Archive: April 27, 2009
swine-flu-pig

Photo by Scott Bauer This lovely photo of a sow with a piglet is featured on the Wikipedia article for swine flu. You can download a hi-res version of this image from the United States Department of Agriculture.

The singing comes in 2 minutes into the video, so feel free to skip to 2:08 to hear her belch out this Mariah Carey tune. Miranda needs to get together with Dong-won Kim and record a duet! Clearly two of the best voices in all of the world! Thanks Simon! UPDATE: Ok, so it’s a [...]

topography-typography

Rhett Dashwood of Melbourne, Australia spent 6 months combing through Google Maps in Victoria, Australia to find land forms that resembled letters of the alphabet. Here are his results. Thanks Q!

From The Killers’ album entitled Sam’s Town.

geotagged-photos-flickr

Using geotagging data from about 35 million photos uploaded to Flickr, David Crandall and other scientists at Cornell University were able to create a map of the most popular photo-snapping locations around the globe. What David and his fellow scientists discovered was that New York City was the most photographed place in the entire world [...]

And In That Moment, I Felt Infinite from Karen Abad loves Dinosaurs. on Vimeo. Karen Abad posted her cellphone number onto her blog a while ago and asked people to call in answering the question: What is loneliness? The video shown here is the 2nd of 3 videos she calls “Robot Feelings” in which she [...]