2008

Aug

World’s Largest Record Collection is Worth $50 Million; No One Wants it for $3 Million (via jstn...

hrrrthrrr: So I saw this cute short last week, but the...

Pigeon Point 135th Anniversary by =enunez via implodr

“ABC News explains that the new car smell may cause...”
— I did not know that...

Sigur Ros live at MoMA! via mdfsmash & soupsoup

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“wow fastest reblog ever.. I did not even get done the proper...”
— synmirror

The 100 Most Funny and Unusual 404 Error...

“Supposedly live pictures of fireworks depicting footprints...”
— Olympic child singing star...

Hailstorm in the Middle East. (via (I kid) biteofpythias)

Cloud of the US Declaration of Independence

“The average American eats 120 pounds of potato a year....”
— Sabine: Spud Nuggets I wonder...

Huge evacuation after massive explosion at a...

Wow nice sunset! guz: Burning sky (via . Guz .) The...

Conrad Maldives Rangali Island (via szymon emilyposts)

Sometimes the NYT is hilarious.

rach: [And not only in Africa. Women were not allowed to participate at the 1896 Summer Games in...

The Crown of the Sun During a total solar eclipse, the...

Large Hadron Collider Begins Testing | Wired...

Haha this is too good :) glynnis: I couldn’t resist.

Politics and the Olympics

Previously in South Ossetia: background to...

“Abkhaz Air Force gets involved in Russian-Georgian-S....”
— BreakingNewsOn

Many more photos of the house, which is gorgeous inside and...

“A Spherical Camera Sensor”
— A stretchable circuit allows...

Fireworks explode over the National Stadium during the...

Percussionists hit their Fou drums at the start of the...

Artists perform during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008...

Fireworks light the sky over the National Aquatics Center...

“the first source for good pictures of the opening ceremony I...”
— and it did not disappoint me...

“I wonder if Russia didn’t get the memo that wars are...”
— synmirror

“Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is expected to...”
— I left my phone untended for a...

The original flash comes always from the ground, just sayin… Slow motion lightning, via...

The Cutest Freebies: Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration...

I would take one :) I had only seen adult Burrowing...

The L Magazine Ice Cube art (via peterwknox)

9 Reasons Not to Date a Tyrannosaurus Rex

The Cone of Uncertainty [wikipedia] describes the change of...

WikiTaxi

Did you ever want to take Wikipedia with you while you are offline? Call on WikiTaxi: It is a...

Cautionary - xkcd

Alexandre Bettler (via verbadjectivenoun britticisms)

CERN Computer Center during the installation of servers. via...

The photographer was sure that he was going to see the end...

Down the rabbit hole with suitep

I (duckandpenguin) thought to myself, “… how many Hasselblads are left behind on the lunar surface?”...

Suitep got her fathers Hasselblad camera “The only...

Park Hyatt Seoul (via JW Yeung) I’m not 100% sure what this...

small world

I did not understand the name of the village and had to find something similar on the map as I drove...

flying over some dakotas (via triciaward)

Can you guess where these people are from by...

Sia - Breathe Me. (via onemoretimewithfeeling)

Google Maps can now give public transit directions—at least...

bomomo.com computerized drawing (via ninakix)

“Paradise…is exactly like…where you are right now…only much,...”
— Laurie Anderson (via...

via jasondmoore

Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border

will smith. miami. via. triciaward

10 Sites to Waste Your Time

Electromagnetic Spectrum An interactive 3D visualization of...

Solar Eclipse Videos Appear

Who's has the Right Plan for America's...

Eclectic 2.0 Rastachingy shot this movie using a digital SLR still camera and it was pieced together...

Measuring informational distance between cities

iTunes (Music) Store Billion Downloads...

“YEAH :) I am back online!!”
— don’t mix summer heat...

Jul

Eclectic (via rastachingy triciaward) Wow this timelapse it totally amazing!!! Does anybody know...

This is the big story today: massive...

The screenshot above shows the home page of NASA Images NASA...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer (via Muggle24 didyouevernotice)

Cameras were rolling during yesterday’s earthquake and we get to watch Judge Judyreact like a wise...

new g-maps feature

Walking directions are in beta.Use caution when walking in unfamiliar areas.

ninakix: Dreaming of Fiji… : Design Milk

Awesome - Fireplays (via Vimeo hrrrthrrr) - wondering if the cool music is from ‘The...

“Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer vehicle-miles traveled...”
— from here (via stumblng)

triciaward found ‘a resplendence of colour’ (via...

Look! Grass Ottoman via ninakix

All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making...

A Crescent Earth at Midnight

The National - Apartment Story (live)

Alaska’s Mt. Augustine viewed at first light on March...

8 Insane Nuclear Explosions - via amwelles - there is some...

The Road (via squareamerica)

Everybody In - Beating the Heat People swim to avoid the...

Printing a Book, Old School on Vimeo (via guz)

Views of Jupiter (via The Big Picture)

Beijing 2008 Preparations - Three Weeks to Go (via The Big...

Average time spent writing one e-mail (via katrina)

This sketch book changes from portrait to landscape...

Multi-Hop Cycle detected This problem started a few days...

Old Dutch Market in Washington circa 1920. National Photo...

Lava explodes from the Llaima volcano, one of Chile’s...

The National - Fake Empire (unofficial music video - via scudmore)

December, 1972 - Apollo 17. Earthrise viewed from Apollo 17...

“- the iPhone takes the blurriest pictures I have...”
— synmirror

Dracaena cinnabari - on Soqotra I want to visit Soqotra...

Shout Out Louds - 100 Degrees Animation (via dudunapaz)

More Bird’s Eye Landscapes

The Moon transits the Earth - taken from 31 million miles away Video, captured by NASA’s EPOXI...

Luminous ripple faucet

“Europe is now McDonald’s largest region by revenues, despite...”
— A Golden Recipe for...

Wireless Flash Drive (via Touch360)

Echus Chasma is the source region of Kasei Valles, which...

How to make your own LED Throwies

“If mainstream users learned how to use the internet, it...”
— ReadWriteWeb: Will The World...

World’s Fair / 1964 (via didyouevernotice)

Band of Horses - Detlef Schrempf (via tuneage)

The Dakota in 1890. (via rach)

“If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading,...”
— Muphry’s Law for writers (via...

ninakix: Here’s another project from Dutch designer Anke...

“Statistics provided by the CSO (central statistical office)...”
— Gideon Gono [Central bank...

Too Old For This Shit

“Are you sure you want to quit safari? You have, like, a...”
— Jonathan Coulton - that sounds...

Terje Haakonsen going down 7601 on First Descent. I might have posted that video before but...

Mt Drum and Mt Zinetti and Mt Wrangell (via callofthewild)

Glacier National Park (via jeralyndwile)

Space Sunset over Pacific Ocean (via yum9me)

Dizzy in Toronto (via swisscan suwaowalog) …been there...

Manhattanhenge - A New York Sunset (via APOD)

Sculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his work — kinetic art that explores deep...

Whale blip

I guess I missed the chance to do some whale watching. twitterstatus: We had whale sightings for...

Foggy Dubai morning - taken from the Burj Dubai Tower (via...

A moderate 5.9 magnitude earthquake...

The quake, first reported by the GeoNet Data Centre in Lower Hutt, put the magnitude at 5.9, a...

Good Morning (via katrina)

iTunes 7.6.2 is fifox fast

“Coding around Internet Explorer is like planning a meal for...”
— Merlin Mann

Chrysler Building (via suitep)

The Air Force's New Area 51

Human Mirror at Improv Everywhere (via peterwknox)

More beautiful abstract satellite images of the earth here....

Grid Calculator

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

The installation at the newly renovated BMW Museum in Munich is made up of 714 metal balls that...

“Failure’s hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you’re...”
— Po Bronson (via...

Pretty good… Go see it. (via mirza)

Insane street soccer (via EA ninakix)

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