stuffs on the tubes
Click to view"Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings), James Denton (Desperate Housewives), Busy Phillips (Freaks & Geeks), Kevin McDonald (Kids in the Hall) and Curtis Armstrong (Revenge of the Nerds) help Jason Smith fulfill his dream and bring a 2-decade-old screenplay to life. Shot at Mortified in 2006." Aw. Wood is excellent here, even when delivering the cheesiest of cheesy lines. In fact the whole cast is great - Way to go, guys.
'Sea monster' fossil found in Peru desert - "Researchers scanning the Peruvian desert for whale fossils have stumbled upon the remains of a "sea monster" three times the size of a modern day killer whale." Giant prehistoric whales are awesome! And I'm never going swimming in the ocean again.
London Lives - A massive online archive of Londoners from 1690 to 1800. The database includes primary sources like biographies of criminals from Newgate Prison, parish records, session papers from the Justice of the Peace, wills, fire records, and tax documents. Of course the first thing I did, before even looking up my own last name, was to see if there were any Lennons or McCartneys living in London at the time. A great resource.
Valley of the Khans Project - "By participating in the online exploration on this site, YOU can join our team by examining these satellite images and searching for clues that will guide our quest to discover the lost tomb of Genghis Khan!" SO COOL. I'm Indiana Jones, if Indiana Jones worked 9 to 5 behind a computer and had a coffee mug instead of a whip.
branchandroot's Global Steam project -
branchandroot's AWESOME AWESOME project. She noticed that steampunk, as cool and as rebellious as it is, rarely ventures outside the borders of Anglo-centric society. "It would also open up possibilities for experimenting with steampunk style in a far wider variety of cultures and aesthetics without, and this was very important, without simply reifying the deeply racist orientalism of Victorian Britain."
Edit: Tea Party Jesus - Your morality is pasted on yay. Quotes from Conservatives shopped onto images of Jesus. Hilarious. And sad.
Edit II: Spiritual Tourism - A secret city built under the Alps by a bunch of motivated amateurs. The result is a startling and lush community. "With tenacious devotion and a startling degree of art, they transformed these underground spaces into the Temples of Humankind: a remarkable otherworldly honeycomb of sacred murals, onyx mosaics, stained glass, sculpture, inlaid marble, hidden passageways, precious metals, mirrored stone, alchemical elixirs, and-who knows?-maybe even the cosmic energy circuits, intergalactic portals, and temporal wormholes that the people of Damanhur suggest are the ultimate functions of their sacred architecture."