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Over The World

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS by Michael Konig

via dpreview.com

First Suburb

Levittown

Return to Levittown: America's first suburb reaches 60 - BBC News

Hikarikaze - Starcraft Cosplay

StarCraft Ghost costume gets my vote for best costume ever - DVICE

Updated link: FanBoy Fashion

AT-AT Dog Costume

AT-AT dog costume

AT-AT Dog Costume via daring fireball

Don't make videos, make products

Overall, I can't imagine Microsoft actually doing most of this, if any at all. For goodness' sake, we still don't have the Surface, but we're stuck with the Ribbon.

Microsoft Video "Productivity Future Vision" - Opinionated Type

Ouch

If Karl Marx wrote a zombie novel in the style of Ayn Rand, it might look something like this.

Jeremy Hall's review of Zone One: A Novel - Amazon.com

The first sign of the inevitable tectonic shift of power from the West to China.

ECB head says Chinese help for eurozone is ‘normal' - BBC News

Banks are... suck.

The Seven Deadliest Sins of the Big Banks

  1. JPMorgan Chase kicks 54 military families out of their homes—despite a law against doing so.
  2. Wells Fargo gives bonuses to loan officers to put minority borrowers into high-priced subprime mortgages—internally dubbed "ghetto loans."
  3. Citigroup, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs all pay huge fines to settle charges they duped their own clients.
  4. Goldman Sachs assists in Europe's economic collapse by helping Greece mask the truth about its finances.
  5. JPMorgan turns a blind eye to Bernie Madoff's deceptions.
  6. Bank of America pays $137 million to settle government claims it rigged the municipal-bond market.
  7. Despite these and other unpardonable sins, banks showers tens of millions of dollars in bonus money on top executives.

Why Occupy Wall Street Hates the Big Banks – The Daily Beast

via frankotrish

UPDATE: I removed the link to the story because it was either lost or so hidden behind website trash that it was invisible. And the site is just overrun with crap. Also, the original poster is no longer reachable on tumbler.

Brevity is the soul of wit

Tired of Twitter? Message in real life using Big Words. - Daring Fireball

Robot Bicycle

"The biped robot whict rides on a bicycle." (by DrGuero2001)

Too awesome for words. I love how he (she?) stops.

via kotkke.org