For Your Consideration

OMG LASER GUNS PEW PEW PEW.

Pluto is a Planet!!!!!!!

NOVA shares some of the “hate mail” sent by children to Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, after Pluto was demoted from a planet to a comet. What’s interesting about this collection of letters is “how their tone shifted over the years, as the public slowly came to accept Pluto’s fall from planethood.” EXCLAMATION!

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Live, Work, Create, ???

After brunch this past weekend Pooja posted a photo she took of this bit of corporate “street art” authorized by the Brooklyn Industries store in Park Slope. Look at her photo again and you’ll notice that the space beneath “Create” was painted over. What is that re-paint concealing? This:

You Will Not Be Missed

A funeral for IE 6. Snark here.

From the Time Capsule

The original Hollywood sign.

From the Time Capsule

Perhaps The greatest three days of live music in the history of music.

Agatha Christie’s Library

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That’s What She Said

Sotheby’s is auctioning this 18L bottle of 2006 Chateau Cheval Blanc.

[Thanks Mun!]

For Your Consideration

For your consideration for Doing It Wrong.

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How Americans Commute to Work

A breakdown of how residents of various US cities commute to work. Houston needs to get their act straight.