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)