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From a book called Screen Epiphanies , a few directors (Danny Boyle, Mira Nair, Martin Scorsese, etc.) share the films that first inspired them . Here's Lars von Trier on Kubrick's Barry Lyndon:
Watching Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon is a pleasure, like eating a very good soup. It is very ...
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Because of fences, differing policies, or different cultures, national borders also mark habitat boundaries for animals and plants . More at Edible Geography .
For example, the antlion surplus in Israel can be traced back to the fact that the Dorcas gazelle is a protected species there, ...
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I am looking for an intern-type person to work on a project to commence almost immediately and lasting until the end of the year. Basically I have an idea for a thing and I don't have the time to do it, so I'm looking for someone who wants to own the project and I'll just be the ...
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A delightfully low-tech but colorful music video from OK Go. Looks like it was shot it one take.
You may remember OK Go from their famous treadmill video . (thx, mike) Tags: music OK Go video
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If you missed it last week in the Thanksgiving flurry, here's my post on how the H1N1 vaccine is made .
The most striking feature of the H1N1 flu vaccine manufacturing process is the 1,200,000,000 chicken eggs required to make the 3 billion doses of vaccine that may be required worldwide. ...
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How Aaron Swartz hires programmers .
To find out whether someone's smart, I just have a casual conversation with them. I do everything I can to take off any pressure off: I meet at a cafe, I make it clear it's not an interview, I do my best to be casual and friendly. Under no circumstances ...
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Jesus, this is nerdy (and hilarious): a Lady Gaga parody about a typeface .
(via @caterina ) Tags: Lady Gaga music remix typography video
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What the world needs is a great flag, a flag of pure bliss . Here's one of the intermediate steps to the finished product; it's an average of all the world's countries' flags weighted by population.
Tags: design flags remix
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Juggler Scot Nery lists eight reasons why you, as a normal person, should learn how to juggle.
Sometimes it feels like A.D.D. makes you better at stuff, but when it comes down to it, we really need to be able to sit still and focus until something's done. Juggling builds your focus muscles ...
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Greg Allen finally finished his version of Enzo Mari's 1974 Autoprogettazione dining table made from wood from Ikea's Ivar shelving system. An example of the Mari's original table went at auction a few years ago for $14,000; Allen paid $120 for his Ikea raw materials. Tags: design ...
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Kazuo Uyeda demonstrates his hard shake:
From an article in the NY Times about cocktail shaking :
Mr. Uyeda, who owns a bar named Tender in the Ginza district, is the inventor of a much-debated shaking technique he calls the hard shake, a choreographed set of motions involving a ...
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New on the Wii Virtual Console: Super Mario Kart . Many consider this the finest Kart made. Tags: video games Wii
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The Boston Globe has a slideshow with a few examples from the now-declassified Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception .
Here's the associated article . One could imagine a Mad Men/Bond-style spy show set in the 1960s that would utilize these techniques. Tags: CIA magic
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Scenes from several movies that depict New York being destroyed (Day After Tomorrow, Ghostbusters, Independence Day, etc.) accompanied by George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which famously accompanies a similar but less violent montage at the beginning of Woody Allen's Manhattan.
Or... ...
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From Tom Schaller on FiveThirtyEight about the idiots that snuck into a recent White House state dinner.
No, you're not famous; you're infamous. You're situated squarely at the bottom of an already too-deep and increasingly murky barrel of celebrity culture, celebrity journalism, and ...
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How did whales get so big eating such tiny creatures? And why aren't they bigger? Carl Zimmer explains .
According to the scientists, this pattern occurs when the whales lunge into a cloud of krill and drop open their jaws. Pleats under the lower jaw open up, engulfing huge amounts of water. ...
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1 Warhol equals 15 minutes of fame, So if you've been famous for three years, that's just over 105 kilowarhols. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there's a critical point -- varying from celebrity to celebrity -- where that person has outstayed their welcome, and uh ... becomes ...
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Maira Kalman wonders about the patterns of food consumption in the United States, whether it is democratic or not, and how we might want to change.
Every one of her essays is outstanding; I can't stop linking to them. Tags: food Maira Kalman USA
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This is amazing: a stop-motion recreation of the Neo-dodges-bullets-on-the-roof scene from The Matrix done entirely in Lego .
Tags: Legos remix thematrix video
