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1. "You are missing planet Pluto." We all are. :(
BED INTRUDER SONG!!!
The Auto-Tune The News people are rapidly achieving the status of national treasures. (Context.)
The Auto-Tune The News people are rapidly achieving the status of national treasures. (Context.)
Here’s something to cheer you up on this rainy day. Watch Artax sink to his death over and over. Yay!
This is a very slick Flash port of the original Super Mario Bros. but, like with Mega Man, there’s a character-select screen on each level. You can play as Mario, Samus, Bill R., Mega Man, Link or the dude from Castlevania (I think). Best part is that the theme music from the game from which your character comes plays during gameplay.
This is a truly riveting and compelling statistics presentation about the changes the world’ population has seen in the last 50 years. Presented at TED by Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics guru. View Media ›
Science Buzz The Natural History Museum pissed off a lot of kids during the early days of the whole “Pluto is not a planet” debacle in 2000. Here is a selection of the virulent hate mail they received in response to this injustice. (Kottke, via @thoughtbrain.)
Newsweek published this list of 100 world sites that will be destroyed by climate change either through inundation, desertification or logistics problems.
I knew about hipster kitten like a year ago, before he sold out and started doing these compilations.
Really well done melding of CG and actual footage. View Media ›
The CDC has an interactive map that allows one to map all sorts of death rates by all sorts of causes, intentions, by race and ethnicity, age. The picture for this post is of general firearms deaths, red being the highest, blue the lowest.
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