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Bishop Gene Robinson speaks at First Presbyterian Church in NYC in 2009 on the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, and offers (and challenges church goers to offer) water to Gay Pride parade participants as part of his ministry. [5m19s] [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 10:33 PM PST - 35 comments

The Beautiful Blackboards at Quantum Physics Labs (from The Atlantic)
posted by moonmilk at 9:18 PM PST - 36 comments

State of the Species: Will the unprecedented success of Homo sapiens lead to an unavoidable downfall? [Via]
posted by homunculus at 9:16 PM PST - 46 comments

Every year, Animation Magazine holds a pitch party, where, for the low-low price of $375, you can send a 2 inch by 5 inch card to represent your idea for a cartoon, and get judged by a panel of professionals. The actual results are a near-endless parade of bad ideas, bad art, and a liberal use of comic sans. (4chan archive, NSFW ads)
posted by hellojed at 7:56 PM PST - 41 comments

Surreal photos by Gilbert Garcin
posted by Confess, Fletch at 7:50 PM PST - 2 comments

Admit it. You always wanted to hear your voice coming from the moving mouth of a junk food puppet.
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:44 PM PST - 14 comments

We last discussed music discovery site TheSixtyOne back in 2009, but it's changed pretty radically since then. Out with pages of spare, Facebook-like charts, in with gorgeous full-screen imagery peppered with photos and information about each track and the artists behind them. Anybody can submit music to the site, where community listens and ratings elevate the best to the top, and users can directly tip their favorite musicians with purchasable credits. Explore by mood, by Creative Commons tracks, indulge in some gamification with quests (in the top bar), or follow development on the official blog areasixtyone. Returning soon: user-created listening rooms for dedicated playlists or topics. And if you own an iPad, don't miss the free companion app Aweditorium, which sprawls the site's entire collection into an endless grid of playable audiovisual fun.
posted by Rhaomi at 5:34 PM PST - 15 comments

Neat early puppetry by Jim Henson and the later finished piece that became part of Sesame Street.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:45 PM PST - 11 comments

Cocoon Central Dance Team: Love on Top, Ego, End of Time, Turn the Beat Around, Can I Touch You There, So Far/Vertigo. More. Tumblr. Also: White Strips.
posted by hydrophonic at 4:24 PM PST - 4 comments

Flash cards are an effective study aid because they are founded on the principles of rote and memorization. With Flashcard Exchange | Study Stack and Flashcard Machine, you can use web-based flashcard makers to create, share, export and print flashcards to assist your studying.
posted by netbros at 2:57 PM PST - 26 comments

The Fool and His Money - The sequel to the 1987 puzzle game The Fool's Errand has just been released, after nearly 10 years of delay and anticipation. [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten at 2:12 PM PST - 30 comments

The early months of 2012 at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue were busy with the things typical for a liberal congregation: a phone bank for gay marriage, a silent retreat, a weekend study session on unorthodox ideas such as observing Sabbath through dance and movement. Then in February, David Kaye, a longtime Montgomery County rabbi and registered sex offender, started attending Saturday services. Also: When a Predator Wants to Pray
posted by OmieWise at 2:06 PM PST - 89 comments

The Guide to Trading Candy. (SLYT) Buzzfeed gets into the Halloween spirit by scaring kids onto the fast track toward embittered adulthood.
posted by Smart Dalek at 1:58 PM PST - 16 comments

North Carolina State Senator Thom Goolsby is running for re-election against Deb Butler. Last year, Senator Goolsby voted in favor of NC House Bill 854. Among other things, this bill requires that women must undergo an ultrasound and a waiting period before having an abortion. Using a prop, Deb Butler ran this ad. And this ad. [more inside]
posted by flarbuse at 1:42 PM PST - 31 comments

Can't get enough Gangam Style? This will fix that.
posted by egypturnash at 1:37 PM PST - 51 comments

Matt Cain with Tori and Kari from Mythbusters destroys things mid air with his fastball (SLYT)
posted by Long Way To Go at 10:38 AM PST - 264 comments

The Art of Presence. Despite so many threats to their freedom, Arab women continue to stage a thousand small revolutions in their everyday lives.
posted by bardophile at 10:34 AM PST - 8 comments

California begins its "top two primary" runoff. Called a blanket primary, open primary, jungle primary, the top-two primary seeks to end partisan gridlock by having one primary for all voters in June, where the top two candidates face off in November, regardless of party affiliation. Said to favor moderates while hurting small parties, Arizona votes on a similar measure next week. [more inside]
posted by Brian B. at 10:31 AM PST - 41 comments

He was methodical, he rode the highways, and he preyed on teenage girls. Girls who'd run away. Girls no one would miss. In the summer of 1985, the author was such a girl. One night on I-95, she hitched a ride from a stranger and endured the most terrifying moments of her life. Now, years later, she returns to the scenes of her fugitive youth looking for clues to that terror—and the girls who lost their lives to it - The Truck Stop Killer
posted by Artw at 10:24 AM PST - 23 comments

Minimalist design. Seamless metal and glass. Sleek lines. Revolutionary. Super thin. Perhaps the last official Steve Jobs product launch (translation). [more inside]
posted by mazola at 10:07 AM PST - 83 comments

Life on Matinicus Island: "Matinicus lies 23 miles out to sea, the most remote inhabited island on the Atlantic seaboard... one of a vast necklace of islands, more than 3,000 in all, spread out along the Maine coast as far north as the Bay of Fundy. A century ago, 200 or more of them were fishermen's communities; today, only 14 are inhabited year-round... Today, two years after putting a bullet into the neck of another lobsterman, in defense, he says, of his daughter, Vance Bunker is a pariah on the island: legally acquitted but privately unforgiven, widely but quietly reviled." (via longform)
posted by flex at 7:44 AM PST - 25 comments

Hallowindow The very talented Mark Gervais makes movies for projection in the window on Halloween. Some examples have been posted on Youtube, but the genuine article is worth every penny.
posted by Tarn at 7:42 AM PST - 17 comments

Something Awful's Fashion SWAT returns to review sexy Halloween costumes such as Sexy Grinch, Sexy Rooster, and Sexy Woolly Mammoth. (Previously)
posted by EndsOfInvention at 6:28 AM PST - 78 comments

Caught on camera: engineering in action 'The winning entries of the 2012 Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering[Cambridge], sponsored by Carl Zeiss, provide a stunning visual insight into the ways in which engineering makes a vital contribution to our lives.' [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 4:01 AM PST - 5 comments

"When LMFAO, OK GO, and Freddy Mercury were smashed together, the Power Party Pop group 'Con Bro Chill' was born." [more inside]
posted by knile at 2:41 AM PST - 21 comments