cool concept

Twitter hit 5000 tweets per second at their peak.

"Luxury ocean liners in Russia are offering pirate hunting cruises aboard armed private yachts off the Somali coast."

awesome photos

Some guys track down a lost iPhone using find my phone feature…

"One of the ways that Music 2.0 has changed how we think about music is that there is so much interesting data available about how people are listening to music. Sites like Last.fm automatically track all sorts of interesting data that just was not available before. Forty years ago, a music label like Capitol would know how many copies the album Abbey Road sold in the U.S., but the label wouldn’t know how many times people actually listened to the album. Today, however, our iPods and desktop music players keep careful track of how many times we play each song, album and artist – giving us a whole new way to look at artist popularity. It’s not just sales figures anymore, its how often are people actually listening to an artist."

"In 1909 a remarkable project was initiated by Russian photographer Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky. His mission was to record – in full and vibrant color – the vast and diverse Russian Empire. Here, with his story, is a selection of his amazing century old full color pictures."

Great set of portraits!

"this is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by social media."

"U.S. law enforcement officials say that more than a third of the cocaine smuggled into the United States from Colombia travels in submersibles."

"Section 1 of the High Line, a 1.5 mile long park on an abandoned elevated railway, opened earlier this week in New York."

awesome

every web browser becomes a server

You know your boat is big when it comes with it's own missile detection system.

"An epic story in black and white, the story about what the world would have looked like in the '30s if the world wide web and newspaper had co-existed."

so long twitpic

mind blowing video

via sean

"ART & COPY reveals the stories behind and the personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of our time and their campaigns, including Lee Clow (Apple Computer 1984, and today’s iPod); Dan Wieden (“Just Do It”); Phyllis K. Robinson (who invented the “me generation” with Clairol); Hal Riney (who helped President Reagan get re-elected); and George Lois (who saved MTV and launched Tommy Hilfiger overnight)."