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blockbusting the bank
Exactly. Blockbuster may be filing for bankruptcy soon.
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loosen the belt
Here’s a fascinating video animating our discovery of asteroids in the aptly named ‘belt‘ between 1980 and 2010. You’ll notice detection generally occurs in relation to the third blue dot sweeping around the sun. That’s us, silly goose! The discovery rate increased in the 90’s as the process became more automated. Then in very recent […]
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fall phish
Phish is kicking off their Fall tour shortly and I’ve ordered tickets to the Amherst show on the 23rd of October. Since regrouping last year they’ve gone to this raffle format for the initial round of ticketing. It’s for people on their mailing list, or for people who are actively paying attention. You tell them […]
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tempii
Everyone loves slo mo. If you don’t already, it’s just because you don’t know it yet. It’s like seeing a hidden world within a world. A dream, within a dream. Oh, speaking of dreams – I saw Inception last night.
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seabreacher x
First of all, yes please! Second and third and fourth and fifth, I have no interest in the actual ‘breaching’ part, looks like it could use a defroster, they want $95k for one, and your chances of drowning after ramming into a rock/stump/log or being run over by a real boat = 100%.
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kill-a-watt
I recently purchased a watt meter for the house and it came in the mail yesterday. Nothing fancy but it does the job. And that job is to measure the electrical usage of individual items in your house. They do make systems that integrate with your home at the panel – giving you immediate feedback […]
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jensen kimmitt: yo-yo savant
This guy is amazing.
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indian pole gymnastics
Every time they do that one fall from the top my heart lept, like ohshithesfalling! Oh, no he’s fine. Every time. There’s an old saying in Texas…. They fooled me three times. And now for fun.
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simulated 3d gif time
Those funny gifs below sent me on a journey to find more funny gifs. I didn’t find any, but I did find this one where two pictures of the same thing were taken simultaneously from different angles and the resulting animation of toggling between them simulates 3d. Pretty neat.
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gif time
I saw a great gif today! Which naturally lead to people posting some other classics. They just make me laugh.