One Guy and a Dream

I’m not sure if this is real, and I don’t care. It’s great either way:

MINA Breaking News – Sharks Wary of Drunk Serbs.

(via @petergett I think. Sorry if this is mis-attributed.)

Especially for Jake – someone made an iPhone app that let’s colorblind people see in color (on the phone):

DanKam: Augmented Reality For Color Blindness « Dan Kaminskys Blog.

(via kottke)

The New York Times has a great interactive infographic mapping out the population of the U.S.:

Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey – NYTimes.com.

(via myglesias)

Great both for the statistics shown, and the visualizations used:

YouTube – Hans Roslings 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four.

(via slashdot)

For the New Yorker holiday party, someone created an 85 song playlist composed of one song from each of the 85 years the New Yorker has been published:

News Desk: Songs of the Years : The New Yorker.

(via kottke)

Are ink cartridges really that expensive?

The Price of a Gallon: 47 liquids compared.

(Yes, yes they are.)

An insightful look into the challenges of reducing poverty:

A Culture of Poverty – Ta-Nehisi Coates – Personal – The Atlantic.

(via myglesias)

A nice little easter egg on IMDb. Look at the number of stars:

This Is Spinal Tap 1984 – IMDb.

(via kottke)

I missed this the first time around, but it popped back up now that Qatar won the bid to host the 2022 World Cup. How could this bid possibly be turned down? Projecting the games onto fields in stadiums around the world?

AFP: Japan offers global 3-D telecasts in 2022 WC bid.

(via engadget)

Most likely you have seen this already, but how can it not be the best thing on the internet today?

NASA’s real news: bacterium on Earth that lives off arsenic! Bad Astronomy Discover Magazine.

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