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This is by far my favorite song in a few months, and the alternative version in this video is pretty cool.  Make sure you check out the “chose your own adventure” interactive version of the video. 

Chairlift - Met Before [Girls & Bass Version] (by Chairlift)

The whole collection is awesome.

(via “Travel Posters for Lazy People” by Caldwell Tanner - CollegeHumor Article)

Time-lapse shots are getting easier and easier to take, so some of the magic gets lost after you’ve seen a few.  But this one is really stellar - it’s hard to imagine this being real.  It’s beyond comprehension.

As amazing as this is, imagine how amazing it would be to see in-person before there was a scientific explanation.  Nothing short of miracles and wonder.

Red Aurora Australis (by Alex Cherney)

Great (but short) interview with Michael Lewis dismissing the claim his stories are too improbable to be true.  I love this guy: he writes clearly about impossibly fascinating subjects, and makes it seem so effortless.  Effortless, it’s not.  Check out this deconstruction of his Vanity Fair article on the  Greeks where’s he’s described as “the Jon Stewart of print: Loose, but drum tight. Funny, but dead serious.”

(via Michael Lewis On How and Why He Writes | Conversations 2012 | Arts and Life | SlateV)

Great story of the rediscovery of the keep calm and carry on poster… but missing where the big pop culture break-through happened.  Someone must have placed it somewhere in the last decade that caused it to blow up.  I can’t remember where I first saw it on the Internet, but the first place I saw it on the street was in a shop window on Fillmore in 2008 right after the Lehman Brothers collapse when everything seemed impossibly bleak and getting worse.  It certainly seemed a fitting phrase.

Rob Walker (of the gone but not forgotten Consumed NYTMag column) looks into it’s history and remixing and pins some of it’s popularity on SF local SFGirlByBay.

The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On (by BarterBooksLtd) (via kottke)

This is just unreasonably fun to watch.  It’s great to watch a compilation video of soccer that leaves you in awe, yet barely has a single goal being scored.  So much fun.

Lionel Messi never dives (New Compilation) (by BarcaUnderPep)

Nice-little animated film: To Do List (by Yaniv Fridman)

(via The Best Picture Nominees, As Infographics — Vulture)