Mad Quickies 3.1

It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!

• Rawr! Eight states in America have official dinosaurs. I cannot even make that up.
• Thirteen minutes of pure beauty: Choros is a transfixing experimental dance film by Michael Langan & Terah Maher. Vid. Music by Steve Reich.
• From the WTF Department: A Rotating Book Server, Designed During the Renaissance, Recreated and Mis-built by Architecture Students, Destroyed by Terrorists. {via Geo}
• And in other news, some people are painting their nails like internet memes.
• Here’s something very useful. Bookmark this infographic: The Shelf Life of Food. {via @ExiledSurfer}
• “Analog will never go away” and 11 more trends that will rule products in 2013.
• Kevin Cooley shot the stunning series Lights Edge.
• The wayback machine gave me something neat today. DIY your own map apron.
• USPS please take note: Belgium to release chocolate-flavored stamps!
• Light painter Trevor Williams creates light streak graffiti.
• In a fascinating essay, Sam Jacob calls for an end to the “tyranny of fun” in office design.
• This is mainly what the mail seems to bring these days. A gallery of envelopes that claim to be important.

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Oreo separator machine

{via Anne S.}

http://youtu.be/pii4G8FkCA4

from the page

It’s a basic human desire to separate an OREO cookie. Humans love either cookie or creme. And sometimes a man just needs to invent a machine to do the hard work of separating the two. Today, that man is physicist and cookie-part preferrer David Neevel. Watch him operate the machine he created that separates OREO cookies.

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The Finest Bird Song of 1890

from the page

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A mechanical singing bird mechanism. Made around 120 years ago in Paris, probably by Bontems. In the film I hope you can identify all the major parts and see them working together to make the sound. The mechanism was in a rusted and seized state and has been restored. Surpisingly the bellows are in good original condition. See our channel for more, much more.

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This will kill you…
Sir David Attenborough close up with blind rhino

http://youtu.be/WzjQqcU7T4o

Follow Little Nicky’s progress at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy.

from the page
Sir David Attenborough concluded his BBC One series about the wildlife of Africa with an extraordinary close up meeting with a blind baby rhinoceros.

He described how the rhinoceros may have its sight saved by an operation and thus be given a chance of survival in the wild like another orphaned rhino called Elvis who had been released after being cared for in the same reserve.

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Really cute animals!

That’s it. Just really cute animals. Because it’s Friday.

{via BonnieBeth}

http://youtu.be/JlezOeXGt4c

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Sea Otter Hoop Dreams
More about little Eddie here.
{via Emily}

from the page
Eddie the sea otter plays basketball to exercise his arthritic elbows. Turns out he is pretty good!

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Featured image is a still from Choros.

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