Twitter overflow. I'm sorry.
Cities at night from space (photos taken from the International Space Station)
via telegraph.co.uk
I saw something just like this when I took my first ever long-haul flight, to Mumbai, in 2005. As we flew over Iran at 35000 feet, I looked down and (so the sky map told me) saw Tabriz. A Mandelbrot diagram in the blackness, like an alien from a James Cameron movie, organic shapes in bright gold and blue, it blew me away. Looking down to see that, then up to see stars, it suddenly felt like flying through space and seeing some nebula below.
Comments [0]
£2.98 for space vampires and Harry out of Spooks? Yes, I think I will.
via youtube.com
http://tr.im/xXcH for space vampires and Harry out of Spooks. For £2.98.
Filed under //
movies
Comments [0]
Joss Whedon on humanism, education and free thought
via youtube.com
Whedon gave this speech when he accepted an Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism at Harvard earlier this year.
And I already loved him just for Buffy and Firefly.
Comments [1]
The ad that WWF wish they had nothing to do with - it's also a video.
via gawker.com
Prepared speculatively as a rough draft by agency DDB Brasil, never intended for release, and dismissed by WWF as soon as they saw it, this originally appeared around the Interwebs as a print ad, designed to drive home the difference in the death tolls between 9/11 and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
For a rough draft, it's very polished.
WWF don't endorse it, and they're no doubt pissed off with the sight of it.
One or more creatives in DDB have some very strange ideas about how to drive home an environmentally friendly message - not least because a tsunami is usually triggered by seismic activity, beyond our control.
Update: WWF US have issued a statement here.
Filed under //
video
Comments [1]
Comments [0]