Archives for category: I must retire to my nerdery

the new broken bells music video (for my favorite song on the album), starring christina hendricks!

perhaps the oldest in australia, this rock painting shows an extinct bird, the genyornis.

cris benton’s photos from the above salt pond here, a bajillion other awesome aerial kite photographs of salt ponds here.

via io9

a visual representation of the earth’s geologic timeline, including aspects of ancient geology we live with in the present day.

the prince and his katamari, by mark ellis.

behold: the latest installment of the spitzer science center’s web series for kids. starring amy okuda from ‘the guild’ and the voice of wil wheaton. the setting: the giant ring of saturn!

tangent: as wil wheaton has noted via his site and twitter, there was a truly great line in the finale of ‘the big bang theory’ last night, and I’d like to share it here:

…there are man-made objects on the moon, put there by a member of a species that only 60 years before had just invented the airplane!

whoa. right??

via io9

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M.A.D.E.M.O.I.S.E.L.L.E.

via eric

endor

more here.

Captain America

more here, buy posters here.