If we landed on the moon TODAY

Well done, Slate.

My mind is officially blown

Wow. I've been opening bananas wrong my ENTIRE LIFE. Watch, as this brilliant man shows me the error of my (and most likely your) ways.



wow.

via Lifehacker

I love this person

Whoever you are, poster-posting person, I love you. So much.

OMG WANT WANT WANT

oh wow. I hope to be this good of a parent someday. Hell, I hope to be this good of a PERSON someday.

(via Geekologie)

EDIT: ohhhhhh i'm so unhappy it's fake. My new life goal is to make this beautiful dream a reality.

Fancy Fast Food

This person clearly had too much time on his hands. Three guesses as to what this is:
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If you guessed "Popeye's Chicken", you'd be right!!

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Bolivian (?) newscasters FTW!

Well done, anonymous newscaster-lady. You managed to air stills from an episode of LOST and pass them off as photos from the "last moments of Air France Flight 447".

From the Youtube comments:

Bolivian TV channel PAT has been left looking a bit daft after broadcasting extraordinary images of the last moments of Air France flight 447, lost over the Atlantic on 1 June:

According to the report, the snaps were retrieved from a recovered Casio Z750, which was subsequently traced via the serial number to its owner - "Paulo G. Muller, an actor from a well-known children's theatre on the outskirts of Porto Alegre".

In fact, the camera can be traced to ABC Studios and sharp-eyed readers will notice that the photographs feature well-known actress Evangeline Lilly, aka Kate Austen from TV series Lost.

PAT has fallen hook, line and sinker for a hoax email, and to add to its embarrassment, has failed to appreciate that while the flight 447 disaster occurred at night, the images represent the daytime fictional break-up of Oceanic Flight 815

Welllll done. Nobody noticed that the crash happened AT NIGHT?

Check Jeff Koyen's blog for a nice little side-by-side of the footage from the Bolivian news channel and the episode of Lost.

Keep abreast of what's going on

Despite some of the skepticism concerning the value of Twitter and Facebook to protest groups in Iran, they remain basically the only way that people on the ground have been able to get information out. Here's one of the best ways to keep up with news from the ground.

TweetTabs lets you set up several twitter searches simultaneously and monitor them in real time. My current search tabs?
#iranelection OR Iranelection -RT
#tehran OR tehran -RT
#Mousavi OR mousavi -RT
#Iranelection video -RT
#basij OR basij -RT

the -RT is really important, it keeps the site from displaying what's known as "retweets" or just redundant information. I'm really happy with this site, use it to learn the news BEFORE it goes on CNN and BBC.