Cool/Exciting/Interesting things (probably videos)


#287

Posting it here to avoid region restrictions.

Edit: Bah, it didn’t work. YouTube must have changed their way of checking where people are from.


#288

The US government is forcing Apple to backdoor encryption on the iPhone. They’re fighting it.


#289

According to Tesla, their Model S now makes up 25% of large luxury car sales in the US


#290

The entire first episode of Making a Murderer.


#291

Forgot the name of the damn show so I was caught by surprise with the ending. That was really good.


#292

Lexus LC 500h


#293

From 3Blue1Brown, a quick video showing some space-filling curves.


#294

Winners of the 2016 World Press Photo Contest. Some powerful stuff here.


#295

From as far back as 1927, when the award was for “Best Engineering Effects”, here’s a list of all the films that have won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Among the winners were Alien (x2), Titanic, Star Wars (x3), Lord of the Rings (x3), Ben Hur, Benjamin Button, Gravity, and The Matrix.


#297

http://tholman.com/texter/


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#300

What do free, open, and peaceful borders look like?

Valerio Vincenzo’s project, Borderline, the Frontiers of Peace, consists of photos of the erased borders between countries in Europe’s Schengen Area.




#301

#302

Worth watching: the last three minutes of this TED talk featuring a swarm of micro drones


#304

Bugatti Chiron


#305

Koenigsegg Regera


#306

#307

Medieval-style map of Mars

From Eleanor Lutz, a gorgeous medieval-style map of Mars


#308

A complete history of the Millennium Falcon, from conception to finished product