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 Saturday, February 06, 2010
 
Pablo Francisco
If I could do an impression of Don LaFontaine as well this guy, that's how I'd talk ALL THE TIME.
 Monday, February 01, 2010
 
The 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled in the Name of Science
This article is quite a read. This is they type of thing they should be teaching in science class!
 Friday, January 15, 2010
 
An Intervention for MySpace
If you ask me, this was long overdue.
 Friday, December 18, 2009
 
Baby's first tunnel
My God, it's full of stars!
 
Music decoded from 600 year old carvings
From /.: "Musicians recently unlocked a 600 year old mystery that had been encoded into the walls of the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, the one featured in The Da Vinci Code. The song was carved into the walls of the chapel in the form of geometric shapes that a father-son team — both are musicians and the father is an ex-Royal Air Force code breaker — finally matched to so-called Chladni patterns (see the Wikipedia article on cymatics)." There's a video with the music. Go listen to it!
 Monday, November 30, 2009
 
Highway Engineering Pranks
I always figured something like this was going on. I swear I've been caught in that first one.
 Saturday, November 07, 2009
 
Snopes has a darker side, you know.
Your comic of the day.
 Monday, November 02, 2009
 
The difference between engineers and real people.
Your comic of the day.
 
According to Fox News, most of Fox News isn't News.
I'm not surprised at the conclusion, just the admission.
 Thursday, October 22, 2009
 
Solar hot air ballon!
This is a really neat idea. I tried making one last summer, and it didn't work out too well. You didn't see ME in the news floating to Colorado Springs.
 Thursday, October 15, 2009
 
The Moon and Saturn
Your sweet pic of the day.
 Monday, October 12, 2009
 
"There's no way to be cool when your instrument is larger than you."
Margaret pointed out this video to me. Shoot. Now I'm going to be hearing that music all day.
 
Party gone wrong
I think this video is a cautionary tale about mixing bad blood with alcohol.
 Friday, October 09, 2009
 
LOLCODE
Ok, some people are put off by LOL cats, specifically by their poor grammar. But a programmer liked it enough to make a functioning programming language out of LOLspeak. The vocabulary isn't that big, but the result is a surprisingly thorough and functional language. Hrm. I would argue that since LOLspeak can be used to create an unambiguous programming language, that demonstrates that it has a consistent grammatical structure. But I will concede that some people will still find it annoying.
 Thursday, October 08, 2009
 
G.I.F.T. proven by psychologist
Why we flame first and think later.
 Sunday, August 23, 2009
 
Self defense with a cane or umbrella... 1901
(From Make) Here's a self defense style you've probably never seen. How the 1901 gentleman defends himself with his cane. I haven't studied it yet, but the big thing seems to be protecting the hand without the protective hilt on a sword. (Hrm. I wonder if that could be applied to lightsaber style.) They mention Single Stick fighting... Oh, and the Single Stick has a hand guard. (A basket hilt is kind of a cage around the weapon hand.) And Single Stick evolved into Canne de combat, which evolved into a sport? Cane fighting as a sport? Dude, I would totally watch that on ESPN.
 Tuesday, July 21, 2009
 
If Martha Stewart did Beatboxing
It would look like this.
 
Bambi and Thumper
This should get you your daily quota of cute.
 Wednesday, July 01, 2009
 
Gutenberg Tech Support
It's always difficult to adjust to a new technology.
 Tuesday, June 30, 2009
 
Ninjas don't joke.
Remember that.
 Thursday, June 25, 2009
 
Dishonest Movie Trailers
This is a wonderful trailer for When Harry Met Sally. Same type of thing as with this Shining trailer.
 Wednesday, May 27, 2009
 
The 90's Flow Chart
It all makes sense now!
 
Air that's heavier than, well, air.
And a tin foil boat!
 Tuesday, May 19, 2009
 
Your moment of Zen...
An egg white separator!
 
Antarctica's towering Seuss-esque chimneys
Ok, I need to plan a trip to Antarctica to see these.
 Friday, May 15, 2009
 
Kite Ice Butt Boarding!
I'm glad I saw this video in the spring. It reduces the odds of me breaking my neck on the ice.
 Monday, May 11, 2009
 
Physics Win!

 Tuesday, January 20, 2009
 
Induction Forge
In this interview with Louie Raffloer, there's a video demonstrating his induction forge. My Emag is a little rusty. But as I recall, induction happens when you have current flowing through a coil. The moving electric charges creates a magnetic field in the center. When you then change the current, the established magnetic field resists the change. Apparently this resistance can create quite a bit of heat in the material in the center of the coil. Crazy awesome.
 
Matrix Cat Fight
If you haven't seen the Matrix sequels, this video isn't nearly as funny. But it's just as cute.
 Tuesday, January 13, 2009
 
Dude films shuttle launch from an airplane
This is one of the cooler videos I've ever seen.
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