Thriller. The Ultimate version.
In the year 1982, Michael Jackson releases Thriller, which according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is the greatest selling album of all time. The 14 minute music video was the longest/most expensive at the time, and was directed by filmmaker John Landis. Details of the video here.
Now onto the show. Thriller with Legos. At a wedding. The tv show Good Morning America on the wedding version. At walmart. At another wedding. In Final Fantasy. More animatics. Professional dancers. More dancers. And More. Yup, more here. Even more dancers. Sigh. Even more dancers. And it’s not just for 2 year olds. College students too. Penn State’s Blue Band. The Bollywood Version. They even do it in Prison.
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Slap happy
Rose and Camellia. Flash Friday. It’s in Japanese, so I don’t know which girl is Rose and which is Camellia. But I do know this — they resolve their problems by slapping each other. Instructions are in Japanese as well, but it’s pretty simple: Click "attack" and run your mouse over your opponent’s face to slap, click "evasion" and run your mouse over yourself to dodge a slap.
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In 1840, the Cuerdale Hoard – the greatest Viking silver treasure trove ever found outside Russia – …
In 1840, the Cuerdale Hoard – the greatest Viking silver treasure trove ever found outside Russia – is found in Lancashire. 2007: a father and son find an amazing Viking hoard while metal detecting in in Harrogate. The most important find of its type in Britain for over 150 years, it reveals a remarkable diversity of cultural contacts in the medieval world, with objects coming from as far apart as Afghanistan in the East and Ireland in the West, as well as Russia, Scandinavia and continental Europe.
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17 UK Publishers Reject Disguised Jane Austen
“It seems like a really original and interesting read.” It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first line of Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice" is one of literature’s most famous, wittily kicking off one of the most beloved of all classics. And yet, 17 British publishers failed to recognize it and rejected the manuscript when Jane’s name and the title were changed. What happens when the gatekeepers of literature are illiterate?
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A bay bay
Speaking of ‘highly virulent earworms,’ today’s NY Times suggests that searching for this year’s ‘song of the summer’ may lead to "one sad conclusion." Have today’s hitmakers failed to live up to the jams of yesteryear? Others have offered their opinions…
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The Former Shah of Iran Speaks
The Shah of Iran talks about torture, his own popularity, and corruption.
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Rogue taxidermy
Nate Hill is a rogue taxidermist. He collects raw materials from some nasty places, and creates new, better animals from them. Now he has a bigger project. Then there is his TV show, Chop, chop.
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One more game you cannot win…
For nearly two decades, fifty computers have been running day and night on an extremely complex problem. Today, scientists from the University of Alberta announced the result of all that work – they have solved the game of checkers. Chinook, the computer program they developed, can never be beaten – try for yourself. While checkers is the most complicated game to be solved so far, it is not the only one. You can play a perfect game of tic-tac-toe, of course, but also connect four, and a 6×6 board of the game othello. Chess players are already thinking ahead to when their game is solved, with Advanced Chess being Gary Kasparov’s answer. The hardest game to completely solve might be Go, which may not be solved until 2100.
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If the iPhone had been made in the 80s
The son of industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger (creator of the distinct styling of the Apple IIc and subsequent products, as well as founder of frog design) shares memories and photographs (auf Deutsch; Google cache) of Apple’s early attempts at an iPhone.
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Bring email to life, and put spam to death!
Just when you thought virtual reality couldn’t get any worse, it’s 3D Email!
3D Mailbox delivers a fantastic, smarter e-mail experience. Immerse yourself in 3-D as you read and write your mail. Relax to the sounds of the ocean, seagulls, and cool tunes. Hang with your mail poolside, or feed your spam to the sharks! Deleting spam is so much fun, you may wish you had more!
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Malaria: The Buzz of Death
This year, 500 million people will get malaria and about a million of them will die from it. Some scientists believe that one out of every two people who have ever lived have died of malaria. Here are some reports from Sierra Leone on efforts to control this deadly disease.
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Psychiatry in pictures
Psychiatry in Pictures is a monthly feature of The British Journal of Psychiatry which often demonstrates art created by the psychopathologically afflicted. Other installments include portraits of important figures in the history of psychiatry, paintings drawn during art therapy, and photographs of (quite inhumane) psychiatric treatments.
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Wrinkled and Rankled
Okay, it wasn’t exactly banned, but the new Dove ad for their anti-aging products– featuring tastefully nude older women– was pre-emptively rejected by broadcast networks. Dove’s Campaign For Real Beauty shares reactions, lets you meet the cast, and invites you to discuss.
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these ppl better hope they don’t find themselves on the moon!
Problem: How to get laid. Solution: Edit Super Mario World.
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Powerful mood-altering chemicals
Alexyss Tylor was right! Semen is a powerful drug. (Fairly SFW, text-only link.)
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Harlem-13-Gigapixels
On a summer afternoon in 2006, New York photographer Gerard Maynard captured his neighborhood from a rooftop at 7th Avenue and 110th Street. The resulting 2,045 photographs, stitched together, comprise a 13-gigapixel panorama of Harlem’s skyline. Best viewed with HDView option (MS Internet Explorer only).
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Oh God the mother of all earworms
If it’s highly virulent earworms you’re looking for, you will probably want to check out "Spanish Flea," an irrepressibly cheerful song written by Julius Wechter and recorded by Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass. This slight, two-minute instrumental from 1965 (originally with lyrics by Cissy Wechter) has become so popular as ‘waiting room music’ and ‘hold music’ that it’s become a cliche of the genre, and it’s quite likely that you’ve heard at least a snippet of it at some point in your life. (Perhaps repeatedly, late at night, at your local supermarket?) It’s been used for several film soundtracks (American Pie 2, Ocean’s Eleven, Striptease, etc.) and, perhaps most famously, as one of the theme songs for the show "The Dating Game." Of course, in the most striking gauge of its cultural ubiquity, The Simpsons has referenced it not one but four times (only two are available on youtube). The song’s infectious melody has spawned innumerable homages, ranging from interesting to amusing to thought-provoking to imbecilic to bizarre
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AKARI IR Sky map
The AKARI mission has produced the first infra-red sky map in over 20 years.
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