Your Sunday Video: Bubbles, numbers, and pinball.

thedailywhat:

Sober Trip of the Day: Jesse Zanzinger watches this classic Sesame Street short through oil and water.

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Keep on keeping on.

Keep on keeping on.

Hajj is the largest pilgrimage in the world.  According to the Saudi Press Agency, a record number of Muslims were expected to make the Hajj this year - over 3.4 million anticipated over the five days of the pilgrimage. It began on November 14th and the photos are extraordinary.  See some incredible ones here. Photo: Tens of thousands of Muslims pray inside the Grand Mosque during the annual Hajj on November 12, 2010 (AP Photo/Hassan Amar). View high resolution

Hajj is the largest pilgrimage in the world.  According to the Saudi Press Agency, a record number of Muslims were expected to make the Hajj this year - over 3.4 million anticipated over the five days of the pilgrimage.

It began on November 14th and the photos are extraordinary.  See some incredible ones here.

Photo: Tens of thousands of Muslims pray inside the Grand Mosque during the annual Hajj on November 12, 2010 (AP Photo/Hassan Amar).

Together together together. alyricaday: #ALAD299 - MGMT - The Youth This is my everyday project for 2010. Taking one lyric from a song every day and creating art or taking a photo inspired from that lyric. Follow Me At alyricaday.com / faq.alyricaday.com / Twitter View high resolution

Together together together.

alyricaday:

#ALAD299 - MGMT - The Youth

This is my everyday project for 2010. Taking one lyric from a song every day and creating art or taking a photo inspired from that lyric.

Follow Me At alyricaday.com / faq.alyricaday.com / Twitter

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Your Sunday Video: How (not) to start your own country at sea.

roomthily:

A History of Libertarian Countries at Sea (by jason sussberg)

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The New York City Marathon may be the only athletic event where it doesn’t matter how fast you are or who you are.  Even in the Olympics - the supposed pinnacle of sportsmanship - countries matter.  Here, they don’t.  We will cheer for you just as hard if you’re a Frenchman running the marathon in 2 hours and 45 minutes, or a Chilean miner taking more than twice that long.  Watching the runners whiz/jog/limp by, it almost made me want to run 26+ miles.  Almost.

(Photos from NYTimes.  See more here.)

Your Week-End Video: Bizarre, but strangely entertaining.

thedailywhat:

Viral Ad of the Day: Ogilvy & Mather Paris’s ridiculous spot for the controversial new Scrabble game, Scrabble Trickster.

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As the evening wound down I became friends with another kind of strong, hard-working immigrant, a Polish bottle of vodka. The next day, Ms. Bhojwani would sum up the results from our immigrant prespective: ‘We elected two Latino governors and one South Asian, and despite their own immigrant heritage, they are anti-immigrant.’ Even before morning came, on the television and laptop screens and portable electronic devices, the results were becoming decisive. Our nation’s citizens, whether immigrant or native-born, had chosen a very difficult path for the future.
Gary Shteyngart on an immigrant’s election party (via newyorker)
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Apparently this is “old,” but it just caught my attention after Andrew Sullivan posted a re-mix of this.  I like it so, so much.

More election analysis

Michael Scherer:

In 1993, Russ Feingold arrived at the U.S. Senate as a freshman with a number one priority: Deficit reduction.

Tonight, about 18 years later, one of the Senate’s liberal lions lost his reelection. He had fashioned himself into a reliable independent voice in the Senate, protesting health care reform from the left, voting against financial regulatory reform because it did not go far enough, and protesting President Obama’s expansion of the military conflict in Afghanistan.

Andrew Sullivan:

12.06 am Apologies. I got trapped on a BBC TV set, watching John Boehner, tan-free, blubber up about finally getting his American dream. It was a lovely re-branding, but utterly devoid of content. Which is about as good a metaphor for the GOP in this election as one can imagine.

In other news, first female Latina governor (Susana Martinez, R-New Mexico) and first female Indian governor in history (Nikki Haley, R-South Carolina).  Pretty cool.