Sporadically updated fun stuffTumblr (3.0; @kevin1024)http://kevinmccarthy.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0frfmlk8t1qz5yiqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Buzludha is Bulgaria’s largest ideological monument to Communism. Designed by architect Guéorguy Stoilov, more than 6000 workers were involved in its 7 year construction including 20 leading Bulgarian artists who worked for 18 months on the interior decoration. A small, compulsory donation from every citizen in the country formed a large portion of the funds required to build this impressive structure that was finally unveiled in 1981 on what was the 1300th anniversary of the foundation of the Bulgarian state.</p> <p><a href="http://humanplanet.com/timothyallen/2012/02/buzludzha-buzludja-bulgaria/">Now it is abandoned.</a></p>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/18815242795http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/18815242795Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:47:46 -1000<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/slYW7kkHyI4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/16387761611http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/16387761611Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:02:22 -1000“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.”<br/><br/> - <em>A quote by Mark Twain, quoted in a scary New York Times blog article <a href="http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/the-demise-of-the-public-library/">The Demise of Public Libraries</a></em>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/15407426320http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/15407426320Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:06:35 -1000<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32397612" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/13314385883http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/13314385883Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:38:45 -1000<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32001208" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/12772927830http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/12772927830Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:09:26 -1000<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21294655" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Timelapse + Norway + Aurora? Yes please.</p>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/4163339127http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/4163339127Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:30:10 -1000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li46wzwxMj1qz5yiqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Near the airport, Rome, Italy.</p>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/3881752144http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/3881752144Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:46:11 -1000<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/11386048?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Awesome video put together from images taken by Cassini. No CGI, all made from actual pictures.</p>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/3880976984http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/3880976984Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:03:00 -1000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfylk6yTVD1qzdy9xo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://fuckyeahspace.tumblr.com/post/3054941393" class="tumblr_blog">fuckyeahspace</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Love, Carl</p></blockquote>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/3083957065http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/3083957065Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:48:00 -1000<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ty33v7UYYbw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/2317013258http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/2317013258Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:03:47 -1000<span id="video_player_1246994014">[<a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" target="_blank">Flash 10</a> is required to watch video.]</span><script type="text/javascript">renderVideo("video_player_1246994014",'http://kevinmccarthy.org/video_file/1246994014/tumblr_l9ssksXCwX1qz5yiq',400,227,'poster=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l9ssksXCwX1qz5yiq_frame1.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l9ssksXCwX1qz5yiq_frame2.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l9ssksXCwX1qz5yiq_frame3.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l9ssksXCwX1qz5yiq_frame4.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l9ssksXCwX1qz5yiq_frame5.jpg')</script><br/><br/><p>Iron Man on Electric Guitar + Tesla Coils (<a href="http://www.wimp.com/irontesla/">source</a>)</p>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/1246994014http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/1246994014Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:37:02 -1000<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Mt_4mfuwTAU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/1226038602http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/1226038602Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:36:30 -1000<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0fKBhvDjuy0?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/1225402019http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/1225402019Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:36:22 -1000“<p>The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern “knowledge” is that it is wrong….</p> <p>My answer to him was, “John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.”</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>Interesting essay by Issac Asimov about “<a href="http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm">The Relativity of Wrong</a>”.</em>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/1159866626http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/1159866626Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:28:36 -1000<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QfZIfJKh4cg?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/1099393196http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/1099393196Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:51:00 -1000<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Computer-t.html">New York Times - What Is I.B.M.’s Watson?</a>: <p>Great article by Clive Thompson about I.B.M.’s Watson - a sort of Deep Blue for Jeopardy</p>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/706891650http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/706891650Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:48:00 -1000<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/4366695" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>I love the commentary on this slow-motion HD video of the Saturn V Apollo 11 launch. The Saturn V is the largest thing we’ve ever launched into space. It hasn’t been launched since 1973.</p> <p>via <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/26/apollo-11-launch-rev.html">boingboing</a></p> <p>EDIT: I found a great <a href="http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/saturn5.html">photo gallery</a> with some Saturn V construction photos.</p>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/555134839http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/555134839Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:45:00 -1000<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/11205494" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Visualization of air traffic during the Eyjafjallajökull eruption. It is my new goal to be able to spell and pronounce that without using Google.</p> <p>See also: <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/icelands_disruptive_volcano.html">Boston.com’s Big Picture: Eyjafjallajökull</a></p>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/555107009http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/555107009Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:31:00 -1000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1k88dP4qB1qz5yiqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/554534713http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/554534713Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:05:01 -1000<a href="http://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca">12 Years of the DMCA</a>: <p>Great summary by the EFF of a number of court cases through the years where free speech lost thanks to the DMCA.</p>http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/544170818http://kevinmccarthy.org/post/544170818Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:51:14 -1000