random things from ilya

This video is just mental. I Believe I can Fly 

(via deplorableword)

atheistramblings:

He’s got a plan, dumb down the population and maybe then somebody will vote for him.

This guy is so incredible, it would be rather fun to see him as Potus.

(Source: drunkonstevphen)

brocatus:

‘Before I talk about my own troubles, let me tell you about another book, “Computer Game Bot Turing Test”. It’s one of over 100,000 “books” “written” by a Markov chain running over random Wikipedia articles, bundled up and sold online for a ridiculous price. The publisher, Betascript, is notorious for this kind of thing.

It gets better. There are whole species of other bots that infest the Amazon Marketplace, pretending to have used copies of books, fighting epic price wars no one ever sees. So with “Turing Test” we have a delightful futuristic absurdity: a computer program, pretending to be human, hawking a book about computers pretending to be human, while other computer programs pretend to have used copies of it. A book that was never actually written, much less printed and read.’

oh yes…

(Source: shadowfirebird)

underwaterpassion:

Venus

Awesomeness!

(via arisjerome)

Hmmmm

(Source: blood-and-guts, via bigfun)

Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four (by BBC)

Awesome visualization & storytelling!

(via 20 Great Visualizations of 2011 | Visual.ly Blog)