Landmannalaugar (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈlan̥tmanːaˌløiɣar̥], the people’s pools) is a region near the volcano Hekla in southern section of Iceland’s highlands.

The Landmannalaugar area is a popular tourist destination and hiking hub in Iceland’s highlands. The area displays a number of unusual geological elements, like the multicolored rhyolite mountains and expansive lava fields, not far from the service center. The many mountains in the surrounding area display a wide spectrum of colors including pink, brown, green, yellow, blue, purple, black, and white. Two of the most popular mountains among hikers are Bláhnjúkur (meaning “blue peak”) and Brennisteinsalda (meaning “sulphur wave”).

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Happy Birthday Clint you magnificent specimen and example of awesome!

• British monarchy ‘needs to be more like Game of Thrones’
• The making of the THX sound
• Scientists finally figure out the physics of falling Guinness bubbles
• Why I Do Not Want Everyone To Agree With Me
• Profiling this week of space and the Square Kilometre Array
• Pentagon for a manned mission to another star by 2112 (whut?)
• Everything you need to know about next week’s Transit of Venus

Fun photo set by Nick Stern recreating some of the more famous works of Banksy with live models. More can be found here.

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Interestingly, web feed this morning has had a lot of alcohol related videos for some reason. Here are the highlights…

First, a really fun compilation of beer opening methods.

…topped by this guy using a chainsaw:

Opening Beer with Chainsaw

And finally, what could indeed be the world’s best bartender; though admittedly, I’d want him to just poor the damn drinks if I were a patron…

World’s Best Bartender

Also as extra, this beer commercial with Charlie sheen is quite fun.

Nice compilation of what’s probably the only reason to watch Fallon.

• Neil deGrasse Tyson Presents: Manhattanhenge! (awesome)
• This book contains the first Google image result for every word in the dictionary
• As Memorial Day Nears, a Single Image That Continues to Haunt
• Governments pose greatest threat to internet, says Google’s Eric Schmidt
• Don’t Worry, These Are Not Community’s New Showrunners
• A concise personal lament on technology and books
• Facebook: Wallstreet 1, America 0

Was pointed to this fun Pianist in Paris video, a Watch the Throne parody; but their History of Whistling, chronicling 26 songs over 98 years ended up being much more entertaining.

Joanna Krótka is an illustrator based in Kraków, Poland whose inspirations come from everywhere, but predominantly “sci-fi (literature and movies), psychedelic pictures, fairy tales and dreams”.

official website

Much to the relief of my current schedule, have so far managed to avoid playing Diablo 3, but some of these galleries of developer’s workplaces is starting to unravel that abstinence.

Also, goddaaaamn…

Inside of Blizzard’s Office

Inside the Google’s Headquarter in Zurich, Switzerland

A peek into a legendary game company, Valve Software

• What it’s like to have Nazi grandparents
• How the coming wave of ultra-cheaping computing devices will change everyone’s lives
• The world is slowly getting better (LGBT)
• Does globalization mean we will become one culture?
• How Religion’s Demand for Obedience Keeps Us in the Dark Ages
• The Next Generation: New Writers of Scientific Imagination

I wouldn’t normally post something about a wedding proposal, but this inventively over the top one is pretty damn good…

These images by photographer Anton Kusters are pretty damn unique considering the subject matter…

YAKUZA is a personal visual account of the life inside an inaccessible subculture: a traditional Japanese crime family that controls the streets of Kabukicho, in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. Through 10 months of negotiations with the Shinseikai, my brother Malik and I became one of the only westerners ever to be granted this kind of access to the closed world of Japanese organized crime.

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