Tag Galaxy is a very cool way of visualizing tags from the Flickr-verse.
It’s a tad non-intuitive at first (at least for me). Clicking on the planets around your current tag will add those to the tag selection. Clicking the current tag selection “star” will bring up some of the pictures associated with that selection. Dragging the resulting “picture Globe” allows you to see pictures from the other sides of it.
Posted under Utils / Tools, Very Cool
This post was written by Marc
on October 20, 2008 at 10:51 pm
A rip-off of this YouTube video (Japanese, I think) with some captions added in, a Pink Floyd soundtrack dubbed over and the size of the asteroid stated as being 5 times larger, it is still *very* cool and very humbling to watch.
Given that they’ve taken such liberties with the original I can’t say that I trust the statements they make but it’s food for thought nonetheless.
It’s this kind of event that we hedge ourselves against when we finally manage to establish a presence off-world.
Posted under Science, Very Cool
This post was written by Marc
on September 20, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Absolutely! While I absolutely *love* the original, I do enjoy clever parodies too…
**Note, I had to replace the collegehumor version with a Youtube version. Collegehumor seems to be having problems supplying the content 
Posted under Very Cool
This post was written by Marc
on August 21, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Another incredibly cool video. There is no detail to indicate the speed at which this was filmed, or even if it was filmed at all (could it be a fake?). But, making the assumption that this is really lightning slowed down… very, very cool…
Posted under Very Cool
This post was written by Marc
on August 10, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Stupid? Maybe it seems that way on the face of it. But I think it’s brilliant. And he’s been more places than you or I ever will and he for sure has met more people.
Just good, clean, uplifting fun. If you don’t grin when you watch his silly dance then I don’t know if there is any hope for you.
My favorites are North Korea and India.
Go Matt!
Posted under Very Cool
This post was written by Marc
on June 30, 2008 at 7:00 pm
One thing we can credit TIVO (and other time-shifting, commercial skipping devices) for is much greater effort on the part of commercial creators to actually make the commercials entertaining and worthwhile.
Of course there have always been great commercials (Thanks VW!) and folks with brilliant vision in that vein, but the hastening of mediocre content by technology is one of the greatest entertainment coups of the 21st century.
The Discovery Channel’s Boom-de-ya ad is expansive, uplifting and the jingle is habit forming. Truly one of the best ads I know!
Posted under Opinions, Very Cool
This post was written by Marc
on June 27, 2008 at 9:23 am
