"Had Tron spawned a holiday-themed television special, rather than a sequel almost 30 years later, this is exactly what it would have been."

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Streaming the lunar eclipse live

http://www.ustream.tv/spacevidcast
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/coasterstorm%27s-weather-center
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/eclipselunarchile
http://www.wpbt2.org/stargazer/

"Total Lunar Eclipse Visible From North America Tonight, and it's the first lunar eclipse to fall on the winter solstice in 372 years."

Just finished up a really fascinating course on Animals in Religion. Amazing how pretty much every cultural tradition outside of Western Science/Christian Orthodoxy [ 1] recognizes in animals a degree of agency, rationality, and spirit ( Read more... )

Mario Game Trailer In The Style Of GTA (pretty funny)

Before there was ASCII Art, there was: Typewriter art

aaaaand apparently there's this Simon Pegg/Nick Frost/Seth Rogen goofy alien comedy/buddy/road movie: Paul

via Geekologie

FTW: Researchers dressed as giant pandas prepare panda cub for the wild in Chinese reserve.

The photos are not to be missed.
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http://sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com/
via kaputotter

Visualizations of the 2010 Midterm Elections from the Harvard Complexity and Social Networks Blog

The animated cartograms of Twitter conversation topics over time are pretty interesting.

Darn cat! I had rearranged, re-run, and re-bound all the cables behind the entertainment center when we got FiOS installed, only to find today that Oliver had chewed entirely through two of the power adapter cables, and was halfway through the FiOS router's power cable when I caught him!

Searched Google for solutions and compiled this list, ( Read more... )

Scenes from the Rally to Restore Sanity

#30 is my fave. :D

via Salon

Now git out and vote!