- How ad posters for Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Skype might have looked in the 60s (via @einGott)
Links and Videos of the Week (2010/37)
- Great photos from the solar system, collected at The Big Picture
- Given the bullshit that some Catholic leaders babble about Hitler and atheism: lots of Hitler quotes, an old election poster “Why is a Catholic obliged to vote for the parliamentary list of Adolf Hitler?”1, the pope speech as Venn diagram2, and those who still agree to the atheist/nazi comparison, please raise your hand3.
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A visualization of putting 1,2,4,… rice corns on a chessboard (via Mathlog)
- Crop circle lunatics at work (via Pharyngula)
» Source of the cropcircled symbol
- via @zoonpolitikon ↺
- via @einGott ↺
- via @_sapereaude_ ↺
Links and Videos of the Week (2010/35+36)
- Wanna dive into the water? Here are some nice photos at The Big Picture.
- Photo post production before/after images (via visuelleGedanken)
- The calculus version of Bohemian Rhapsody (via Mathlog (und rolak))
Links and Videos of the Week (2010/34)
- Surreal photo manipulation (via pickspack)
- Intelligent Design? Pshaw, boring and stupid. But the Intelligent Gestation Theory’s great!
- A nightly landscape lit only by the milky way
- A great timelapse video with shooting stars (via Bad Astronomy)
- A tornado made of fire (via Bad Astronomy)
(Something was embedded as Flash object here. Not exactly sensible anymore.)
The Smilie Galaxy?
The emphasis in this newly released image of the Antennae Galaxies is mine, of course – anyway it’s nice to see an entire galaxy smile. 
Just wondering what the New-Agey woo-woos may think about that – face of god? Manifestation of galactic love? Kryon’s wife? A guardian for the synchronization beam? …?
← The original image is a composite of images from Chandra (X-ray, shown in blue), Hubble (gold and brown), and Spitzer (infrared, shown as red) and is taken from HubbleSite which also has more info and higher resoluion images.
Credits: HubbleSite, NASA, ESA, SAO, CXC, JPL-Caltech, STScI