Month: January 2007

Jen Wang’s cartoon dance of the flight attendant is pretty funny…

A play during a recent Dallas-Edmonton hockey game has to rank as one of the worst I’ve ever seen. See for yourself…

I’m extremely excited to hear about rumors of a reunion of The Police. They’re my favorite group, and I never got a chance to see them in concert :-(. I’ll be sure to post more details if I hear of any…

The amazing photo above was taken from the International Space Station:

Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao, who lived aboard the International Space Station from October 2004 to April 2005, took more than 24,000 Earth observation photos from his high vantage point in orbit. These are his 10 favorite photos from space.

Beautiful…

As this Slashdot post reveals, the “oscillation overthruster” that allowed eponymous movie star Buckaroo Banzai to pilot his vehicle through a mountain is grounded in sound scientific principles. Who’d have thunk it?

Receiving 98.5% of the votes, the third-highest margin in history, Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame today; Tony Gwynn was also voted in with 97.6% of the votes. Many in Baltimore were hoping for a unanimous ballot to further validate the Iron Man’s contributions to the sport, but it was unfortunately not to be, partly because some voters cast blank ballots in protest over the “‘Roids Rage Age.”

Which brings me to another point, although I’m loathe to even mention his name in the same post as Cal. Mark McGwire thankfully did not get in (not that many thought he would), garnishing a surprisingly high 23.5% of the ballot. I for one hope he never makes it.

cityrag “found a cool list of The 50 Greatest Cartoons as voted on by the animation industry in 1994.” The best part is that they’ve found a video link for every cartoon on the list. Enjoy!

Strange Maps has a cool post with a Gotham City “tourist map” showing the location of many sites from the Batman comic, movie, and tv series as well as depicting the marked similarity of Gotham City to New York City.

If you haven’t already heard the title for the seventh Harry Potter book, head on over to comingsoon.net, which has details on how to “win” the game hosted on the official Harry Potter site that reveals the title. Or you can skip all that and highlight the white text below:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The BBC has an interesting article entitled 100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year.