The legendary musician is given the profile treatment by the NYT. Fans of Young’s will want to read the entire thing. It’s a doozy. Young, 66, spotted this land out the window of a plane banking out of San Francisco four decades ago and now owns nearly 1,000 acres of it. His song “Old Man” [...]
The Internet Archive is a fantastic resource and it just got better with the addition of the last three years worth of TV news programming. As of Tuesday, the archive’s online collection will include every morsel of news produced in the last three years by 20 different channels, encompassing more than 1,000 news series that [...]
By now, you’ve no doubt heard about Romney’s leaked video that could potentially snowball his campaign. It’s a damning video and looks bad no matter how you slice it. BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith has a great post about how the video came into the possession of Mother Jones. It’s a nice look at how the modern [...]
The evolution of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s signature from the age of five to 21 — arriving at a beaut of a signature. I often wonder if the signature is an endangered species in this digital age. That would be too bad. You can almost see Fitzgerald become more confident and assured of himself throughout each iteration of his signature. [...]
Artist Tim Anderson shows us what Star Wars would have looked like if Sergio Leone had made the science fiction trilogy in Italy instead of George Lucas. I gotta say, I would watch the shit out of Star Wars re-imagined as a spaghetti western. [via buzzfeed]
Continuing their runs of awesome, Neil deGrasse Tyson and the NASA Extreme Environment Misson Operations team discuss the possibilities of stopping an asteroid from colliding with our planet for VICE’s newest video vertical, Spaced Out. [via theaggregate]
Man, I’m totally kicking myself for missing out on RIPT Apparel‘s The Neverending Story and Game Of Thrones mash-up T-shirt. The site sells $10 tees that are only available once for 24 hours. After that, you probably have to beg, steal, and cheat your way to a shirt. [via geeksofdoom]
