Thanks to @Graham_0704 for this.
The Trustworthiness of Beards:
Stick me down as half way between Full Beard and Philosopher. (~@barrysduncan)
This Gizmo Lets You Draw A UI On Paper, Then Turns It Into A Touch Screen
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Source: fastcodesign.com
Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut, has one-upped us all.
He shot a series of 30 second exposures and stacked them make this amazing photo.
Star trails from space are so much cooler than star trails from Earth, in part because the city lights on Earth make trails, too!
Source: photojojo
Slab City is catching a lot of attention these days from the obscure, norms-challenging Vice Magazine documentary “A Day In Slab City” and over to the more mainstream Time Magazine piece, “Living Off The Grid”. This look at the outpost known as “the last free place in America” is both raw and eye-opening to what exists beyond our cities and suburbs.
“Slab City, their home for the past three months, is a squatters’ camp deep in the badlands of California’s poorest county, where the road ends and the sun reigns, about 190 miles southeast of Los Angeles and hour’s drive from the Mexican border. The vast state-owned property gets its name from the concrete slabs spread out across the desert floor, the last remnants of a World War II–era military base. In the decades since it was decommissioned, dropouts and fugitives of all stripes have swelled its winter population to close to a thousand, though no one’s really counting. These days, their numbers are growing thanks to a modest influx of recession refugees like the Angios, attracted by do-it-yourself, rent-free living beyond the reach of electricity, running water and the law. And while the complexion of the Slabs, as the place is locally known, may be changing in some ways, the same old rule applies: respect your neighbor, or stay the hell away.
‘It’s pretty much as close to the Old West as you’re gonna get. Most of us don’t own guns or none of that garbage, but if we have problems, we take care of [them],’ says Ray, 56, a former drug addict turned born-again Christian who has traversed the country six times with a giant wooden cross on his back. Katie Ray, 30, a perennial visitor from Oakland, Calif., calls the place a ‘postapocalyptic vacation zone.’”
Source: curiositycounts
100,000 LED Spheres Flowing Down a Japanese River
“As part of the recent Tokyo Hotaru Festival, 100,000 illuminated blue LEDs were released in the Sumida River. The massive installation of solar-powered spheres was meant to mimic a swarm of fireflies that twisted and bobbed along the river by moonlight. For those of you worried about pollution or safety, the lights were later caught downstream by giant nets. See much more over at Spoon & Tamago. (photos by jeremy v, makure, and ajpscs)”
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Source: thisiscolossal.com
Academy of Sciences. San Francisco CA
This is Claude the albino alligator. They remolded the entire museum a few years back but this place used to be one of my favorite spots when i was growing up. The railing around the alligator is the same railing they had in the old museum. I felt like a kid again.
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Source: dcroninphoto
Queen’s Freddie Mercury Will Perform as ‘Optical Illusion’
Freddie Mercury will make a technology-enhanced appearance from beyond the grave at a tenth anniversary performance of the Queen musical We Will Rock You. But to be clear, the frontman — who died in 1991 — will not be a hologram. He will be an “optical illusion.”
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Windows snapping on a mac.
