Here are a couple of demos of Everyday Looper for the iPhone.
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Check out the second rider.
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Don't let a little thing like a flood stop you.
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Danilo sends a link to this video and says it's way cool.
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Denise Reis is a Brazilian musician with an unusual talent. Check these out.
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From the ILoveLocalCommercials.com people:
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Here's a nice time-lapse clip.
This is a pretty clever toy.
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Zoltan Veres is an aerobatic fool from Hungary. There's some amazing photography in this clip.
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Hungry dogs lickin' their chops.
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The story:
On the 9th Dec, just before Christmas and the festive season, I was diagnosed with Tuberculosis and placed into a quarantined room in Sydney Hospital. After three and a half weeks in hospital, I was released briefly because the doc's thought that they would have had the Tuberculosis under control with standard treatments, but was called back into the lonely little cell on the 18th Jan when some test results showed that my particular strain of TB was "multi-drug resistant", meaning that it was a much more intense treatment program, over a longer period of time. Shitballs. I am an Australian, born and raised, but I had done some travel in South Africa and South America, so it's believed that I picked up the TB somewhere on one of those journeys. In any case, I have now spent about 60 days in quarantine so far, on my own, and it's likely that I'll be here for another 4+ weeks. To take my mind off the treatment, the loneliness and the situation that I have found myself in, I have been playing around making some songs and some clips for those songs, then putting them up on Youtube. Taking the time to bring my friends and other people a bit of a laugh, has been a great way for me to feel as if I am taking a bad situation and making it somehow positive.
I am an Australian, born and raised, but I had done some travel in South Africa and South America, so it's believed that I picked up the TB somewhere on one of those journeys.
In any case, I have now spent about 60 days in quarantine so far, on my own, and it's likely that I'll be here for another 4+ weeks. To take my mind off the treatment, the loneliness and the situation that I have found myself in, I have been playing around making some songs and some clips for those songs, then putting them up on Youtube. Taking the time to bring my friends and other people a bit of a laugh, has been a great way for me to feel as if I am taking a bad situation and making it somehow positive.
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Another auto-tuned clip of famous scientists from SymphonyOfScience.com, the folks who did the We Are All Connected video last fall.
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Check out Google's site about a 5,752 mile, 6-day trip on the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Vladivostok.
Moscow-Vladivostok: virtual journey on Google Maps The great Trans Siberian Railway, the pride of Russia, goes across two continents, 12 regions and 87 cities. The joint project of Google and the Russian Railways lets you take a trip along the famous route and see Baikal, Khekhtsirsky range, Barguzin mountains, Yenisei river and many other picturesque places of Russia without leaving your house. During the trip, you can enjoy Russian classic literature, brilliant images and fascinating stories about the most attractive sites on the route. Let's go!
The great Trans Siberian Railway, the pride of Russia, goes across two continents, 12 regions and 87 cities. The joint project of Google and the Russian Railways lets you take a trip along the famous route and see Baikal, Khekhtsirsky range, Barguzin mountains, Yenisei river and many other picturesque places of Russia without leaving your house. During the trip, you can enjoy Russian classic literature, brilliant images and fascinating stories about the most attractive sites on the route. Let's go!
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This is impressive. Of course, it would be truly wonderful if it delivered you to different places but it's cool nonetheless.
Google's Liquid Galaxy is engineer Jason Holt's 20% time project, a wraparound view of 8 LCD screens providing a truly immersive experience of Google Earth and Street View.
We haven't had any RC plane clips for a spell. Here's an amazing model of an SR-71 Blackbird.
From dvice.com:
Take a tour of the International Space Station, right here Let's take a fascinating video tour of the International Space Station (ISS), where we float in microgravity from the Soyuz on one end all the way to the Space Shuttle on the other. As you can see, it really is a series of tubes, and my, hasn't this thing gotten huge?
Let's take a fascinating video tour of the International Space Station (ISS), where we float in microgravity from the Soyuz on one end all the way to the Space Shuttle on the other. As you can see, it really is a series of tubes, and my, hasn't this thing gotten huge?
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A pretty good rant about 'Gorethodoxy', based on a parody of Simon & Garfunkel's A Simple Desultory Philippic. (The audio's all guitar so I don't get the mandolin. But there it is.)
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This work is pretty impressive.
A novel -- and definitely NSFW -- form of advertising by skywriting.
H.T. Tucson John
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It looks to me like this was shot in two places. The scene appears to shift from a California bay to an Arizona lake at about the 1:20 mark.
Here's the opposite of the partying in sunny Brazil: an impressive aerial clip of sunrise in Norway.
A great mash-up.
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Shot in the early thirties, a man with a rifle tests an early version of bullet proof glass by having his wife hold the glass to her face while he shoots at her.
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It's snowing here and of course we had the snowpocalypse (above) on the U.S. east coast over the weekend. So this is very timely.
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ComputerWorld selected its Top 10 Super Bowl Tech ads. The oldest is a Xerox ad from '76. But the funniest, IMO, is this EDS ad from 2000.
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Watch this 6-second clip. Then play it again and listen to it with your eyes closed.
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There are wedding invitations and then there are things like this...
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An animation made from HIRISE images of Mojave crater on Mars.
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The Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C, the world's largest diesel engine.
This meme's getting a little worn by now but I still thought this iPad rant was funny.
I like that name.
Danilo writes, "Do you know Campus Party? It's like a carnival here. This was the 'dance of the chairs'. Happened today, 2:00am. The geeks don't sleep. "
He's talking about Campus Party Brazil 2010in Sao Paulo this week.
A nice time-lapse music video of Vancouver, B.C. According to the notes at YouTube, it was shot with a 12 megapixel SLR.
Steve Lee's a plain-spoken -- well, a plain-singing -- Australian who knows what he likes. Check out his site at ILikeGuns.com.au.
Here's the trailer for an IMAX 3D movie about the last shuttle mission to the Hubble telescope.
This is an interesting clip about an alternative to using combustion to generate thrust for your rocket. Using constant boost for planetary travel is hardly a new idea and I have to wonder how all the reaction mass would get carried along. But those quibbles aside this is a cool development.
A very clever French ad advocating condom use. Not at all SFW.
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Danilo sends a link to this guitar designed by Misa Digital, in Sydney, Australia.
I don't think your landlord will like it if you try this at home.
Not as good as the Dogbert method but it does keep support costs down.
Another animation sent by Danilo. It's pretty surreal.
Muzorama is a short 3D animation film based on the universe of french illustrator Jean-Philippe Masson aka Muzo. Produce in 2008 with a six weeks production time.
Produce in 2008 with a six weeks production time.
All about Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show.
And a little follow-up with Leno himself.
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Safe for work, too.
You may want to try this one in full-screen mode.
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Some of these are true misfortunes but in most you have to wonder, 'What were they thinking?'
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Completed in 2006, The Passenger was created in its entirety by Chris Jones over an eight year period. Find out how and why at: http://www.chrisj.com.au.
Hat tip to Danilo
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The Parrot AR.Drone.
And here's a clip about gaming with this widget.
This mash-up of pictures from PeopleOfWalmart is pretty funny. (NSFW naturally.)
Luckily, we haven't had any of the usual winter ice storms locally. So this compilation of problems while driving on ice is pretty funny.
This ad is a curiosity to watch. I've never seen an ad for engine technology featuring birds and flowers -- it's like engine anime. (There's probably a Japanese word for that.)
And it gets even stranger when you learn that it was named Commercial of the Decade by Adweek* and that it's narrated by Garrison Keillor.
*SuperBowl ads not included
Tucson John brought this parody about Tiger Woods to my attention. It's based on Buck Owens' song, Tiger By The Tail and is definitely NSFW.
Danilo writes, "Alma means soul in portuguese and (i think) in other latin languages." This short film with that title is very well done - but a little creepy.
Impressive! But crazy.
More from Simon's Cat.
Steve sends a link to this old (1998) Bud Light ad. It's still pretty funny.
Instructions on how to build one here.
This clip is 12+ minutes of the New Year's fireworks display in Sydney. It's an amazing show and the videography is outstanding.
Sky News says, "More than a million people gathered in Sydney Harbour to see a spectacular New Year fireworks display. Organisers claimed the 12-minute extravaganza involving 4,500kg of fireworks [just shy of 5 US tons - JdJ] was the most complex ever staged."
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This is a great presentation about climate change by Warren Meyer. It's worth the 90 minutes you'll spend watching it. He doesn't argue that the climate isn't warming nor that CO2 isn't a contributing factor to that. Instead, he makes some good arguments that those changes are no cause for alarm. (You can view this video in a larger format at his site.)
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They're broken out one-by-one at Gawker.
Three minutes of falling dominoes (mostly) - pretty well done.
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A Chinese rocket launch filmed from a plane.
An impressive clip in a sort of Power-of-Ten style.
Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.
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I've never seen the movie Interstate 60, so this amusing clip was new to me.
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The funniest thing I've seen yet on Tiger's kerfuffle.
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At buzzfeed. Here's Kim Kardashian before-n-after.
H.T. Danilo
A nicely done tilt-shift stop action clip of pro wrestling. I imagine it took a lot of work to put this clip together.
Christmas lights meet Guitar Hero.
Tip o' the hat to Scott
An eagle owl landing - shot at 1000 fps with a Photron SA.
This was in Jerusalem last month.
And a Happy Hanukkah to Steve & family in San Diego.
Some good old boys having a big time with firearms. Check out the hog leg one of them uses.
Man Bets Against Saints, Gets TV Shot To Bits NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana man who bet against the New Orleans Saints has lost his 60-inch high-definition, flat-screen TV to a backyard firing squad, but he also became an Internet star. Wayne A. Spring told his friends that if New Orleans beat the Washington Redskins on Sunday, anyone who wanted could come to his house and shoot his television. [...] Things were looking good until the Saints tied the game and sent it into overtime.
NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana man who bet against the New Orleans Saints has lost his 60-inch high-definition, flat-screen TV to a backyard firing squad, but he also became an Internet star.
Wayne A. Spring told his friends that if New Orleans beat the Washington Redskins on Sunday, anyone who wanted could come to his house and shoot his television. [...]
Things were looking good until the Saints tied the game and sent it into overtime.
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This would scare you out of year's growth.
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Old (this clip is silent):
A speculation on what Earth would look like with rings. I wish the author had taken seasonal effects into account too, but all the views shown here seem to assume the Earth is at an equinox. Think what the ring shadow would look like (on half the globe) at a solstice.
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Danilo sends a couple of clips about unusual ways to copy the Mona Lisa. Here's a group who used 4,000 cups of coffee. A pretty low-res image, but still recognizable.
And here's someone else who used MS Paint.
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A cleverly done stop-action clip from New Zealand.
Quite a bootstrap process.
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An amusing parody about Climategate based on the Tommy James song, Draggin' the Line.
The most interesting part of the CRU leak will probably be that much of their data and their analysis code will now be open for inspection. Things might get very interesting.
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A really impressive collection of time-lapse clips by Chad Richard at TimeLapsing.com.
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Paul sends a link to this. The YouTube notes say:
[...] a video shot from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1905. Before the earthquake/fire of 1906 destroyed the area. Remarkable footage of the turn of the century lifestyles in California
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My parents' dog chasing a treat that she can't catch because it is tied to her collar so she's towing it in a loop.
This is a curiosity. A German company called Festo makes an interactive all they call FinRay.
Tip o' the hat to Danilo in Brazil.
An interesting ad for Guinness -- lots of great scenery.
One of many 5-second movies.
A refreshingly direct ad for Reebok's EasyTone shoe:
Amazingly well done CGI short clip.
Res ipsa loquitur.
YogaDork did a little research (for the curious).
A couple of EPA lawyers describe why Cap & Trade legislation is a really bad way to reduce carbon emissions. Remember the Law of Unintended Consequences.
They're right that a "carbon fee" is a better approach to reducing carbon emissions (though they should just bite the bullet and call it a carbon tax).
And for AGW skeptics like me, the tax approach has another advantage -- you can always repeal a tax when you figure out it was a mistake. Getting rid of a cap & trade program will be much more difficult.
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A clever ad for Nokia's N900, a Linux-based device that Nokia's touting as an open platform they call Maemo.
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An outstanding video of Airventure 2009 - many beautiful aircraft and aerobatic sequences.
This guy skims his ATV 400 feet across a lake in Mississippi.
Mental Floss has a collection of 10 videos of dogs welcoming their masters back home, which seems like just the thing for Veterans' Day.
Carrie, the ballerina dog. I believe the dog and her master are from Chile.
Geeked to the max.
This is a clever piece of work - but how do you keep a knock sequence a secret?
If I were this track inspector, I believe I'd check the train schedule before I checked the tracks.
This clip's a little long but I enjoyed it all.
I could live without the falsetto asides but that said, this is a pretty funny routine about bacon.
Industrial strength bizarreness from Japan.
A make-up artist for hamburgers shows how it's done.
Microsoft makes a decent ad.
Though I'm not sure where this was shot.
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A little hokey but pretty well done overall.
Seems more clinical than scary to me, but it's an interesting trick.
It's a hilarious rant - and definitely not safe for work. But you know George.
I'm no Michael Jackson fan but somebody did a great job on this clip.
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I don't like most of the auto-tune clips I've seen but this one struck my fancy. For one thing, it has Richard Feynman playing drums.
I'm thinking that Monty Python might look like this to people who don't understand English.
Paul sent a link to this with the comment, "The world is nuts." The dialog is certainly a blue streak -- definitely not safe for work.
RFT article here.
More hijinks from Tom Mabe.
This is a little long at 10 minutes but it's pretty interesting. It's quite a story, if true.
This is an interesting prototype because of the iPhone interface. (The rest of it appears to be off-the-shelf technology.)
Very clever.
The audio's pretty hot on this one, so mind the volume.
I especially liked how they miked the exhaust pipe on the tractor.
Here's another video along the lines of yesterday's post about the piano stairs.
It was part of their Columbus Day celebration.
Willow can read
Maggie can count
Both via ohmidog!
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This is a little long but it's worth the while.
An interesting experimental device from Honda. More info here.
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The YouTube notes say, "Invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. Music by Wolfgang A. Mozart. Played by French artist Thomas Bloch, exhibiting the glass harmonica in the Paris Music Museum, Nov. 29, 2007." Wikipedia has an article about this device.
They've got a great promotional clip at any event. The music's infectious.
Maybe Danilo, our contributor in Brazil, will leave a comment and tell us what the local reaction was to the IOC announcement.
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Unbelievable -- worth watching whether you like baseball or not.
For a person to ride on a jet-powered carousel.
A preview from the BBC's Walk On The Wild Side.
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At Hunde Show bei der Privathengstschau Verden 2009.
A pool-shooting robot developed in Canada.
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Big Mouth Billy Bass does Monty Python (among others). Nice hack by Steve Ravet.
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Watch and be impressed.
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A trick by Cyril Takayama (and mostly in Japanese).
Clever.
Leno has a pretty good spoof ad for ACORN.
This news anchor in New York drops an F-bomb about 5 seconds into this clip. The expression on his co-anchor's face is just priceless.
One of the goofiest TV news reports I've seen.
Capacitor bank: 21.5µF 30kV 9270 Joules 5kg watermelon (about 11 pounds) Pieces of watermelon flew over 15 meters. Air smelled and tasted like watermelon for some time.
An impressive show of images from the recently refurbished Hubble Space Telescope.
An illusion turns into a painful reality for this Israeli magician.
Mary sends a link to this well-done parody about aging.
Hitler's really ticked off now.
Where to install Vista:
Danilo sends a link to this video about how an Indian yogi 'levitates': I don't know the source of the clip.
A little long but pretty entertaining.
Another parody of The Candy Man Can.
Tim Hawkins is the guy who did the Things You Don't Say To Your Wife parody. I didn't know he got political.
I believe the text means "Instinct or Intelligence"?
This is a dramatic clip and a little long - but very well done.
A parody ad for the iPhone.
Eric O'Shea's suggestions for music to accompany commercials.
This 11 minute clip is about Top Gear's James May's ride in a U2.
H.T. Mary
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Here's another illusion in broad daylight by Chris Angel. This guy reminds me of Cyril Takayama.
This 10-minute clip is about an oil exploration rig that drilled into a salt mine and drained a Louisiana lake.
"Putpockets" give a little extra cash LONDON (Reuters) – Visitors to London always have to be on the look out for pickpockets, but now there's another, more positive phenomenon on the loose -- putpockets. Aware that people are suffering in the economic crisis, 20 former pickpockets have turned over a new leaf and are now trawling London's tourist sites slipping money back into unsuspecting pockets. Anything from 5 pounds ($8) to 20 pound notes is being surreptitiously deposited in unguarded pockets or open handbags in Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden and other busy spots. The initiative, which runs until the end of August in London before being rolled out countrywide, is being funded by a broadbrand provider [TalkTalk - JdJ], which says it wants to brighten up people's lives in unusual ways.
LONDON (Reuters) – Visitors to London always have to be on the look out for pickpockets, but now there's another, more positive phenomenon on the loose -- putpockets.
Aware that people are suffering in the economic crisis, 20 former pickpockets have turned over a new leaf and are now trawling London's tourist sites slipping money back into unsuspecting pockets.
Anything from 5 pounds ($8) to 20 pound notes is being surreptitiously deposited in unguarded pockets or open handbags in Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden and other busy spots.
The initiative, which runs until the end of August in London before being rolled out countrywide, is being funded by a broadbrand provider [TalkTalk - JdJ], which says it wants to brighten up people's lives in unusual ways.
Clever stop-action clip done (mostly) with Legos.
This street magician does a trick with an ending that surprises (almost) everyone.
You have to wonder what the fish thought of this.
It never ceases to amaze me to hear Daniel Hannan - a British politician - talking Jeffersonian ideas of government, but he does a great job of it. The gist of this speech is: Do not do what we've done in Britain.
The speech is broken into four clips; the other three are after the break. Total time is ~30 minutes.
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I wonder if this video is related to this story.
Criss Angel does a disappearing illusion in broad daylight.
Dave Carroll continues his musical crusade against United Airlines with another video about his broken guitar. (The first one, United Breaks Guitars appeared here.)
His story's been written up in Salon.
A cute video about dogs in the water.
The language in this clip is not even close to safe for work, so mind the volume.
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Danilo sends a link to a sand-painting clip and he writes, "This is a long clip too. But I think it´s fantastic. And the music is good too."
Google's translator leads me to believe this woman is named Kseniya Simonova and this appeared on a show called Ukraine has Talent
Or what we English speakers would call sport acrobatics. At 9:19, this is a long clip but these acrobats do some amazing things.
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Danilo sends a link to this video about the JetLev Flyer.They're estimating that they'll ship these things in September of this year at a price of $129,000.
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This is one of the most impressive clips about astronomy that I've seen. It explains recent work with the Hubble Ultra Deep Field photographs to create a 3D model from them. 4 minutes well spent.
Here he appears with his wife, Mary Ford. I don't know when this was recorded. He passed away today.
<obi-wan>That is not the analogy you are looking for.</obi-wan>
At 5:20+, this is one of the longest commercials I've seen (not counting 'infomercials', of course). It's a very well presented history of Johnnie Walker whiskey: the man who walked around the world.
The answer to everything.
Video from the Great American Championship Motorcycle Hill Climb in Billings, Montana. One rider actually makes it.
Like the Touchable holography video, this one comes from SIGGRAPH (held last week). This one's really impressive: it's a full-motion, 3-D green screen.
A team from INRIA and Grenoble Universities in France will demo a new virtual reality system called Virtualization Gate that tracks users' movements very accurately using multiple cameras, allowing them to interact with virtual objects with new realism.
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This looks like the start of something pretty cool -- like a holodeck, maybe.
A pretty cool clip from Germany. If this for real (which would surprise me), it's one hell of a trick. Find the perpetrators at http://www.mach-es-machbar.de/.
Another interesting clip from Germany - by Urbanscreen.com. These are 3-D projections on the surface of a building.
The YouTube notes say:
A musical version of 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' by H.P Lovecraft. Set to a song composed by the HPLHS (http://www.cthulhulives.org). If you don't get whats going on and want to read the original story, its a good read and online at:http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Over_Innsmouth
If you don't get whats going on and want to read the original story, its a good read and online at:http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Over_Innsmouth
Some Nederlander does a nice job on Bill O'Reilly & guests for their characterizations of Amsterdam as a crime-ridden place.
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This kid's really good on her blades.
At the Agroventures Park near Rotorua, NZ.
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Mary sends this funny Bud Light ad:
Doctors at Toronto General Hospital use a ventilator, pump and filter, to keep lungs breathing in a glass dome for up to 12 hours following donation. See for yourself:
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This clip is about The Cat House on the Kings in Parlier, CA.
"Incredible," writes Danilo. "It might help Big Bad Wolf against the 3 little pigs."
From mental_floss:
At a town hall meeting in St. Louis, he asks for an apology from Sen. Claire McCaskill (D- MO) for backing the health care bill. The crowd eats it up.
"Enumerated powers" - bless his heart.
Carol sends a link to this clip of Dom DeLuise performing a trick on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
A cute animation by someone who knows cats well.
A long (9:32) clip about 'free solo' climbing. There are some really impressive shots in this clip.
I don't know who made this video. I'm only hoping she doesn't vote.
Mary sends this funny, Candid-Camera type clip about a woman serving bottles of something - beer, maybe? I'll bet she sold a lot of them.
It's definitely NSFW, so discretion is advised.
Here's a video of the German who rollerskated a roller coaster in this weeks Need for speed post.
It's back, Danilo.
But it looks like it was fun.
