Today's Mighty Oak


I’m back from two weeks away, and back to the blog.  I’ll be posting more updates soon, as well as a short update about my trip to Maryland/Delaware, but in the meantime, enjoy all of this:

First up, a video from NASA about watching the Northern and Southern Lights from the International Space Station, absolutely beautiful!

And a really cool video from The Guardian:

Copyranter comes through with an awesome gif, a really cool interactive ad, misleading chalkboards, the truly horrifying, an ad which I like, but he doesn’t and the latest amazing cover from The New Yorker.

This also comes from Copyranter:

And here is a compilation from Better Book Titles.  I especially love their take on “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

And here is the second trailer for The Avengers:

That’s it for now, have a great one!



Quick update for everyone, let’s see what we have today:

Adobe is showcasing their anti-blur technology.  Really awesome, I have no idea how it works, but I’ll figure out some way to break it, don’t worry.

For those returning to college, here are the types of drunks you’ll be seeing:

I’m surprised this didn’t get more attention: apparently Padre Pio was using carbolic acid to fake his stigmata.  I’ll have to go back and watch Stigmata, which I always get mad at because while it is set in Pittsburgh, they got a lot of details way wrong.

I forgot to post this before Christmas, but now that it’s finally snowy, it feels like Christmas, so enjoy it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIB1Uiip-Ic

Here are Chris Baty’s awesome reflections on NaNoWriMo 2011

This week in human rights abuses, those who did not mourn publicly, or did not mourn enough, or were though to be faking their mourning in North Korea are going to be sent to labor camps.  North Korean labor camps result in the death of about 25% of their inmates.

I tumbled down the rabbit hole on youtube, and this one explains the cost of the royal family:

That’s it for right now, back later with more!

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