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What is "LEED SILVER certified"?
I know building owners can promote their properties as "LEED Certified" at varying levels based on how much documentation they care to submit. But I'm thinking the bare minimum "Silver" just means they use tap water on their artificial plants instead of bottled water...
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.
Summer may be over, but it’s always the season for water balloon fights. Especially when those water balloons don’t pop — and are captured in super slow-motion.
The crew at Smarter Every Day made this video over the weekend at an art festival in Alabama. Using a Vision Research Phantom camera, they managed to slow down the point of impact enough to calculate the frequency at which the target’s nose was vibrating.
And as an added bonus, what’s cooler than a water balloon to the face in slow-motion? Answer: Two water balloons to the face in slow-motion. They don’t pop, either.
[via The Daily What]
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Ape Lad reinterprets the unforgettable trio of "beer run guys" mug shots featured in Pesco's post yesterday.
Over at LIFE, our pal Ben Cosgrove put together an image gallery of people pointing at things. Why is that interesting, you ask? Just start clicking through the pictures and you will slowly be confounded by the surreality of the act. Looking at these photos is like a visual form of semantic satiation, the mindfuck you get when repeating a word in isolation causes it to seem weirdly meaningless. "People Pointing at Stuff"
Photo, by Dave Shumka: At left, Sean Connery as Zed from the 1974 movie Zardoz. At right, Dave's dog Grampa dressed as Zed, Halloween 2009. (thanks, @somebadideas!)
This weekend NASA published an awesome time-lapse flyby of planet Earth taken from the International Space Station. Awesome, but jerky—until now. Someone interpolated the original frames to achieve this smooth as silk motion film. It'll leave you stupefied. More »
This weekend NASA published an awesome time-lapse flyby of planet Earth taken from the International Space Station. Awesome, but jerky—until now. Someone interpolated the original frames to achieve this smooth as silk motion film. It'll leave you stupefied. More »
It's worth watching the HD version in fullscreen mode.
A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy.
Time-lapse video taken from International Space Station orbiting Earth at night (Via Laughing Squid)
I'm at the season opener for #OTB ( awesome, BTW), and they have finally acknowledged the full impact of their early-2000's "Anthony and the Johnson's" show on their core subscribers: like crashing a small plane into the audience.... I was sitting three rows up from the propeller that show and felt flayed at 120 miles/hour. Couldn't edit to bail out. But definitely gonna fly romeo this time.
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.
For sci-fi fans, a battle has been brewing between Star Trek and Star Wars for 35 years.
William Shatner has decided to weigh in with his own thoughts on the subject. Using his official YouTube page, the socially savvy actor opines on why Captain Kirk totally owns Luke Skywalker and crew.
What do you think? Let us know.
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Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.
For sci-fi fans, a battle has been brewing between Star Trek and Star Wars for 35 years.
William Shatner has decided to weigh in with his own thoughts on the subject. Using his official YouTube page, the socially savvy actor opines on why Captain Kirk totally owns Luke Skywalker and crew.
What do you think? Let us know.
More About: Star Trek, Star Wars, viral-video-of-day, William Shatner
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In "HELLO, I'M SHELLEY DUVALL !," a short video edited by Goddessshelleyduvall, Shelley Duvall repeatedly says the words, "Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall," while wearing a variety of outfits, for 55 seconds. If you don't understand what's great about that, you should try watching it. Mesemerizing.
(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
Seems +KathyGill hasn't posted on Google+ in three days, so I've nothing new to read. My Stream is empty...
