The Largest Disco Ball ever made.
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La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel | 2009 from Michel de Broin on Vimeo.

Interview with artist Jamie Wyeth

Buddy Holly recorded a phone call with his record company trying to get a release on songs that weren't going to be released. Record company acts like greedy jerks.

For fellow Lost fans out there... A collection of 7 retro-styled Lost posters

Consollection

Bobsled split pants

A History of Evil

If you haven't been to Sodaplay in a while, it's worth a trip back.

"I made this. You play this. We are enemies"
yep, that's the title. Odd online game.
If it's your bag, there are more art games of this nature on the site.

Orbox B - a cool little flash game that requires no explanation

Boingboing is 10
Happy B-day, boingboing!

"Like..."

A great set of Popular Mechanics space-age cover illustrations from the 50's. Some of them, amazingly impractical.

Great, great video of a 5 year old tearing it up on a drumset.

Top 10 Places you can't go (via metafilter)

RIP Art Clokey (via boingboing)

Not sure why I love this short film, but I do. Maybe because none of the architectural spaces so carefully filmed actually exist.

Bacon or beer can

Brilliant

MoveYourMoney

Sharpie on styrofoam cup illustrations

The largest (26-gigapixel) picture in the world. zoomable.
Unfortunately nobody seems to be doing anything interesting at the time and location this picture was taken.

A chart that sums up the past 10 years (nytimes)

The twisted-copper POTS telephone line is going the way of the TV antenna.

57 Business Cliche's find-it picture

I Just found the amazing Khan Academy site (video tutorials focusing on math and science) from an article on sfgate.

It began with long-distance tutoring in late 2004. He agreed to help his niece Nadia, then a seventh-grader struggling with unit conversion, by providing math lessons over Yahoo's interactive notepad, Doodle, and the phone.

Nephews and family friends soon followed. But scheduling conflicts and repeated lectures prompted him to post instructional videos on YouTube that his proliferating pupils could watch when they had the time.

They did - and before long, so did thousands of others. Today, the Mountain View resident's 800-plus videos are viewed about 35,000 times a day, forming a virtual classroom that dwarfs any brick and mortar school he might have imagined. By using the reach of the Internet, he's helped bring education to the information-hungry around the world who can't afford private tutors or Kaplan prep courses.

"With so little effort on my own part, I can empower an unlimited amount of people for all time," Khan, 33, said. "I can't imagine a better use of my time."

A nice animated video for Bob Dylan's "Little Drummer Boy"

Man returns library book due in 1955, gets out of a $1750 late fee by taking advantage of their Amnesty program

History of Kustom Bicycles

Ugly Christmas Lights is open for your submissions

Jim Denevan makes freehand drawings in the sand

Time-lapse construction of a shipping container office building in R.I.

UA law prof to underwater mortgage borrowers: Ditch your mortgage in good conscience.

White contends that far more of the estimated 15 million U.S. homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages should stiff their lenders and take a hike.

Doing so, he suggests, could save some of them hundreds of thousands of dollars that they "have no reasonable prospect of recouping" in the years ahead. Plus the penalties are nowhere near as painful or long-lasting as they might assume, he says.

"Homeowners should be walking away in droves," White said. "But they aren't. And it's not because the financial costs of foreclosure outweigh the benefits."

Nytimes: Dubai's Improbably Tale
Photos of Dubai's development bust.

Unbelievable card flourishes (via boingboing)

TimesOnline picks the 100 best books of the decade.

Looks like someone is porting the Commodore 64 classic M.U.L.E. game to an online version.

Fantastic Mr. Fox concept art

John Baeder paints Diners (article at DesignObserver)

Undercover with a Michelin inspector (newyorker, via metafilter)

Hasselblad's $48,000 camera. Those 60 Megapixel snapshots should fill up your hard drive pretty quickly (acquire)

Deadmalls.com chronicles the vacant and deteriorating malls that dot the American landscape. Any near you?

Smiling while they steal your wallet: In anticipation of a healthcare overhaul measure that would have drug makers cut prices, the pharmaceuticals are raising prices (nytimes)

A Harvard health economist, Joseph P. Newhouse, said he found a similar pattern of unusual price increases after Congress added drug benefits to Medicare a few years ago, giving tens of millions of older Americans federally subsidized drug insurance. Just as the program was taking effect in 2006, the drug industry raised prices by the widest margin in a half-dozen years.

"Contains Sulfites"

[Utterly Descriptive Domain Names XXII] ugliesttattoos.com

This just sold for $43.7M

Toronto Star editor takes revenge using considerable editing skills on an internal memo describing why in-house editor positions would be eliminated from the newspaper.

Re-Meet the Beatles: Popmatters does a 7 day examination of the Still Fab Four
Day 1 looks at the records

Airless tires

Endless Rain record

Charlie Allen does some pretty amazing nature (and generally everything-else) illustration. Check him out at CAWS.

Weather Drawings by Alexis Rockman

The Gallery of antique radio tuning dials (via boingboing)

Baguette dropped from bird's beak shuts down large hadron collider

While schoolchildren go without H1N1 shots, Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs are being sent private stocks of vaccine. This is utterly outrageous. Tell them to stop.

Oops:

We're Governed by Callous Children (wsj)

They don't feel anxious, because they never had anything to be anxious about. They grew up in an America surrounded by phrases—"strongest nation in the world," "indispensable nation," "unipolar power," "highest standard of living"—and are not bright enough, or serious enough, to imagine that they can damage that, hurt it, even fatally.

We are governed at all levels by America's luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they're not optimists—they're unimaginative. They don't have faith, they've just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don't mind it when people become disheartened. They don't even notice.

Horrific Honeys!

The industrial paintings of Anna Held Audette

Why Your Stadium Sucks: Citizens Bank Park vs. Why Your Stadium Sucks: Yankee Stadium

Happy Halloween! Skelecans

Worst Homemade Star-Wars costumes
Also, Retrocrush's Worst Bag'n'Mask Costumes of All Time

NYC and Paris map-cuts. Bblocks cut out. Streets remain.

The Drug Pushers (the Atlantic)
Drug reps have been calling on doctors since the mid-nineteenth century, but during the past decade or so their numbers have increased dramatically. From 1996 to 2001 the pharmaceutical sales force in America doubled, to a total of 90,000 reps. One reason is simple: good reps move product. Detailing is expensive, but almost all practicing doctors see reps at least occasionally, and many doctors say they find reps useful. One study found that for drugs introduced after 1997 with revenues exceeding $200 million a year, the average return for each dollar spent on detailing was $10.29. That is an impressive figure. It is almost twice the return on investment in medical-journal advertising, and more than seven times the return on direct-to-consumer advertising.

The world's largest treehouse, in Crossville, TN, is almost 100 ft. tall and has 10 stories.
Additional pics here.

Robozzle - robotic puzzle programming game

The NYTimes is running a fantastic series of articles, "Held by the Taliban", which is a journalist's account of being held hostage for over 7 months while on assignment in Afghanistan.

Part 1 - 7 Months 10 Days in Captivity
Part 2 - Inside the Islamic Emirate
Part 3 - ‘You Have Atomic Bombs, but We Have Suicide Bombers.’
Part 4 -
Part 5 -

Fox News isn't even pretending anymore (salon)

Pretty nice, as yachts go.

Saturn at equinox - amazing pictures from boston.com

Wow:

New Ralph Lauren models look like funhouse-mirror reflections.

Great Mac laptop vinyl sticker (etsy)

Images of glaciers from space

Bizarre: Ever dream this man?
Me? No.
(via metafilter)

Wall Street's Near-Death Experience (vanity fair)

Airport Gestapo cost U.S. Olympic bid

Pitchfork is showing the entire documentary "Dig!" online for a limited time. Great rocknroll movie.

Gore Vidal: "We'll have a dictatorship soon in the United States" (TimesUK)

DailyDropCap features a new decorative letter a day

The plain beauty of well-made things (designobserver)

The 20 dollar millionaire (esquire)

The Making of Glenn Beck (salon)
From drug-addicted shock jock to right-wing mouthpiece

A stick figure guide to (Advanced Encryption Standard) AES

Suburbs of the Imagination (Infrastructurist)

Chulha Stove (designobserver)
This simple stove promises to help reduce the 1.6 million fatalities associated each year with indoor cooking, 25 percent in India alone.

The Jet-propelled Couch (Harpers (1954), via boingboing)
A psychiatrist's account of a physicist who believed he was an extra-terrestrial being.

Ghost Fleet

The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo.

The Richard Balzer collection of antique optical toys

A great selection of vintage bike ads at RatRodBikes

Graphic concrete

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

Every Infocom game. Online.

South African internet speed faceoff: Pigeon vs. DSL.
Pigeon wins.

cargocycling

Honda rickshaw

Clambrau

Interesting. Impractical. cutlery made from cut-up plastic bottles, then coated with metal.

Slide Rule Museum

Other companies should have to read this internal netflix presentation (techcrunch)