Friday, March 11

Mechanical Computing In The Navy

These vintage mechanical computing machines are ingenious solutions to quick lookups of values in a known table. They're so elegantly simple, and yet not intuitive to imagine in the first place. It's a multi video series, but here is part 1 if you're interested!

Antarctica Photos

It is so easy to forget how epic our own planet can be, but this little gallery should help slap some humility back into your eye sockets. Nature is still amazing.

Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere

Now in a desperate attempt to fill a week of posting here's some bullshit that happened somewhere today. Instances of bullshit like this are on the rise.

Old Spice Man Gives Back

Want to spend more intimate time in the bathroom with the man your man could smell like? Hear more of his outlandish tales as he responds to random internet comments, tweets, and the like? This ad campaign is damn amazing... its not every day I go out of my way to listen to more marketing.

Real Life "Up" House

Man, I'm embarrassed to think that I dismissed the flying house so easily when I watched the movie. And by that I mean everything I pointed out in the film still would have prevented it from flying, but its awesome to see a flying house and imagine a poor boyscout clinging onto the patio.

Crazy Honey Badgers

I'm sure the original voice over was informative and interesting, but I suppose this less... scientific one has its merits too. Well, at least for laughter.