Time to break out the Birkenstocks.
If you’re not on Scoop St. yet, you should be. This is a fantastic deal.
Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of This of the Day: Some crafty 3ds MAX magician has put together this mind-intercoursing video illustrating what Earth might look like if it had rings similar to those currently being taken for granted by our noxious sibling Saturn.
I sincerely hope your place of employment doesn’t have a no-crying-at-desk policy, because you’re about to do some serious bawling.
[via.]
Twitter now asking “What’s happening?”
“What are you doing?” isn’t the right question anymore,” Stone said. “We don’t expect this to change how anyone uses Twitter, but maybe it’ll make it easier to explain to your dad.”
One way to examine this sort of wealth is to compare it to yours. Consider an average American of modest wealth. Perhaps she has a net worth of $70,000. Mr. Gates’ worth is 800,000 times larger. Which means that if something costs $100,000 to her, to Bill it’s as though it costs 12 cents. You can work out the right multiplier for your own net worth.
So for example, you might think a new Lambourghini Diablo would cost $250,000, but in Bill Gates dollars that’s 31 cents.
A nice home in a rich town like Palo Alto, California? Two dollars. That nice mansion he’s building? A more reasonable $63 to him.
You might spend $50 on tickets, food and parking to take your date to see an NHL hockey game. Bill, on the other hand could buy the team for 50 Bill-bills.
You might buy a plane ticket on a Boeing 747 for $1200 at full-fare coach. In Bill-bills, Mr. Gates could buy six 747s (Not tickets, the planes themselves). Two for him, two for Melinda and two for young Jennifer Katherine.
(via my colleague Tom)
Some call me lazy. I prefer to think of myself as a conservationist. I love the land, I make sacrifices. Judge not, my friends.
(via woodlandcreature)
Oh damn. This is craaaazzzyyy.
The Six Boroughs of New York City by @juliaallison (via @Newyorkist)
It’s fine. Roosevelt, Staten, whatever.
(Here’s hoping the that Rza, Gza, and Inspectah Deck don’t read this blog).
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