Make custom Google maps with your own annotations and scribbles.
Some wicked hot dancing from the 1969 musical Sweet Charity, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. Submitted by Andrew Eglinton from Desperate Curiosity.
An interview with Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, in which he argues that religion in the modern world does more harm than good.
Skidmore, Owings & Merril (SOM), the architectural firm behind Chicago’s Sears Tower and New York’s Lever House, currently have over 50 active projects in China, of which more than 15 are skyscrapers.
“Her voice (…) when fully unleashed, filled the room like a whisky-scented genie.”
A cool music video from Röyksopp made entirely of infographics.
Happy Solstice hippies! For everyone else, today was Summer solstice, Solstitum, Xiazhi, Shakesepeare’s midsummer; or specifically, the day when the Sun reaches a celestial longitude of 90 degrees and the longest period of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere, thus marking the first day of summer.
Last week Centripetal Notion turned one year old. Somehow I missed this (yeah I’m a bad father), but in the end it’s probably for the best — that masturbatory, retrospective look-how-far-I’ve-come crap drives me crazy. Plus, as fate would have it, this is actually the 200th post.
Anyway it’s been a good trip around the sun. To celebrate, I decree that there shall be a contest!
Caught on film the 3rd of June in northern Idaho, the above phenomenon (not technically a “rainbow”) is caused by light passing through high-altitude cirrus clouds containing plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals facing parallel to the earth’s surface.
comic from Boy on a Stick and Slither
As you turn your body light travels through embedded wires that vine around the jacket, illuminating which direction is north. If it were dark, you could tell which way you were traveling by watching the glow from the corners of your eyes.
Happens to the best of us …
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Epitonic was the first good music website I ever came across. It was five years ago and I was a junior in high school, up late in the morning looking for some free Steve Reich recordings when I found their archives, and subsequently a ton of music I had never heard before. [...] Yesterday I was surprised to receive an email from them announcing their return.
The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) is a solar telescope satellite launched in 1998. Their website has images and footage — hundreds of gigabytes of high resolution footage — of flares, filaments, and various other active regions.
The first shoe from Vibram, maker of 32 million soles a year for more than 1,000 footwear brands. It’s a light-weight shoe, like Nike’s Free taken to the extreme, useful for any outdoor activities you’d rather do barefoot like running, boating, or rock climbing. Reviews seem to be mostly positive.
“Director Sydney Pollack’s first feature length documentary on the acclaimed architect, Frank O. Gehry. The two men have been friends for many years, and Pollack completed the film over a period of five years, starting in 2000. Frank Gehry loves to sketch; it is the beginning of his architectural process.”
sketch of the re-imagined Batwoman
Killed in September 1979 by the League of Assassins and the Bronze Tiger, Batwoman — a.k.a. Kathy Kane — is set to return in 52, a year-long DC Comics publication beginning this month. This time however, Batwoman is a lesbian.
Reaction to the announcement has been varied, but to the critics Dan DiDio, VP and executive editor at DC Comics, says:
You know what? Judge us by the story and character we create. We are confident that we are telling a great story with a strong, complex character. (…) It’s kind of weird. We had a feeling it would attract some attention, but we’re a little surprised it did this much.
DiDio
The new Batwoman joins a wave of diverse characters entering and re-entering the DC Comics universe, including Firestorm and The Atom, Black and Asian respectively.
Rumor has it Kane is introduced in the comic by striking her ex-girlfriend across the jaw. KAPOW!
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Today, the 1st of June, marks the first day of this year’s hurricane season. Colorado State University forecasters predict a “very active” year with five major storms expected, and an 82 percent chance that at least one will make landfall on the US east cost (compared to the normal likelihood of 52 percent).
Walter Tschinkel, entomology professer at Florida State University, has been making plaster casts of ant nests since 1982.