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Star Wars Uncut: what happens when someone gets the looney tunes idea to recreate the original movie, shot-for-shot...crowdsourced.
http://www.starwarsuncut.com/trailer

Japanese cafe service as performance art:
http://www.cabel.name/2009/09/kashiwa-mystery-cafe.html

Ornithology as performance art...in reverse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY

And to finish up, a music video involving Carl Sagan and autotuning...which is much cooler than it sounds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

(I thought it was kinder than spamming my friendslist with 10 or 15 posts in a row. Going to make the tags interesting, though...)

The Redistricting Game: http://www.redistrictinggame.com/

Haven't played it yet, but the concept--teaching about redistricting and gerrymandering by making a game out of it--is very interesting.

Kinetic Sculpture: http://www.glumbert.com/media/kineticsculpture [video]

Very cool. Actually, "kinetic" doesn't really convey it: think "auto-mobile".

Singing Tesla Coil: http://www.hauntedfrog.com/gt/movies/2007/duckon/SingingTeslaShow.html

What else need I say?

US States "renamed" for countries with similar GDPs: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/

A very interesting and informative visualization: it actually tells me about as much about the US as it does about the respective countries. The table at the bottom may be useful to give some context.

Gay Bomb: The Porno Flick [safe for work]: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/gay-bomb-the--1.html

Gay Bomb will take us into the future and the year 2012. George the Second has refused to step down as leader of the "free world", and the nations of Europe have banded together to fight the new American military dictatorship. Desperate to fend off its attackers, the US launches the experimental "gay bomb", designed to make the enemy forces drop their guns and turn fag. But the winds of fate blow in a different direction, and soon America is brought to its knees.

This is the best part: it appears that this has been seriously proposed...

Recent news headlines revealed that Pentagon insiders admitted to having truly considered the "gay bomb" as an example of non-lethal chemical warfare in the Iraq War. The Air Force asked for a $7.5 million grant to develop the idea, which was proposed to the government's highest scientific authority.

("Some people you don't need to satirize--you just quote 'em.")

http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/june-july/Seti.htm

A dedicated SETI effort, i.e., one with its own facility.

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/06/binary_marble_adding_mach.html

A mechanical binary adder, with a video of it at work. Very nicely done.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/second_movieplo.html

The winner of Bruce Schneier's second annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest...which makes a plausible case for banning water from airplanes.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/63329/detail/

A very silly music video. Requires a bit of patience; wait until it's about a minute in before you give up on it, and about 2 minutes in it gets impressive.

but for which he deserves some positive recognition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/fashion/13nimoy.html?ex=1336708800&en=ae309dfff722d83b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/10/lochers_sweet_and_di.html

naudiz, I think that you need #9.

http://community.livejournal.com/pantsketch/99256.html

;)

http://www.tiffanyard.com/nerd.htm

I think that Z is kind of a copout (my officemate suggested "zooplankton"), and the art isn't great, but it's pretty funny in concept and reasonably well done.

via BoingBoing: Tiny house sculpture

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/04/church_where_you_can.html

I would so go to this (and bring a video camera) if it were anywhere close.

via BoingBoing: Holy Tango of Literature

An anthology (or, rather, "holy tango") of poetry and play scenes whose unifying theme is that each (original) work is inspired by, and written in the style of, an existing writer. Thus we have "Hairball King" (Kahlil Gibran), "My Valentine Isn't Clad" (Edna St. Vincent Millay), "Ah, My Yak Roam" (Omar Khayyam), "Hen Gonads" (Ogden Nash) and "Is A Sperm Like A Whale?" (William Shakespeare).

Very funny. While I'm not familiar with the work of several of the artists, I think that he does a good job of copying the styles, and the works themselves are generally also amusing.

(If any Portland Reading Night-affiliated folks are reading this: I call dibs.)

At Powell's Books: http://www.powells.com/s?kw=Holy+Tango+of+Literature&x=0&y=0

(The author has also recorded a few songs with similar inspiration. Haven't read/listened to those yet.)

Google Holiday Logos: Google's repository of the funky logos that it has used in place of its main logo. Often quite clever, and sometimes quite beautiful.

The Knitted Wedding. No, I mean they knitted _everything_: not just the outfits, but the decorations, the sandwiches, the freakin' cake. Not very nutritious, I'm sure, but damned impressive.

Cornstarch/water weirdness (video). No doubt some of you have heard that these two things, when mixed, behave, well, oddly. This is a graphic demonstration of said oddity. Those of you who have played Diablo 2 will recognize the last part. :)