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May 17

“Regular adult seating is available at all McDonald restaurants across Cork.” My poor sides.

May 13

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.

Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.

The world and their mothers will be reposting this today - and rightfully so.

Apr 20

A selection of Max Fleischer’s 1941 Superman series for Paramount is available on archive.org.

I vaguely recall having a VHS of a few episodes of these when I was a kid. This is brilliant.

Apr 18

“A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his apartment searched in “a startling show of force,” as his fellow-tenants described it to the Boston Herald, with a “phalanx” of officers and agents and two K9 units. He was the one whose belongings were carried out in paper bags as his neighbors watched; whose roommate, also a student, was questioned for five hours (“I was scared”) before coming out to say that he didn’t think his friend was someone who’d plant a bomb—that he was a nice guy who liked sports. “Let me go to school, dude,” the roommate said later in the day, covering his face with his hands and almost crying, as a Fox News producer followed him and asked him, again and again, if he was sure he hadn’t been living with a killer.” The Saudi Marathon Man - The New Yorker

Apr 17

(Source: reddit.com)

Man of Steel Trailer #3

Apr 12

This feels out of place every time I watch the movie.

Apr 9

laughingsquid:

How Jurassic Park’s Animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex Was Built

Three part video series uploaded by the Stan Winston School of Character Arts. Fantastic stuff.

Mar 19

Feb 15

Apparently, at about 09:30 local time, a very big meteor burned up over Chelyabinsk, a city in Russia just east of the Ural mountains, and about 1500 kilometers east of Moscow. The fireball was incredibly bright, rivaling the Sun! There was a pretty big sonic boom from the fireball, which set off car alarms and shattered windows. I’m seeing some reports of many people injured (by shattered glass blown out by the shock wave). I’m also seeing reports that some pieces have fallen to the ground, but again as I write this those are unconfirmed.

(via Bad Astronomy)