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What do you do when you're bored on school holiday? Well, if you're Polish maker sh4dowww90, you hack together two 3.5-inch floppy drives to duet the most bad-ass theme song ever composed. More »...
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What do you do when you're bored on school holiday? Well, if you're Polish maker sh4dowww90, you hack together two 3.5-inch floppy drives to duet the most bad-ass theme song ever composed. More »







What do you do when you're bored on school holiday? Well, if you're Polish maker sh4dowww90, you hack together two 3.5-inch floppy drives to duet the most bad-ass theme song ever composed. More »...
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What do you do when you're bored on school holiday? Well, if you're Polish maker sh4dowww90, you hack together two 3.5-inch floppy drives to duet the most bad-ass theme song ever composed. More »







This is a seriously incredible story. If you did not already kind of love Carl Sagan, and think of him as a sort of benevolent hippie grandpa, you totally will now. And the message here is seriously spot-on: The best way to honor the people who help...
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This is a seriously incredible story. If you did not already kind of love Carl Sagan, and think of him as a sort of benevolent hippie grandpa, you totally will now.

And the message here is seriously spot-on: The best way to honor the people who helped you realize your dreams is to help somebody else realize theirs.

Via Joanne Manaster






Nick Sayers is flying his math flag with this geometrically precise haircut where "the acute angles meet in groups of five, six, or seven, depending on the curvature. In the flatter areas, they meet in groups of six, like equilateral triangles, and ...
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Nick Sayers is flying his math flag with this geometrically precise haircut where "the acute angles meet in groups of five, six, or seven, depending on the curvature. In the flatter areas, they meet in groups of six, like equilateral triangles, and in the areas of strong positive curvature they meet in groups of five, but in the negatively curved saddle at the back of the neck, there is a group of seven."

To make your own, Nick suggests you use a rhombic paper template starting at the crown, work outwards, and make aesthetic decisions about the 5-, 6-, or 7-way joints depending on local curvature. This instance of the design was cut by Hannah Barker after a test version a couple of months earlier by Summer Makepeace.






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 su...
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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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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 th...
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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!)
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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...
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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...
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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 e...
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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)




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 thought...
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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.

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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 thought...
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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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