One of the most beautiful things I’ve seen on the net is the plots of planes over the period of a day over the USA.
Visit Aaron Koblin website and view these amazing animations and wonder at how much fuel must be burned as over 17,000 planes fly to/around the USA each day.
Here’s a fantastic flash based map showing the birth and spread of religion. Interesting stuff:
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Mike Libby takes insects and adds modern day gears and wiring to create some amazing art. Check it out at Mike Libby – Insect Lab
So you want to be a popstar… you don’t need to know how to sing, there’s a machine that does it for you. The song takes minutes to write… check it all out here:
If you’ve ever driven on a highway only to find yourself slowing to a crawl for 15 minutes and there’s no reason for the slowdown, then I’ve found an explanation. A hacker has great explanations on why traffic bottlenecks and how we can avoid it… actually how just one car – yours – can start to undo the mess.
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Remember Natalie Imbruglia and her song ‘TORN’ now check out the hilarious mimed version and make sure you stick it out to the end when Natalie makes a live appearance… if only her original video clip was like this.
via Neatorama - a while back now
Jack Black sings ‘you’re the one that I want’ from the movie Grease with Gollum from Lord of the rings… careful, gollum swears
What do you do when you get an incurable disease and only have a year or so to live? You live life to the full!
Inspiring footage of a guy with leukaemia trainsurfing at 300kmh. He dies in bed a year later… makes you realise what life is all about.
YouTube – Extreme Trainsurfer
Amazing photos and story of a sniper attack on a US patrol in Iraq… every politician should see this to make them realise the sad realities of war.
Click on the multimedia link on the left hand side, half way down the page to get commentary and a slide show.
Very brave people.
PS… seems people found it hard to see the multimedia link on the page so here’s a link to it.
I’ve been guilty of using photoshop to ‘enhance’ features of my portrait customers but this cool ad for dove soap really shows you how a plain model is transformed into a billboard beauty using speed photography.
Part of Dove’s ‘real beauty’ campaign, this video is to raise awareness and show young girls that what you see in magazines is not necessarily reality.
(via boingboing)