Approximately five minutes from each of the 22 Eon produced James Bond films have been cut together, in order and in sequence, beginning with the first five minutes of DR. NO (1962) followed by minutes 5-10 of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963), minutes 10-15 of GOLDFINGER (1964), minutes 15-20 of THUNDERBALL (1965), continuing on through each of the remaining 18 Bond features (accounting for variables in each title’s running time) culminating with the final five minutes of 2008’s QUANTUM OF SOLACE.

This fresh look at the “James Bond Formula” provides a new exploration of the evolution of the series into a filmmaking genre uniquely its own. With few exceptions, each title’s transition into the picture that follows it is nearly seamless, creating a viewing experience that at first might serve to remind us “if you’ve seen one Bond film, you’ve seen them all,” but looking more closely it is in fact an endearing homage to a character who single-handedly shaped modern cinema’s action/adventure formula and who continues to leave an indelible mark on generations worldwide.

I’d like to think this is the turning point back towards honest journalism.

• The Secret Lives of Supercutters
• NASA is actually working on a Faster-than-Light Warp Drive
• Cambridge to study technology’s risk to humans
• Shinichi Mochizuki’s ABC proof too tough even for mathematicians
• China’s state paper falls for Onion joke about Kim Jong-Un, publishes 55 photos in “sexy” tribute
• The New Moot: 4Chan wants to make Kim Jong-Un Time’s Person of the Year
• What would happen if Texas actually seceded?
• Building the World’s tallest skyscraper in 90 days
• An interesting outcome to a really good job interview

• Women in the porn industry are as healthy as any other women claims new study
• Hacking my vagina: making a vibrator that listens to your body
• Yeah, it’s Pitchfork, but still: How much money is actually made from streaming music?
• Interesting piece on misogyny in Industrial Music
• SpaceX’s Elon Musk: Your ticket to Mars? Half a million dollars
• Sweet… Notch, Gearbox, Yogscast, Day[9], Bethesda and Valve to go head-to-head in a TF2 charity match
• Teleglitch: Doom with a (top-down) view
• Teller (of Penn & Teller) on how magicians manipulate the mind
• How one fake press release on a Google “acquisition” fooled the press
• Facebook makes it official – an external advertising network coming soon
• Researchers have discovered the ‘White Noise’ of smell: ‘Olfactory White’
• And, thanks to nature, you are most likely to die at 11 am

• With 35mm film dead, will classic movies ever look the same again?
• Furthering that pretty good Prometheus theory (though still not redeeming the whole thing because that’s goddamn impossible): The Second Coming of Space Jesus
• On that, here’s a really great theory on Blade Runner and the whole Deckard/Replicant thing
• Fuck me, a developed ‘auto-targeting’ sniper rifle for anyone to use (and probably shouldn’t)
• King David: Why generals shouldn’t run the CIA
• Trevell Coleman: The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder
• The 72-year-old grandpa who models for teen-girl clothing (and totally rocks it)
• Live From the Inside: a radio show run by psychiatric patients
• The Aokigahara Forest: the world’s second most popular suicide destination
• The average person glances at their phone 150 times per day
• Website: Virtual Piano (and keyboard friendly)
• Also, the hosts of some show called NFL Kick Off crammed as many Princess Bride references as they possibly could into their half hour show and it’s been compiled here

These come from a fantastic collection of lesser-seen Vietnam War photos that can be viewed here.

I can’t recall where these were referred onto from (came back from the weekend to find this buried amongst tabs and that I also have amnesia), so I’ve little context on this collection, apart from the fact that they’re all great.

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• Pamela Ribon’s horrific and yet hilariously told masseuse experience
• They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
• The Big Apple’s Mayor Makes A Very Scary Video on CO2 Emissions
• NYC payphones get revived as touch-screen tablets
• Visual evolution of the mobile phone
• Straight Outta ‘Goodfellas’: $1.5 Million In iPads Stolen In JFK Heist
• UK’s ‘last typewriter’ produced
• Whoa… Sound bullets in water
• Remember that scary undersea “bloop” noise? At last we know what caused it.
• Why Revolution Can’t Come to North Korea
• NYT Op-ed: The Trouble With Online Education
• The Magnificent Find: Discovering the Lincoln Death Photograph
• The Red Bull 400: a 45 degree, 400m race
• 22 Things your doing wrong
• This guy’s version of Episode I’s potential plot is pretty damn good (and depressing)

Fascinating Photos of Abandoned Olympic Sites Around the World

• Mystery fossil turns out to be giant fungus
• Europe’s oldest prehistoric town unearthed in Bulgaria
• North Korean army minister ‘executed with mortar round’
• I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough
• In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold
• The bleeding edge of self-healing skin-like materials
• Popular physics theory running out of hiding places
• Totally Bizarre Experimental Video Explores Slit Scanning
• The Island Where People Forget to Die
• For Zelda-playing daughter, dad gives Link a sex change
• Australian drunk survives attempt to ride crocodile
• Jimmy’s End by Alan Moore: exclusive look at the first full trailer
• Chris Addison: Fuckety-Bye To All That
• Op-ed: Is the Web Driving Us Mad?
• Puzzle: Four Men in Hats
• Flash-based puzzle: Einsteins Riddle
• and Frog Faction

• Scientists create brain implant that improves thinking in monkeys
• Gaining consciousness: Could the Internet Ever “Wake Up”?
• What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience
• MDMA through an MRI, for science!
• Wiki-editor’s guide: No one cares about your garage band
• Magic Mushrooms: Violins constructed from infected wood sound like those of Stradivari (awesome!)
• A 2,000 year old Magnolia seed was found, planted and it grew
• Potentially usable: The most well persevered Wolly Mammoth cells yet found
• 7 Things Science Says Make You Happy (Basically, I just need to keep up doing more of this)
• Who What Why: What is blood rain?
• The Astronomical Unit is now a fixed number: 149,597,870,700 meters
• Murder-Suicide in the Keys Unravels a Doctor’s Decades-Long Mystery
• Hollywood Accounting: How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million… And Still Isn’t Profitable
• The patent, used as a sword
• A real-time map of Global Cyberattacks
• Interactive cool: comparing map projections
• 99 Life Hacks to make your life easier!

the nagging voices in the back of my head have finally reached a consensus and they’re of the opinion that i should really, really, really get off my ass and update this site…Actually, they’ve been going on about this for ages, but now it’s gotten to be less ‘oh but first I must redesign the fucker’ and more ‘fuck man, two months of almost no updates?’

Get your shit together Tyrone.

Well in my defense, at the beginning of those two months, I just wanted a break from the internet and all the article readings as it was just getting a bit overwhelming. So, rather than doing something else constructive, I went analog and read the shit out of books instead; which was great cause I haven’t been reading books in ages and just pouring through properly researched texts was such a welcome change of pace.

(Interestingly, as I’m writing this and looking back on the last lot of posts and articles, the books I was reading weren’t too dissimilar in topics: biology, neuroscience, media manipulation, technology, sociology – hell, I even managed one on movies which was a nice old feeling.)

But anyway, I’m digressing and point is, time to shake things up a bit. First is to update, post some old drafts that strangely didn’t get posted and clear out my browsers well-overstuffed bookmarks folder. There’s actually a newly designed template for this site that I need to finish up testing. And hell, just start writing post posts again. Just putting this one together has taken a lot more concentration than I remember needing and well, sorry if you had to read through such a disjointed ‘first post’, I’m out of practice, but only for now.