Awesome Tag

Saturday Night Live: Jeopardy

(Tagged “awesome” by Twitter user jason_austin.)

It’s Terminal: A Dozen Scenes of Early Office Computing

(Tagged “awesome” by Twitter user Powerflasher.)

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.)

Superpoop

(Tagged awesome by Twitter user BonaBonita)

Street painting of a crevasse in Dun Laoghaire. There’s a timelapse video of it being made here, on Youtube.

(Tagged “awesome” by Twitter use PuterPrsn)

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 System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga? For years, I’ve wondered what “chiptune jazz” would sound like, but there are only a tiny handful of jazz covers ever made.

To satisfy my curiosity — and commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” — I’ve asked five brilliant chiptune musicians to collaborate and reinvent the entire album in the 8-bit sound.

He’s also blogged about the project here.

(Tagged awesome by Delicious user cameron.hartofelis)

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)

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 Tuesday.

Follow Astro_Mike on Twitter for more tweets from space.

(Tagged “awesome” by Twitter user ossreleasefeed)

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 lot of Twitterers think they are awesome.

• Also via inky on Twitter is this strange video of what appears to be a robot making Japanoise music. Robots = instant awesome.

• This remote controlled truck combines Lego, remote control, and wheelies for an undefinable amount of awesome. Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user _aasch

• This is the trailer for The Hurt Locker, a film about an elite Army bomb squad unit in Iraq. Tagged “awesome” by numerous Twitter users, but first by orangearrows.

• In this video we see over 1,500 zombies descend on Melbourne in the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle ‘09. Tagged “awesome by Vimeo user MinistryOfAwesum.

Jer Thorp takes the Twitter search results for “just landed in” and generates this: a 36-hour visual representation of Twitterers’ travel. Get the nerd’s eye view here, on his blog.

(Tagged “awesome” by Delicious user adieyal)