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http://lawandthemultiverse.com/

Basically, what happens when you get a couple of comic book fans who happen to be lawyers geeking out about legal issues in alternate (comic) universes.

Map it onto a sphere: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/21/mc-escher-panorama.html

Courtesy of vito_excalibur: If I had a warning label, what would it say?

And just because I love these warning labels so much: http://www.lifeboat.com/ex/warning.signs.for.tomorrow

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

"Physical Dynamic Rendering", or the analog of CGI to physical objects:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcaqzOUv2Ao

*quietly boggles*

Granted, this is a video of a technology under development. But...wow.

This is not at all new--it's from 2004--but I figured, what the hell, I'd never seen it. So here, /., have some more PageRank. And maybe one of you all will enjoy this:

http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/04/10/20/1518217.shtml?tid=192&tid=214&tid=126&tid=11

I sure did. :)

http://xkcd.com/592/

In the "funny because it's true" category.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7996852.stm

One has to give props to the BBC science editor for letting that title through.

Don't remember where I found this, but I do remember the person linking to it invoking Time Bandits, so I'll pass that along for the Gilliam fans.

Personally, however, especially since this involves the theft of mass from a helium star, I get a mental image of a dwarf sucking in massive amounts of helium, eventually saying in a squeaky voice (realizing his impending {d,b}oom) "OH, SHIT!" and then exploding.

You're welcome.

(After all, they don't get the funding. Perhaps it's just as well.)

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090506

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dice_by_number_of_sides

Having a little trouble visualizing that.

I have one of those D34s. I have no idea when or where I acquired it; I suspect it was accidental (i.e., used to be someone else's and ended up in my dice bag).