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Over at LIFE, our pal Ben Cosgrove put together an image gallery of people pointing at things. Why is that interesting, you ask? Just start clicking through the pictures and you will slowly be confounded by the surreality of the act. Looking at these photos is like a visual form of semantic satiation, the mindfuck you get when repeating a word in isolation causes it to seem weirdly meaningless. "People Pointing at Stuff"
Photo, by Dave Shumka: At left, Sean Connery as Zed from the 1974 movie Zardoz. At right, Dave's dog Grampa dressed as Zed, Halloween 2009. (thanks, @somebadideas!)
This weekend NASA published an awesome time-lapse flyby of planet Earth taken from the International Space Station. Awesome, but jerky—until now. Someone interpolated the original frames to achieve this smooth as silk motion film. It'll leave you stupefied. More »
This weekend NASA published an awesome time-lapse flyby of planet Earth taken from the International Space Station. Awesome, but jerky—until now. Someone interpolated the original frames to achieve this smooth as silk motion film. It'll leave you stupefied. More »
It's worth watching the HD version in fullscreen mode.
A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy.
Time-lapse video taken from International Space Station orbiting Earth at night (Via Laughing Squid)
I'm at the season opener for #OTB ( awesome, BTW), and they have finally acknowledged the full impact of their early-2000's "Anthony and the Johnson's" show on their core subscribers: like crashing a small plane into the audience.... I was sitting three rows up from the propeller that show and felt flayed at 120 miles/hour. Couldn't edit to bail out. But definitely gonna fly romeo this time.
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.
For sci-fi fans, a battle has been brewing between Star Trek and Star Wars for 35 years.
William Shatner has decided to weigh in with his own thoughts on the subject. Using his official YouTube page, the socially savvy actor opines on why Captain Kirk totally owns Luke Skywalker and crew.
What do you think? Let us know.
More About: Star Trek, Star Wars, viral-video-of-day, William Shatner
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Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.
For sci-fi fans, a battle has been brewing between Star Trek and Star Wars for 35 years.
William Shatner has decided to weigh in with his own thoughts on the subject. Using his official YouTube page, the socially savvy actor opines on why Captain Kirk totally owns Luke Skywalker and crew.
What do you think? Let us know.
More About: Star Trek, Star Wars, viral-video-of-day, William Shatner
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In "HELLO, I'M SHELLEY DUVALL !," a short video edited by Goddessshelleyduvall, Shelley Duvall repeatedly says the words, "Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall," while wearing a variety of outfits, for 55 seconds. If you don't understand what's great about that, you should try watching it. Mesemerizing.
(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
Seems +KathyGill hasn't posted on Google+ in three days, so I've nothing new to read. My Stream is empty...
Though I'm an atheist to the max, I find this kind of thing to be very disagreeable...
Anyway, I read Dawkins this summer and found my favorite book to be The Extended Phenotype, mainly because the ideas in it connect with (directly or indirectly) the current and exciting ideas of Luis P. Villarreal's virology and Kevin Laland's positions on niche construction. The other top books are The Selfish Gene and The Ancestors Tale.
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Rocking out with the"Groovy Surfers" in Fremont. I imagine this 80's/90's revival well lady as long as the Jagermeister does....
Last week, Mark blogged about t-shirts that replace classic rock logos with the names of scientists and philosophers. I just spotted a similar line of film director t-shirts! Available from CineFile Video are Scorcese, Ozu, Fassbinder, De Palma, and others. My favorites are Bunuel/Bauhaus and Herzog/Danzig. CineFile Director T-shirts
#PHOTO Found this sign detailing "Rules Governing Behavior on US Postal Property" on the door of the downtown Post Office in Seattle. I don't know whether to laugh at how dense, small, and hard to read it is, or cry over the law school tuition sums I imagine the committee of lawyers who created this paid so they could sit in a room together crafting it. It works have taken less effort to write and read if they just copied rules from a kindergarten playground or the Ten Commandments...
#PHOTO Checkout the new jumbo transit signage on my block! Sure beats the teeny tiny timetable-on-a-stick #MetroKC has used for years.
