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In honour of: There’s this (curtsy: vanderleun): Gold Bullion Vault – Periodic Table of Videos From the Periodic Table of Videos project.

Categories: Science and Nature

Yeah so I just watched this whole thing: Liz Taylor & Mike Todd – A Happy Marriage Random observations: • People have been saying their daughters are so smart they’ll be the first female president since before the Baby Boomers invented the line. • Liz Taylor is cool.

Categories: Entertainment

Obviously wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving would have been way too obvious. *tosses head, looks bored* Hipster Thanksgiving

Categories: People and Current Events

Giant Waterspout Batemans Bay Australia Brett files the following report: “Dude!” a) One wonders if it’s an entirely good idea to keep driving towards it. b) It’s funny how freaked out I got getting the rear-passenger POV on a right hand drive car. It kept making me nervous that they were turning into the wrong [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Echidna Puggle at Taronga Zoo Curtsy: io9, after the video, click through for the punchline.

Categories: Science and Nature

It’s raining here (finally!) and it looks like it’ll rain all week (and good lord we need it!), so this is kind of timely (even if there isn’t actually any chance of thunder here): Video of a lightning strike, one tenth of a second in real time drawn out to 33 seconds of video. Lightning [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Eton Style (Gangnam Style Parody) – (강남스타일)

Categories: Entertainment

I’d like to see what the ship looked like (or where it went) after the wave settled. Curtsy: xkcd’s What If? blog (in which he explores the repercussions of exploding a nuke in the Marianas Trench).

Categories: Science and Nature

Kitten crash test: Curtsy: Vanderleun

Categories: Catblogging

There are some interesting numbers in this: Vatican Insider – Africa: Christians outnumber Muslims The figures revealed at [a conference in Morocco], today, Christians account for 46, 53% of the African population compared to the 40, 46 % represented by Muslims and the 11, 8% represented by traditional African religions. The study states that among [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Carlton Draught – Beer Chase

Categories: Food

Daddy Skills A music video (which is amazing), featuring Sam D. (San Dorman) and DJDave (Dave Wittman), and shot, apparently, entirely on an iPhone (in San Francisco).

Categories: People and Current Events

This could be another Peter Recommends but I already did that today. He’s very excited about it, and the video is pretty cool (I mean, it wouldn’t be out of place as an ACME made Road Runner gadget gag): Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror

Categories: Science and Nature

Henri 3, Le Vet Merci, Brett McS. I would call this hilarious if I could express any emotion while swirling this glass of wine while sucking on a black cigarette while gazing out on the world with a look of unutterable hopelessness and regret… So we’ll settle with genius. ;)

Categories: Catblogging

This makes me so happy: St Andrews Girls: The Other Guys’ Charity Single I’m also in one of my “loving all of mankind” moods. It probably won’t last.

Categories: Entertainment