Lazy school holiday blogging: neat stuff

by tigtog on October 8, 2008

in Life

Various links wot have caught my eye on various mailing lists, blogs and emails I have read recently:

Space.com has some of the Stunning New Images of Mercury taken by the spacecraft MESSENGER. (Trivia of the day – MESSENGER — short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging.)

Take On Me: Literal Video Version – reworking of the lyric by Dusto McNeato – “Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video? Well now they do.” (I had forgotten quite how weird this video was).

Did you know that Australians tend to build Big Things?

Like trains? Check out some Trains of Russia.

Ordinary things filmed in slow motion show many more interesting details.

John Clarke and Brian Dawe explain the financial crisis.

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Tagged as: big things, financial crisis, geochemistry, images of mercury, lyric, mercury, mercury surface, music video, slow motion, spacecraft messenger, trains, trivia

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Emily October 9, 2008 at 4:48 am

I like this a lot. I’m not sure what it says about me, though, that I immediately recognized the video just from the still of the sketchy guy’s eyes, before I read any of the text.

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becsh October 9, 2008 at 7:39 pm

That was hi-larious! Thanks for sharing.

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