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This might be my favorite thing ever. You must click and scroll:

Watch as 25 minutes of your life pass in an instant:

But soon after launching the site, Pretor-Pinney received a couple pictures that didn’t quite fit into existing classifications. One image, taken from the 12th floor of an office building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, looked positively apocalyptic — a violent and undulating thing menacing the city skyline. “They struck me as being rather different from the normal undulates clouds,”

Pete Warden on why nerd culture must die:

And that’s where the problem lies. We’re still behaving like the rebel alliance, but now we’re the Empire. We got where we are by ignoring outsiders and believing in ourselves even when nobody else would. The decades have proved that our way was largely right and the critics were wrong, so our habit of not listening has become deeply entrenched.

Back in January, Kottke reported that the soundtrack for Her would be released in some form at some point. We’re not talking the music inspired by Her, we’re talking the full Arcade Fire soundtrack full of strange, wonderful ambient tracks.

I’ve been checking every month or so and was delighted to find what appears to be this soundtrack on Grooveshark last night. It appears legit, but after a cursory search of the internet, it appears to be the only copy of the soundtrack available.

Via Aeon:

‘If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way,’ he said. ‘And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.’