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While not wild about the music, absolutely lurv the animation style on this video.

Inflation adjusted housing prices. In the US. Since 1890. As… a rollercoaster (for reference, years running in lower right).

This is more than a little frightening for the vast majority of people whose dream is to own a home and those who believe its an investment vehicle. Check out the last 20 years and tell me there isn’t a very big problem. 2D graph at very end to put it all in perspective.

Hilarious ad. Major props to whoever came up with this one.

via Neatorama

Love this ad from Greenpeace celebrating all their victories on their 40th. All the corporate overlords they’ve upset in their history. Very cool.

(disclaimer: Once upon a time, I worked for Greenpeace HQ in Amsterdam. That doesn’t make this any less great though.)

Loved this idea so much. Wish I’d thought of it for my 40th. Awesome, awesome thing to do.

And yes, this is the same guy who moved from Barcelona and said goodbye to the people there in an similar feat of coolness.

I’m a huge fan of Kiva and loan pretty regularly through them, mostly to SE Asia (and particularly Cambodia after my visit there last year). This is a stunning visualization of the microloans passing back and forth globally (ie. loans going out and then being repaid) over the five years Kiva has been in existence. Mind-blowing, though personally other music and a running total of loans to let people grok magnitude would have made it even better. Still, astounding to watch.

It saddens me to see two of my greatest literary influences throw down, but, well… entertaining. Another epic rap battle from the awesome nice peter

And yes, we’ve featured him before

Another phenomenal astronomy timelapse of the Milky Way from Dakota. Keep thinking I need to find the equipment these people use to do this and do one from Tasmania or Uluru. Some seriously amazing starfields Down Under.

As usual, place on your largest screen, expand the HD to fullscreen, darken the room and turn up the music. Your Friday moment of zen.

Wow, I missed the whole conservative backlash against Warren Buffet’s amazing NYT OpEd on stopping coddling the super rich ; you know… that it was time for the rich to pay their share in the US meltdown. Jon Stewart to the rescue. Props to both of them telling it like it is. Seriously, how does Fox News live with itself?

Oh yes, and there’s more… So, much more…

The frightening evolution of the genetic hybrid.

Remember, only you can prevent hipsterism.

via Blame it on the Voices .