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This family (brother, sister, granny and randomly wandering terrier) are as close to real life cast members of Napoleon Dynamite as you’ll see.

The above videos (Balisong Dancing and Jian Sword Dancing) are awesome in ways that haven’t even been invented yet. When they’re not doing this, they’re probably in Alaska with their uncle hunting wolverines.

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The average internet surfer either blinks, processes some form of infographic or does something else three times every 22.7 seconds. In other words, if your eye was one fifteenth the size of the moon, the nearest infographic would be exactly 42 football fields away.

Colombian photographer and graphic artist, Jose Duarte visualises this sort of guff in real life using string, balloons, tiny wooden blocks and not a little charm.

Data sources (and more infographics) at Jose’s Flickr Stream

Bonus: he appears to be offering his cute visualisation kit for free.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF8q45vwf-0&feature=player_embedded

A video of the actual speech given by King George VI at the closing of the British Empire Exhibition in 1925: the same speech that opens the Oscar-nominated movie, The King’s Speech.

The infamous stuttering begins about 2 minutes in.

For comparison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsxjM03ME7s&feature=player_embedded

Compare The King’s Speech to the Real King’s Speech (Gawker)