Create an excellent stop motion video.

You see each one of those little silver dots? They’re all quarters.

Lego and NASA have officially embarked on a three-year partnership to help inspire kids to be more creative and to learn more about science, technology, engineering and math.

For the first project, part of the STS-134 mission in February, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) will build objects live on a video feed, while schoolkids build similar objects, so the students can see the differences in how objects behave on Earth and in space. Space shuttle Endeavour will carry nine specialized kits to the station in February during the STS-134 mission. Working with them inside a see-through glove box so the small pieces don’t get lost in the station, Astronaut Cady Coleman will assemble LEGO blocks into models and working machines.

Two small LEGO shuttles are packed inside Discovery for the STS-133 launch to promote the new partnership.

See also: Lego and NASA build a Partnership for Education on GeekDad.

From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

and dealing with the drunk cats…..

From the ImprovAsylum.

Here is a List of Movies Cited in the Above Video:

1. Roxanne
2. Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
3. Gleaming the Cube
4. The Princess Bride
5. A Fish Called Wanda
6. Star Wars
7. The Wizard of Oz
8. Casino
9. Three Amigos
10. A Clockwork Orange
11. Dolemite
12. Glengarry Glen Ross
13. Bad Santa
14. The Witches of Eastwick
15. The Big Lebowski
16. In Bruges
17. Full Metal Jacket
18. There Will Be Blood
19. Toy Story
20. Casablanca
21. Encino Man
22. The Women
23. Predator
24. Army of Darkness
25. They Live
26. Uncle Buck
27. Big Trouble in Little China
28. New Jack City
29. Billy Madison
30. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
31. The Departed
32. Carlito’s Way
33. In the Loop
34. Glengarry Glen Ross
35. Stand By Me
36. Grosse Pointe Blank
37. Duck Soup
38. Caddyshack
39. Planes Trains & Automobiles
40. South Park
41. Napoleon Dynamite
42. Mean Girls
43. The Breakfast Club
44. As Good as It Gets
45. The 6th Day
46. Step Brothers
47. O Brother Where Art Thou?
48. Full Metal Jacket
49. City Slickers
50. Road House
51. True Grit
52. Short Circuit
53. Raging Bull
54. The Usual Suspects
55. Snatch
56. Caddyshack
57. The Last Boy Scout
58. Ghostbusters
59. The Sandlot
60. As Good as It Gets
61. 48 Hrs
62. In Bruges
63. Silver Streak
64. Glengarry Glen Ross
65. A Fish Called Wanda
66. Goodfellas
67. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
68. The Mist
69. Trading Places
70. The Warriors
71. Point Break
72. Gangs of New York
73. Reservoir Dogs
74. The Breakfast Club
75. The Cowboys
76. Full Metal Jacket
77. Dodgeball
78. Donnie Darko
79. Scarface
80. The Good the Bad and the Ugly
81. Anchorman
82. Tropic Thunder
83. Sexy Beast
84. In the Loop
85. Get Shorty
86. Blazing Saddles
87. The Way of the Gun
88. Blade: Trinity
89. Clerks
90. The Boondock Saints
91. The Exorcist
92. What About Bob?
93. Weird Science
94. Con Air
95. True Romance
96. In the Loop
97. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
98. Lake Placid
99. The Front
100. Gone with the Wind

There is even a reference to Newton at the end.

I ran across this beautiful time-lapsed video of the continuing eruptions:

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010

from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo:

“So I saw all of these mediocre pictures of that volcano in Iceland nobody can pronounce the name of, so I figured I should go and do better. But the flights to get over took forever as expected (somewhat). 4 days after leaving I finally made it, but the weather was terrible for another 4. Just before leaving it got pretty good for about a day and a half and this is what I managed to get.

Wish I had more time. I missed all the cool Lightning and the Lava of the first eruption. But I figure this will just be a trial run for another day.”

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