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Well that was quite pretty.

The Office was told from the point-of-view of the copy machine.

French humor always has to do with death in some weird way.

TarBoy. Another animated short. This one much sillier.

The Cat Piano. An animated short that should have been nominated for the Oscar.

This 17th century Ottoman tent is HUGE! How did they make this in the 1600s??

From the WSJ photoblog: well worth your time.

Another way to play with computer algorithms

Eat rabbits and die?

A player piano that… talks?

The 4th R?

Remember the 3 R’s of elementary education?

Reading
Writing
Arithmetic

The three pillars are generally attributed to Sir William Curtis, who stated them in a toast in 1825.

Almost 200 years later, I think it’s time we expand the educational triad to a fourth skill imperative to everyone that passes through the educational system:

Retrieval

According to The Economist, humankind will produce 1,200 exabytes of information this year. That’s 1,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. The information is available, but at the rate we’re producing information, tracking and analyzing trends, we will soon be need education just about how to go about navigating this data deluge.

Ok Go has the best music videos. This one takes Rube Goldberg machines to a new level.

This is the scariest thing I’ve seen in MONTHS! Terrifying mountain bike trail.

Charlie Brooker analyzes American news media. HILARIOUS.

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This is Sand

BEST quotation from #Van2010

U.S. snowboarder Graham Watanabe:

“Try to imagine Pegasus mating with a unicorn and the creature that they birth. I somehow tame it and ride it into the sky in the clouds and sunshine and rainbows. That’s what it feels like.”

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