via This is CGI. ALL OF IT.

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Hopes are high at the National Zoo after pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian began mating today, an event the Washington Post notes was “captured on the public panda cam.” Everyone has a sex tape these days, you guys. [WashingtonPost]

via Jezebel.

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Hello HPG readers old and new, and welcome to the inner reaches of my brain. Welcome to the hive mind!

I’m sure this isn’t news to any of you who read sites like HotPinkGeek regularly, but I spend a good portion of my time ‘researching’ the most ridiculous things on the internet and sharing them with those who will listen (and a few who really won’t).

Over the next few days I’ll be sharing with you my favourite lists of 2009 — websites, crazy people, whoa-worthy videos — everything you’ve come to expect from HotPinkGeek and more!

Without further ado, here’s today’s list: Websites where you can waste absurd amounts of time!

Now, I’ve not spent a lot of time organizing them into rank – in my head or otherwise – so I want you to look at this list as one solid, flowing piece of crap artwork wherein you could randomly choose a link and be whisked away to a magical land of ridiculous/funny/mind-blowing and lose the better portion of your productive work day. I am to distract and amuse!
And… go! (Click here for HPG’s Top 25 of 2009: Websites where you can waste absurd amounts of time)

This is by far the best and most creative baby blanket I have ever seen.  I have two kids of my own and I am sitting here pouting a little that I didn’t open this at my baby showers.  If I could knit I would start making these for every person I know who is pregnant or could even possibly become pregnant in the possible near future.

Seriously mad props to the mom who made the Cthulu Blankie!

WHOA! Even the MAIL is CG’d! EXCITING!!!11ONE!

A conversation at Warner Bros. yesterday, just prior to this announcement:

“Hey boss, it’s been several minutes since we announced a new, unnecessary Hollywood remake of a relatively recent movie.” “Get out the Every-Movie-Ever dart board!”

[THROWS DART]

“City By The Sea.”
“That lame De Niro movie from 2002? Nahh, we’ll hold off on that remake for another year.”

[THROWS ANOTHER DART]

“Annie Hall.”
“Nahh, getting the rights would be too difficult, but the millisecond Woody Allen dies, we have a script with Megan Fox and Jaden Smith rarin’ to go.”

[THROWS ANOTHER DART]

“Brewster’s Millions”
“PERFECT! A totally ok movie from peoples’ childhoods that’s already been turned into movies ten times, starting with Cecil B. DeMille’s 1914 version? Make it happen, Charlie.” “While you were saying that, I already got the Wayanses on speakerphone.” “You are promoted to Vice President of Movies.”

I’ve recently discovered an animation that was rendered using the measured redshift of all 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image.I’ve written a short script that leads you through a quick history of both deep field images and this video ends with a fly-through of the Ultra Deep Field.Every galaxy in the image is in its proper distance as viewed from the telescope line of sight.As if this image wasn’t amazing enough.