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Back in the day, Portugal, Spain, France and the United Kingdom had huge empires spanning the entire world. This video is a very interesting way of visualizing their decline. Totally worth watching.

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If you only have 10 minutes today to procrastinate on the Internet, use them to watch this video.

While I’ve seen other projections on the side of buildings, this is clearly the best I’ve come across. It’s full of astounding visual effects while telling the story of what Prague’s Astronomical Clock saw during its 600 years of existence. Awesome!

The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo.

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251 years ago today, Arthur Guinness signed the lease on what would become the Guinness brewery. It is, of course, a date to celebrate.

How? By drinking Guinness, of course!

To Arthur!

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“Jørgen was wrong. And I am the happiest man alive”. That’s what Ola Helland, a 25-year-old guy from Norway, wrote on his blog a few hours ago. He’s the one responsible for the One Million Giraffes project:

On the 6th of June last year I made a bet with my good friend, Jørgen. He didn’t believe it was possible for me to collect one million giraffes. 440 days later I proved him wrong with help of people from all around the world. 102 countries helped out showing Jørgen how amazing the internet is.

So yeah, he did it. One million frigging giraffes! Unbelievable!

It’s definitely worth checking the website to get to know this crazy and funny project a bit better. There’s a “guess the age” game, a map showing the contributors, and some cool mosaics.

Now I feel a bit bad that I didn’t contribute.

Update: This was the millionth giraffe.