January, 2011

Larry Page Takes Over As Google CEO – [Business Insider]

Groupon Turns Down Google’s Offer, Google Launches Google Offers - [Mashable]

The Swanson Pyramid Of Greatness:  A Chart To Live By – [NextRound]

4 Products That Only Exist In Movies – [Cracked]

35 Awesome Typographic Portraits – [Design Mag] (via)

Batman Vs. The Internet – [College Humor]

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Dueling cellists Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic cover Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal“.

StjepanHauserMusic | Thanks Erik.

SMBC

Mark Visser night surfed Jaws this morning, making him the first surfer in history to do so.  This video is ridiculous.

From the press release:

This morning at 2:00am local Hawaii time, professional big wave surfer Mark Visser made history by achieving a night ride on waves measuring 30-40 foot faces off the shores of Maui with specially engineered LED lights built into a buoyancy vest and modified into the surfboard. The lighting technologies were created especially for the project by Solus Corporation using ground breaking NASA submarine lighting to ensure the wave and board were lit in the right places, at the right time and illuminated the wave without hindering the vision of Visser, the jet ski drivers and the helicopter pilots.

A true world first – no one has attempted to ride and capture big waves at Jaws, Maui before in total darkness quite like this. With the help of his team overhead in a helicopter, Visser was towed in by jet-ski as he entered the infamous big wave break just prior to the peak of the swell, completely illuminated.

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From 1964-Present.  Click to enlarge.

By Fernando Reza | 11 x 17 prints available here. | Via

From New Scientist:

The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell – the first time the event has been caught in moving pictures.

The Plasmodium parasite responsible for malaria is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes, and is thought to kill almost 1 million people worldwide each year.

Jake Baum at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues used transmission electron microscopy and 3D immuno-fluorescence microscopy to record a series of still images during the 30-second-long invasion, and combined them into a movie.

Damn nature, etc.

FBI Conducts Largest Organized Crime Bust In New York History – [NY Times]

Related: The 20 Best Nicknames In The Big Mafia Bust – [Village Voice]

Inside The Catacombs Under Paris – [National Geographic]

The Worst Reality TV Judges Of All Time – [Flavorwire]

Rare And Unseen Photos From JFK’s Inauguration – [LIFE]

Roger Ebert Debuts His Prosthetic Chin – [Chicago Sun-Times]

An Uprising In Tunisia – [The Big Picture]

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In honor of the Warner Brothers announcement that they’re going to reboot the franchise without the original cast.

Mathewonet

David McCandless took note of the most common words used in 4,000 star sign predictions and created an end-all horoscope for those you that actually believe this shit.

He’s also created a graphic displaying the most common words for each star sign here.

Information Is Beautiful | Via

Michael Ashton’s short film was made with $300 and the presumed intention of providing a merciful eye/memory bleaching for those of you that watched Heroes past the first season (or any episodes of The Cape.)

Lazy Teenage Superheroes | Via