Selective censoring
I’ve always suspected that reality shows selectively censor what people are saying to make it seem much saucier than it actually is. If you’re skeptical, watch this clip from Sesame Street where some enterprising soul has selectively censored The Count. Watch it all the way through, and I dare you not to laugh:
Simplicity in software
Almost every person I know that has been involved with software design should find this comic about software simplicity funny.
4 Popped-Collars
I can’t help but laugh every time I see this picture. Seriously.
via img297.imageshack.us
(Via David Chartier’s I’ve Tumbled, and I can’t get up!)
Incredible short takeoff and landing
A pilot friend of mine figures that there must have been at least a 30 knot headwind when this video was taken. Sounds reasonable to me.
(Via A Welsh View.)
Airplane Photography
Check out this arresting set of airplane photos.
From the photographer’s site:
Flying an airplane was one of my earliest dreams. Building and flying all the model planes I could afford, I became intimately familiar with aircraft design, and at the age of 17, I received my pilot’s license.
Heavy metal, as the wide body jets are known, is the ultimate achievement in engineering and design. While aircraft evoke many different feelings, since 9/11, no one can ever again look at a large airliner without the distant but ominous memory of how easily they were turned into weapons by a small band of terrorists. They are a symbol of how vulnerable our highly technological society has become.
In this portfolio I explore a typology of the varied cruciform shapes of jet aircraft flying precisely overhead as if frozen in space. I have decontextualized these highly detailed photographs to express the complexity and beauty of form. That these giant conglomerations of aluminum, can gracefully lift from earth is amazing. That they can return safely some hours later on another part of the globe is even more amazing. My aircraft photograph.
[via LFSTYL]Â
