Artist: Cheap Thrills

Virgin Atlantic's new inflight passenger instant messaging system might be the greatest thing ever invented.

An older video (from 2010) courtesy of the European PGA Tour in which four golfers attempt to knock clay pigeons out of the sky with a golf ball. Including the missed shots makes the actually hits seem much more epic and worthy of celebration. [ Thanks, Tommy! ]

Carpenter Andy Stewart learned boat-building as a young age because that was his family's trade. To hear him talk about his craft and the process of hand-making a wooden boat will make you ache for a bygone era that only exists in your mind. Just as easily, though, Stewart could be discussing boats and boat-building as a greater metaphor for what it takes to succeed in life. No man is an island, not even one living on a boat. [via gizmodo ]

GeoGuessr  is a cool new game consisting of five rounds wherein you plopped into an unknown location on Google Maps and asked to guess your location. It's hard. My high score so far is around 11,000. My first thought was this is the next evolution of Andrew Sullivan's long-running View From Your Window contest .  [via Kottke ]

Voilà que Du Tonc , le duo composé de Mighty Mouse et de Matt Van Schie (du groupe australien Van She) réapparaît à la surface en ayant pris soin de rapporter avec eux un nouveau morceau du nom de Surging Memories . Après leur premier single Darkness , nous sommes ravi de découvrir cette magnifique balade disco qui nous transporte au-delà des océans. Et c'est un régal de l'écouter lors d'une belle journée. Le single est déjà sorti sur Cheap Thrills et vous pouvez vous le procurer [...]

Taiki & Nulight have dropped their debut full EP on Cheap Thrills. Late Nights EP features 4 tracks; Take Me Up, Footwerk, Late Nights and Offkey. You can grab Late Nights for free here. mp3: Taiki & Nulight - Late Nights (Sendspace) Support from the likes of Rack n Ruin, Nihal, Synkro, Roska, Zinc, JJ, Feadz, Christian Martin, Amtrac, Addison Groove, Tommie Sunshine and the Plump DJ's help to give you an idea of why this EP is so HUGE. Grab it from [...]

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It's been awhile since I've posted a Google Doodle, because, quite frankly, I've just grown bored and tired of them. However, I'll make the exception today, because Google put together a nifty little homage to designer Saul Bass , with a musical interlude from Dave Brubeck's "Unsquare Dance." The following film title sequences are referenced: Psycho, The Man with the Golden Arm, Spartacus, West Side Story, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Anatomy of a Murder, Ocean's 11 , and Around the World in Eighty Days. Light up a smoke. Pour two fingers [...]

I don’t feel any urge to buy an Audi, but I will slow clap them to death on this very excellent commercial featuring Leonard Nimoy Vulcan pinching Zachary Quinto. [via geekosystem ]

It’s safe to assume that everybody in America has seen the interview with Charles Ramsey , the hero neighbor who found the three missing Cleveland women and called 911 - after eating McDonald's. There were of course, a bunch to of remixes to hit on Tuesday, but The Gregory Brothers , masters and inventors of the genre, have done us all a solid. [via HV ]

We've already heaped plenty of praise on NPR's Chana Joffe-Walt , not necessarily for her name - which is definitely gnarly - but because she's so damn good at what she does. Anyway, The Atlantic takes a look at all the unusual and awesome names of NPR correspondents : But can you still make it in the radio business with a plain name? Robert Smith of Planet Money told me by email that the only reason to change his name "would be so that I could be more famous. You would remember [...]

Say what? Shark embryos cannibalize their littermates in the womb, with the largest embryo eating all but one of its siblings. Now, researchers know why: It's part of a struggle for paternity in utero, where babies of different fathers compete to be born. The researchers, who detailed their findings today (April 30) in the journal Biology Letters, analyzed shark embryos found in sand tiger sharks (Carcharias taurus) at various stages of gestation and found that the later in pregnancy, the more likely the remaining [...]

GrittyReboots, which gained notoriety for its realistic Pokémon Snap movie trailer, recently dropped gritty takes for Calvin & Hobbes and another for PBS . Both are great. The Calvin and Hobbes one focuses on the dark side of having a wild imagination as an adult; while the PBS one is excellent, it should have been a comedy. The concept of Carl Sagan, Mister Rogers, Bob Ross, and Bill Nye taking on bad television as an Avengers-style public television superhero team is kind of ridiculous and hilarious. [...]

Paul Miller ends his one-year Internet sabbatical : I guess those first months felt so good because I felt the absence of the pressures of the internet. My freedom felt tangible. But when I stopped seeing my life in the context of "I don't use the internet," the offline existence became mundane, and the worst sides of myself began to emerge. I would stay at home for days at a time. My phone would die, and nobody could get ahold of me. At some point my parents would get fed up with wondering [...]

Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman 's huge inflatable sculpture, appropriately named Rubber Duck, will sail into Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong and be on display until June 9. Hofman's famous duck, which stands 16.5 meters high, has floated in waters around the world, including: Sydney, Osaka, and Sao Paolo. This is the very first time it has ever been in Hong Kong. “My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment and put a smile on your face," says the artist. "They give people a break from their daily routines. Passers-by stop in front of them and enter into conversation with [...]

I love a good poop joke as much as the next person. The PDX poop pranksters have attacked stop signs in Old Town and at the Joan of Arc statue in the Laurelhurst neighborhood, too. We salute you. [via themerc ]

GQ finally throws a bone to all the people who care about style but can't afford to pay $1500 for a custom tailored suit. Its list of suits under $400 includes brands like Armani, Tallia Orange, Kenneth Cole, H&M, and more. Great style doesn't always mean breaking the bank. A lot of great looks to emulate.

Anyone that's ever attended a multi-day music festival knows how horrible using the port-o-potties are. There should be a better solution for men that can pee wherever and thanks to French design firm Faltazi we may have a solution. The Uritonnoir - crappy name aside - is a straw bale-like urinal that turns urine into nutrient-rich compost. Inhabitat has more : The big bale of straw may look more appropriate for a farm yard than a music festival, but Faltazi outfits each bale [...]

Next February, the musical version of 'Rocky' hits Broadway after a successful tryout run in Germany. Yes, there will be singing and boxing, but mostly singing with a focus on the love story between Rocky and Apollo Adrian. My buddy Ben (who is a theater professional in Philadelphia) says that director Alex Timbers "knows his shit" and that the songwriting team is among the best in the business, which means this could actually be worth catching. Yes, 'Rocky' is probably in my top five movies ever and the musical version [...]

What happens when 115 Instagram users get together in Santa Monica for a meet-up? Ravi Vora made a short video of the experience. I'm sure there's plenty of snark I could throw around at this concept, but anytime online communities meet in the real world to do their thing, that's a good thing right? [via doobybrain ]

Actress Tilda Swinton stepped out of her MOMA box to lead 1,500 people in a dance-along to Barry White's "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" during Roger Ebert 's Film Festival in the Virginia Theater on April 20, 2013. I'm baffled, but I think Roger, rest in peace , would have approved.