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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 .

Kinda great. And making me jonez for some airplane tickets (since I recognized more than a few of the backgrounds they were in from my own wanders).

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage

You can check out there other two, Learn and Eat on their vimeo page, but I think I like Move best.

I haven’t played any of the Deus Ex series, but hear about it all the time and have to say their new live action trailer promo for Deus Ex, ostensibly from a protest organization fighting against arbitrary human augmentation is, well… inspired. Instantly sucked me in. I imagine there is an entire online campaign around it since they have a site at Sarif Industries .

via Geeks Are Sexy

And speaking of remix, if you haven’t checked out the remixes by 17 year old mix-master Madeon, you probably should. He apparently can even mix live if this video isn’t just tongue in cheek . Anyhow, someone finally synced the videos of all the songs he used to the audio he produced to give you this (yes, remixing the remix).

Pretty damn fine actually. Wonder how it’ll run at the gym.

Copy. Transform. Combine. Everything is a Remix .

The act of creation is surrounded by a fog of myths.

The whole series is super interesting and well done (though does make you realize how many revered artists “ripped off” heavily) so do check it out if you get a chance. Even better, episode four is still to be completed so kickstart Kirby some cash so he can finish it. It’s a pretty interesting foursome and the guy definitely deserves your support.