I honestly thought this was a joke until it was on the CBC. And hey, how about using taxpayer-funded government resources to fundraise got your party. Remember when elected representatives used to respect democratic principles, their country and the national electorate?
I hope this gets reversed really quickly. It’s a total mockery of the institution of Canadian democracy and an abuse of the Prime Minister’s Office.
Pretty clever. Geeks are Sexy gives a nice nod to nicepeter ’s work. Slightly NSFW, but meh. Wear headphones.
Check out Abe Lincoln vs. Chuck Norris.
Oh, and there’s so much more on Nice Peter’s Youtube so be sure to check out Bieber vs. Beethoven, Hulk Hogan vs Kim Jong-Il, John Lennon vs. Bill O’Reilly and Sarah Palin vs. Lady Gaga amongst others.
It’s a shame more people don’t go to the theatre these days, because there is some freaking amazing stuff going on there as effects and media and live performance combine (I try really, really hard to go once every two months to see something in my own defence.). I soooo wish I’d seen this production because I am absolutely amazed at what they’ve done with this sword fight scene where the main hero is battling the shadows around him. Like, wow.
I’ve often said that the ability to have normal mortals put together flatpack furniture with just an allen key and a screwdriver is an engineering marvel to rival the Pyramids, but Justin Pollard, John Lloyd and Stevyn Colgan have gone one further and show how you can construct Stonehenge yourself, Ikea style . Awesome.
via Neatorama .
Alright, it is almost beyond geekery, but since I didn’t even know about this I find this development more than a bit cool .
NASA, in an experiment to test a solar sail for practical use, successfully managed to deploy and have a solar sail circle the Earth, which is an impressive and very pragmatic step forward for making this a working technology for space travel.
I don’t know why, even though we’re talking slow speeds that would accelerate these vessels towards other planets and stars (and massive sails), it really kind of fires my imagination to imagine huge solar sailing vessels in the future, tacking towards distant stars.
With NASA getting desperate enough for cash its auctioning off moon landing memorabilia, it might be a good time to remind ourselves why we strive for the stars in the first place. Cute “infographic”.
via Neatorama .
While I have to thank TextMate for being the editor that was my gateway drug into Rails (and back into programming), I kept having loads of issues with it (while I still think it’s hands down better than any of the new editors I’ve seen and much prefer it to a host of IDEs): It crashed pretty regularly, I found it slow and had to wait for it quite often, I was constantly switching between it and the command line and project searches beachballed all. the. time. I also have to admit to having had more than a little bit of guilt that I’d added yet another Mac-only title to my list of software. Somewhere in the back of my head I still keep trying to convince myself I’ll move back to Linux… someday cough. (Note that my purpose here isn’t to wail on Textmate. It is a great piece of software and I do owe it a debt. I just decided I needed to move past some of the limitations I’d been experiencing.).
This is amazingly fun. Think of a musical SimCity. Isle of Tune is a music sequencer that let’s you build a virtual roadway and line it with trees, lamp posts, houses and such that produce different sounds as you pass them in the car(s).
Phenomenal idea, though much like the person who pointed me at it, I had more fun checking out other peoples’ creations - some of which are amazing - than building my own.
And moving on from facebook visualizations yesterday, a wicked look at the mashup artist Girl Talk’s last album.I wish I’d found this, but this came from my friend @anu . Awesome. First off, if you haven’t grabbed Girl Talk’s mashup album, you can grab it here (and pay for it later or not, but this guy seriously deserves some cash for his efforts, dontcha think?).
This amazing interactive interface from Mashupbreakdown shows you while the song is playing where those mashed up tracks are coming from. A brilliant way to represent it. I so wish you could interactively remove tracks from the mashup though to see how the thing is put together. So very cool though.
Wow, this is pretty impressive. An intern at facebook decided to do some major data crunching to visualize and answer questions about how people connect to each other and how local they are. Super interesting (if not surprising) visualization of how we connect to each other through the ubiquitous fb.
It’s kind of amazing (anyone else struck by how facebook is still a very “first world” problem. This would be a cool thing to release for individuals to check out their map of the world as well I think (I know how obsessed I am with collecting pins on my world map in iPhoto since they introduced the feature. So sad.