Unreal, that’s all I can think of. The North Korean Children’s parade, featuring more than 18,000 children has to be seen to believed. 2000-3000 children are upfront, performing extremely intricate gymnastics routines, while 15,000 or more children stand behind a massive set of cue cards (no that’s not a giant screen!), switching them out perfectly in sync with the routine occurring in front of them. This is absolutely stunning and frightening all in one, I loathe thinking about what the consequences are for holding up the wrong cue card or falling during a somersault.

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Whoa I don’t even know where to start with this. Wayne’s word (not world - duh) is a giant, giant collection of texts and articles covering natural history, making Wayne’s word one of the largest (if not THE largest) virtual text book. Covering everything from blood types and Crassulacean Acid Metabolism to morse code conversions in JavaScript and the Zigadenus, you can spend hours browsing through all of the online texts and quite possibly write a report or 10 for your kids’ science class.

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Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne are the creators behind art project Celestial Mechanics, a brilliant experiment plotting FAA data, parsing it using the Processing programming environment, then compositing the resulting frames with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya. Resulting are beautiful and flowing animations displaying the flight patterns of commercial aircraft throughout the United States as flight upon flight arrives and departs America’s airports. Celestial Mechanics have been on display at many trade shows and conventions around the world, most recently at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.

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Mike is a professional tornado and storm chased from Nebraska, home to some of the most breathtaking weather disturbances in the country. Originally starting out as an amateur chaser, Mike documented a stunning tornado on his first trip, which undoubtedly caused quite a bit distress. But the seed was planted and after 8 years, many storms and several movies, he’s posted hundreds of stunning weather images from his many chases and quite a few amazing photos of his pets playing in the rain (always good to see an animal lover who chases tornados).

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Through his personal site, Author Will Self has providing a stunning 360 degree photo tour of his working space or ‘writing room’, featuring 71 photos taken by photographer Phil Grey. It’s a pretty interesting insight into the professional life of a successful writer and sometimes actor, giving fans an inside look into where all of Self’s work is conceived and produced. I’ve never seen so many Post-It Notes in my whole life, I couldn’t imagine what would happen if a gust of wind or a crazed cat blew through that room.

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The Foreign Service Institute is the US Government’s primary training institution for officers and support personal of the US Foreign affairs community. Through the use of language programs and studies, the FSI prepares future diplomats and other professionals who are advancing US foreign interests overseas and around Washington, via communication and whatever else those people do. These foreign language courses are published using federal money, which basically means they are public domain, and thus, available to any citizen who’s interested in learning a new language. So enter FSI Language Courses.com, a community-driven site, collecting, scanning and distributing the Foreign Service language program documentation and audio-tapes to anyone interested in learning Cantonese, Spanish, German, French and Portuguese, among many other languages, all on the government’s dime (well, your dime really).

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You normally wouldn’t expect a golf club to be a normal photographer’s tool lying around the gallery. Unless you happen to be setup for taking high-speed photographs of eggs, fortune cookies, jello, christmas decoration and many other things being destroyed by that wood driver of yours at a few thousand frames per second. Knuttz’s Stuff, another in the long-list of college humor sites, has a 3 page photo collection of strange objects being hit, dropped and shot during various high-speed photo sessions thoughout the past few years. Bah, egg yolks are gross to begin with, but seeing one destroyed at a few thousand FPS looks even worse.

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Aspiring dictators call up your agents cause your perfect home has just come onto the market in the Pacific Northwest and for only $595,000! For that price you get a lovely and conspicuous 3 bedroom / 1.5 bath 1900 square foot suburban home that hides what could be one of the creepiest / coolest things I’ve seen in awhile. The previous owners have built-in a four (4) story underground dungeon, fully furnished and completely stocked to act as both a bomb/nucleur shelter or as a normal extension of the home. The fortress is 4 levels deep (45 feet down, below sea-level), adding an extra 1600 square feet of living area and hundreds more square feet of passages and secret rooms. The walls are 3 feet thick 5-bag concrete (20% denser than normal concrete) and give the owner 5 “known” ways of reaching the dungeon, through false doorways, secret passages and drop chutes. The dungeon is also fully furnished and has a completely functional air-circulation system, a giant diesel-powered generator, a 4-pump system to keep the dungeon dry in case of flooding, a 1-ton blast door and a 3-ton motorized door that seals you in from the outside world. My mind, it is a blown.

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To be filed in the “when hell freezes over” category, India’s highest court last week demanded that Coca-Cola, along with PepsiCo, supply details of it’s chemical composition and ingredients, after a study there claimed they both contained high levels of pesticides. According to the report, the amount of pesticide residue contained within the soda has grown more than 25 times the amount found 3 years ago in a similar study performed by Indian researchers. The two companies are regular targets for politicians in India, who regard western food products as a threat to Indian heritage and aren’t too happy with the two companies’ relative monopoly of the Indian soft-drink market. It’s highly doubtful that either company will reveal their recipes, so really all anyone can do is sit-back and see if Indian officials are able to actually pass a law banning the sale of the two largest soda-brands on the planet (or see how thick the envelopes full of cash handed to them will be). According to some reports from Coca-Cola, the only two people in the world with access to the bank vault containing Coke’s secret recipe aren’t even allowed to travel on the same aircraft together. The last time a report like this surfaced, schools banned cola sales and Coke’s sales dropped by 11% in the subsequent financial quarter.

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Prior to 1980, Lake Peigneur in Louisiana was a sleepy 11 feet shallow fresh-water lake, that was until oil conglomerate Texaco made a major drilling error while exploring the lake for oil deposits. Below the lake happened to be a giant salt mine, which, unbeknownst to the miners, was about to be punctured by the oil drilling platform above. Although not proven, evidence points to a miscalculation by the Texaco drilling team, which resulted in the drilling of a small hole through the salt mine ceiling, causing a violent chain reaction as the fresh water lake began rapidly draining into the mine, which soaked up the water almost as fast as it drained in. On the surface of the lake, a violent whirlpool formed which caused several barges, many trees and large portions of the surrounding terrain to be sucked into the mine. The mine was actually so large that it sucked the lake water in completely, which actually caused the flow reversal of the Delcambre canal, which drained to the Gulf of Mexico. The lake began refilling with salt-water, temporarily creating the largest waterfall in Louisiana (at 100-150 feet) and drastically changing the lake’s biology by introducing new species of plants and salt-water marine life to fill the now 1,300 feet deep salt-water lake.

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