One Guy and a Dream

Apparently cymbals flex a lot more than I would have expected:

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Hudson Hongo (a contributor at McSweeney’s) began compiling Facebook reactions to articles from The Onion from people who think the stories are real:

http://literallyunbelievable.tumblr.com/

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This guy is pretty good at Tetris. Feel free to skip to around 3 minutes when it gets ridiculous, or to around 5 minutes if you want to know why it’s titled “invisible tetris.”

YouTube – TGM 3 Tetris Arika !!! Invisible Tetris.

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I’m sure some of these (or at least similar one’s) have been seen by many of you, but even those are worth another look:

I Love Charts – Ben Greenman’s Museum of Silly Charts.

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GQ published an article looking at the current sequel/comic-book version of Hollywood and how we got here:

The Day the Movies Died: Movies TV: GQ.

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I didn’t know this was possible in a boat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL58hUAGQu8

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This is a well done “learn to type faster” flash game. Type the words that appear on the screen, and watch them explode:

Z-Type.

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A short history of rockets, used as an example of a more interesting phenomenon of path dependence:

Space stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation. – By Neal Stephenson – Slate Magazine.

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Apparently people are not good at moving in a straight line without a frame of reference:

A Mystery: Why Can’t We Walk Straight? on Vimeo on Vimeo

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The Washington Post has an interactive graph up tracking the weight of people in various countries over the past 30 years:

Weight of the world: Change in the world’s BMI since 1980 | The Washington Post.

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