Cooper Griggs

you know you’re heading home from a business trip when you’re sipping on your “would you like to make that a large for 2 dollars more” jumbo airport wine and realize you still have your unread hotel copy of USA Today in your bag from this morning.

i’ve been disconnected today, but find it disturbing that there was a school shooting and i’m only seeing one comment on it on my feed after several pages.

this is the new normal.

Like it or loathe it, you have to admit that the design of the Power Mac G5 was a very clever way of getting around the system's legendary thermal issues. It was no surprise that the ol' cheesegrater was kept around for the Mac Pro, at least until...

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“The moon appeared to take a bite out of the sun on Thursday (Oct. 23) in a partial solar eclipse that was visible to potentially millions of skywatchers across North America, weather permitting.” Excerpt from Partial Solar Eclipse Wows Skywatchers Across North America on Yahoo News.

Headlands Beach in Mentor, Ohio.

“The partial solar eclipse near maximum from Boulder, Colorado. The clouds helped obscure the sun and provided some interesting texture and color — not much processing done to the raw photo here. Note the sunspots visible next to the moon’s outline…” – Bill Bowman

Taken from the top of the Fort at Fort De Soto Park, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Near Portales, New Mexico.

This selection is inspired by the 2014 Partial Solar Eclipse group created by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Did we miss your eclipse photography? Share it as comments in our gallery.

In this superbly edited new music video for Roy Kafri’s ‘Mayokero,’ famous album covers including photos of Madonna, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, and Bob Dylan seemingly come to life and begin singing. The project is a collaboration between Roy Kafri and artist Vania Heymann who wrote and directed.

Our Canadian neighbors have already been given a taste of Rogers' extremely data-friendly LTE, but now the carrier is officially rolling out its LTE-Advanced network across 12 different cities. In fact, it's the first North Amercian carrier to launch...

Move over Felix Baumgartner -- just two years after the daredevil's record setting 128,000 foot Red Bull Stratos space jump, Google VP Alan Eustace has topped it. The New York Times reports Eustace rode a balloon 135,908 feet above New Mexico and...

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OK, so the spider isn’t fixing the leaf, but that doesn’t make it any less amazing (and no, it’s not Photoshop). Paris-based photographer Bertrand Kulik stumbled onto this tiny spider who managed to construct its web inside a leaf with a giant hole and snapped these photos at just the right angle. (thnx, Alex!)

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Someone get Conan some aloe. [@conanobrien/@madeleine]

catastrofe:

braking bad

“Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.”

- Overheard at the corner of Bush and Grant in San Francisco

If you'd just won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, no-one would blame you if you took a quick trip to Disneyland, or at least a few days to catch up on Orange is the New Black. Eric Betzig, however, had other plans, since shortly after he was told he...

A New York City doctor tested positive for the Ebola virus.

specialcar:

Mercury

Ello debuted with a big, idealistic promise: to be a different kind of social network unswayed by the influence of advertisers or corporate overlords. The notion was immediately questioned by just about everyone, but the startup is sticking to the...

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"That’s why there is a bite out of the Apple logo." -slipperyfreud

A new church was moved by a hurricane onto a plot of land that church members had originally attempted to purchase for it.

One of the largest sunspot groups in recent years is now crossing the Sun.