Goodnight Forest Moon- Goodnight Moon for a Star Wars nerd.
Print and assemble your own copy!
Beautiful Time-Lapse of the Milky Way Over Hawaii
Beautiful. It’s amazing how many more stars you see when you get away from “civilization.”
Now testing: Pages
You can now add static pages to your blog, with a few very useful options. Head to your blog’s Customize page and click the “Pages” menu to get started. There are currently three types of Pages you can create:
- Standard Layout. Create a simple page with a title and body using your current theme.
- Custom Layout. Create a page with a completely separate layout.
- Redirect. Forward a route to a page on another domain. Useful for maintaining links when moving your domain name over to Tumblr.
Developers: Check out the Theme Docs for instructions on implementing the new
{block:Pages}tag.
Seriously, why doesn’t everyone use Tumblr?
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version
If the marching band video of this song wasn’t good enough, here’s a second one that’s one continuous steadi-cam shot, focused on an exceptionally elaborate Rube Goldberg machine.
This is an ad for Pedigree, a supermarket dog food brand, and it features a series of mesmerizing slow-motion images of dogs jumping, shaking, and catching treats.Just watch it already.
Architectural fan-drawings of classic sitcom houses
Very creative.
Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days
Anyone else feel like they didn’t get enough sleep?
Tapping on different places of your arm creates different bio-acoustic sounds. By detecting these, a new input device can be created and a bad-ass game of Tetris can be played!
Shockwave traffic jams recreated for first time
Recreation of real life traffic jams. Hope those test drivers were well paid.
This is the first serious long-term plan I’ve ever had. I figure, Shit, I’m a guy with long term plans now? I need to re-roll my character sheet. I start with appearance (self-aware poser), and ramp up the mathematical angle, to cobble together a philosophy of punk rock mathematics. It is this:
1) People use the average Joe’s poor mathematics as a way to control, exploit, and numerically fuck him over.
2) Mathematics is the subject in which, regardless of what the authorities tell you is true, you can verify every last iota of truth, with a minimum of equipment.
Therefore, if you are concerned with the empowerment of everyday people, and you believe that it’s probably a good idea to be skeptical of authority you could do worse than to develop your skills at being able to talk math in such a way that anyone can ask questions, can express curiosity, can imagine applying it in the most weird-ass off-the-wall ways possible.
1) People use the average Joe’s poor mathematics as a way to control, exploit, and numerically fuck him over.
2) Mathematics is the subject in which, regardless of what the authorities tell you is true, you can verify every last iota of truth, with a minimum of equipment.
Therefore, if you are concerned with the empowerment of everyday people, and you believe that it’s probably a good idea to be skeptical of authority you could do worse than to develop your skills at being able to talk math in such a way that anyone can ask questions, can express curiosity, can imagine applying it in the most weird-ass off-the-wall ways possible.
Since businesses are obliged by zoning restrictions to locate far away from residential areas, most Americans drive to every store they visit. This means that store visits are often discrete trips that must be undertaken consciously and planned out ahead of time. As a consequence, shoppers will want to visit stores that carry the most diverse inventory—Wal-Mart, Costco, et al.—and avoid shops that specialize in one particular kind of good—the local paint store or flower shop, for instance.
How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
An in-depth look at how Google’s search algorithm is constantly being improved and updated.
No Grapes, No Nuts, No Market Share
Great story about Grape Nuts.
Mixed with yeast (one cup per 2,000 pounds) and water, the flour turns to dough, gets chopped into 10-pound loaves and sent into a huge oven — 1,610 loaves at a time. “Now it gets interesting,” Mr. Vargas said at his workstation, watching the loaves emerge from the oven and catapult into the darkness. An instant later, they hit the fan — a whirling high-speed shredder that rips them to smithereens.
So that’s what they are: effectively, compacted croutons.
Mmm… Croutons.
