A beautiful and thought-provoking video/animation from Bruce Branit of a future I am certain will be accessible:

This is super sweet: an underwater 360-degree panorama. Click on fullscreen, then click and drag around to navigate. You can also use the scroll function to zoom in and out. From 360cities, via BoingBoing.

Amedee Coral Reef New Caledonia in New Caledonia

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So the most recent viral video that’s been making its way around the ‘nets is called “David After Dentist” and depicts a boy just after having a tooth pulled who is still drugged up on anesthesia and is basically drunk. It’s been generating a lot of comment for being both funny and controversial. I think a lot of us can relate to what David is going through here, but was it right for his father (I assume) to film him in a moment of weakness and put it on the internet? Would he have guessed that it would garner a staggering 4 million views in just one week ? And that it would spawn a large number of “remixes“?

For The Win, David asks: “Is this real life?” The question of our times indeed.

Here is the original:

And here is my favorite remix so far, the METAL version! Headbanging and all. It rulez.

This is possibly the most insane, and thus coolest, thing I have ever seen. It’s like a dream.

The Buffalo Beast (a blog, a site, a newspaper?) has published its annual list of the “50 Most Loathsome People in America“. It’s incendiary, no-political-persuasions-spared, and completely hilarious.

Snip:

43. You

Charges: You think it’s your patriotic duty to spend money you don’t have on crap you don’t need. You think Hillary lost because of sexism, when it’s actually because she’s just a bad liar. You think Iraq is better off now than before we invaded, and don’t understand why they’re so ungrateful. You think Tim Russert was a great journalist. You’re hopping mad about an auto industry bailout that cost a squirt of piss compared to a Wall Street heist of galactic dimensions, due to a housing crash you somehow have blamed on minorities. It took you six years to figure out what a tool Bush is, but you think Obama will make it all better. You deem it hunky dory that we conduct national policy debates via 8-second clips from “The View.” You think God zapped humans into existence a few thousand years ago, although your appendix and wisdom teeth disagree. You like watching vicious assholes insult each other on TV. You support gun rights, because firing one gives you a chubby. You cuddle falsehoods and resent enlightenment. You think the fact that 43% of whites could stomach voting for an incredibly charismatic and eloquent light-skinned black guy who was raised by white people means racism is over. You think progressive taxation is socialism. 1 in 100 of you are in jail, and you think it should be more. You are shallow, inconsiderate, afraid, brand-conscious, sedentary, and totally self-obsessed. You are American.

Exhibit A: You’re more upset by Miley Cyrus’s glamour shots than the fact that you are a grown adult who is upset about Miley Cyrus.

Sentence: Invaded and occupied by Canada; all military units busy overseas without enough fuel to get back.

As the article has been linked from ten million sites, it’s not always possible to access it due to their undoubtedly off-the-charts bandwidth requests. But check back in a day or two if you can’t get there now. The idiots of 2008 won’t be disappearing that quickly.