500 Impressions (in 2 Minutes)

INCREDIBLE!

Unusual Buildings

Some really great buildings here. All quite bizarre and most pretty beautiful.

http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world/

Squirrels dancing to Michael Jackson

It's impossible not to smile while watching this.

I like smiling.

President Obama

I have newly renewed faith in the American people.

Barack Obama has won the election by a landslide

Jonathan Coulton sings Creepy Doll live with Neil Gaiman!

I can't believe that Jonathon Coulton and Neil Freakin' Gaiman were both on their way to Manchester on the same day that I was flying out of Manchester on business.

Opportunity missed...

Neil's blog post

Deal of the day

Somebody at play.com has a sense of humour

Edit:
To add a little context, this deal was posted on the day that this was going down.

Fox News - Fair and balanced

John Cleese on Sarah Palin

John Cleese cuts to the chase. I couldn't agree more.

Amazing miniature midtown Manhattan

via MAKE Magazine by Collin Cunningham on 02/10/08

Wow. Now that's impressive!

Michael Chesko built this scale model of NYC's midtown using balsa wood and a love for detail -

This scale miniature of Midtown took 2000 hours to complete. As reference, he used blueprints, old photographs, digital reproductions, and satellite images. On a good day, he'd work his way through four city blocks. The entire model is 36" x 30"... a good deal smaller than most office desks. At the 1:3200 scale, the Empire State Building Chesko's favorite skyscraper) roughly reaches the dizzying height of a Campbell's Soup can.

- Check out Tinselman's blog for more pics and info - Stop and Smell the Miniatures

Dolphins play with bubble rings

Wow, now that's seriously cool!