Via xkcd, as usual…
Category: Crazy
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Juggling From Above
As a very amateur juggler (I can do pins) this is awesome.
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Holy Crap
Without a parachute. Just watch
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Basic Physics
“This is wrong, but it would explain so much”. I feel that sentence applies to so many things…
Via SMBC as usual.
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We Didn’t Start the Fire
This will be one of my more random posts. On Twitter I have started following Tom Lum because I follow Hank Green who retweeted him. I don’t know a lot about Tom Lum, so hopefully he doesn’t have some sordid background I’m not aware of. He hits my sweet spot of tweeting infrequently and tweeting strange and amusing things. He has the best candle explainer post I’ve seen (that’s what Hank retweeted because he’s been trying to explain candles for a while)
But this one both cracks me up and appeals to my geekness:
He learned D3 just to produce this visualization. I also learned D3 to produce a specific visualization. His is way more fun. I like looking at this visualization and singing the song in my head as I scroll down…
Oh fine, here’s Bread Bowl Oil Lamp:
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Optical Madness
The balls in the picture below are all the same color. Yes, they really are.
Read the explainer. Go have a drink. Whatever works for you…
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Tight Fit
I live in Brooklyn and my garage is a very tight fit. Everyone has to get out before I drive in and were I not thin I would need a smaller car. But this is impressive…
Watch until the end to see him getting out of the car and into his place.
h/t kottke.org
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