The Big Picture is featuring some amazing night photos of London shot by Jason Hawkes as he was flying above the city in a helicopter.

photo by Jason Hawkes

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Photos of London From Above at Night by Jason Hawkes

Matt Koval has unearthed a rare video of a pre-web version of YouTube from 1985.

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Pre-Web Version of YouTube in 1985

Mythbusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman demonstrate the difference between CPU and GPU by painting the Mona Lisa in 275 milliseconds using a 1100 barrel paint ball gun earlier this week at NVIDIA’s NVISION 08 show.

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Mythbusters Paint Mona Lisa With 1100 Barrel Paint Ball Gun

Proof that every vote makes a difference, red won by just two votes in our poll for the next Laughing Squid sticker color. We will be printing these soon through Sticker Giant, adding it to existing our line-up of stickers.

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Red Wins As Color of Next Laughing Squid Sticker

Robbie shot 3038 photos with his Canon 5D over a period of 3 days of his life in and around Boston. He then created a video of all of the photos played at hi-speed in the order they were shot, set to the song “Lightspeed Champion” by Dry Lips.

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Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

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Michael Weiss-Malik, a Google employee, wanted to make his marriage proposal to his girlfriend Leslie really, really memorable, so he did what an self-respecting Googleplex geek would so, he put his proposal up on Google Street View.

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My name is Michael Weiss-Malik, and I work for Google. I don’t work on the Street View team, but I interact with them pretty regularly. They decided to coordinate a pre-announced Street View run outside Google’s Mountain View offices, with the idea that Googlers could line up along the street and appear in the imagery. So I put together my “Proposal 2.0″ billboard and showed up, hoping that it’d be readily visible. And it was![snip]

But my original proposal was quiet and low-key. It was just some simple heart-felt words exchanged during a quiet night at home. And while Proposal 1.0 had plenty of sentiment, it was lacking in pizazz. So I did what any Silicon Valley geek would do: I decided to upgrade to “Proposal 2.0,” a new improved online version. I proposed to Leslie from inside a Google Street View panorama. I dare say that it’s the first time anyone in the history of mankind has proposed marriage in quite this way, and it went live on Google Maps on August 5, 2008.

Visit Marry Me Leslie to see some history, learn how he did it, and tell Leslie whether or not to say “yes”.

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Marry Me Leslie: Proposal 2.0 Using Google Street View

Nikon has announced their new D90 camera, a 12.3-megapixel DSLR that retails for $999.95 and includes the ability to shoot 24fps 720p HD video.

Commercial photographer Chase Jarvis had a chance to try out the camera in advance, making a video as he and his crew tested out several D90’s.

In related news, Canon announced their new 50D DSLR.

Check out the D90 write-ups by Thomas Hawk and David Pouge (New York Times).

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New Nikon D90 Camera, Includes Ability To Shoot 720p HD Video