May 2009
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Introduction to Wolfram Alpha →
A screencast introducing some of Wolfram Alpha’s main features. It goes live at 7pm CDT today.
(Tagged “awesome” by Twitter user zpete.)
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Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis →
Andy Baio is using Kickstarter — “a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers…” that he is on the board of — to raise money for an 8-bit reinvention and 50th anniversary commemoration of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” album.
What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment...
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Physicists Prove That Vampires Could Not Exist →
Two physicists have published an academic paper where they demonstrate, by virtue of geometric progression, that vampires could not exist, since they would almost immediately deplete their entire food supply (a.k.a, all of us).
(Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user sushimustwrite)
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NASA astronaut first to "tweet" from space →
It’s not quite the achievement of a lunar landing, but astronaut Mike Massimino made Twitter history with a 139-character post to the micro-blogging site — the first person to do so from space.
“From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!” he wrote at 4:30 p.m. ET...
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Awesome Outtakes
Not quite substantial enough for a full post, but awesome in their own right, I present the first edition of #awesome outtakes.
I have no idea how to describe this animated gif, but it would be a mistake not to click it. Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user teanau.
This Twitter search illustrates what happened when inky tweeted “I am awesome. #awesome”. Unsurprisingly, a...
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The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun →
(Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user amadon3)
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Sir Critter T-shirts →
Isn’t it about time nature got with the program and started showing a little refinement, maybe even a hint of elegance? For some reason animals just can’t seem to get their act together, so let us provide nature an example to live by with these fine t-shirts emblazoned with classy critters.
(Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user captainfez)
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WatchSaturday Night Live — Digital Short: Motherlover
(Tagged “awesome” by Twitter user mollybuckley)
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The Philosopher and the Wolf →
A spur-of-the-moment decision to buy a wolf cub changed Mark Rowlands’s life. From that moment on he found human company never quite matched up
(Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user jarmer)
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Pop Up Guide to the Personal Computer →
Corrin and I dropped some stuff off at Goodwill the other day, and when we were looking around inside I made an amazing find. For only two dollars, I purchased a pop-up book describing the internals of a 1980’s PC!
(via Delicious user diskursdisko)
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Listen →
A handy interface for listening to audio posts by the people you follow on Tumblr.
(via Delicious user fantasticness)
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Field Notes →
INSPIRED BY the vanishing subgenre of agricultural memo books, ornate pocket ledgers and the simple, unassuming beauty of a well-crafted grocery list, the Draplin Design Company, Portland, Oregon in conjunction with Coudal Partners of Chicago, Illinois bring you “FIELD NOTES” in hopes of offering, “An honest memo book, worth fillin’ up with GOOD INFORMATION.”
(via Twitter user boxkite)
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The Echo Nest Remix API →
The Echo Nest Remix API lets you manipulate music and video from the web.
We’ve done the following: rearranged the syllables of a vocal line, walkenized and cowbellized hundreds of thousands of songs in a week, mixed up the hits of a drum beat and synced it to another loop, beat matched two songs, split apart DJ mixes by their individual tracks, made new kinds of music, synced a...
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The Fat Alien Sings: A Klingon-Language Opera →
NPR’s Lara Pellegrinelli reports on the Klingon Terran Research Ensemble’s attempt to stage the first authentic performances of Klingon opera on Earth.
The new Star Trek movie opens Friday, and it includes the usual suspects: Vulcans, Romulans and, of course, humans. But one race gets short shrift: the Klingons.
The new movie is billed as a prequel — it’s set before the...
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