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Instead, how about the gospel in 26 words? "God exists, He loves you, and even though you probably deserve to go to hell, He's willing to let you off if you love Him back." by Planesdragon (210349) Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation | Video on TED.com Man Caves The "LowLine"– New York's Proposed Underground Park (video) NTT Docomo, Fujitsu showcase two-side transparent OLED touchscreen (video) "God said I'll make some D N A They can use it any way they want From paramecium right up to man. They'll have sex and mix up sections Of their code they'll have mutations, The whole thing works like clockwork over time. I'll just sit back in the shade While everyone gets laid That's what they call Intelligent Design" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpNoQaB2LT0 [youtube.com] The Microsoft Update: The 9 worst Microsoft products ever http://www.trekcore.com/audio/ LCARS/Star Trek UI Sounds Realistic Iternet Simulator YouTube: Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveschaefer/2012/08/02/knight-capital-trading-disaster-carries-440-million-price-tag/ A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part Three; the Finale (Video) - Slashdot The 'Star Trek' Call Me Maybe Mash-Up You Didn't Know You Needed (VIDEO) Sphero gets a firmware upgrade and new apps, we get another look at its Augmented Reality Engine (video) -- Engadget watch the "Helvtica" documentary... (Score:5, Insightful) I recommend the whole "design triology" ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Trilogy [wikipedia.org] This “water hammer” effect (which is also responsible for the “clunk” you sometimes hear in old plumbing when you turn off the faucet) can be seen in the well-known party trick (recorded on Mythbusters, analyzed in physics classes, and demonstrated in countless student dorms) of smacking the top of a glass bottle to blow out the bottom. 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Sunrise at Mesa Arch , Canyonlands National Park , Utah - YouTube Mesa Arch at Sunrise, Island in the Sky, Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA Photographic Print by Scott T. Smith at AllPosters.com https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xtralogic.android.rdpclient&hl=en the infamous swing set from GTA IV: Exploit for Launching cars Silent Circle | Worldwide Private Encrypted Communications Fez (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Artificial jellyfish shocked into life | Video | Reuters.com Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (It's cheaper to buy than to build, try skipping 1 hour in) Mesa Arch - Timelapse HD (2009) Island in the Sky , Canyonlands ... Sunrise at Mesa Arch , Canyonlands National Park , Utah - YouTube Mesa Arch at Sunrise, Island in the Sky, Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA Photographic Print by Scott T. Smith at AllPosters.com https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xtralogic.android.rdpclient&hl=en Nest Thermostat Compatibility Brushing Teeth in Zero-G Washing Hair in Zero-G Funny One Liners (funnyoneliners) on Twitter The trouble with Khan Academy - Casting Out Nines - The Chronicle of Higher Education Features | Radian Huge Shocker: Men Love The Zooey Deschanel iPhone Ad | Cult of Mac Memo To Me - Free Reminder Service Google’s New Voice Search Versus Apple’s Siri | Cult of Android http://www.ebay.com/itm/BIGGEST-COLLECTION-EVER-22-SEGA-NINTENDO-PC-ENGINE-FULLSETS-FACTORY-SEALED-/300736846867?pt=FR_Jeux_Vid%C3%A9o&hash=item4605501c13#ht_165718wt_1163 CLANG by Subutai Corporation — Kickstarter Melinda Gates - The Colbert Report - 2012-27-06 - Video Clip | Comedy Central 3D Dictionary 「SanJiten」 by Rob Howland — Kickstarter just check out the gameplay video here. 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(what is it like just outside the solar system?) visualization of Wikipedia to show how the world is connected: video Mozilla Shows Off Junior, a Simple Browser Built for iPad - Slashdot Monty Python did Giant Ads First Two Guys SpaceVenture - by the creators of Space Quest by Two Guys From Andromeda — Kickstarter 12 Coolest Steampunk Gadgets. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitilus/al-skyjacker Hans Rosling: Religions and Babies littleBits (Electronic components that magnetically attach) USF Students Become Superheroes to Teach STEM | WUSF News How Airtime plans to keep penises out of the picture Grad Student Wins Alan Alda's Flame Challenge - Slashdot Reminds me of the only funny thing in Over the Hedge, where Hammy downs the energy drink Web Application Performance Management (APM) : New Relic bash.org quote NASA delivers high-def view of Venus transit Andromeda/Milky Way Collision (in 4 billion years) look around 1:00 on this video with a great explanation of the collision itself. NASA - NASA's Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-On Collision Gregg shorthand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys? | Video on TED.com A flat mirror covered with foil can be used to project the Sun as well — this video shows you how. Everything you need to know about next week’s Transit of Venus | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Student Makes Real-Life Portal Turret - Slashdot (video) Zero-K free rts open source game Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android by Pebble Technology — Kickstarter http://www.ustream.tv/channel/republique Game: Passengers walkthrough for Legend of Grimrock, by Doug Republique by Camouflaj + Logan by Camouflaj :: Kicktraq (keywords: Kickstarter trend tracker) https://www.google.com/dashboard/b/0/ Elderly south Florida woman run over by her own car - National Strange News | Examiner.com (video) Anything Can Be A Touch Screen Thanks To Disney Research’s ‘Touché’ | TPM Idea Lab (Large format) Disney Research: Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids and Everyday Objects Sprites mods - En Garde, a classifying capacitive touch sensor - Results Mogees project turns any surface into a gestural musical interface (Wired UK) BBC News - Why do gadgets keep on breaking? Xyloexplosive Devices - Boing Boing Argo Medical Technologies Ltd.: ReWalk Object Calisthenics In JavaScript - My First Attempt Here’s How You’ll Make Test Chambers with Portal 2’s Level Creator When GLaDOS Asks You To Marry Someone, You Say Yes Now You're Baking With Portals SketchBook Ink for iOS on iPad 3 demo - YouTube Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm (B.R.A.D.) (video) 11 Facts Every Parent Should Know About Their Baby's Brain | LiveScience Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages | threatpost Hungry zoo lion faces off with unfazed toddler | Video | Reuters.com (video) Sheer confidence! Daring Sugababe Amelle struts her stuff in a see-through blouse and tights for Tulisa's party Has she forgotten her skirt? John Siracusa's exhaustive review of filesystems Sure you want to leave this all behind? JLS star Marvin Humes isn't short on company as bachelor invites a bevy of females on his Miami booze cruise 'My husband refuses to take control in bed' ROWAN PELLING offers sex advice to a frustrated reader BGT: semi-finals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qNbi-KvLrM&feature=player_embedded http://www.fatherspiritson.com/articles/jim-amazingfantasies.html Printable house presents new paradigm in eco-architecture | Video | Reuters.com (video) Which of your senses do you trust the most? - Your Community (Invisiball) VIDEO: Boeing 727 deliberately crashed in desert for TV TED: How to grow a rainforest Dr. Who's sonic screwdriver a step closer to reality? (see video) Doctor creates his own Tricorder (3:06 video) Scanadu developing a real-life medical tricorder (Scanadu Trailer 1:38) Sculptor finds art in economic data (0:49 video) Researchers transmit holographic images in near-real-time (video) Google X labs confirms augmented reality glasses project, releases video demo NUIverse: The killer app of an $8,000 tablet? Neil DeGrasse Tyson: if you actually DID have a race that was able to master space and time what would you talk about I highly recommend the opera at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhEH00rlmz8 [youtube.com], from the Ig Nobel prizes a few years ago. It captured the most recent banking crisis rather well, and without the need to blame human greed on misused mathematical formula. Robots Go Wild at the USFIRST.org Robotics Competition (Video) - Slashdot Video: Paul "Froggy" Schneider's Hard-Won Wisdom For Conference Organizers - Slashdot Travelling Salesman, Thriller Set In a World Where P=NP - Slashdot Jordan Mechner's Journals from Oct. 1985: Building the First Prince of Persia T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M Meet Vermin Supreme, the presidential candidate who will fund time travel research Chasing Federal Government IT Stories the Old-Fashioned Way (Video) - Slashdot The Real CSI | FRONTLINE | PBS (53:39) Most shiny if all it took to be wealthy was hard work (6-things-rich-people-need-to-stop-saying) http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toaster_from_scratch.html Electronic Glitch Artwork Made by 'Weirdos Within the Weirdos' (Video) - Slashdot talk at the TED 2012 conference Leisure Suit Larry Comes Again (Video) Unlicensed motorcyclist identified as 300 km/h driver - British Columbia - CBC News PSD: Photoshop Disasters: The Knot: The Not The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) | Threat Level | Wired.com The Best of the Best at Interrogation. (Score:5, Funny) Educing Information – Interrogation : Science and Art Amazon.com: Educing Information: Interrogation -- Science And Art : Foundations For The Future : Phase 1 Report / Intelligence Science Board (9781932946178): Ph. D. Robert A. Fein, Ph. D. Paul Lehner, Bryan Vossekuil: Books Mechanical CPU Clock Mechanical CPU Clock Ridley Reports on Kelly Voluntaryist's Most Revealing "Don't Strip Our Rights" Ever The Viagra TSA Experiment | ZUG http://www.techworld.com.au/article/420036/what_went_wrong_hubble_space_telescope_what_managers_can_learn_from_it Steve Wozniak Showing Off His NIXIE Tube Watch - YouTube How to grow a rainforest See-Through 3D Computer With Gesture Controls Gives Us a Glimpse of the Future - Slashdot TED talk Cyrus Cylinder Mar. 26, 2012 ThinkGeek :: Abyss LED Touchscreen Watch BBC News - 'Cyber-illusionist' Marco Tempest reveals his tricks (video) jQTouch — Zepto/jQuery plugin for mobile web development Science of Sex Appeal: A Sexy Walk Mysterious winged “bird man” exposed as a hoax - SlashGear IL&M, MythBusters weigh in on Jarno Smeets' 'flight' with Wii-powered wings | Space, Military and Medicine | News.com.au This may be the first man to fly like a bird - news - Dagbladet.no Bar Karma // A TV show on Current TV 20 iconic tech sounds bound for extinction Camera Can See Around Corners - Slashdot Video Pick Page Apache Wave - YouTube The Interstellar Space Sex Fallacy Math is different in Europe Metric vs. Imperial jwzdocs jwzrants http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2012/03/the-good-stuff-a-bill-of-rights-for-todays-busy-citizen.html It's New. It's a League. It's for Gamers. It's the League for Gamers! (Video) - Slashdot VerizonMath "Don't Talk to the Police" Amazing "KARA" demo shows there's life left in the PlayStation 3 Discovery News - Is It Future Yet? : Videos : Discovery News Lego Mindstorms Used To Make Artificial Bones - Slashdot A Remarkable Life Logging Project by Ben Lipkowitz | Quantified Self And since I'm giving completely unsolicited advice, the exposition of grammar in "Communicating with Japanese by the Total Method" is my favorite of all language textbooks I've seen. -- phantomfive (622387) Remembering the Kanji, Volume 1: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters: James W. Heisig: 9780824835927: Amazon.com: Books Re:Do they sound alike? (Score:2) by makomk (752139) on Tuesday March 13, @06:27AM (#39336843) Journal ... Incidentally, if you want to do similar voice matching of text-to-speech yourself I believe that the open source Festvox project has supported doing this for a few years now, though it's not terribly well-documented. See festvox/src/vc/HOWTO. You'll need to record some sample phrases in your own voice for the voice transformation code to work from, but apparently the Microsoft demo requires that too. Vi Hart: Blog Doodling in Math Class: Triangle Party http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones (other links at bottom) Amateur Rocketeer Derek Deville's Qu8k Rocket Flies to 120,000+ Feet (Video) - Slashdot How To Fix The Phantom Menace In 12 Minutes | Gizmodo Australia http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/1437241/lulzsec-leader-sabu-unmasked-arrested-and-caught-collaborating http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/1335251/after-legal-fight-nci-researchers-publish-study-linking-diesel-exhaust-cancer http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/0528227/the-worst-job-in-the-digital-world http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mindfinder/default.aspx OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void" - YouTube Xoom with keyboard and mouse connected with usb hub - YouTube Infinite USB Memory | Laptop Review Shop http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/02/solar-sinter-sun-markus-kayser/ (see video) What Your Astronomy Textbook Won’t Tell You Automated to Death As software pilots more of our vehicles, humans can pay the ultimate price. Robert N. Charette investigates the causes and consequences of the automation paradox Is There Anything Good About Men? by Roy F. Baumeister Augmented Reality HUD Glasses | Terminally Incoherent Use your BlackBerry Smartphone with BlackBerry Remote to control your PS3, Android tablet and more! [video] | CrackBerry.com There are some really neat and entertaining videos explaining the work they've done [with the Spitzer Space Telescope], like this one with Felicia Day T-Mobile Angry Birds Live - YouTube TV show X-Files, has a episode named "The Goldberg Variation" is the best introduction to [NoSQL] I've seen ... funny video featuring cute animals Madonna pompons superbowl Googlighting The breakthrough mechanizes the already state-of-the art process of making Harvard's Mobee robots by hand Have a look at this TED Talk on [HF trading] that was posted to /. a while back for some further perspective. http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world.html The relevant bit starts at around 2:45. A pump-and-dump scheme is kind of like a snake oil venture. It requires a good salesman that can work up a crowd. With an engaging, outgoing personality (not an introverted nerd). Can you imagine a BitOil scheme, created by computer nerds, writing mail to people and explaining how it's superior to regular snake oil due to its technical features such as (blah blah). It ain't gonna work. You need to get a hot chick, a magic act, a shill, a strongman, and put an act together. Watch here for an example Rocking out to Classical Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWx_GyTLGmQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdp2hEsc2kg Pornography, Rape, and the Internet Todd D. Kendall* Clemson University The John E. Walker Department of Economics July, 2007 http://www.toddkendall.net/internetcrime.pdf A study on the co-relation between increased internet access and decreased sexual assaults. BMW Augmented Reality Glasses Help Average Joes Make Repairs | Popular Science Feel Safe, Mars Travelers, Virtual Reality-Assisted Space Surgery Is Here | Motherboard Dragons' Den - Home - CBC Television Water Droplets In Orbit On the International Space Station - Slashdot Blockbuster Offers Glimpse Of Movie Renting Past Jurassic katydid sings out after 165 million years - life - 06 February 2012 - New Scientist "Dearly beloved....we are gathered here in the presence of math, gravity, evolution...." QuadRotor Fails http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6jAvwRHcQQ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20120201.html Cory Doctorow video about SOPA http://matadornetwork.com/change/infographic-why-the-movie-industry-is-so-wrong-about-sopa/ Interactive Games and Concept Cars (Video) - Slashdot A Paper Record Player : Kelli Anderson Laser Woodcut Invitation www.nfb.ca The Cat Came Back, a hilarious seven-minute animated short film, is the perpetual leader of the most-viewed films on the NFB website (www.nfb.ca), a film lover’s dream. At dusk this Thursday, DIY astronomers can witness a “conjunction” between the brightest objects in the night sky, a crescent moon and Venus (the brightest planet). It will look like two jewels twinkling in the night sky, Mr. Dickinson says. If you miss it Thursday night, you get another chance on Feb. 25 and March 26. Also this spring, Venus passes Jupiter for three nights from March 11 to 13, which means the two brightest planets will appear close to each other. youtube video of gallium eating an aluminum can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g_ml8tAnWE&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS4WXKDZ-GE&feature=related http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/225204/the-four-fallacies-of-it-metrics Kisai Rogue Touch Pocket Watch - a new take on an all time classic (see video) World's Smallest V12 Engine Retina implant videos "Sin or Win" iPad game protest video on YouTube https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cXeHrCd-inBA4lCSk2P41tfA-HLeQEdMd-NKljOye9A/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1 http://www.santapark.com/ Watch the trailer for You Are Not So Smart - The Book http://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/ Santa Claus is watching (the U.S.?) http://vimeo.com/32001208?utm_source=dl ... um=twitter ISS view Crunchyroll - Watch Naruto Shippuden, Bleach, Anime Videos and ... 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Occupy Sesame Street | #occupysesamestreet I certainly hope that they use this video [youtube.com] to train the software. New light polution to worry about: OT POVRay - Flooded Moon Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword (Nintendo Wii) : Wii - L-M - Future Shop What People Are Doing with Kinect Flex it, baby! Nokia's new interface is seriously twisted | Deep Tech - CNET News A Cartography of the Anthropocene (see video) Movember Canada - News - Google Chrome tells the story of Movember in their latest film Jupiter Video “World’s First Spherical Flying Machine” Can Land and Fly Almost Anywhere Jupiter Video Two Chatbots Talk With Each Other, Awkward Hilarity Ensues | Geekosystem Siri in Canada Hands On: No Restaurants, Maps and Directions [VIDEO] | iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource Weird Cloud Shoots - YouTube Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power - Slashdot How to Build A Walking Robot - Passive Walker Nest | The Learning Thermostat | Home Philip Vaughan :: Artist Portfolio Watch Rick Mercer's ‘It Gets Better’ rant "Holographic" Desk Allows Interaction With Virtual Objects - Slashdot Indeed, I suggest watching The Deathbed Vigil, a documentary about the last day at Commodore . It explains how they managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Reading this piece also explains some things. It's disturbing, they had some truly good tech, all destroyed by the absolute incompetence of those at the very top. 'Family Feud' Swallow Question Makes Steve Harvey Fear Future Of Show (VIDEO) real "hello" from a dog This dog is recovering from a bad day by grabbing a beer from the fridge. top-notch table manners (from a pet) Kevin Karsch's Homepage Sun Is The Future ThinkGeek :: Harry Potter Infrared Battling Wand ThinkGeek :: Bulletproof Body Armor Clipboard ThinkGeek :: Harry Potter Voice-Activated Wand Flashlight http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?section=&color=green&index=1&view=stories&duration=-1&startdate=20111019&index=1 9-year-old designated driver in Michigan Robot called CubeStormer II Solves a Rubik's Cube in just 5.35 seconds #37725496 Throwable 36-Camera Ball Takes Spherical Panoramas - Slashdot I can't believe no one has posted this yet: 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly) SixthSense - a wearable gestural interface (MIT Media Lab) Company Unveils Personalized Anime Robot Girl - Slashdot Some youtube basic videos for folks looking at buying telescope Robotic car learns as it travels Floppy Disk Music Qu8k - BALLS 20 - Carmack Prize Attempt - High Altitude Rocket On-board Video Brian Cox explores Andromeda (Silverlight may be required) An Eye-Opening Look at How Many Conflict Photos Are Staged Legend of Grimrock Bringing Back the FP Dungeon Crawl | TechZwn Here's To The Crazy Ones (see: the artistic crime of the century) Japan tech show merges real, virtual LHC Gets Android App - Slashdot There's a very good animation of the plan for Curiosity landing Ten Best Apple Commercials of All Time (Updated) - The Cody Word - MarketWatch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hftnySHVnF0 This Metropolitan police video shows how huge an HGV driver's blind spot is for anything close to their cab. Virtual reality helps ready surgeons for the operating … Japan airline apologises for plane flop Fri, Sep 30 2011 Nestle ad first to pitch at canine customers | Reuters (see ad) "Transmission" by The Perry Bible Fellowshiop: http://pbfcomics.com/248/ Video -- Elusive Golden Cat Filmed -- National Geographic this instructional video Infinite Solutions is a parody of a tech show, and none of its mirthful tech "tutorials" really work. High Resolution Beach - Google Earth Strangest Sights in Google Earth, Part II 15 Google Earth and Street View Mysteries | PCWorld Aftershock Survival Summit Predicts the Unthinkable Bubble hotel offers cocoon with a view Mon, Sep 26 2011 |