NASA Images and Video Library
NASA has opened an archive site that hosts 140,000 files of space-related awesomeness. It should keep you in screensaver images for a long time – possibly forever as they said they will continue to add to it.
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Until Dawn: Rush of Blood review
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is a lot of fun for the price. Not brilliant, but certainly enjoyable and a good intro to VR. Costs vary but I paid around £15, which seems about right.
People are Photoshopping Mr Bean into everything
I think this is one of the greatest things I have seen on the internet. People are photoshopping Mr Bean’s superb face into everything from movies to politicians to classical … Read More
Stunning flight over Mars using NASA images
A highly talented and possibly slightly bored fellow called Jan Fröjdman has taken lots of detailed photos from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and put them together to create an amazing flyover of … Read More
Baby Driver by Edgar Wright
If Baby Driver wasn’t by writer/director Edgar Wright (Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, etc) I would probably just think it looked quite fun and has a great cast.
Worst Catfish Ever
In case you didn’t know, to catfish is when someone pretends to be someone else online and then strings some poor sod along. Sometimes it’s for money, other times because… I don’t know, people are weird.
Sir Patrick Stewart reads 1-star reviews of famous monuments
Essentially this clip just mocks really dumb people but with the classically trained Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart delivering the words. Which is great, right?
What it’s like to land on Pluto
NASA has stitched together 100 photos from the New Horizons flyby in 2015 to give an idea of what it would be like to land on Pluto. In colour!
Gatebox – Japanese Virtual Home Assistant and girlfriend
I’m sure you have read articles about increasing numbers of people retreating into their personal space, interacting solely through the internet and no longer being interested in having sex. Or at least relationships. Then there are the articles that say this is bollocks.
Scooter Trouble by Nikolai Lockertsen on an Ipad
An artist called Nikolai Lockertsen creates amazing art on an iPad Pro using an iPad pencil. His other art is superb but I saw this video of him drawing a piece called ‘Scooter Trouble’ and was inspired.
Happy Chinese New Year!
Happy CNY my awesome readers! May you be healthy, wealthy, and wise. Or more than you are already at least.
All Pixar movies are connected
There have been loads of weird theories about Pixar movies. (Well loads of movies actually, people are bored.) One is that all their movies exist in the same universe and are linked somehow.
Alan Partridge: Nomad
Nomad is one of the funniest books I have ever read. I guess it helps if you know Alan Partridge as his voice read the book in my head and was all the funnier for it. This is now literally the case as I have also downloaded the audiobook (read by Coogan/ Partridge).
Happy New Year 2017
Happy New Year fantastic Word of Ward readers!
Happy Winter Festival or Christmas
Whatever your culture or religion (and feel free to keep that to yourself), it is likely that you will be celebrating something today. So from all of us here at the shining Word of Ward publishing towers, Happy Winter Festival and/or Christmas and/or Sunday!
Japanese Rock, Paper, Scissors competition
You know how exciting it is to watch professional-level rock, paper, scissors in an arena? Me either. But in Japan they do and they somehow make it seem really exciting.
Bohemian Rhapsody acted out is a noir-ish thriller
Someone was clearly stoned and/or drunk and was listening to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and thought “Dude, that could totally be made into a short film.” So they did.
A Tour of Britain in Accents
A guy dialect coach called Andrew Jack shows what the various accents are like around the UK.
Ok Go – The One Moment video
This is incredible. The band ‘OK Go’ always does pretty cool videos but this one took so much planning and is so well done that I found it hard to believe at first. What they did was set up a load of events, timed everything with computers and digital triggers, then filmed ‘The One Moment’, real time, in 4.2 seconds. The music video is then that 4.2 seconds stretched out.
Massive waves in Taiwan typhoon
These are waves in Taiwan and they are massive. The lighthouse is apparently around 75 foot tall and is presumably empty or sheltering people in brown pants.