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Hearts Atwirl has a very neat collection of vintage valentines from the early to mid 20th century. Some are very cute, some don’t make much sense and others are plain old creepy and racially offensive (sign o’ the times…)
To reduce the severity of Joe’s epileptic seizure, doctors performed a drastic brain surgery: they cut the corpus callosum and severed the connection between his left and right cerebral hemispheres. Here’s what happened …
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks to the beautiful Gaby Kubik!
Dan Piraro’s comic Bizarro is like reductio ad absurdum put in cartoon format (well, close enough). Do you agree with this panel? Is the Terror Threat Level useful?
For more Bizarro, check out Dan’s website and blog.
Silent film footage taken in 1909 by Thomas Edison at Stormfield (CT) at Mark Twain’s estate. Twain is shown walkng around his home and playing cards with his daughters Clara and Jean. The flickering is due to film deterioration, but this is the only known footage of the great author.
-via Grow-A-Brain
Amelia is a 2002 dance film by Edouard Lock – the dance routine is astoudingly fast. It is simply a technical tour de force.
The dancers are from Montreal dance company La La La Human Steps, the music is composed of Lou Reed lyrics with music by David Lang (a major contributor to the score for Requiem for a Dream) and the wooden stage was created just for this piece.
The award-winning movie is available from Opus Arte. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Jhayne!
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
– John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908 – 2006)
Deeda Blair has scanned images from Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue, featuring today’s movie stars in roles from Hitchcock films. Jodie Foster makes a wonderful Tippi Hedren. Link -via Metafilter
His Stewart Snowmatte laboratory-grade screen is the biggest I’ve ever seen in a home, and in the back of the theater, there’s a Sony ultra-high-resolution (4,096-by-2,160) SRX-S110 digital projector. I’m looking everywhere, jotting down questions, and Kipnis sounds almost giddy talking about his theater’s capabilities. He refers to his baby, the Kipnis Studio Standard (KSS), as “The Greatest Show on Earth.” And from the looks of it, he may be right.
The equipment specs are impressive, and the photographs even more so. Link -via Unique Daily and Oh Gizmo!
The object of the game is to cover the red spot completely with five of the gray spots. Very difficult. I’ve seen this game in way back in my childhood (not online, of course), but I still don’t know the trick to it. Link -via Dump Trumpet
Illustrator Steve Brodner is sketching the candidates in on ongoing series of animations for The New Yorker called The Naked Campaign. There are eleven videos so far. I especially enjoyed Odd Couples, featuring Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as entertainment icons. His latest is Mad World, where he gives the candidates tattoos of the states they’ve won. Link -via Metafilter
Planetgreen has a list of 14 things you can do with “orphaned” socks, i.e. socks that have no mate. Many of these ideas have links to instructions, such as these puppets from Treehugger. But be warned: if my experience is any indication, doing any of these things will cause the sock’s mate to finally show up. Link -via Lifehacker
These thumbnails only hint at how charming these cards are. They’re available for download here.
I’m taking my lady out to lunch at the best pizza place in Los Angeles. Anyone planning something particularly romantic?
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