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When Newscasters Get Their Ideas from Random People on Twitter
_Last night Jon Stewart picked up on a phenomenon that we just took for granted._ h3. Connections * "Can We Replace Lou Dobbs With a Robot?":http://motherboard.tv/2009/11/13/can-we-replace-lou-dobbs-with-a-robot * "A Joke Twitter Feed That Could...
The Great Julian Assange / Slavoj Zizek Apocalyptic Love-In: Video
In case you missed your chance "to win a date":http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/julian-assange-slavoj-zizek-auction-lunch-date_b32452 with them to watch the new Transformers movie, see this video of a public conversation between Julian Assange and...
All the Trippy Music Videos by Bjork and Michel Gondry
The wonderfully bizarre nature-obsessed artists who should have been sweethearts since kindergarten (if they had gone to kindergarten together, in some kind of enchanted Scandanavian hamlet) have released their seventh video, for the song "Crystalline...
Technology Is Killing Stuff
bq. "Our dearest collections -- from books to CDs -- will soon disappear into the digital abyss, and pretty soon we won't have any stuff at all." Mix hackneyed technophobia with a dash of cable news punditry and you get one of those ideas that you...
The Last Words Uttered on the Moon
Earlier this morning, Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down at Cape Canaveral, marking the final death knell of America's Space Shuttle Program and 30 years of shooting human beings into outer space. Almost 40 years ago we finished the last chapter in...
[VIDEO] Atlantis Landing and A Time Lapse Video From Three Shuttle Missions
STS-135, Space Shuttle Atlantis has returned safely to Earth. So concludes the one hundred and thirty-fifth Space Shuttle mission, the final mission of the program.
A Video Timeline of the Windows Launch Party
_Testing the theory that the fabled Windows launch party is a bellweather for the performance of the operating system it celebrates._
Take A Tour of the Solar System Thanks to the Voyager Probes
The Voyager program, which launched two unmanned scientific probes (Voyager 1 and Voyager 2) has uncovered some of the most...
Orbit(Film): Short films for the solar system
This looks wonderful. ORBIT(FILM) is a cohesive collection of short films made by a group of talented filmmakers, one for each of the planets. They dug through wonderful old NASA footage, created recreations, and added animation. bq. Beginning and...
Michael Stipe Calls the Space Station to Sing "Man on the Moon"
To wake up the four astronauts of the final space shuttle mission on Day 7, NASA asked R.E.M. front man Michael Stipe to come in and sing "Man on the Moon" over the space phone (maybe it should have been ""Losing My Religion"":http://www.motherboard.tv...
"Cat in Zero Gravity," by Lyn Hagan (2008)
In 2008, British artist Lyn Hagan "made a film":http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-07-08-space-artists-vomit-comet_N.htm starring her black cat and two mice, and set inside a zero-gravity airplane. A clip of the film uploaded in 200...
Time to Learn About Polymorphics; or, What the Internet Looked Like in 1959
Whether via Babbage, Moore, or Kurzweil, computing has a powerful ability to predict its own future. (As for Raymond Kurzweil, if not the almighty Singularity than Deep Blue at least.) It does this better than any other technology--look back on, say...