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The Warner Brothers cartoon What's Opera, Doc? is marking its 50th anniversary this week. It was voted by animation professionals as the greatest cartoon of all time. Push play or go to Youtube.
No one who knows and loves "What's Opera, Doc?" will ever hear Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" without hearing, in their own minds, "Kill da wabbit ... kill da wabbit."
And now you will have the tune in your head all day. Link -via Fark
Which hobby best suits your personality? Mine would be travel (if I had the time and money).
Take the test to find yours! Link -via the Presurfer
Getting there is half the fun and for you the other half of the fun means going even further once you're there. You're ready to travel anywhere at the drop of a hat: your passport is always up to date and you get diphtheria shots as your normal course of a doctor visit. All your clothing is made from thin, wickable, engineered fabric, so it travels light and layers well for any climate. You might like hobbies like travel blogging, backpacking across the globe.
Take the test to find yours! Link -via the Presurfer
Autoblog has photos of a Bentley Continental GT adorned with Hyundai badges. Is it a statement, or did the owner lose a bet? Link -Thanks, Bill!
Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.
Live Earth will reach this worldwide audience through an unprecedented global media architecture covering all media platforms - TV, radio, Internet and wireless channels.
Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign led by the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group and other international organizations to drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve global warming. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is the Chair of the Alliance and Partner of Live Earth.
To watch Live Earth performances from New York, London, Johannesburg, Rio, Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney, and Hamburg, click here. I hope you have better luck with it than I did; I only have a very old version of Internet Explorer, which is required for live viewing. Other browsers can choose videos by city. You can also watch various venues on TV. http://www.liveearth.org/event.php
Yesterday’s post Samsung Dance featured people as pixel art, but this “art form†is by no means new. Dark Roasted Blend has a retrospective gallery of human pixel art going back to 1918. Some photos contain frontal nudity from a distance. Link -via Dump Trumpet
A stop-motion video of a baby and her magic teleporting chair! Push play or go to YouTube. This is the second video in a trilogy; the previous episode is here. The third part is yet to come. -via Everlasting Blort
Did you know that gravity is not the same over all the earth? That the moon is moving away from Earth? That the moon pulls at our air like it pulls the seas? Fogonazos has more fascinating facts, with links to further information on each. Link -via Look at This
Hang Nga's Tree House, or the Spider Web Chalet, is a hotel in Da Lat, Vietnam. Built by the daughter of an ex-president, it resembles a tree made of concrete. http://www.offbeathomes.com/the-spider-web-chalet/ More pictures here. -via Grow-A-Brain
Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal and O Grupo play water bottles, water jugs, and the lake itself. Push play or go to YouTube. Hear more of Pascoal’s music on his MySpace page. -via Metafilter
Flight nurse Chris Fogg was transporting a patient on June 27th when the plane window exploded. The twin-engine piper turboprop was cruising at 20,000 feet at the time! Fogg was sucked halfway out the window, with only his legs and one arm inside the plane. He managed to hold one while the pilot dived to a lower altitude to stabilize the cabin pressure, then pulled himself back into the plane. Uninjured, Fogg flew again the next day. Link (includes video simulation)
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