CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo.

There's hardly anything to be said about this except, "Wow." Chris Abbas has done some amazing work taking video from NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn and turning it into this haunting, beautiful montage.

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This, alone, is a good reason for YouTube Doubler to exist. Also: No, I am never going to get over the Yakety Sax meme. You know how your parents held on to some piece of clothing or a hairstyle well past its prime? Fifteen years from now, that's going to be me and Yakety Sax.

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"All the kids from daycare are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no you can't go to the bathroom, you know where you can go? The fuck to sleep."

—Samuel L. Jackson voices this audiobook version of "Go The Fuck to Sleep," the previously-Boinged book which was officially published today (after crazy pre-release piracy).

The Samuel L. Jackson audiobook is free for the time being. Listen to a sample here.

You can also
buy a hard copy or a Kindle version of the book now, just out today.

Word is that Werner Herzog will do an audiobook version, to be released soon:

Published today, the picture book begs sleepless children to "go the fuck to sleep" in a series of quaint, expletive-ridden verses. It soared to the top of book charts last month after a pirated PDF went viral, and calls this week from a New Zealand lobby group to ban it are only likely to add to its appeal.

"The flowers doze low in the meadows / And high on the mountains so steep. / My life is a failure, I'm a shitty-ass parent. / Stop fucking with me, please, and sleep," writes author and award-winning novelist Adam Mansbach, who was moved to pen the book when his own daughter was suffering sleepless nights. "The cubs and the lions are snoring, / Wrapped in a big snuggly heap. / How come you can do all this other great shit / But you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?"

Mansbach said that "the best possible person in the world" was narrating the audiobook: Herzog. The film director's recording will be unveiled at an event to launch the book, illustrated by Ricardo Cortes for small American publisher Akashic Books, at the New York Public Library.

Unofficial videos of Werner Herzog impersonators reading aloud various other children's books follow. Oh my god I can't even wrap my head around how awesome the real thing would be.

[Werner Herzog reads Madeline]

[Werner Herzog Reads Curious George]

[Werner Herzog Reads Winnie The Pooh]

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Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA

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This week, we asked YouTube NextUp participant Josh Sundquist to curate our YouTube Roundup, the theme of which is: Unexpected Rappers.

Sundquist is a 26-year-old motivational speaker. At age 9, he was diagnosed with cancer, and doctors told him that he had a 50% chance to live. He lost his leg, but beat the cancer and started ski racing. In March 2006, he joined the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team. In addition to being a YouTube celeb, he’s also the author of national bestseller Just Don’t Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain.

Check out our Q&A with Sundquist below, and then scroll on down to our rap-filled roundup.

How and why did you get started on YouTube?
About three years ago I started posting video samples of my motivational speeches on YouTube. Then last year I made a video called “The Amputee Rap” [see above] that went viral, and ever since then I’ve been pretty much addicted to creating video blogs and music videos.

What effect has YouTube had on your life?
I’ve always enjoyed being on camera and connecting with people through videos, and for a long time I had this dream of someday hosting a television show. But thanks to YouTube, I’ve realized that I don’t need television to live my dream of being a broadcaster. YouTube gives me total creative control and an instantly available worldwide audience to watch my videos. That’s pretty cool.

What does this theme mean, personally, to you?
I love YouTube videos that take the attitude and swagger of mainstream hip-hop videos and combine it with a topic that’s totally unexpected, like a disability or an illness. I think that juxtaposition is not only a comic gold mine, it’s also a way to make a fresh statement about your topic.

"Life in Quarantine," The Fully Sick Rapper

This is Josh's pick.

Rapping Flight Attendant

Amy-Mae Elliott: This video went viral -- what great PR for the airline.

"Arlington: The Rap"

Brian Dresher: Mashable DC Bureau representing! This local musician created "Arlington - The Rap" in the style of "Lazy Sunday" poking fun at the suburban lifestyle (yes, where I live!). If nothing else, I believe you'll greatly enjoy his Starbucks montage beginning at the 3:35 mark.

Jeff Goldblum, Jimmy Fallon, Biz Markie

Todd Wasserman: Jeff Goldlum & Biz Markie: Together again for the first time!

7 Year Old Raps Ke$ha

Brian Hernandez: It's 8-year-old Matty B, yo! The boy rapper, who has nearly 65,000 Twitter followers, was 7 when he remixed Ke$ha's "We R Who We R" (above). He has also covered or parodied songs from rap heavyweights Diddy and Eminem as well as pop divas Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Rihanna.

Vanilla Ice Ninja Rap

Radhika Marya: One word: Why?

"I Don't Wanna be a Crappy Housewife," Tonje Langeteig

Brenna Ehrlich: It's insane how much I relate to this song.

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A warehouse size exhibit by Japanese artist Ryoki Ikeda projects a dizzying stream of scientific data and abstract images on a gigantic, folded screen. Combined with pulsing electronic sounds, the show will literally melt your mind. More »

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured stunning photos of the Space Shuttle Endeavour over a light-streaked planet, just before the shuttle returns to Earth for the last time.

Endeavour took off on its final mission May 16, carrying a dark matter-hunting instrument and a bobtail squid, among other supplies. The photo above was taken May 28, the day before Endeavour detached from the space station, and the six-person crew began the trip home.

The photo captures the sheer speed of the space station and docked shuttle, which orbit Earth once every 90 minutes. City lights streak by hundreds of miles below, lending a sense of motion and urgency to the otherwise still scene.

The photo below shows Endeavour’s wing backlit by a thin ring of twilight at the edge of the Earth.

Endeavour is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center at 2:35 am EDT on June 1, so look up tonight. It’s one of the last chances to see a shuttle and the space station cross the sky close together.

Images: NASA [high-resolution version available]

See Also:

• Look Up: Spectacular Space Station Flybys This Week
• Next-to-Last Shuttle Mission Rockets Into Orbit
• Baby Squid, Bugs and Microbes Launched Into Space
• Astronaut’s Eye View: Time-Lapse Videos of Earth
• NASA Announces Space Shuttles’ Final Homes

A gallery of polaroids snapped on the set of Blade Runner, from the private collection of actress Sean Young (Rachael), via Dangerous Minds.

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You know how much we love MacGyver's awesome (and often outrageous) problem-solving; MacGyver tips are among our favorite hacks, and we try to make him proud. So this gives our geeky hearts great joy: MacRecipes, by Information Design company Fathom, shows you every awesome thing MacGyver has ever made. Seriously. More »

[Video Link] Via Clayton Cubitt. Not a new upload (2009), but it's new to me.
Buy the original by New Order. Covered above by The Witchger Boys. I love it!

Music and technology mingle in the most fascinating ways these days, and music-playing robots are certainly fascinating enough for us.

The KarmetiK Machine Orchestra was built by students at California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles, California. The students used junkyard salvage and traditional instruments to create the bots.

In addition to vinyl decks and mixing boards, the ensemble also features three entirely new musical instruments, including NotomotoN, a dual-head drum with twelve beaters and a mallet orchestra.

“Combining intriguing high-tech entertainment with practical applications of cutting-edge research, the orchestra brings together one-of-kind robotic instruments with human performers using modified instruments and unique human computer interfaces,” reads a CalArts site on the project.

We’ve covered futuristic musical instruments in the past. How do you think the KarmetiK Machine Orchestra measures up? Does music still need a human touch?

Check out this behind-the-scenes look at how the orchestra was conceived and built, then check out a few performance clips in the gallery below.

Machine Lab at CalArts

The KarmetiK Machine Orchestra lab at CalArts.

Calif. Students Build Musical Robots, Then Jam

Students at the California Institute of the Arts have built an orchestra of interactive musical robots. Musicians use specialized computer programs to play the robotic instruments. The AP sat in on a rehearsal for an upcoming concert. (May 13)

Instruments from The Machine Orchestra :: Karmetik

CalArts, graduation 2010: Two instruments were hooked up to a keyboard so visitors could try them out. www.themachineorchestra.com

CalArts KarmetiK Machine Orchestra | Jan. 2010

KarmetiK Machine Orchestra, directed by CalArts Director of Music Technology Ajay Kapur, preparing for their debut performance at CalArts REDCAT January 27th, 2010. Video by Scott Groller http://www.calarts.edu http://www.redcat.org

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Allow me, please, to introduce you to The Pakistani Starfleet Explorers, a project by Kenny "Hassan" Irwin, an artist based in Palm Springs, CA:

[M]illions of courageous men and women heroes that span the cosmos who know no bounds, no limits and explore in a bold way as far as their Bedford Truck Starships will take them to the very ends of galaxies we know so little about to learn more about & in turn learn more about ourselves. There is literally 1000s of stories to be told about these adventurous heros who comprise the flagship of Earth based Starfleets under direction of UNIPASA [United National Inter Planetary Space and Air Association], A galactic village of federal star-travel achievers represented by countless 10,000s of intelligent species which include humans. Yes, indeed.............we must not forget the Pakistani Starfleet have saved more lives than you can imagine from fate less than kind to sowing the seeds of new emergency civilizations to making new friends they knew they never had with life never seen before. They are true bold achievers where others may ask "what is out there?" and the people of the Pakistani Starfleet say......."we shall see".

View the massive Flickr set here. I think this one is my favorite so far.

You can purchase prints of his work here.

(via Tim Bailey)

The epic photoshopper behind this project is also the guy behind the awesome "outsider news" YouTube channel Dovetastic Microwave Theater (via this BB comment).

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Just look at it.

Banana Dalek!

(Thanks Darkfynne!)