It stays so light out so late. 8PM is a sunny late afternoon. 10:15 is the end of dusk. When it did finally get dark today, a bright yellow moon illuminated everything, making it feel like life should not contain sleep. Making me feel like I should be nocturnal.

I sped home through the night, somewhat heedless. Today, as per usual lately, didn't contain a lot of feelings, except the distinct impression that this isn't going to be as easy as I thought it would.

I flicked on Radio-Canada. A song began: this one. It completely epitomized how I feel: hip, young, moving forward, but in the end utterly pointless and despondent. And all the while: Ding-dong... tick tick tick tick...

If you're out there somewhere, I don't know where you are. I'm not sure I believe you exist anymore.

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If you're watching the FIFA World Cup, you've almost certainly heard the Vuvuzelas: a fascinating African football-match tradition which creates a distinctively annoying-yet-infectious buzz. So behold the official internet meme of 2010: the vuvuzela.

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This song is so tremendously infectious and uplifting that it's irresistible.

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What's big enough to cover the entire Lower Mainland, Bellingham and Mount Baker in Washington state, a third or Vancouver Island (including Victoria and Nanaimo) and enough of the Thompson-Okanagan to eclipse both Kamloops and Kelowna? Why the BP Oil Spill of course!

This image comes from a website called If It Was My Home, which allows you to center the BP spill over any place in the world you like. I was completely unprepared for the scale of this thing. Having been to most of the places on this map frequently, I know exactly how much distance is being covered, and it's a lot.

In this picture, I've centered the spill over Cultus Lake for maximum effect, but you can put it over top of Vancouver proper and eat up a lot more of Vancouver Island and the Georgia Strait. Or you could head over to io9 and see it over most of Scotland.

Attempts to cap the well continue to fail, so the spill is only going to get worse before it gets better. It looks like a relief well may have to be drilled before any real attempt can be made to cap the well. The coastline of the Southern U.S. has already suffered irreparable environmental damage. We can only hope that a significant amount of oil does not enter the Atlantic currents and spread ecological havoc.

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Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man is an amazing, heart-rending short film from filmmaker Brandon McCormick. One of the best short films I've seen in a while, I highly recommend you set aside the 22 minutes it takes to watch.

via neatorama

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It's SIR Patrick Stewart to you.

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"Switch" is a hilarious short film that Tyson Hesse made for his graduating thesis at college. Keep watching until after the credits.

via Neatorama

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