This is a cool datavisualisation of box office takings from recent movies.

I love this kind of thing. I wish I had a design brain.

Via H&F-J, via Kottke.

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The Top Five Awful Death Star Cakes and an excellent James Bond cake from Cake Wrecks.

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Here are some cool movies of the earth and moon from space, giving us an idea of what an earth-like planet might look like, if we went looking for one that might support life.

During a full Earth rotation, images obtained by Deep Impact at a 15-minute cadence have been combined to make a color video. [...]

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On Sunday night, the three of us got back from a week in Fiji, thanks to the extraordinary generosity of certain people. And man, was it sweet.

It wasn’t too hot, but there was plenty of sun-on-skin, we went snorkeling (both off a boat and off the beach into the coral lagoon), we ate amazing food [...]

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I drove to Newcastle today on some family business with my cousin.* We’re both big RH fans and on the way back, he asked me if I had any of their CDs in the car. Just one, I said. With their entire catalogue on it in mp3!

We listened and commented for about an hour and [...]

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Our city is finally becoming a world city (pic), and Sally and I spent the weekend enjoying its bounty.

We sat and drank coffee, read the paper, went to the World Press Photo exhibition and stayed over in a hotel.

Cordie went to Mum’s place, which they both loved, and we had some time to ourselves. A [...]

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I don’t know how they did this - it’s brilliant.

Weezer have pulled together a whole bunch of internet memes and shaped them into a video. It makes up for the fact that the song sounds like every other Weezer song from the last decade.

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Looks amazing.

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Despite some negative publicity (for which Ebert offers and explanation), he loved the film. And he thinks it’s good enough that almost everyone else will love it too.

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A great mate of mine, Pete (who’s just started a new blog), is a wine expert, and right now he’s recommending Riesling. I asked him what I could get for $15-20.

… riesling is the best value for money around - and it’s pure reflection of what happened in the vineyard (there isn’t a convoluted winemaking [...]

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Very clever. The song will probably make you want to stab yourself in the ear, but the visuals are amazing.

Make sure to check out the (inevitable) Windows XP version as well.

Via Lifehacker.

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An eminent Moore College lecturer pointed me in the direction of Charlie. The Unicorn.

Reminiscent of Alby the Racist Dragon.

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