Some great images (and Golden State Warriors shoutouts!) in this amusing Kanye West parody:

(via Noel @ SideCho)

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The Our Lady Immaculate and St. Phillip Neri Church in Uckfield, England is donning a portrayal of Jesus that attempts to relate the ancient with the modern:

Jesus wearing jeans.

Though opinions are mixed, the image answers the question of the ages:

The King of Kings hangs to the left.

BBC News link

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30,000 feet above Greenland, on an international flight from San Francisco to Frankfurt, I look out the window and my jaw dropped. Luminous green ribbons of aurora borealis, rippling and flashing against the dark starry sky, right outside the airplane window. For three hours I stared out the window in utter awe of the natural world.

In simple terms, the Aurora Borealis (in the North) and the Aurora Australis (in the South) happen when charged particles (electrons, protons, and what-have-you) released by the Sun collide with the Earth’s upper atmosphere. The glowing green and red light comes from these particles exciting oxygen in the upper atmosphere (other colors = other gasses). These particles are guided by Earth’s magnetic field lines and pulled toward an area around 65º North or South latitude (Alaska, northern Canada, Siberia, Iceland, southern Greenland, northern Scandinavia and Finland, and the coast of Antarctica).

Two weeks ago, at the Bay Area Maker Faire, I bought an “Aurorarium” – although it doesn’t actually create an aurora, it makes aurora-looking light patterns on the walls and ceiling. It is a Japanese Gekkan science kit and comes with a cool glossy color magazine about Aurorae: available online at the Maker Shed for $29.95.
It’s pretty damn pretty.

BBC’s Chris Lintott shows us Aurora Borealis over Norway:



Snap, Crackle, and Glow Bonus Round:
Listening to the radio discharges of Aurora Borealis:

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A friend recently turned me on to the Korean Ramen Game.
It’s simple.
It’s addictive.

For those of you who can’t read Korean:
• The game can sometimes take a few minutes to load.
• Click on the pot on the right to start.
• Add water, then add noodles.
• Add one egg, one onion, and one spice packet.
• Add all of the ingredients and remove from the stove before it burns.
• Repeat until your eyes bleed.

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(photos from AFP/Spiegel)

Last Sunday, the Baltic nation of Latvia discovered the cure for the doldrums of economic despair:

A parade of HOT HOT BLONDES!

(via PhillyDTV, via Spiegel)

Matching Carpet Bonus Fact:
The mutation that gave rise to blonde hair came about around 11,000 years ago (during the last Ice Age) – given the modern distribution of blondes, Latvia may be the geographic origin of blonde hair.

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The name says it all: YourBabyIsAnAsshole.com

(via Eva)

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