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Capybaras Chill Out in Hot Tubs and Munch on Grass.
posted by homunculus at 8:22 PM PST - 50 comments

A beautiful short video of a moon rise in Wellington New Zealand which puts things in perspective. (SLV)
posted by salishsea at 8:00 PM PST - 34 comments

The various Star Wars movies have been translated into at least 39 languages (as also seen here in a set of 16 international logos for Attack of the Clones), but the Navajo Nation is set to be the first Native American tribe to officially dub the original Star Wars film. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 7:53 PM PST - 19 comments

66 behind the scenes pics from The Empire Strikes Back. [more inside]
posted by mazola at 6:44 PM PST - 54 comments

Here Is Today - a simple interactive animation that helps keep things in perspective.
posted by AceRock at 6:38 PM PST - 24 comments

“My husband and I, our parents wanted better for us than what they had,” Bonnie says. “And it’s gone backwards.” [more inside]
posted by threeants at 6:09 PM PST - 93 comments

"Having the movie wash over me was one of the most transcendent experiences of my moviegoing life." The movie is out in theaters, and available for digital download soon. Some reviews and also some interviews. [more inside]
posted by legospaceman at 5:58 PM PST - 77 comments

“Do you really want to invest in a system where you put up 100 percent of the capital, [you] take 100 percent of the risk, and you get 30 percent of the return?” Frontline correspondent Martin Smith speaks with authors, policy experts, and investment managers about the history and current reality of the 401(k).
posted by dephlogisticated at 4:51 PM PST - 162 comments

Holy hotdogs, Spanish surrealist illustrator Joan Cornellà, just what the heck is going on?
posted by cortex at 3:36 PM PST - 14 comments

A classic spontaneous Monty Python tribute to 'King Arthur' Yes, I'm sure this video has never, ever been seen before at MetaFilter. The way it is handled is remarkable, with Cleese calmly discussing how comedy works, and then... Klein's reaction to the chaos near the end is hilarious. [more inside]
posted by PixelPiper at 2:34 PM PST - 26 comments

Very obscure and super rare selection of cumbias, gaitas, mapalé, charanguara, musarana, charanga and guarachas for your ultimate enjoyment! [more inside]
posted by Tom-B at 2:20 PM PST - 11 comments

“It was a quest for aesthetics, for beauty — instead of the truth.” The recent dismissal of Dutch social scientist Diederik Stapel for academic fraud [SLNYT] leads the article's author to wonder whether "the scientific misconduct that has come to light in recent years suggests at the very least that the number of bad actors in science isn’t as insignificant as many would like to believe."
posted by Rykey at 12:53 PM PST - 75 comments

CRAPCHA CRAPCHA stands for Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement. It doesn't keep spammers out. It doesn't crowdsource book scanning either. CRAPCHA's only job is to baffle users, and you can add it to your site today. [via mefi projects]
posted by xingcat at 11:10 AM PST - 28 comments

Daniel Day-Lewis in the role of a lifetime...
posted by modernnomad at 9:43 AM PST - 128 comments

If you're a cat owner and also unhappily, and seemingly incurably, single, you need to watch this cautionary tale from the BBC. I'm going to go have a little talk with my own little white feline now.
posted by orange swan at 9:03 AM PST - 36 comments

Iconic photos Is a blog of ...iconic photos ...however the plus is intelligent and interesting commentary and links.
It is well worth checking out by category such as culture or society.
There is a fun page on fictional photographers and an iconic bookshelf
There is a lot more here since it was last posted in october 2009 by Joe Beese.
posted by adamvasco at 8:50 AM PST - 10 comments

Guantánamo prison library for detainees. [tumblr] New York Times reporter Charlie Savage set up a Tumblr dedicated to cataloging some of the books available in the Guantánamo prison library for detainees.
posted by Fizz at 8:49 AM PST - 37 comments

Because what the news reports hadn’t mentioned was that Gallinippers have quite literally evolved for the apocalypse. Their mummified eggs hatch during floods and eat their siblings first. Some even say they’re resistant to DEET, and since they suck down the larvae of competing species for nourishment, the super mosquitos are immune to biological controls. In fact, if you introduce a competing species to ward off Gallinippers, it only produces more Gallinippers. Gallinippers are born in chaos, and in chaos they thrive.

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posted by the man of twists and turns at 7:56 AM PST - 39 comments

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., in a concert from June 20, 1965 at the Kiel Opera House in St. Louis. A young Johnny Carson hosts, filling in for an ill Joey Bishop. SLYT.
posted by Area Man at 7:55 AM PST - 14 comments

Endbahnhof, a collection of photographs of every U-Bahn station in Berlin, organised by line and showing the variety of architectural styles in the system. There is an interview with the photographer, Kate Seabrook, here.
posted by acb at 7:35 AM PST - 10 comments

Following a 1976 pipeline explosion that left nine people dead, cities adopted the color-coded spray paint DigAlert system to mark the presence of various kinds of buried municipal infrastructure. If you've ever wondered what those marks on the ground mean, the Design Decoded blog breaks it down for you. (The previous entry in their Decoding the City series explained the Fire Diamond.)
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:28 AM PST - 26 comments

They wash dishes in restaurants, clean toilets and look after elderly incontinent people in the West. That makes the majority of the 30 million who have emigrated from Africa. Some are much luckier, they work in subaltern management positions in corporate America or in public institution in Europe. Few are real stars, successful with high pay and social status. Regardless of their current fate, they all share one thing in common: most of them want to return to Africa. The recent medias’ drumbeat about “Africa is Rising” is making them restless and hopeful because most of them have quite a petty life in the West. They are constantly harassed by the state police, crushed by daily racism from their neighbors and strangers, economically and politically isolated, and with very little hope for a near-future improvement. Unfortunately their dream to return home is painfully held back by deep fears and unanswered questions. Here are the top 10 fears of the African diaspora about Africa, and also the top 10 questions most of them are confronted with.
posted by infini at 3:09 AM PST - 20 comments