A full-sized refrigerator is a pretty sizable appliance, usually requiring at least a van or pickup truck to haul to its destination. This is something the police in Richmond, British Columbia, had to remind a shopper who thought a … Continue reading →

Video, from Eric Fischer:

Green dots are tweets about earthquakes. Gray dots are tweets about other topics. Each frame is one second (total of 12 minutes). Thanks to Natural Earth for the land, water, and boundary shape data and the Twitter Str… Continue reading →

A Sun Pillar Over Ontario
What is that on the horizon?

No, it’s not an
alien starship
battling distant Earthlings, but rather a sun pillar.

When driving across
Ontario,
Canada in early June, the photographer was surprised to encounter such an “e… Continue reading →

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Really great shot of the Milky Way at about :38 seconds.
fuckyeahspace:

Time-lapse of a whole night at the ALMA Array Operations Site, located on the Chajnantor plateau, in Chile.

This is unreal. 
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Neat, Randall Munroe has family in C’ville! This reminds me of one of my favorite stories:http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
As many people have pointed out, my comic about tweets outrunning seismic waves seems to have be… Continue reading →

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I would add a slice for “trying to jam the right lid on the container after you have warped it in 8 directions after a few cycles in the dishwasher.” I find microwaving food in tupperware to be an excellent way to destroy these tempe… Continue reading →

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I have had bugs fly into my ear and it’s the pits.
Cards manager Tony La Russa had never seen anything like what occurred Monday at Busch Stadium. Outfielder Matt Holliday called time and was forced to leave the game after a large mo… Continue reading →

This video purports to show how people from countries around the world count large numbers of bills. I can’t vouch for the geographical generalizations, but I sure like seeing the variety of techniques! (via Salón DF)

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ze making neat stuff, as he always seems to do.
stop motion of stop motion of stop motion :: click below to watch ::
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