Weekly Upwords – 3/20/2009 Edition

You wanna know what a trillion dollars looks like?  A warehouse full of hundred dollar bills!
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

Are you a LOTR fan?  If you’re not you probably don’t even know what LOTR means.  Check this link for some cool paintings of The Hobbit.
http://quickhidehere.blogspot.com/2009/03/battle-of-five-armies-final.html

Remember the plane that landing the Hudson river?  Here is a really cool animation video of the landing.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/02/recreation-of-hudson.html

Ira Glass has put out a couple of clips on effective storytelling.  Ira Glass is the host of the excellent broadcast This American Life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7KQ4vkiNUk&feature=related