Ladies and gentlegeeks, behold, Marvel and Paramount have just released the first official movie trailer for the Joss Whedon-directed Avengers movie, and I hope, by Vectron’s kindly claws, that Joss is going to turn this one into the best movie of the series.
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Yep geeks, Google Earth has recently passed the one billion downloads mark, so to celebrate, Google has just released this video. I know I’ve downloaded the software at least 20 times in the past few years, so considering this, evaluating the number of real users using the product would be kind of difficult.
Wow, that was one of the first thing I’ve ever heard that was both painful and awesome at the same time! :)
Music by John Williams. Lyrics by Brett Domino.
[Source: Awkward Zombie]
Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled — compared to almost 90% of metals — because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy efficient plant that can, and does, recycle any kind of plastic.
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Seems climate change has forced Bigfoot away from his traditionally chilly home; the elusive (but totally real) beast of legend has had to resort to extremes, apparently, as he was recently spotted strolling along the surface of the Sun.
See? Alan Friedman snapped this shot of an oddly familiar-looking solar prominence.
[A] prominence [is] an eruption of ionized gas off the surface of the Sun, guided by the twisting and churning solar magnetic field. Prominences can take all sorts of shapes — even angels and dragons — as they launch upward and fall back down to the Sun’s surface.
Don’t see Sassy? Here:
Haters gonna hate. If you’re interested in solar activity, check out our [GaS] Science Class on the topic.
Chris Evans-Roberts from Ithaca Audio used an APC40 (Ableton Performance Controller) to create this totally epic mashup using some samples from The Imperial March, the theme from Shaft, and sounds from a few other sources.
[Via G.TDW]