Re-edits YouTube.
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Simply too good to miss. His website is here.
Can't remember where I found this. I think it's two great whites eating sardines.
Here's a leaked, 125-page transcript of the brainstorming session that begat Raiders of the Lost Arc: a sit-down in 1978 with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan. Spielberg and Lucas veritably fizz with ideas.
G — What can he chase them with? What if he jumps on a camel?
S — I love it. It's a great idea. There's never been a camel chase before.
L — Is this camel going to chase a car?
S — You know how fast a camel can run? Not only that, he can jump over vegetable carts and things. It could be a funny chase that ends in tragedy. You're laughing your head off and suddenly, "My God, she's dead..."
S — We still have the big fight in the moving truck to do. And now we have a camel chase.
G — We've added another million dollars.
S — Not really. How much trouble can a camel be?
The “Raiders” Story Conference
Ignore the introduction, just skip down to the main bit.
Via boingboing.
Right then you 'orrible lot, it's about time you got to work on your dance moves. Happily, we've spotted some handy tips (in Finnish) on the best way to strut your stuff. Guys, get your white flares ready.
And ladies - pay particularly close attention to the female instructor's stance, face and general demeanour.
(it really kicks off at about 2:50)
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'Playbourers' in a small power-levelling workshop outside Changsha, where they also eat and sleep. Photograph: Anthony Gilmore
Li Hua makes a living playing computer games. Working from a cramped office in the heart of Changsha, China, he slays dragons and loots virtual gold in 10-hour shifts. Next to him, rows of other young workers do the same. "It is just like working in a factory, the only difference is that this is the virtual world," says Li. "The working conditions are hard. We don't get weekends off and I only have one day free a month. But compared to other jobs it is good. I have no other skills and I enjoy playing sometimes."
Li is just one of more than 100 workers employed by Wow7gold, an internet-based company that makes more than £1m a year selling in-game advantages to World of Warcraft (WoW) players. Customers may ask for their avatar's skill level to be increased ("power levelling"), or for a virtual magic sword or precious ore to be obtained. As one player put it: "Where there's a demand, China will supply it."
Here's a massive, haunting collection of photos from Pripyat, Ukraine, the industrial city that housed Chernobyl's workforce. It's been an abandoned radioactive no-go zone for some 23 years now, gradually sinking into ruin, and it just gets more and more beautiful and melancholy.
Pinched this off WIRED.com:
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It has been more than a month since Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger landed his stricken US Airways jet in the Hudson River, but gamers and geeks are still churning out impressive animations recreating the miraculous water landing.
Most of them are using sims like Microsoft's Flight Simulator to navigate the virtual skies over New York, and some of these wannabe pilots are going so far as to use recordings of the conversations between the flight crew and air traffic controllers to recreate the five minutes and 40 seconds of US Airways Flight 1549 with eerie accuracy.
One of our favorites, by Scene Systems, is shown above. Here are four more we really like.
This video, by YouTube user lake2407, shows a combo exterior view/cockpit perspective and includes instrument voice notifications:
Cockpit view by YouTube user sevendst:
This one from boozho.com includes a map that shows 1549's trajectory from above, and points out the little-reported fact that Flight 1549 came dangerously close to colliding with another plane:
This one by YouTube user flightsimulationguru is a little jerkier, has a weird soundtrack, slathers the plane in the wrong color scheme and gets the flight number wrong, but...
Most of the simulations were made with off-the-shelf products like Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is one of the most popular flight sims.
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Today's fixies are all well and good, but fifties fixies are where it (was) at.
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(best watched on the YouTube page where it's bigger)
The contents of Neverland Ranch are finally heading to the auction block this April. Julien's Auctions will be auctioning off more than 2,000 of Michael Jackson's possessions April 22-25 in an eight-part mega-auction in Beverly Hills. Jackson decamped from Neverland a while ago and it has quietly been renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch. This is the first sale of his property that Michael Jackson has sanctioned. The Guardian reports that when Darren Julien and his team of auctioneers went in to assess the ranch's goods they were astounded by both the number and style of the objects they discovered. Many items are made of bronze or marble with elaborate gilding. Pieces include suits of armor, a throne, a cape, a portrait of Michael Jackson in Elizabethan dress, rhinestone gloves and socks, costumes, awards, even his Rolls Royce limo is up for sale for an estimated $140,000 - $160,000.
The Guardian has a photo gallery which shows some of the pieces for sale. Jackson has to be one of the wealthiest and most ego-driven packrats in the world. His childlike acquisitiveness manifests in his collection of video game machines, Disney art and Peter Pan memorabilia and much of it bears his image in his prime. It's an astonishing display of wealth without restraint. There's something in nearly every price point, from small rhinestone brooches to elaborate pieces of art and statuary. Given the sheer amount of objects up for grabs Jackson could stand to make quite a tidy haul. Even the signed and numbered five-volume catalog sells for $500.
(from Luxist.com)
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Still one of my favourite duets ever.
Listen to it here.
ANYONE ELSE BUT YOU,
You're a part time lover and a full time friend
The monkey on you're back is the latest trend
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
I kiss you on the brain in the shadow of a train
I kiss you all starry eyed, my body's swinging from side to side
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
Here is the church and here is the steeple
We sure are cute for two ugly people
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
The pebbles forgive me, the trees forgive me
So why can't, you forgive me?
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
I will find my nitch in your car
With my mp3 DVD rumple-packed guitar
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
Du du du du du du dudu
Du du du du du du dudu
Du du du du du du dudu du
Up up down down left right left right B A start
Just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
You are always trying to keep it real
I'm in love with how you feel
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
We both have shiny happy fits of rage
You want more fans, I want more stage
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
Don Quixote was a steel driving man
My name is Adam I'm your biggest fan
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
Squinched up your face and did a dance
You shook a little turd out of the bottom of your pants
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
Du du du du du du dudu
Du du du du du du dudu
Du du du du du du dudu du
But you
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Web urbanist has this terrific collection of radiators (ones that cook things, one that warm cats, ones that are coiled like hoses, you name it) and says:
Radiators seem designed for the background. They line walls and prop up corners, and everyone looks past them because, after all, they are only radiators. But even this seemingly ignoble collection of valves, pipes and ribs can become an urban designer’s dream canvas. Here are 20 examples of how modern radiators could really turn up the heat in your dream home.
The full article is here. WELL WORTH READING, mmmkay?
A fun, weird little experiment by director Victor Solomon. "I've been chopping away at it for a year, here and there between other jobs," he explains.
I was laughing for the first 30 seconds, then kinda hypnotized, then just creeped out, and still couldn't stop watching. Simple and brilliant.
"For those of you watching The Sopranos on A&E, here’s what you’re missing," he says. "This is every single curse, from every single episode of the sopranos, ever."
Thankingyew BoingBoing .
Nihon TV recently aired dramatic footage of “Rollerman” Jean-Yves Blondeau in his BuggyRollin suit, racing Japanese celebrity biker George Takahashi down a mountain road. (See who wins.)
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Studded with dozens of wheels, the full-body BuggyRollin suit transforms the wearer into a human luge that can reach speeds of up to 116 kph (70 mph) on steep slopes.
