Boy watching solar eclipse… taken from 1.5 miles away

• If you “Like” something on Facebook, you just gave it permission to post in your Timeline
• Having Access to the Internet is Good for Your Love Life (But Only if you are Under 30)
• White LEDs Lighting Directly On Paper
• Q: Why Do We Wear Pants? A: Horses
• UK government slammed for ignoring key security issues
• Lucas Foglia: the photographer in search of off-the-grid Americans
• The trouble with wind turbines
• No Matter the Drilling Method, Natural Gas Is a Much-Needed Tool to Battle Global Warming
• Mysterious radiation hit the earth just over 1200 years ago
• What divorced readers did with their wedding rings
• How Neuroscience Is Challenging Our Conception of Justice
• The Ghost in the Machine: Unraveling the Mystery of Consciousness
• Scientists Predict Synthetic Life Within a Year
• Crime Waves Will Follow the Heat Waves of Climate Change
• Letters of Note: A government complaint about a ‘debris’ dam and the landowner’s response on behalf of its builders
• Want: I’ve Never Meta-Pizza I Didn’t Like
• Build a bonkers hi-fi system
• Super-Resolution From a Single Image
• A rare interview: with Christopher Tolkien
• If the Wizard of Oz were set in China, it might look something like this

This is my man Marxy. He’s a funny fucker; and funnier when fucking up. Bless.

You fucking doctor.

• YES: Rumored film about Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison rivalry starring Christian Bale and Nicolas Cage!
• Bill Murray Announces Party Crashing Tour Starting In August
• Book ‘pirate’ goes underground after being named by Terry Goodkind
• Reddit Cracked a Mysterious Cipher That Might Be a Viral Marketing Scam
• Scientists Figure Out how Dinosaurs Did it
• World’s heaviest woman sheds 98 lbs with seven-times-a-day sex
• South Caroline Funeral Home Adds a Starbucks (of course)
• Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity
• Proving you’re gay to the Turkish army
• Surveyed: Many Wall Street executives says wrongdoing is necessary
• Editorial: The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama
• Supercut: See James Bond Do Vehicles
• North: How a Small Arctic Town Became a Global Epicenter of Climate Science
• Ranked: Disney Princesses From Least To Most Feminist
• 20 Best ‘Arrested Development’ Inside Jokes and Recurring Gags
• Photos: 18 Years Of Friendship

And for your daily freak out, this video demonstrates what one, ONE DROP of Russell’s Viper snake venom can do to blood.

(Kinda graphic, only because of the ‘holy shit! That was from just one drop!’ factor).

Mitch Hurwitz in the writers room of the new Arrested Development via Ron Howard’s twitter

• Researchers Name Language After Colbert
• Carl Sagan’s Reading List
• Hubble Unmasks Dark Matter Rich Galaxies
• A crystal computer that could outlive the universe
• Flowchart: Do you understand the Higgs Boson?
• When Old, Slow and Boring Beats New, Fast and Exciting
• Why We Love Violence in Fiction
• 11 Wonderful Libraries in Africa
• 6 Disorders Caused by the Internet, TV, Magazines and Movies
• Tumblr goodness: Facemath

Using photos taken aboard the International Space Station, this time lapse video utilises a myriad of different editing techniques, frame rates, music and sound bites to create something quite special about our planet. Am also quite taken by the change up in aspect ratio from the norm.

Be sure to watch in HD full screen.

This, is pretty clever stuff…

• Vast Video Game Collection Sells for $1.2M
• A Hot Drink on a Hot Day Can Cool You Down
• Why Were CD Boxes So Big in the Early 1990s?
• Is the Web Driving Us Mad?
• Walker Arts Center Validates the First-Ever Internet Cat Video Film Festival
• Discovery of an arsenic-friendly microbe refuted
• Scientists just discovered what makes migration possible
• Tire reefs fail to revive marine life in Florida
• Share it Maybe with Cookie Monster “Call Me Maybe” Parody (yes, I know, I too feel awful)
• The 20 Awesomest Photos of Women & Bacon
• 17 Famous Literary Characters Almost Named Something Else
• 12 Fascinating True Stories About Guest Stars On ‘The Simpsons’

And lastly, a short commercial by Jon Lajoie. If you were completely honest with yourself, you’d realize that you are a terrible person.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything Werner Herzog related and as an added bonus, this one relates to John Waters too.

Taken from a 2007 documentary I’ve not heard of called On the Ecstasy of Ski Flying, Herzog explains how his wonderful documentarian eye has finally led him, after 35 years, to this observation:

For me a chair is a chair — and I do not reference to other possibilities. For me, a man is a man. I cannot distinguish a gay man from a straight man. I just cannot distinguish …

“After 35 years of knowing John Waters I turn to my wife and I said to her, ‘I have the feeling that this man is gay.’”

Man, he’s pretty awesome.

I think they might be right…