(via La mesa de luz » El volcán Puyehue)
Incredible photos of the Puyehue eruption whose ash-cloud caused Sydney airport to shut down for a day, and my San Francisco to Sydney flight to be cancelled.
(via Buy Groceries At A Virtual Supermarket Inside A Subway Station | Gizmodo Australia)
Very neat. In Korea, Tesco have set up a system where you use your mobile phone to scan QR codes on a virtual grocery wall while you wait for the subway. Checkout and pay using your phone and the groceries are delivered to your home by the end of the day.
Pretty neat, but I haven’t been to a place with a subway system that has underground mobile reception yet.
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Thousands dress up as Where’s Wally character to break world record | Metro
And by way of explanation.
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Japanese way of folding T-shirts! (by mushk45)
Best part about this are the YouTube comments of awe and wonder over how it works. ^_^
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Inner City 4th Graders Share their Stories
Two years ago, Judy Gelles was volunteering at an inner city public school and was assigned to a fourth-grade class. The school was as diverse as they come with children from African American, Hispanic and Asian immigrants. After several months of helping the students with their reading skills, she felt the need to connect with them on a deeper level. Mostly, she wanted to find out their stories.
She asked each student the following three questions:
Whom do they live with?
What do they wish for?
What do they worry about?
The project turned out to be an eye-opening experience. “Their stories seemed to capture the gamut of societal issues that we face today; violence, immigration, the demise of the nuclear family, global hunger, and the impact of the media and popular culture,” she tells us. “The gray fortress door of the school became a blank slate for their words. Since the student is not be facing the camera, he or she remains anonymous. The words and images become more universal, rather than specific to that particular student.”
People keep saying that kids have it easy, that things were simpler when they were young. It might have been like that once, but probably not so much any more.
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Infographic of the Day: 108 of the Best Haircuts in Music History
What’s pop music without crazy haircuts? Nothing, that’s what — and as iconic as the great pop stars are, you might be surprised at how iconic their hair is, all by itself.
Just check this new poster from Pop Chart Lab, which reproduces the haircuts of 108 inimitable pop stars. The truly uncanny thing is how many you can probably recognize without even looking at the name:
Weird, right? Of course, the poster has many, many omissions — I mean seriously, no Bieber? C’MON. But if you tweet new suggestions to @popchartlab and they use it in the next version of the poster, they’ll give you a $10 giftcard.
See the full chart when you click through.
(Source: fastcompany, via thedailyfeed)
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Whenever a death sentence is commuted or a death-row inmate is released, anywhere in the world, the Colosseum’s nighttime illumination is changed from white to gold.
It’s a gesture against the death penalty, which Italy abolished in 1948.
(via brain-food)
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Two Cunts in a Kitchen, or sometimes, less graphically Two Cs in a K, is slang used within the advertising industry for a type of television commercial. Generally, the commercial shows two women in a domestic scene, discussing, using, or otherwise portraying the advertiser’s product in a positive manner. (via Dylan)
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Sardine Bunny School:
A tightly-packed school of sardines, looking like an oil slick, appeared in the waters off of Acapulco, Mexico. Thousands of anchovies, striped bass and mackerel also showed along the coast of the Mexican resort in what some suspected was an effect of the recent tsunami. (Photo: AFP / Getty via the Daily Mail)
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