Two top grandmasters, Maxim Dlugy and Hikaru Nakamura, battle it out in a 1-minute blitz game after the U.S. Championship. These guys are amazing. They play chess so quickly.
I hardly know chess and pretty much suck at games that require me to think. Who wants to play snake and ladders with me?
Look at this fascinating footage of a traditional ceremony that takes place on the Pakistan India border. From the BBC
The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.
Think what you are watching on screen is real? Perhaps this is the new film making process:
Why muslims should be profiled:
What a retarded argument.
Flash mob with elves. It’s probably an ad campaign, still fun though: