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Slow Motion Video of Bullet Impacts Recorded at One Million Frames Per Second
Werner Mehl of the German ballistics measurement company Kurzzeit made an amazing slow motion video of bullet impacts at recorded 1 million frame per second.
A LOLcat Guide 2 Winning, Graph Out Loud & Fail Nation + The FAILpocalypse
Our friends at I Can Has Cheezburger? have just released three new books: How to Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLcat Guide 2 Winning, a…
Gimme Something Better, A History of San Francisco Bay Area Punk Rock
Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day is a new book by…
Neon Signs at Magnolia Cafe in Austin
photos by Scott Beale A couple of the wonderful neon signs at Magnolia Cafe South, an awesome place to grab food in Austin that serves…
Meow Mix Cat Music Video by Cyriak
Cyriak has created “Meow Mix, a bizarre music video using audio and video from his cat. Obviously this sort of thing has been done a…
Royal de Luxe Presents The Berlin Reunion
“The Berlin Reunion”, the latest performance by Royal de Luxe, took place in Berlin earlier this week. It was a continuation of the story that…
Bride of Frankenstein and Barbarella Live On Stage
photo by Geof Teague For the second year in a row, a group of San Francisco theatrical mavericks are transposing a triumvirate of cinematic thrillers…
Animatronic Davy Crockett Plays Fiddle on The Alamo at Mamacita’s Tex-Mex in San Antonio
While on a quest for dinner tonight in San Antonio, Yelp pointed me in the direction of Mamacita’s, a cavernous Tex-Mex restaurant setup as a…
The Only Existing Film Footage of Anne Frank
The Anne Frank Museum has uploaded the only existing film footage of Anne Frank to the new Anne Frank YouTube channel. The film was shot…
Burning Man 2009 Time-Lapse Video
Ben Wiggins, who made the time-lapse video of summer in San Francisco, also created a beautiful time-lapse video at this year’s Burning Man. The music…