Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan

Another gem.

There is no free will, but this doesn't make the Fatalism true

Interesting article about the determinism and some explanations why the fatalism is different thing.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/

Wild ocelot playing with human

I am somewhat experienced with the wildlife, but this is something I couldn't imagine happening. Wild ocelot simply allowing a human to pet it??? Incredible.

The Fermi Paradox, Imgur edition

The Fermi Paradox, Everyone feels something when they’re in a really good starry place on a really good starry night and they lo

Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old “existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour.” But everyone feels something. Physicist Enrico Fermi felt something too—”Where is everybody?”...

This is how starts this Imgur post. Go there and read further.

The Fermi Paradox (I haven't seen this on here yet so I hope you enjoy)

Babel Fish tech

Another dream of the humanity is on its way to become true. I am not going to do a lot of explanations, just watch the video.

Loituma - Ievan Polkka rare techno version live

Now I am on wave to search for rare music video clips and I'll be posting the most interesting of them. Here I found this rare techno version of the Loituma's Ievan Polokka and actually I like it even better then the original. Listen and enjoy!

Sepak takraw

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Sepak takraw, interesting sport, which requires a lot of agility, precision and explosive power.

Carmina Burana - O Fortuna

Carl Orff's masterpiece O Fortuna, based on 13th century poem:

O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

The Muppet Show: Windmills of Your Mind

Even better version of The Windmills of Your Mind :), Enjoy!

Fluffy animals from Imgur

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BE6E6LDimzM/?taken-by=komugi.alexandrite

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My new favorite animal - the Siberian Flying Squirrel

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So so cute

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Not A fluffy animal, but still worth to be seen

Fly you fool.....

Candidate for the title. This may have some potential

Largest snake

Common consensus is that the Green Anaconda is the biggest existing snake. In therms of length some species of python are even longer, but they are not nearly as heavy as the anacondas. In short, largest one recorded was 6.27 m (20.6 ft)  and around 100kg. But is believed that in wild they can reach nearly double weight and 8m length.

And from Wikipedia: "The largest size verified for E. murinus in captivity was for a specimen kept in Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, which grew to a length of 6.27 m (20.6 ft) by the time she died on July 20, 1960. When this specimen was 5.94 m (19.5 ft) long, she weighed 91 kg (201 lb)"

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Photo of huge anaconda believed to be authentic (see reddit for the discussion)

Swiss diver Franco Banfi's picture taken in Mato Grosso. And cool story about the picture.

Skating tricks in slow motion

I always liked to watch demonstrations of physical prowess. Here is one of these, enjoy.

Skate GIFs II

Eva Mendes - The windmills of your mind (with lyrics on the screen)

One of my favourite versions of the song. Listen and sing along :).

Australian Privet Hawk Moth

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The Privet Hawk Moth (Sphinx ligustri) is one of the bigger insects. Not an animal record or anything like that, but still its one of these things that is interesting to see alive if possible.

Sources:
Wikipedia
Dailymail

Printing of 3D building

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 I've seen few years back pictures of this particular building, which is some kind of scaled down castle, but somehow couldn't find back then video of the process and luckily I stumbled today on one in Imgur.

Rudeno's 3d printed house/castle Photo courtesy Andrey Rudenko

A bit more details now. The guy's name is Andrey Rudenko and he is from Minnesota. More or less what he has done is create big 3D printer and use something like concrete for printing material. However this was not so simple, first he had to scale the existing designs for 3d printers and solve a lot of problems, which are non-issue for the smaller printers, but serious obstacles for a big one and as far as I can see he essentially designed and build something completely new. Second he had to create the printing material based on cement with a lot of trails and errors so he could finally achieve the strength, viscosity, speed of hardening, etc. After that he had to (re)make the software for the printer. And there were a lot more issues, that as an hobbyist myself I am sure he had but never mentioned in the articles. 

And finally for these that would like to make a more in dept research I've put a link to his web site.

Sources: 
www.totalkustom.com
ibtimes

The Hobbit - Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold from Clamavi De Profundis

First make sure you have quality speakers, because there is a lot going on in therms of instrumental and vocal performance. As far as I understand this particular version is a family project and it is so long, that there is actually second part. If you want to learn more, check the info box in the youtube's page of the song.

The latest long therm support Ubuntu version 16.04 LTS, called Xenial Xerus is already out. Enjoy the hassle around the upgrade/installation/testing.

Imgur best

Actually I'll start doing something like daily Imgur pick ups (according my understanding of "best"). So here we go:

First, we can see here the daily funny cat.

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Second is collection of the best from Buster Keaton.

Buster Keaton's big ones.

Here again we have a cat at the not so happy end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUxzFwn-RVk

Next is mildly interesting interaction with a shark.

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And finally around 170 pictures on nature thematics (at least this is what I hope it is, because I haven't seen them yet)

Places and Things I want to see

More Giant Asian Hornets

...the queen who wakes up first.

Queen it is. May be its the angle but this thing looks the size of crow at least.

Simply classics

This is the Image that made me join Imgur over a year ago - and I don't regret my decision at all!

Riding a pig. Kusturica used it as art technique.