Senator Edward Kennedy Is Dead

He died shortly before midnight tonight. He succumbed to the brain cancer he had been suffering from since May 2008.
More:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TedKennedy/story?id=6692022
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/26/obit.ted.kennedy/index.html

Neat Grizzly Bear Fan Video

Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear from Gabe Askew on Vimeo.

The Rise of the Rest

A really cool video based on Fareed Zakaria’s excellent Newsweek article titled “The Rise of the Rest“. I love the use of infographics to in the video and the haunting piano music by Carly Comando.
From the Youtube page:
“Rise of the Rest” is a term coined by Fareed Zakaria on the post-American world. It is not [...]

Arthur and Jim

I gave these two guys a lift to Park City this morning. They were on their way to Cheyenne and then on to Denver. Arthur says he has about 4 months to live and is looking forward to fishing in Wyo, Jim hopes to find work in construction in Denver. Best of luck and a [...]

High Fives Are Pretty Great

Yes they are. The sign is part of a larger project to inject humor into people’s daily lives. Streetsigns
Via Laughing Squid

Awesome Outage Page

Grooveshark has a most excellent service outage page.

Speed and be destroyed by a freaking tank

Kind of reminds me of the “Speed enforced by Apache chopper” image.

Via Gizmodo

Performance

Crappy Taxidermy

I just love some of these Tumblr sites I’m finding.

Crappy Taxidermy
See also:
Look at this fucking hipster
Look at this lovely hamster

Shaq Dunking on a Shark

Without a doubt, the most epic image I’ve seen in the last month.

The illustration is part of a series of advertisements for Li-Ning’s (a Chinese sports branding agency) Style Fighter 3+1 Basketball Challenge. The ads feature Shaq, Baron Davis and Jose Calderon playing in a court that represents their individual style.
There are more here and [...]