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This is unquestionably the greatest “watch me change over time” video I’ve seen.

(via Heading East)

Also, Kottke points to Dan Hanna’s description of how he took the pictures for the video.

I’m a sucker for things like this. A small film crew took to the street of New Orleans and asked 50 people: “If you could wish for one thing to happen by the end of the day, what would it be?”.

(via Metafilter)

Both awe and sadness seem like proper responses to this post from The Big Picture. These two really got me.

Though you may find it depressing, this BuzzFeed post has amassed a very impressive collection of interesting charts about suicide (mostly in the United States).

There are a couple pictures of the aforementioned 5-a-side, as well as a number of other sports new to me. Which leads me to the exactly-what-I-was-thinking first two comments on the post:

Awesome - is this being broadcast by anyone?

Sadly, no. And:

I think this is more human and fun, than the other one…

Amos pegs it:

Sometimes a good graphic can put the issue into perspective.

Do go have a look at what would, in a perfect world, stop all related arguments cold.

I’m ashamed to say that I’ve never looked nearly this closely at the stuff.

(via Neatorama)

There are no doubt hundreds of posts like this one floating around the internet, chronicalling all the small houses one can find within a few Google searchs. None the less, I really liked browsing through this one.

(via MeFi)

Photographed from above. On The Big Picture.

If those lines aren’t enough to make you view this one, nothing else I say will.

Neatorama points to some interesting maps. Basically: the total area of the moon covered by the Apollo 11 astronauts was smaller than a soccer field. Or, if they landed on a baseball diamond, they hardly left the infield.

This bridges are literally awesome. If you don’t take a look, you’re really missing out.

(via Neatorama)

(via MeFi, where the early comments are uniformly bitter)

Sometimes the serendipity of my feedreader is just shocking. On the same day I saw picture of both the highest and lowest man-made objects. They are:

• Burj Debai. (via Fimoculous)
• A Siberian Diamond mine. (via Neatorama)

UPDATE (8/25/08): Or perhaps this is actually the lowest man-made object. (via Neatorama) I have mixed feelings about a hole that can’t be seen from above ground being meaninfully considered a hole.

Sam Javanrouh captured a few moments of a great one.

GOOD has a pretty interesting map of history’s greatest journeys. Worth a look.

(via Snarkmarket)

This has been going around for some time, and I never found an hour with which to watch it. Today I finally did, and I’m glad for that. It’s well done, and brings new weight to Robin’s question: “How is YouTube not the greatest art project ever?”

Andrew Chen used Google Insights to put together a pretty interesting comparison of what (web 2.0-y) internet sites are most popular in which US states.

(via Waxy)

The National Weather Service think they may have found a driver going 130 miles per hour around Chicago. Using a weather doppler. Who knew? As Gizmodo explains, It works something like this:

Sometimes, when a warm layer of air rolls in up above the surface, the beam from the Doppler radar can be deflected towards the ground—picking up traffic and other objects much like a police radar gun. The weather service alluded to the fact that the “speeder” could have been nothing more than noise, but it still makes you wonder how long it will be before they figure out how to bust motorists from space.

Though I think giving Nigeria’s active but low-budget film scene an “-ollywood” is tacky, these are some interesting (and graphic) photos of it.

(via Boing Boing)

Two stunning examples of great design that perfectly fits its beautiful setting.

• The Aurland Lookout. Just wow. (via Neatorama)
• Clingstone. Article and slideshow. Those views. (via Materialicious)