Sense and Nonsense

Best Marriage Proposal Ever

Hard to top this (via Crooks & Liars):

Isaac wanted to propose to his girlfriend, so he enlisted over 60 friends to stage a Busby Berkeley street-show lip-dub extravaganza ambush. What follows is five minutes of heart-stoppingly sweet and romantic wedding proposal. I mean: Z. O. M. F.G.

On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, I told my girlfriend to meet me at my parent's house for dinner. When she arrived I had stationed my brother to sit her in the back of an open Honda CRV and give her some headphones. He "wanted to play her a song"...

What she got instead was the world's first Live Lip-Dub Proposal.

 

I Love This Kind of Stuff

 

 

 

American Ingenuity

Holy cow! And some people say America is in decline. No WAY, baby. Not as long as we can do things like this.

And the inventor is even willing to share the technology. Here's how to build your own Lego robot for fast, consistent tile laying.

Talent

I'm not sure what the market is like for this kind of talent, but maybe the supplier will create demand. 

 

Flash Dance

I gotta say: I love this kinda stuff.  Amazing that people can pull it off. 

I was reminded of the video above when I saw this today. 

More Reasons to be Grateful for YOUR Mother

good lord.

From Weird Universe

Dogs

Too bad it's a commercial.  It's still great.

Incoming

Shamelessly stealing more from Weird Universe . . . 

Boys (well, old boys) having fun:

Map Mania

If you want to see really interesting maps (showing worldwide economic inequality) and cartographic thought experiments (how the map of the U.S. might be redrawn to equalize population across the 50 states), scroll through Jim Fallows's last couple of weeks of posts at his Atlantic blog.

But here's an interesting map that Fallows hasn't yet brought to his readers' attention.  It shows Europe's three different "alcohol belts."  See analysis and another version of it here.

Maybe some smart folks could produce something comparable for the United States?  Get at it, readers.

Dental Hygiene