The author who can write, but can’t read. Fascinating short video.
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He really likes rainbows.
I’m about 100 million years late posting this one (in Internet years, at least). But if you haven’t seen it … Double Rainbow Guy will make your day. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI?wmode=transparent] What does this mean?
If we ever sell Mary Holste Design to Amazon.com, you can bet that this is how we’ll announce it.
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The Chicken Heart that ate New York City
Happy Father's Day, Dad! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhwF2d8QyvU?wmode=transparent] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vPimtcK3-A?wmode=transparent]
England – USA World Cup match re-enacted in a minute and a half … with legos.
via guardian.co.uk Somehow even the legoman captures the goalie’s anguish.
Goodsell Observatory As a Giant R2-D2
via nerdapproved.com Speaking of my alma mater, some Carleton students turned Goodsell Observatory into R2D2. When they’re not busy spooning, they’re rather enterprising, no? Fun fact about Goodsell: way back when, the observatory kept time for most of the railroads across the country. via Mary M and Facebook.
Now THAT is a pothole.
by Gobierno de Guatemala via dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com This is in Guatamala. The sinkhole opened up today. Crazy.
These Rocks … rock. (yeah, I went there)
Known today as Ringing Rocks Park, the rock field occupies 7 acres of an otherwise wooded area, and is over 10 feet deep with boulders. Only about a third of the rocks ring, and for a long time why the rocks rang at all was unclear. However, in 1965 a group of scientists crushed, broke, and sliced the rocks. After performing numerous tests, they found that while all the rocks do in fact ring, they often do so at tones lower than the human ear can perceive. Interactions between these low tones create any audible sounds. However, the exact mechanism Read more…
The joy of stop motion
Apparently this took 61,000 photos, 9,600 prints, and then another 1,800 photos. I think it was worth it.
Some days you just can’t break into a car …
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