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Though I find the effect less interesting than in stills, Keith Loutit’s tilt-shift time-lapse videos from around Sydney are pretty awesome.

• Bathtub III
• Bathtub II
• Beached (via Waxy; has by far the most people)

For a limited time only, you can Google like it’s January 2001. Andy Baio points to a few drastically different searches:

9/11, YouTube, Sarah Palin, or this [his] blog

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 Daily Mail believes it has discovered the identity of the famous and anonymous graffiti artist:

It is hard to imagine Banksy, the anti-authoritarian renegade, as a public schoolboy wandering around the 17th Century former monastery, with its upper and lower quadrangles and its prayers in the ancient cathedral.

But we then found a school photograph, taken in 1989, of a bespectacled Robin Gunningham in which he shows a discernible resemblance to the man in the Jamaica photograph.

Indeed, fellow pupils remember Robin, who was in Deans House, as being a particularly gifted artist.

But to that first quoted paragraph I must say: no, it’s really quite easy.

(via Waxy)

Think of it as a post-Rapture Christian gloating service. As Threat Level snarkily points out:

The e-mails will be triggered when three of the site’s five Christian staffers “scattered around the U.S.” fail to log in for six days in a row — a system that incorporates a nice margin of safety, should two of the proprietors turn out to be unrepentant sinners or atheists.

(via Waxy)

Inspired by the now-defunct Life magazine, The Boston Globe has introduced a great section of high quality picture-stories on it’s website.

(via Waxy, who points to Kokogiak’s announcement)

Weezer’s new music video is chock full of internet memes, and thus must be loved by everyone on the internet. That is all.

(via Waxy)

I note this just because I’m rather surprised anyone actually bothered to conduct such a poll. But SurveyUSA did — maybe hoping that people like me would like to it? — their explanation is here.

(via Waxy)

Andy Baio points out that Garry Kasparov was recently “griefed,” while giving a speech, by a flying phallus. A similar event occured in the alternate reality of Second Life a few years ago.

A very cool advertisement for clustarack. Shared because no one will ever get tired of these things. They also have a making-of video.

(via Waxy)

This ads found by Andrew Sullivan, is also great.

Attached to Nick Paumgarten’s story about elevators in this week’s New Yorker is this amazing video of how Nicholas White spent 41 hours — essentially the entire weekend — stranded in an elevator in New York’s McGarw Hill building.

(via Waxy)

Andy Baio has some good words on the topic of the FAIL meme (typified by The FAIL Blog).

A few years ago, I wrote an entry about knee-jerk contrarians on the Internet: those delightful people who find fault in anything and everything, dismissing months or years of work with a few words.

This is nothing new. It’s as old as communication itself. I’m sure that the moment man discovered fire, there was some guy nearby saying, “Too smoky. Can burn you. Lame.”

(via Daring Fireball)

I’ve never been much of an astronomy buff, and I can assure you that much of what Google Sky can do flows straight over my head. It sure is pretty though.

(via waxy)

I’ve clicked this and many other links to stuff by Kevin Kelly. It wasn’t until today that I read something there. And was pleasantly suprised by the quality of the content.

A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.

A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name. They bookmark the eBay page where your out-of-print editions show up. They come to your openings. They have you sign their copies. They buy the t-shirt, and the mug, and the hat. They can’t wait till you issue your next work. They are true fans.

(via waxy)

In an entertaining parody of will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” video, the internets are proud to present people you don’t recognize singing along to the uplifting rhetoric of Senator John McCain.

(via Waxy)

It’s brilliant: a list of complaints that only white — perhaps ignorant-and-privileged is more accurate — people would have. It’s funny and sad at exactly the same time.

(via waxy)

This is a little obscure, but I like it. Just click the link.

(via waxy)