Jurassic Park Theme Song (Melodica Cover) (by ploface)

dailymeh:

I’m going to attempt the impossible: to tell an engaging story accessible to relative laymen using a hex editor (a program for manually editing binary files).

Fascinating piece from Simen on the history of the GIF.

coverlovers:

The Flying Burrito Brothers - Wild Horses

A cover, yes, but it was released before the original: Burrito Deluxe came out a year before Sticky Fingers.

See, the amazing thing is not that Mike Powell’s record hasn’t been broken. It’s that nobody has even come close. Nobody has jumped 29 feet since that day in Tokyo in 1991. Nobody has come within eight inches of the record since that day. At the 2008 Olympics, 27 feet, 4 inches was good enough for gold — the worst gold medal performance in more than 35 years. As the greatest long jumper who ever lived likes to say: “These guys come out now, jump 28 feet, take their gold medal and go home like they did something.”

And the greatest long jumper who ever lived — and the 30-foot jump that never happened — is at the heart of our story.

A great profile of Carl Lewis, the man that made the the jump that never happened.

Bon Joviver (by miromosci)

merlin:

Filed Away for Future Claim Chowder

The MIT Sloan Management Journal holds this as an example of a good business tweet.

via Snarketing, by way of Blonde Digital

The War on Drugs: Baby Missiles (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 10 Jan 2012)

A bunch of 5-album collections on Amazon for less than £15: includes The Byrds, John Coltrane, Sly & The Family Stone, The Monkees, Tim Buckley, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, and lots more.

Thin Lizzy vs Pixies - The Boys Are Back In Heaven (by PhilRetroSpector)

eta78:

Slope At Night

My pal Emmerson has started putting his drawings on Tumblr. Go look.

nostrich:

Gentlemen, I have started a blog. Famous last words, to be sure, but I’ve been thinking about and planning and working on this for a while, and I like what it’s ended up looking like. I will tell you all about it, but first some boring meandering in pursuit of a point.

tensexyladies:

I wave my vodka bottle fingers at the paperboy and he starts crying in terror because he’s trapped in an old media career.

Josh is the absolute best at everything.

Hey look! I got my hair cut short but grew out the bags under my eyes to balance it out! (Taken with instagram)

These are the Days, by Lift to Experience (via themorder)

If, like me, you’re still catching up on records from like 2005 or something, you might have only just got round to Josh T. Pearson’s incredible Last of the Country Gentlemen from MMXI, and it’s likely that you only just realised that he was in that Lift To Experience band you kinda recall being talked about a while back, and you decide that their sole album of songs about Texas and Christianity might be so magnificent that you can’t even begin to deal with your myriad life problems because you’re listening to it on infinite repeat.