This has surely got to be the best baseball catch ever. He runs up the wall like spiderman, leaps and catches the ball just as it was sailing into the crowd. Incredible. Link from Kottke.
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My friend Dom Britt performs the impressive feat:
I think this is a great idea. A photographer searches for historic photos (in this case World War 2 and Russia) and merges them exactly with modern photographs. The end result is incredibly impressive:
Check out the full article at Gizmodo.
It’s not that original but it’s still pretty cool!
I like this film as it shows the world falling apart completely:
The below is the latest film from The Big RD. It’s from the Cheltenham Festival and features the world’s longest advertising billboard. It’s actually nearly twice the size of the Hollywood sign. Take a look:
I’m a huge fan of Jared Diamond’s work, in particular ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’. As such I always get excited when I see reports on the dawn of civlization and the movements of early man.
Smithsonian Mag has a report that a recent discovery may indicate that society did not spawn religion but that religion in fact spawned society. They have discovered a temple in Turkey which predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years.
Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. The megaliths predate Stonehenge by some 6,000 years. The place is called Gobekli Tepe, and Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been working here more than a decade, is convinced it’s the site of the world’s oldest temple.
To read the full article click here.