guy being awesome

This makes me pretty envious

Backward Brain Bike

This makes me REALLY MAD

Denver vs. Rome

Here's a neat overlay of European cities on top of North America and vice versa. It's interesting how many European cities are much farther north than you would expect considering how warm they are. I wonder if it has to do with ocean currents circulating around the north coast of Europe, which is much lower than North Americas north coast.

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Book Treasures

Here are some super awesome libraries you should try to see during your lifetime. Of course one on this list you have been to....
http://www.boredpanda.com/extraordinary-libraries/

In the Sky

Hey guys i haven't put anything up here in a while but i thought you might like a post on my own blog this time. There are amazing things going on in the sky around here all the time and most of those times i don't have a camera with me or i'm stuck catching a glimpse through a window of something amazing while i'm stuck in a building.

This year a lot of unusual things were going on in the sky and I did have my camera some of those times. So on my blog this week i put up a collection of the more interesting things.

A whole ton of interesting stuff in this piece. Think technology meets social science.



This stuff makes cities taller

fell in love with a girl

By acclamation one of the best videos of the first decade of this century.

ok go

Check this out: 

Now note that it's completely analog, real stuff that happened, and FILMED IN A SINGLE TAKE.  Using a camera on a drone.  And 2300 participants.  Filmed in half speed.  Inspired by classic Busby Berkeley musicals.

Sometimes things are just awesome.

(Shown to me by PB and JC.)

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a lump of coal for christmas

A series of incredible aerial photos of coal mines.  I always imagined them being dark dingy down down down.  I wonder where I can learn more about that...  (It looks like 60% of coal mines are still underground but the rest are "open cast" like the one above.  It's so odd to see these big strip mines just happily coexisting with farms and even towns...)