Wizard People, Dear Reader

"Wizard People, Dear Reader is an unauthorized re-envisioning of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by Brad Neely. To experience it, viewers need to get a copy of the first Harry Potter movie (known as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Europe) and watch it with the sound off, replacing Neely's narration with the original soundtrack.

After spreading rapidly among Neely's friends in Austin, Wizard People made its theatrical debut at the New York Underground Film Festival, to rapturous applause. We think Neely has crafted an as-of-yet-unnamed new art form, one everyone should experience for themselves. (Wizard People has no affiliation with Warner Brothers or the creators of Harry Potter.)"

I just listened to this today, and it's amazing. Unfortunately there's a bit of bad language, but if you can get past this I'd highly recommend it.

Voyager 1 and Opportunity

Breathe deep, mine eyes, the frosty saga of eternal suns.
From unseen depths and dreams undreamt,
I sing the gleaming cantos of unvanquished space.
By thought I embrace the universal,
With wings of mind I sail the infinitude.
Glory! 'tis the stars which beckon man's spirit
and set our souls adrift!

18 billion kilometers from where you are sitting is a spacecraft named Voyager 1. It's been speeding away from you for nearly 30 years, and passed by our gas giants: Jupiter, and Saturn. If you were to send it a message, even at the speed of light, it would take 28 hours for you to hear back from it, it's so far away. And yet every week it checks in, and tells us what it's like out beyond the edge of the solar system.

Meanwhile, on the red planet, Voyager 1's little cousin, Opportunity continues its mission to explore our closest neighbour. Opportunity has lived 12 times longer than was ever expected, and has spent the last 3.5 years driving across the martian surface, inspecting rocks, and looking for signs of life, and sending us status updates. So now they've decided to send the rover into Victoria Crater, a place it will probably never return from. It may not be much, but 50 million miles away from us, our robot emissary is driving across Mars, and that to me, is pretty darn cool.

Drumhello?

The crazy thing about Drumheller is that it's a parody of itself. It contains some of the richest fossil beds in the world,an intellectual paradise, but in order to make money it surrounds itself with fake, plaster dinosaurs, like one giant mini-golf course.

Star Wars - Episode 3.5

Britains Got Talent.

I know, I know. I hate these shows, but this guy really does have talent, made all the more impressive by the package it comes in. Also, that judge guy (Simon?), is he on every star-search ripoff on the planet?

Slippery Sparta

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Dramatic Chipmunk

Click the image to watch the video.

Squirrel-capult.

Also: The Squirrel Twirler

PC World - 25 Websites to Watch

PC World has assembled a list of the 25 most promising web sites to keep an eye on in the future. The next YouTube's and Facebooks. There is indeed some interesting stuff in there, lots of shiny, lots of strange, lots of goodness. Enjoy!

Approver.com, BlogBackupOnline, BuzzDash, CircleUp, Clipmarks, Eyespot, Goowy, Ma.gnolia, Meebo Rooms, MyPunchbowl, OpenDNS, Pageflakes, Pbwiki, Picnik, Popfly, PopURLs, Quintura, SplashCast, Spock, Squidoo, Swivel, Trulia, Wayfaring, Yahoo Pipes, Yodio

Our Real Size in the Universe

also available in handy image format.

Canonical List of Famous Last Words

Hundreds of brave characters lost their lives during thousands of roleplaying sessions leaving us their last words. We'll never forget them. Rest in peace.

Chasers TV Show

An australian TV show interviews americans about 9/11. (Or 11/9 for most of the world).

More American Abuse: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

100 Words

100 Words Every High-School Graduate should know. How many do you know?

Definitions:

abjure, abrogate, abstemious, acumen, antebellum, auspicious, belie, bellicose, bowdleriz, chicanery, chromosome, churlish, circumlocution, circumnavigate, deciduous, deleterious, diffident, enervate, enfranchise, epiphany, equinox, euro, evanescent, expurgate, facetious, fatuous, feckless, fiduciary, filibuster, gamete, gauche, gerrymander, hegemony, hemoglobin, homogeneous, hubris, hypotenuse, impeach, incognito, incontrovertible, inculcate, infrastructure, interpolate, irony, jejune, kinetic, kowtow, laissez faire, lexicon, loquacious, lugubrious, metamorphosis, mitosis, moiety, nanotechnology, nihilism, nomenclature, nonsectarian, notarize, obsequious, oligarchy, omnipotent, orthography, oxidize, parabola, paradigm, parameter, pecuniary, photosynthesis, plagiarize, plasma, polymer, precipitous, quasar, quotidian, recapitulate, reciprocal, reparation, respiration, sanguine, soliloquy, subjugate, suffragist, supercilious, tautology, taxonomy, tectonic, tempestuous, thermodynamics, totalitarian, unctuous, usurp, vacuous, vehement, vortex, winnow, wrought, xenophobe, yeoman, ziggurat

Calgary Weather

Seals Getting Attacked by Great White Sharks

Nucelar Flash Train Crash Test on the BBC

Fat?

A sad study revealed that many americans are now too fat to kill themselves.

Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation

"...the home page of the foundation dedicated to getting Leonard Nimoy to eat more salsa." What would happen if Leonard Nimoy ate more salsa? Find out the shocking results here.

Johnny5, Blake7, Andrew30

I've decided that from now on we should include our age whenever we say our name. This will make us all feel like we're living in a utopian futuristic age, the one promised to us in science fiction and movies. We should teach our children, that they too may share in the joy of their futurename. One day soon we will also all wear the silver one-piece jumpsuit with the lightning bolt logo. But not yet...
Sincerly,
Andrew30