More hilarity from Natalie Dee and her husband, Drew.
I wasn’t going to mention SXSW at first for the sake of overexposure, but as more and more interesting material keeps pouring in, not to mention the 9rules network (with which I am affiliated) taking the prize for best community site of the year, I had to touch on it to make sure everyone who reads this is at least aware of the content I’m (just getting around to) enjoying right now.
This clip may have made the rounds, but it didn’t make it to me. Chris Bliss, comedian, juggles three balls choreographed to a Beatles tune, basically, the juggling equivalent of playing a guitar with your teeth.
Like silly string, but instead of crap all over the floor, you get instant clothing made of tiny cotton fibers that blend together to create a peel-away fabric.
… via Skydive Arizona’s vertical wind tunnel. Especially watch the last quarter of the video where the instructor (pictured above) goes freaking nuts.
Like other treemaps (which are tools to visualize hierarchical data), but the size of the graph stays the same as you zoom into each sector.
French design firm Easyweb has been projecting video onto buildings, carefully mapped to follow the dimensions of the structure to give the illusion of depth and texture. It’s difficult to describe, so check out the video.
“If you haven’t come across John B in one of his many musical guises over the past decade, where have you been? Classically trained at a young age, this British superproducer has gone on to become one of the most eclectic and unique individuals working within electronic music today. Consistently escaping categorization, John’s genre-defying catalogue spans the worlds of Electro, Trance and Drum & Bass, and a few other spaces across the BPM spectrum.”
Started in 1962 under the direction of Ward Swingle, The Swingle Singers perform virtuosic a capella vocal covers of classical music flavored with jazz harmonies and the occasional string bass and drum accompaniment. Their repertoire ranges from Chopin piano preludes, to Mozart violin sonatas, to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, and everything in between.
Me too. Mostly because I don’t care, save this year’s inclusion of John Stewart. Enter the Internet, and BitTorrent — you can download the awards minus all those … awards, and just enjoy Stewart’s commentary.
Five 60-foot radio antennas at Stanford, named after Professor Ronald Bracewell, a pioneer of radio astronomy, are about to be demolished. Dr. Bracewell created the observatory to monitor sunspot activity and measure the movement of our solar system.
A team of volunteers have organized offering to maintain the facility, and have gotten support from NASA and JPL for inclusion of the site in their Deep Space Network with “little or no cost” to Stanford. The antennas could be used by the university and the public alike, including remote access from the internet.
China’s not the only emerging architectural power; there’s a lot of ground-breaking work taking place in Dubai as well, including the world’s largest man-made islands, the tallest building, and one of the first commercial spaceports.
“A new report warns that people’s thirst for bottled water is producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy, even in areas where perfectly good drinking water is available on tap.
The report, released earlier this month by the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), says global consumption of bottled water doubled between 1999 and 2004, reaching 41 billion gallons (154 billion liters) annually.
Bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, but it can be 10,000 times more expensive, says Emily Arnold, a researcher with the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit.”