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Timelapse photography

Timelapse photography - Using the Canon camera (one model newer than my own), this guy makes some incredible timelapse movies with software set to snap an image over a certain time interval. “Montreal Sunset Shards” is one of my favorites.

Scatman John Quote

I hope that the kids, while they sing along to my songs or dance to it, feel that life is not that bad at all. Even for just a minute.

— Scatman John

The Headington Shark

The Headington Shark - Yes, it’s a shark stuck into this roof. Been there for almost 2 decades, too.

Skidboot the dog

Skidboot the dog - If you’ve got the time, take about 8 minutes out of your day for a heartwarming story about an amazing dog. Thanks, dooce.

The Big Round Cubatron

The Big Round Cubatron - This fantastic contraption is a homebuilt 3-d light show. You’ll have to see a video or another video to get a feel for how cool it is.

Sandra Boynton

Sandra Boynton - Known (to me) as the lady who wrote the original and quite punny card “Hippo birdie two ewe.”

Pitch drop experiment

Pitch drop experiment - World’s longest lab experiment: since 1927 - it measures how slowly pitch (tar) will drip out of a funnel. “The eighth drop fell on 28 November 2000, allowing experimenters to calculate that the pitch has a viscosity approximately 100 billion times that of water.”

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Pickpockets

Pickpockets - This guy allows himself to get pickpocketed, then picks the pockets of the pick pocketers.

Fun read.

Most expensive adwords

Most expensive adwords - The top two most expensive adwords phrases are “school loan consolidation” and “college loan consolidation.”

Via Mike Davidson

Police hunt farting dissident

Police hunt farting dissident - “Police in Poland have launched a nationwide hunt for a man who farted loudly when asked what he thought of the president.”

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