Top Tech News and from GizModo [May ‘11 Series]

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                      For almost a year, from late 2010 to 2011, photographer Dominic Boudreault trekked through Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Manhattan, and Chicago, shooting these incredibly vivid images of cityscapes at night: highways, buildings lit up in the dark, streetlife, people, rivers—all with perfect exposure, and sure to stir up some emotion in your cynical, jaded soul.  [PetaPixel]            More »

Source: The City Limits: An Awe-Inspiring Timelapse of Cityscapes at Night [Video]

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    Tech puts us in a state of awe all the time. Sometimes it's the little things. The transistors. The immaculate pixels. The gorgeous lens. And then sometimes it's a humungous goddamn saw in Kazakhstan that obliterates everything in its path.             More »

Source: Holy Freaking Hell, This Saw Cuts Through Mountains [Monster Machines]

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    Climbing Mount Everest is one of the most dangerous, physically challenging things a human being can do. You'd think that if there were one place on Earth that could convince people to leave their phones at home, that would be it. You'd be wrong.             More »

Source: Twitter Scales Mount Everest. Is Nowhere Sacred? [Mount Everest]

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    Why bother with stairs and cutbacks when you've got ramps like these!  Our friends at Oobject.com have 18 examples of these spectacular spiraling inclines.             More »

Source: The Architectural Equivalent of a Spiral-Cut Glazed Ham [Architecture]

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    I live 2,912 miles from the office. Understandably, I don't make it in every day—mostly I telecommute. And, because I like to see more of the world than my kitchen, that means a lot of cafe working.            More »

Source: Do You Have to Be Quiet in a Coffee Shop? [Etiquette]

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    Big Bad Saw | This is what you use to cut down a mountain

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Source: Top Stories: Friday May 6, 2011 [Total Recap]

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    Next time you plan on finding a good coffee shop around the universe, bring with you this  giganormous 3850 x 1925 pixel You Are Here map. Zoom in to see where are you in the immensity of space. Zoom in!             More »

Source: Lost In the Cosmos? You Are Here [Astronomy]

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    Rapture Gear | Saturday's shaping up to be a rough one - best to be prepared.

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Source: 16 Stories to Read Before Your Ascension

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    Light degrades the second it hits our atmosphere, making terrestrial astronomy and the search for dim or distant stars tricky. The Gran Telescopio Canarias observatory is the world's largest single-aperture optical telescope, and it's got some ingenious ways to compensate.            More »

Source: The Gran Telescopio Canarias Could Spot a Car's Headlights in Australia. From Spain.

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    LADY GAGA IS DESTROYING AMAZON RIGHT NOW. I REPEAT, LADY GAGA IS DESTROYING AMAZON RIGHT NOW. What did they do to incur her wrath? Did Jeff Bezos piss her off? Is this a troll? Did she organize her little monsters on a DDoS campaign? Why are you doing this, Lady Gaga?            More »

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