument to Beethoven’s 5th
Live television — two words that conjure up excitement, suspense, and a good kind of danger — is today mostly defined by sporting events, breaking news from the campaign trail, or yet 
another chance to watch Big Brother, American Idol or America's Got Talent.
Back in the day, however, television was nearly all live — and frequently great, if this five-minute clip gaining new life on the Web is any indication.
Watch as Sid Caesar (star of Your Show of Shows and Caesar’s Hour) deftly pantomimes a domestic argument with Nanette Fabray — a sort of battling Bickersons meets Beethoven. Caesar’s legacy has often been overshadowed by the later careers of his writing staff (Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Neil Simon). But as this sketch delightfully demonstrates, Caesar needed very few words — if any — to bring down the house.
8.07.2009
8.03.2009
7.29.2009
Indy Star Now Runs Same Sex Marriage Announcements
I write this with praise and respect for the Indy Star’s decision and hope, by pointing this out, I don’t stir up a hornet's nest.
I was reading Ruth Holladay's blog (well worth the read) and she, as a disgruntled ex-Star employee loves to hate on Gannett (and really, they deserve it) and heap praise on it’s employees as she did with exec editor Dennis Ryerson’s decision to quietly and without fanfare announce same sex marriage notices. I have a feeling the decision was as much economic as anything, but it’s still a wonderfully inclusive, timely and classy move.
Good job, Mr. Ryerson and The Indianapolis Star!
7.23.2009
5.31.2009
Awesome Brat Pack Mashup
Late on this one, but this Phoenix Lisztomania "Brat Pack Mash-up" is just brilliant! 80s dancing - the crown jewel of 80s movies, and no one did 80s movies better than that group of roughly interchangeable teen actors collectively known as the Brat Pack.
How technology lifts Pixar’s ‘Up’
From CNET: How technology lifts Pixar’s ‘Up’.
If you want to consider a difficult computational problem, try thinking of the algorithms required to animate more than 10,000 helium balloons, each with its own string, but each also interdependent on the rest, which are collectively hoisting aloft a small house.
That was the challenge the production team at Pixar faced when it set out to begin work on
Up,its tenth feature film, five years in the works, which hits theaters on Friday.There was absolutely no way the team was going to hand-animate the balloons. Not with their numbers in five-figures, and especially not when you consider that within the cluster, every interaction between two balloons has a ripple effect: If one bumped another, the second would move, likely bumping a third, and so on. And every bit of this would need to be seen on screen. [continue]
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