Stop Motion T-Shirt War

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Stop Motion T-Shirt War is an awesome video- 222 shirts. 2 days, 1 fire extinguisher. And a fantastic end result!! I don't think I have enough words for it- just watch and enjoy!

(From Break.com)

National Geographic Photo Tips

National Geographic's Photo Tips is a section of the NatGeo website dedicated to helping photographers hone their craft. The site is broken down into sections- areas of photography like Portrait, Action and Adventure, and Landscape.

As an amateur photographer of sorts myself, I enjoyed perusing the pages of tips, the quick tips, and the videos.

And while you're on the site and enjoying the photography, be sure to check out some amazing collections of photos on the site like:

Ultimate National Parks

50 Years of Covers

Life in Color Series

(From National Geographic)

Babies with Laser Eyes!

Babies with Laser Eyes! is a self-explanatory tumblr site that features babies photoshopped with lasers coming out of their tiny, observant, precise eyeballs. Anyone can submit photos for laserification to laserbabies[at]thefrogman.me.

Which apparently means The Frogman is behind this latest of interweb memes.

Can you hear the sound effects in your head? "Pew Pew Pew!" There you go.

(From Facebook, Pew Pew sound joke from CW)

3 Year old crying over Justin Bieber

I normally don't post things this late, that have this many hits, but I didn't want to be accused fo missing a huge phenomenon. 3 Year old crying over Justin Bieber is a Youtube video featuring a 3 year old girl who is deeply and emotionally moved by the saccharine tween tunes of Canadian Pop/R&B singer Justin Drew Bieber. She is held by her sister, who alternates between trying not to crack up and torturing the younger sibling with her fairly-in-tune and register-accurate immitations of Justin.

This is understandable because Justin is currently 15, but he looks about 4. She wails for about 4 minutes, until she is interrupted by the phone. The ringing phone triggers an inexplicably fast mood change in the girl. Amazing to watch an attention-seeking 3 year old. I love it. A+.

Embedding is disabled by request, so you'll have to click through for the video.
(From KW at the Greenhouse)

Booking a Flight the Frugal Way

Booking a Flight the Frugal Way is a NYT article by Matt Gross on the latest sites you need to check to find the cheapest flights. If you aren't doing this, you're living in the past!

I've been using Kayak and Farecast for years, but they did drop in a few new sites I'll have to check out.

I like the sliders that Kayak has, we need a giant meta site with moar sliders!

(From The Kott, image from State Library and Archives of Florida)

Chat Roulette

Chat Roulette is a website that randomly connects your webcam to others. As described in the Guardian, Chatroulette, is:

A new website that has been described as "surreal", "addictive" and "frightening" is proving a sensation around the world – and attracting a reputation as a haven for no-holds-barred, explicit material.

Chatroulette, which was launched in November, has rocketed in popularity thanks to its simple premise: internet video chats with ­random strangers.
When users visit the site and switch on their webcams, they are suddenly connected to another, randomly chosen person who is doing precisely the same thing somewhere else in the world.
Once they are logged in together, chatters can do anything they like: talk to each other, type messages, entertain each other – or just say goodbye, hit the "next" button and move on in an attempt to find somebody more interesting.

I played a couple of rounds, and did not talk to any weird sex people. I had a conversation about tuition fees and snow with a guy from Indiana, and a conversation in German with a Dutch guy about the Dutch language. It's a great place to waste time when Facebook is no longer cutting it.

(From ) The Internets

Government Prohibition Killings

"It was Christmas Eve 1926...Before hospital staff realized how sick he was — the alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom — the man died. So did another holiday partygoer. And another. As dusk fell on Christmas, the hospital staff tallied up more than 60 people made desperately ill by alcohol and eight dead from it. Within the next two days, yet another 23 people died in the city from celebrating the season....The deaths, as investigators would shortly realize, came courtesy of the U.S. government."


Slate has an amazing write up on the now-forgotten "Chemist's War on Prohibition" written by Deborah Blum who found out about this war while researching for her book The Poisoner's Handbook. The article is pretty interesting and makes you worry a bit as to the lengths our government will go.

(From Slate)

The One Who Got Away

The One Who Got Away is a photojournalism piece on Photory Magazine (which you can navigate through using the right and left arrows on your keyboard!). It's about the people in your life that have disappeared or faded out, and the re-editing we do of our own personal histories.

Light, nostalgic, brilliant. Here is an excerpt:

"Imagine studying abroad in a castle in Italy for three months, and falling in love with one of your friends while you were there. Locking eyes at the bar up the hill, sharing a tent in Verona because the hotels are full, hopping a train and heading south to the coast for a week with no itinerary at all, running around Venice in the rain. Imagine coming back home, and love fading back into friendship. Imagine what a disappointment that would be."

Apparently anyone can submit a captioned photo (very bottom of the page).
Enjoy!
(From Kottke)

The Pluto Files

Pluto is no longer considered a planet (old news, I know).

Apparently, school age children have taken serious umbrage with this change.

The Pluto Files is a collection of letters from school age children who miss seeing Pluto among the other planets.

From the link:

"It's not easy being a public enemy," writes Neil deGrasse Tyson in his book The Pluto Files. When Neil's museum grouped Pluto not among the planets but rather with icy comets in an obscure region called the Kuiper Belt, he heard from thousands of outraged Pluto defenders. It's tough being called a heartless Pluto-hater, particularly by a dismayed eight-year-old. Below, peruse a few of the letters elementary schoolkids sent Neil, and see how their tone shifted over the years, as the public slowly came to accept Pluto's fall from planethood.—Susan K. Lewis

My favorite letter was one from Madeline, dated Sept 2006.

Power to the planet Pluto, Madeline. Power to the planet.

(Since I now have 2 posts collected because of Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, I guess this means I have to become a card carrying member of his fan club. )

(From PBS, Nova)

How To Report The News

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How To Report The News is a BBC video by reporter Chris Booker. We've all seen the "hard hitting" news stories that all follow the same formula- explained in detail here by Chris Booker.

With this as a guide, your future as a field reporter has never been brighter.

(From Break.com)