NASA and How to Make Your Own Space Vid

NASA lets you download video to make your own compositions. Just another nice thing about the fact that NASA is a public agency.

Wishes for Good Fortune

Never heard of Todd Snider before today. Now I want to learn this song:

How to Feed a Buzz

An interesting look at Buzzfeed, how it compiles, and where it gives credit (and that its staff tends to build upon what it finds on reddit).


"Once you understand how central Reddit is to BuzzFeed, it’s like spotting the wizard behind the curtain."

Now is Good

For the sake of simple conveyance of this idea, let's accept reincarnation as reality: Sometimes I wish I could be in touch with who I was in past lives and how I lived because if I lived before today, no matter how well I did or how much influence I had, I could not have had more comforts and conveniences than I do in this life. Even if I was royalty, I would have had to wear dirty clothes most of the time. No washing machines! Even if I lived in the pristine woods I would have had to weather storms. And the food? Butter unrefrigerated? Don't get me started.

Whether I was nothing or someone or an ant or a creature from another dimension I can't imagine right now, I am thankful for the comforts I have in this life. This comfort has a flipside, which is the fact that we've been damaging the environment and, like royalty our comfort relies on standing on the backs of those who do the dirty work. So there's a little guilt with the appreciation. To move forward, I have to look for the positive, and it's there: I am alive at a time when humanity has indulged so much in all of the above that the experience of conscience is something we can share; thanks to the internet, the good guys can collude. And with that, I conclude.

Ethers

Stay with it - they are not tiny missiles, but maybe the sense of vulnerability, when the animated elements first appear, is intentional.

Relax and watch in high resolution, big screen. This has a happy ending.

Passing Through from Olafur Haraldsson on Vimeo.

Bryan May

I was going to say here's ten minutes of music to play in the background as you write or create, but it's really worth watching.  He knows how to engage with his audience.   He is present with the crowd, the night, and himself.

See "Each Moment is the Universe"

This is a beautiful story of subtle profound redemption. It is a favorite for a life-time. Watch it in hi-def on the full screen.

Each Moment is the Universe from bruce thierry on Vimeo.

NASA's Venus Transit Timelapse

Go lit'l planet! Go!

Transit of Venus: An Homage

And this is my homage to the transit of Venus today:

Here Comes the Sun


(I'm Your) Venus

Flash and the Grand Canyon

I love this joke. The setup (first video below) is about 20 minutes before the almost incidental punchline at the end of the episode (second video below). It's better to just see the whole show, but I made this because I love this joke.

Therein Lies the Theremin

Now here's something I never thought I'd see...


But why are they inside Russian dolls?  It's because the inventor, Leon Theremin, was Russian. I wonder what they did with the tiny and tinier dolls.

Ode to Tuesday

I wake to you with neither hope nor sorrow,

Before my eyes to the clock, I know your name.    

It’s not Monday! At last it is tomorrow!

A day has passed since my least favorite came.

Tuesday, you have a light refreshing presence,

A newness ‘specially salient around nine;

Something about the way the sun is innocent

The quality of light has evanescence,

I secretly wish that you were only mine.

You tell me all the things that Monday meant.

Motivated by the star.me mission of the day, 05/25/12

Soda Pop, Naturally

Photo is from linked blog.

A delightful friend I haven't met, Cherish, is learning to make soda pop. Who knew the drink has its origins as a naturally produced drink?

"Not Dabbling in Normal" knew so I'm linking to their blog of natural soda pop recipes. 

Mix your ingredients, add yeast, wait a few days for it to get fizzy, pour it over ice. Natural carbonation results from the early stages of fermentation; you simply halt the process before the concoction becomes an acoholic beverage. I believe I'll start with the ginger-ale.  This may be the treat of summer 2012: Here's the blog of recipes.

How to Match Up Socks by Ojeano

Matching up socks takes time and can be a little tedious. Try this technique - so simple it'll blow your socks.

Concerted Effort Necessary for Forward Motion

On separate seas

port

and

starboard:

one sails to azure seas and white sand beaches

the other

is going

to Alaska

for

some of those big crabs.

The sail,

the motor

the fore

the aft
the keel
the cleat
the winch

and the Pacific garbage patch the size of Texas

ponder the weight

of
their existences in the dire straits.

Marlon Brando: Always a Fave

It's hard to imagine NOT hiring this guy:

 

How to Fold a Fitted Sheet

In today's society, this is almost a survival skill:

40 Days / Make Life Better: Bonus Round, 44 -fin-

40 days of posts that make life better - the bonus round - 44 (It's Holy Thursday, this is the last of the series).

Everybody was once a baby. No matter how old we get, we're all still a bunch of babies, new, impressionable, and even cute.

Source is Dreamworld Australia.  Here's their facebook page.

40 Days / Make Life Better: Bonus Round, 43

40 days of posts that make life better - the bonus round - 43: Humans sing.

40 Days / Make Life Better: Bonus Round, 42

40 days of posts that make life better - the bonus round - 42:

We can see the whole world at the same time now. This has many positive ramifications, such as...

How to feed the world ? from Denis van Waerebeke on Vimeo.