solar explosions

an explosion force more powerful than all the firepower humans have created combined

true facts

ghost ship full of cannibal rats drifting towards scotland

todaze most awesome

672 rubber band apocalypse (with video)!

did not know about this...

the sentinelese are noted for vigorously resisting attempts at contact by outsiders. they  maintain an essentially hunter-gatherer society subsisting through hunting, fishing, and collecting wild plants; there is no evidence of either agricultural practices or methods of producing fire.

wait, what?

It’s a place where few living New Yorkers have ever set foot, but nearly a million dead ones reside: Hart Island, the United States’ largest mass grave, which has been closed to the public for 35 years. 

a star is born in philly tonight

michael carter williams sets NBA record in rookie debut. sixers beat miami heat in season opener.

the avalanche at tunnel creek

re-post from december. well worth the read/view

best use of multi-media i've ever seen on the web

beautiful and terrible story from the new york times

hmmm...

A mysterious company associated with Project ORCA, the failed election reporting tool meant to aide the Romney campaign’s Election Day “get out the vote” efforts, disappeared from the internet shortly after November 6th.

rob, me and 20,000 friends

Estimates of the crowd at Lower Makefield's Shady Brook Farm ranged from 20,000 to 30,000

been sayin' this for years

newspapers will disappear

for serious

sometimes silent, always deadly

Their calculations considered the dinosaurs' estimated total population and used a scale that links biomass to methane output for cattle.

variety show

Riding a new hero almost every night, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim has turned what might have been a team ripped by turmoil into another title contender

social commentary

sad state of affairs

“The authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didn’t participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didn’t cry and didn't seem genuine.”

extra credit

hey d.o.d.: maybe start puttin' those little red buttons on the bottom of the drones, gnome sane?

one of my top my 5 fav films

hmmm...

“It was not our intention to create an image resembling the attacks,” the designers insist, “nor did we see the resemblance during the design process.”

70 years

Pearl Harbor was born of strategic desperation.