Was pointed to this fun Pianist in Paris video, a Watch the Throne parody; but their History of Whistling, chronicling 26 songs over 98 years ended up being much more entertaining.

Joanna Krótka is an illustrator based in Kraków, Poland whose inspirations come from everywhere, but predominantly “sci-fi (literature and movies), psychedelic pictures, fairy tales and dreams”.

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Much to the relief of my current schedule, have so far managed to avoid playing Diablo 3, but some of these galleries of developer’s workplaces is starting to unravel that abstinence.

Also, goddaaaamn…

Inside of Blizzard’s Office

Inside the Google’s Headquarter in Zurich, Switzerland

A peek into a legendary game company, Valve Software

• What it’s like to have Nazi grandparents
• How the coming wave of ultra-cheaping computing devices will change everyone’s lives
• The world is slowly getting better (LGBT)
• Does globalization mean we will become one culture?
• How Religion’s Demand for Obedience Keeps Us in the Dark Ages
• The Next Generation: New Writers of Scientific Imagination

I wouldn’t normally post something about a wedding proposal, but this inventively over the top one is pretty damn good…

These images by photographer Anton Kusters are pretty damn unique considering the subject matter…

YAKUZA is a personal visual account of the life inside an inaccessible subculture: a traditional Japanese crime family that controls the streets of Kabukicho, in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. Through 10 months of negotiations with the Shinseikai, my brother Malik and I became one of the only westerners ever to be granted this kind of access to the closed world of Japanese organized crime.

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• Interview: Elon Musk on what’s next for SpaceX
• ‘Fair and square’ pricing? That’ll never work, JC Penney. We like being shafted
• In Seoul, retailer uses 3D QR codes and the sun to deliver discounts only during its quiet times
• What the Bible Says about Abortion
• Talking to Yourself: Not So Crazy After All
• The roar of the crowd: Crowdsourcing is transforming the science of psychology
• The Death of Method Acting

Tom Gauld has just started up a tumblr site called You’re all just jealous of my jetpack where he will be posting the weekly cartoons he makes for the Guardian newspaper. Recommended bookmarking.

In my job where using stock photos is necessary (and at times frustrating), it’s refreshing to see this very creative approach in combining 873 images at 15 images a second to create this 1 minute long stop motion short.

Copywriter Sophie Schoenburg and art director Marcus Kotlhar worked 6 months researching images, improving the script and building each scene so they would not only be understood, but would also touch viewers. Sometimes, for example, a scene would look perfect on paper, but the images chosen to depict it were not sufficient or did not perfectly match up to offer the right movement and sense.