Sean McNaughton and Samuel Velasco created a beautiful infographic for National Geographic Magazine featuring 50 Years of Space Exploration (larger version).
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Erin Jang created a special poster for her three year old nephew who loves the NYC subway system. She included all of his favorite places. Here’s a larger version.
via Coudal Partners
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“One Evening in San Francisco”, a beautiful time-lapse video of San Francisco as the sun sets shot from Yerba Buena Island by Ben Wiggins. Music is by Geert Veneklaas.
See Previously: Time-Lapse Video of Summer in San Francisco
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A couple of weeks ago Burrito Justice came across a wonderful 1961 General Electric (GE) ad scanned by Eric Fisher showing a future BART system crossing the Golden Gate bridge. Here are more of Eric’s scans of San Francisco transit.
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Not sure what religion to follow? Holy Taco has created this handy flowchart to help you make up your mind.
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The November 2nd issue of The New Yorker, “Unmasked” features a cover illustration and comic by Chris Ware showing what Halloween is like in the modern age.
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The Twitter account Fake AP Stylebook, a wonderful parody of the AP Stylebook used by journalists, provides humorous style tips for proper writing, with the disclaimer “If you use this you will get fired”.
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“El Vetica”, a marvelous new type geek t-shirt by our pal Mike Monteiro, is now available in the Mule Design Studio Feed Store.
Celebrating the career of Mexico’s only typographer/luchador. El Vetica, also known as El Kernudo, fought out of the small town of San Serif. He held the Mexican Inter-Continental belt for an unprecedented 7 years, from 1977–84. He also starred in several telenovelas, most notably Las Esposas do Luchador and El Santo e Super Amigos.
See Previously: Keming and Other T-Shirts for Type Nerds
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The Official Star Wars Blog reports on a very unique wedding cake that recreated the scene in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back where Luke Skywalker keeps warm on Hoth in the guts of a dead Tauntaun.
See Previously: Tauntaun Sleeping Bag
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Playtime Antiboredom Society and SF0 present Journey to the End of the Night in San Francisco starting at 7pm on Halloween night, Saturday, October 31st.
Journey to the End of the Night is a free street game across the haunted cityscape of San Francisco this Halloween. Players sporting orange ribbons will try to make it through six checkpoints on foot or by public transportation, while avoiding being caught by chasers. Those who survive will be praised and feted at the end. Those who fall will become chasers themselves, rising in undeath to pursue their former friends and allies. It works like a race or derive that keeps breaking out into games of tag or hide and seek.
The game begins on Saturday, October 31st, at 7:00 PM on Steuart St between Market and Mission (across the street from the Ferry Building). No bicycles, no skates, no cars, no taxis. You may only travel on foot or by public transportation. Wear comfortable shoes, and bring water.
Prizes will be awarded for top finishers, best chasers and best costume.
via Rubin Starset
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My Zombie Pinup is a tribute to classic pinup calendars with an undead twist.
This 12 month calendar is stuffed with more dead sexy girls than you can fit in a shallow grave. We dug up the idea of the vintage 1950’s pin-up and hit it over the head with a shovel. Let yourself get infected by these bloody gore-gous women who are just dying to get under your skin.
Several of the shots in the calendar reference works by pinup master Gil Elvgren.
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In celebration of their 40th anniversary, Monty Python has just released “Monty Python: Almost the Truth – The Lawyer’s Cut”, a 3 DVD documentary chronicling the history of Monty Python, including new interviews with the cast.
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Boston Dynamics has created the PETMAN prototype, an amazing biped robot that walks like a human and is used by the US Army to test chemical protection clothing. It’s a follow-up to Boston Dynamics’s quadruped robot BigDog.
PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing used by the US Army. Unlike previous suit testers, which had to be supported mechanically and had a limited repertoire of motion, PETMAN will balance itself and move freely; walking, crawling and doing a variety of suit-stressing calisthenics during exposure to chemical warfare agents. PETMAN will also simulate human physiology within the protective suit by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating when necessary, all to provide realistic test conditions.
Natural, agile movement is essential for PETMAN to simulate how a soldier stresses protective clothing under realistic conditions. The robot will have the shape and size of a standard human, making it the first anthropomorphic robot that moves dynamically like a real person.
via Geekologie
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illustration by Travis Pitts
“We’ve Got Some Work To Do Now”, an awesome Threadless t-shirt design submission by Travis Pitts featuring Scooby Doo and Velma as vampire and zombie hunters.
via Boing Boing
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The Awl has created a graphic showing the history of weekday newspaper circulation since 1990. Its amazing to see just how much it’s decreased.
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National Geographic takes a look at scientists who create 3D brain maps of people taking psychedelic trips on LSD, recording imagery their hallucinogenic experiences.
Psychedelics over-stimulate serotonin receptors in the brain, resulting in a blissful experience or a horrifying one.
via Huffington Post
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Shrinkage Is Good has created an interesting infographic that shows Internet Speeds & Costs Around The World (here’s a larger version).
via Zach Klein
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Tsuburaya Productions has released a video of their new Gomora animatronic monster suit being tested out in a parking lot. Gomora is one of the Dekaiju featured in the Japanese television series Ultraman.
via Pink Tentacle
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Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer presents 30 years of hip-hop history in five minutes on the banjo in his latest song “Chap-Hop History”.
See Also: Cup of Brown Joy by Elemental & Tom Caruana, A Teacore Rap Song
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