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Stuff I found while looking around

| May 3, 2013

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– An attempt to draw all the buildings in New York by James Gulliver Hancock, an illustrator originally from Australia currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

– “I almost shipped my pants laughing at this.”

– If Game Of Thrones took place entirely on Facebook

– Cat Wearing a Shark Costume Chases a Duckling While Riding a Roomba Vacuum

– 60 thoughts about turning 60:

23. Sixty observations is suddenly feeling like quite a lot, to be honest.

– 25 Photos You Need To Really Look At To Understand

– This is just so beautiful:

After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
 I heard the announcement:
 if anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic,
 please come to the gate immediately.

– The History of Typography – Animated Short: A paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography. 291 Paper Letters. 2,454 Photographs. 140 hours of work.

– Bastille covers Bruno Mars with a little bit of The xx thrown in.

– Why is this so hilarious: compilation of animals trying to stay awake. You’re an animal for crying out loud. It’s not like you’re in a meeting or have to pay bills. JUST GO TO SLEEP ALREADY.

– The complete guide to sleeping at work:

Australian researchers writing in Nature Journal compared the performances of people who’d not slept for 28 hours with those with a blood alcohol level of 0.10% (the US drink-driving limit is 0.08%) and found the impairment on performance to be nearly identical.

– If it weren’t for the awful music, I could watch this all day: Follow me on Twitter

– Illustrator Kevin McShane draws himself as a character from 100 different cartoons

– Cartoonists demand action to end gun violence

– I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet:

By late 2012, I’d learned how to make a new style of wrong choices off the internet. I abandoned my positive offline habits, and discovered new offline vices. Instead of taking boredom and lack of stimulation and turning them into learning and creativity, I turned toward passive consumption and social retreat.

– A scientific look at the pain of childbirth vs the pain of getting kicked in the balls.

A few of my favorite recent tweets: