In this video you can see the shadow of the moon pass over the earth. It's something you wouldn't normally be able to make out but the right combination of moon position and timing delivers awesomeness. Link to NASA's Astonomy Picture Of The Day site (and the video): here. From NASA: "Have you ever experienced a total eclipse of the Sun? The above time-lapse movie depicts such an eclipse in dramatic detail as visible from Australia last month. As the video begins, a slight dimming of the Sun and the surrounding Earth is barely perceptible. Suddenly, as the Moon moves to cover nearly the entire Sun, darkness sweeps in from the left -- the fully blocked part of the Sun. At totality, only the bright solar coronaextends past the edges of the Moon, and darkness surrounds you. Distant horizons are still bright, though, as they are not in the darkest part of the shadow. At mid-totality the darkness dips to the horizon below the eclipsed Sun, created by the shadow cone -- a corridor of shadow that traces back to the Moon. As the total solar eclipse ends -- usually after a few minutes -- the process reverses and Moon's shadow moves off to the other side.Solar eclipses can frequently be experienced at gatherings organized along the narrow eclipse path as well as specialized cruises and plane flights."
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This is a huge database of pictures from Life Magazine (and sometimes not from there) that cut into our nostalgia and find new perspectives on our grandparents' and great-grandparents' times. Here and Here. I saw the first picture in this stream in a Denny's in Texas, with some really bad airbrushing to insert the Denny's logo. So lame. A cool site that takes your birth date (or a "friend's" birth date) and cranks out a list of interesting facts about your life so far. Find out how many days you've been alive or approximately how many kilometres total you've travelled through the galaxy. Fun. Here. This is an updated version of something that has been around for a long time. It's a to-scale diorama of our solar system, peppered with little jokes and such. Just get as far as Earth, if you do anything. Pretty cool. http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html So there's this new videogame that is kind of what might have happened if Frank Miller and Tarantino had a love child. It's the 60s and the Nazis won. You're pissed about that and aim to do something about it. And to advertise it, they created a fake recording label with all sorts of 60s hits as they might have sounded if they were written with the Third Reich in charge. Creepy, funny and totally weird. Check it out: http://www.neumondrecordings.com/en-us/site This is how internet works in America. And Canada, but here it's slightly more polite about it. A really cool fake documentary from the future, where the economic balance of the world has shifted, and North America finds itself on the other end of consumer capitalism. Several segments are online. The trailer is at the bottom. Digital Janitor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ZeDtorKcA Baby Makers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVH7TQ5gqj0 Digital Spam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J21WdMbTYx4 Back when I originally stumbled across this film, I had no idea what I was in for. It remains one of my absolute favourite short films ever. Enjoy. Directed by Michael Please. |
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