Promoting old books with new movies
Many books get re-released with new covers when their movie counter parts hit the theaters. Here’s look at several iconic covers side-by-side with their newer versions.
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On a happy note
“The Happy Godfather”: The original soundtrack from the Godfather played in a Major scale! (by MajorVsMinor)
How Search Works – The Story – “Behind your simple page of results is a complex system, carefully crafted and tested, to support more than one-hundred billion searches each month.”
Look…I’m a bat.
That Damian Wayne is a creepy kid.
Beijing air pollution:
China’s air pollution has been bad lately. Really, really bad. We’ve posted photos of it before, but the above shot really drives home how severe this has gotten.
Is there a pope?
Here is a useful single serving website, featuring the answer to the question Catholics everywhere are asking.
How big is the moon?
U.S. overlaid on the Moon for a sense of scale:
How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with this image of the Moon with an overlaid United States. It’s roughly estimated (and others would be better at commenting on the accuracy better than me), but after some back-of-napkin math it seems about right. The area of the United States, not including Alaska, is a little over 20 percent of the Moon’s surface area. [via io9]
Language communities of Twitter (European detail) (by Eric Fischer)
You had one job
This is a perfect single serving site. I laughed much harder than I should have but enjoyed every second I spent there.