AT-AT Day Afternoon

Link: Vimeo via NOTCOT.ORG

James Sawyer: Six Seasons of Son of a Bitch

Lego Facebook

Warpaint – "Elephants"

Via: Stereogum

What Brooklyn Neighborhood Should You Live In?

Take the quiz to find out where you should live in Brookyn if you moved there. I scored Brooklyn Heights, and I'd probably agree with those results.

-Matt


Link: What Brooklyn Neighborhood Should You Live In? | Quizfarm

Hugo Reyes: Six Seasons of Dude

Via: DocArzt

Happy Father's Day #35!

RIP Manute Bol

NBA legend Manute Bol died this morning at a hospital in Charlottesville, VA, he was 47 years old. Bol was hospitalized in May with acute kidney failure and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a potentially deadly skin disease. He spent much of his NBA salary on charitable efforts to end violence in Sudan.


RIP Manute. You'll always be remembered.

-Matt

Americans’ Tolerance for World Cup Soccer

25,000 Barrels of Oil Seen a New Way

"Mass physics demonstration I rendered in the UDK, simulating 25,000 barrels stacked around a pillar 15,000 feet high, and then group by group falling to the ground."

Via: Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

MGMT - "It's Working"

Link: Stereogum

New Crocodiles single "Sleep Forever"

We haven’t heard from BTW Crocodiles since their Christmas-themed 7-inch with Dum Dum Girls. Turns out they spend the first half of 2010 prepping a followup to last year’s Summer Of Hate. Listen to first single “Sleep Forever,” and you’ll notice some changes — a cleaner sound, less snottiness in singer Brandon Welchez’s vocals.

Download the single here: Stereogum

See also: mattmaison: crocodiles

ESPN Commercial Featuring Andre Ethier

Link: SportsCenter.com via Blue Heaven

Rick K and the Allnighters - "Sharp Dressed Man"

Best. Drummer. Ever. (4:23)

Vin Scully Billboard

Via: Vin Scully Is My Homeboy

Quiz: Field of Dreams

How much do you know about one of the most beloved baseball films of all time? Take the quiz and find out.

Link: The Baseball Movie Quiz: Field of Dreams | mental_floss

Something To Cry About

2010 Cadillac SRX Crossover

The ad for the 2010 Cadillac SRX Crossover, featuring the song "Psychic City" (Rory Phillips Remix) by YACHT.

The 10 Strangest and Most AWESOME Choose Your Own Adventure Books

A humorous look at 10 Choose Your Own Adventure covers. Some new and some old. My mom still owes me a set of them since she lost/gave away mine...

#17 The Race Forever (1983) – How do you win a race that never ends? And if the race never ends, how can the book end? I guess it can’t, so don’t read this book otherwise you’ll be reading FOREVER.

Link: The 10 Strangest and Most AWESOME Choose Your Own Adventure books | Cavalcade of Awesome via neatorama

Glactic Panspermia

Eventually life on Earth will come to an end. Professor Michael Mautner has written a good essay about what we can do to insure life as we define it continues to exist in the galaxy when we're gone.

According to Michael Mautner, Research Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University, seeding the universe with life is not just an option, it’s our moral obligation. As members of this planet’s menagerie, and a consequence of nearly 4 billion years of evolution, humans have a purpose to propagate life. After all, whatever else life is, it necessarily possesses an incessant drive for self-perpetuation. And the idea isn’t just fantasy: Mautner says that 'directed panspermia' missions can be accomplished with present technology.

-Matt


Link: We have a 'moral obligation' to seed universe with life | PhysOrg.com