Friday, February 22, 2013

Miss Cellania's Links

Watch this amazing video of a solar flare. It is 180,000 degree Fahrenheit and just the flare is many times larger than our entire earth.

Surreal Landscapes by Jim Kazanjian.

High-tech Surveillance Makes Work More Like Prison. Productivity is king, no matter what it does to real people. (via Daily of the Day)

A First-grader Judges Oscar-nominated Movies by Their Posters. (via Laughing Squid)

What the Tea Party has done to Florida. (via Metafilter)

6 Non-Existent People Who Were Nominated for Oscars.

Academy Award nominees will go home with a gift bag worth $45,000 even if they don't win an Oscar. But some of the weird stuff in those bags will make you scratch your head.

The 1963 book A Cat-Haters Handbook contains quotes about how awful cats are. But the overall effect will make you want to get another cat.

An Illustrated Guide to Recognizing Insane People from 1883. That was back when developmental disabilities and mental illness were equivalent and you could diagnose people by looking at them.

In 1912, Douglas Mawson and 30 other men set out to explore the uncharted territory of Antarctica. But Antarctica, unmapped with no wireless communication, was a treacherous place to survive, much less explore.

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