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"Forget the magazine editors & big label marketing budgets. This is the best music from 2009 chosen by the most passionate music fans alive: music bloggers."

"Matthias Wandel used LEGO Technic parts to build a machine that distributes dominoes in rows"

"The Kepler Space Telescope, a designated planet-hunting satellite, has found its first five planets, among them an odd, massive world only as dense as styrofoam."

"Trained mathematician Simon Page has found a new career in graphic design, where he blends 1960s minimalist influences with more futuristic designs. His work shines in this collection of posters for the International Year of Astronomy 2009."

"Inventor Ray Kurzweil is interviewed by h+ magazine about consciousness, brain modeling, global warming, and the Singularity"

"Am liebste wäre es mir glaube ich gewesen wenn ich das nicht gewusst hätte"

"Nun steigert Roth seine Coolesauness ein weiteres Mal mit der Entwicklung der Graffiti Markup Language (GML), einem auf XML basierenden, offenen Standard zur Beschreibung und Archivierung von durch digitale Gesten entstandenen Graffities."

"Claire L. Evans created this amazing video that offers a timeline of life on Earth – explained entirely with text, voice, and a ticking clock. It's an artful blend of typography and science."

"Life Magazine has a fun photoslideshow showing the cast of Avatar on their worldwide publicity tour"

"It looks like a crazy, doctored photo but this "glass tank" wine glass is completely real."

"Looks like there are more hives of scum and villainy on Tatooine than we saw in the Star Wars movies, judging from this newly released concept art from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Droid abuse, spoilers and lightning pics below."

"Altersschwach, beinahe bewegungsunfähig und doch noch voll im Einsatz: Seit sechs Jahren forscht der Nasa-Rover "Spirit" auf dem Mars. Bei der Nasa feiert man das Jubiläum – und nimmt sogar einen kosmischen Rekord ins Visier. Doch den zu erreichen wird schwierig."

"The perseids are great and all, but we couldn’t let space be this underrepresented in our 2009 roundups, so here are the rest of our most popular spacy offerings of the year."