Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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Since the 1970s, baked hippies have spoken in hushed tones of a legendary nexus point where Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (1973) meets The Wizard of Oz (1939): the sound of the album matching seamlessly with the visuals of the movie.

 This infamous syncing has been around for years and is also known as The Wizard of Floyd and The Dark Side of the Rainbow. Pink Floyd denies connection between the works but take a look, the synchronicities are sometimes eerie. It has also been performed as a live stage version by many theater groups such as Next Door Theater in Massachusetts and Fearnoart Entertainment in California.

Enjoy the 2007 mashup above, selflessly created for the betterment of the internets by Brooklyn sound engineer Bryan Pugh.

The Dark Side of Oz, Dark Side of the Moon Synced With Wizard of Oz (Laughing Squid)

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As the world commemorated the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Sunday had another significance for Japan. It marked six months since the massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, a date now seared in the country’s national consciousness. At 2:46 that afternoon, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck Japan offshore, triggering a tsunami wave of up to 10 meters (33 ft) that engulfed large parts of northeastern Japan and also damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing the worst nuclear crisis in decades. The current number of dead and missing is estimated to be 22,900.

ABOVE: A view of Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi prefecture, after the massive earthquake, tsunami, and the aftermath taken by Kyodo on March 14, 2011, (before), and September 1, 2011

MEGA GALLERY: Japan Earthquake: Six Months later (The Atlantic)

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Another of Big Cat Rescue’s awareness videos. They’re good at this. We also like the one where they asked if big cats like to get off their faces on catnip.

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No. Not ‘dreams’. What’s the word?

A 1965 British Pathe film about a since closed (and possibly nuked from orbit) palace of stuffage called Mr. Potter’s Museum of Curiosities – created by whimsical taxidermist Walter Potter.

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An excellent, highly detailed overview of Steve Job’s legacy of Apple patents that appeared a few weeks ago in the NY times.

The 313 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company’s products — from the company’s iconic computer cases to the glass staircases that are featured in many Apple stores.

Steve Jobs Patents (New York Times 25/8/11)