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• John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 

  WONDERFUL penguinchris Permalink
  9:20 pm on 02/18/2012 | NEWS ( 1,051 )   

  An excellent NY Times obituary for John Fairfax, who rowed across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – among such other extraordinary things as captaining a pirate ship and attempted suicide-by-jaguar.

  View Link [nytimes.com]

• Travel through the human body one slice at a time (animated gif) 

  WONDERFUL penguinchris Permalink
  9:37 pm on 02/08/2012  

  

  Via Adam Savage (@donttrythis) on Twitter (https://twitter.com/donttrythis/status/167411374346076161)an twfiron

  View Link [i.imgur.com]

• Cuttlefish (or, ancient and unspeakable evil) lunging at camera animated GIF 

  WONDERFUL penguinchris Permalink
  9:04 pm on 02/05/2012 | RAGE ( 507 )   

  I was fascinated by the cuttlefish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and took a lot of photos. I captured this short sequence of it lunging at me. It’s a few frames short of brilliance but for a chance capture, could be worse.

  View Link [chrishacker.com]

• Near-real time Landsat satellite imagery feed 

  penguinchris Permalink
  1:50 pm on 07/19/2011  

  From the US Geological Survery, when a Landsat satellite is in range, imagery is provided in near-real time in a scrolling display.

  View Link [earthnow.usgs.gov]

• 1960′s “Walking Trucks” 

  penguinchris Permalink
  1:42 am on 06/29/2011  

  From GE in the 1960′s, walking trucks developed for the army that highly resemble the AT-AT and AT-ST walkers from Star Wars.

  View Link [gereports.com]

• “3D” Animated GIFs From Civil War Stereo Photos 

  penguinchris Permalink
  1:33 am on 06/29/2011  

  Combining hipster and history.

  View Link [npr.org]

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    Antinous / Moderator 1:50 am on 06/29/2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Thanks. I’m just going to dry heave a little from motion sickness now.

• Groucho Marx Sings About Father’s Day 

  penguinchris Permalink
  11:49 am on 06/19/2011  

  Groucho Marx on the Dick Cavett show sings two songs about father’s day.

  View Link [youtube.com]

• Faux-vintage 2001: A Space Odyssey ads for HAL 9000 and Pan-Am 

  penguinchris Permalink
  7:10 pm on 06/09/2011  

  Fake ads for the HAL 9000 computer, and Pan Am’s space flights. A bit of a Portal 2 vibe, especially in the HAL 9000 one.

  View Link [laughingsquid.com]

• Play-throughs of Leisure Suit Larry games, illustrated with animated GIFs 

  penguinchris Permalink
  1:23 pm on 03/09/2011  

  I was a few years too young to actually get my hands on these games, much less understand what they were actually about, but I was well aware of their existence and the advertisements were certainly intriguing. Now that someone’s made animated GIFs showing the entire thing, I no longer have to wonder.

  View Link [forums.somethingawful.com]

• Belle & Sebastian sing “Christmas Time Is Here” 

  penguinchris Permalink
  7:02 pm on 12/22/2010  

  Full, good-quality video of the last show in Belle & Sebastian’s latest tour, from last night in Glasgow. NPR calls it a “holiday spectacular”, but while they open with a giggly cover of “Christmas Time Is Here”, I’m not sure I’d really say it was a holiday show since they mostly just play their own songs.

  I saw them the last three times they were in Toronto (2003, 2006, and this past October), and this video really captures how great their live shows are with a killer performance and a great set list.

  View Link [npr.org]