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Saturday Smile - Add a little drama to your life. This is brilliant marketing!

Geek moment: One voice. One violin. Lots of talent —> Amazing cover of the Skyrim theme.

From TEDxBoston, an entertaining and thought-provoking introduction to “culturomics”, the application of data analysis to the historical record of human culture. Found this via Brain Pickings, which explains:

From advising you on the best career choices for early success to figuring out when an artist is being censored to proving that we’re forgetting the past exponentially more quickly than ever before, the data speaks volumes when queried with intelligence and curiosity.

One minute of wonder to put things in perspective, from infinity-imagined:

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the Earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy.

This is awesome. And yes, I am a bit of a language nerd.

Buying a Cow in Old English | Neatorama

‘The Frisian language is spoken by about half a million people in the Netherlands and Germany. It is the closet surviving relative of Old English, the tongue of Anglo-Saxon England. How mutually intelligible are the two languages? In this clip from the documentary series Mongel Nation, Eddie Izzard, speaking only Old English, tries to buy a cow from a Frisian-speaking farmer.’

(via shadowfirebird)

I totally love these three wonderful shorts - a reminder to grab life by the tail and hang on. Move, eat, learn.

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films…..

= a trip of a lifetime.

This is beautiful.

Happy Canada Day! (…admittedly a day late, but: William Shatner! and the NFB! What more do you need?) (via buzzfeed)

Sunday Smile: The wedding entrance dance to top all wedding entrance dances, from T-Mobile UK.