December, 2010

The Best TV Moments Of 2010 – [Warming Glow]

No Proof TSA Scanners Are Safe – [AOL Is Doing Investigations Now]

FCC Passes Compromise Net Neutrality Rules – [Wired]

Iraq’s Parliament Approves A New Government – [NY Times]

11 Author Pen Names That We Thought Were Their Real Names – [11 Points]

10 Biblical Facts That Everyone Gets Wrong – [Listverse]

The folks over at Gamervision used a few movie clips, some voice-overs, and a little video editing to give us the Star Wars Christmas Special we all want and deserve.

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Andy Rehfeldt took Keenan Cahill’s lip-sync of “Teenage Dream” and made it even creepier (yes, apparently it was possible).

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NBC’s Thursday night star gets the Marvel treatment.

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The 12 Most Unintentionally Disturbing Christmas Ads – [Cracked]

The 12 Most Insane News Stories Of 2010 – [FilmDrunk]

A Time-Lapse Of Last Night’s Lunar Eclipse – [Gawker.TV]

Asians Sleeping In The Library – [Tumblr]

Vietnam’s Son Doong Cave Is The Largest In The World – [Nat Geo] | Interactive Map

If The Internet Had Always Existed – [CollegeHumor]

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A typographical tribute to Linus’s recital of Luke 2:8-14 at the end of A Charlie Brown Christmas.  Christopher Shea, the actor that played Linus, passed away this past August.

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By Jason Kernevich and Dustin Summers from Heads of State:

Chapter four of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby reads like a VIP guest list of the Jazz Age. Taking inspiration from those pages, this poster is comprised of the business cards and personal stationery of the movers and shakers that attended Gatsby’s parties in the summer of 1922.

The design comes complete with professions, story-specific addresses, old-time telephone exchanges, and a cameo card from a main character.

18 x 24 prints are available for purchase here. | Via

Craig Shimala attached a Go Pro Hero HD to the front of his car while he was driving around in Chicago.  He applied a mirror filter to the video using Vegas Movie Studio HD, and the resulting trippy-ass video was born.

If this looks familiar, a similar video shot in Tokyo was making its rounds earlier this year.

Craig Shimala’s Flickr | Via

The History Of Santa Claus – [It Thing] (via)

The Best Feature Films Of 2010 - [Roger Ebert]

12 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About A Christmas Story – [BuzzFeed]

The Year’s Best Year-End Lists – [Vulture]

The Data Your Apps Are Tracking And Sending To Marketers – [WSJ]

What You Need To Know About Tonight’s Lunar Eclipse – [Bad Astronomy]

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