Bird in Bondage

(Bird in Bondage).

Funny spoof on shibari starring a turkey. Merging two hobbies: food and fetish.

CELLS Alive

Nicely done site with information, pictures and quizzes relating to cellular biology and microorganisms. It really helps with those students that are visual. Cellular division makes more sense when you actually SEE it happening - and that makes all the difference for a lot of kids that wouldn't normally understand it. Teachers out there: I highly recommend it for your students!

Underwater Archaeology

This site makes me want to take up scuba diving, but unfortunately they said that the prehistoric site was off limits to the public. In any case, it's a great starting point for anyone interested in underwater archaeology. This is exceptionally cool. I've only looked at a few of the pages here, but I'm going to have to come back later on and spend some quality time poking around. I knew there had been underwater archaeology going on, but I never really thought out it in terms of finding submerged caves with ancient art works and such before.

MIT Plasmatron - Principles of the Pantone GEET Device

Another good idea. This one actually works with big oil though, so I'm surprised we're not seeing yet. Perhaps its still in RnD.

Time Dilation - Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity

An explanation of time dilation that anyone can understand.

Anatomy of a Black Hole

Great introductory presentation about black holes. Excellent way to introduce people to black holes without beating them senseless with terminology and advanced concept. THIS is how black holes should be explained in school!

Earthship Design Principles

YES! Less processing and circular systems = better for the environment. Using waste materials from consumers to build a house is a wonderful idea to curb the need for materials factories which are usually pretty big polluters. By taking advantages of the fruits of our solar system and planet we can live in homes easier to sustain in the long run.

Mindblowing Insane McCain supporter

Policies, personality, experience. None of these things matter, just if you believe in the Lord. She lost and $20 says her husband voted Obama and lied to her.

World's luckiest people

I lost track of how many times I said, "WTF" and "holy shit!" while watching this. I wonder how many needed a change of drawers afterwards... This is a pretty good compilation compared to most of "These" videos. The second clip with the skater and the bus was new for me and pretty crazy.

Interactive Periodic Table

An excellent interactive periodic table, with lots of information about the elements, the building blocks of our world. I recommend this for everyone who needs a periodic table at work or school... or just happens to be a science nerd. Simply the best, most informative interactive periodic table I've seen. Period.

Classic Anti-Piracy Ads

A collection of several old British anti-software-piracy ads. Appropriately, most of them look like Jack Chick tracts, aimed at getting teenagers to rat out their friends, teachers, and random strangers for cash. The last one is more modern, but the police carting off the "pirate" (presumably to be waterboarded, or perhaps in this case, motherboarded) are black-and-white in a color ad, giving a creepy hint of the surreal. Having used Free Software and Open Source software for years, the whole idea of offering cash rewards for narcing on people who share software seems bizarrely alien to me.

Modern Living/Neurotica series

Hoogerbrugge offers an interactive experience whilst he reveals disturbing views on our Modern pressured way of life and how it affects our mental, emotional and psychological states, hence the Title. It's the darker side of Cartoon Art and is supposed to make us think about our own situation and condition in this world. If it disturbs you then ask yourself, 'WHY?'

Absurdity in the Bible

On this site, the Bible is examined. If you're going to be a fundamentalist Christian, it shows the things that you'll have to believe. I understand that many Christians don't take the Bible literally, and instead say it's a metaphor for how they should live their lives. However, that strikes me as being an ad hoc argument that's designed merely to partially rescue their belief in something that they want to believe in. Even if you take the Bible as metaphorical story for "teaching", it is rife with many strange moral judgments that only made sense in the ancient world. Ie God wiping out entire groups of people, including women and children, for the actions of a few of their members. The Koran and Book of Mormon are also put under the same scrutiny. Funny, and thought-provoking for some.

What If...

I am always amazed at the creative things people do. This fellow has drawn a fascinating chart of his life and what may have happened had some choices and decisions been made differently. The top line is his real life, and he postulates a number of different scenarios that could have happened. Then he makes another chart to show the various paths his life may take in the future. Do check it out.

Rat's Neurons (in dish) learn how to fly an Aeroplane

A FASCINATING video about scientists who are taking a random group of individual rat neurons, hooking them up to a computer via electrodes, and then watching as the neurons eventually form into a thinking brain which is able to fly an airplane simulator.

Number Spiral

Lovely site. It demonstrates the elegance of mathematics with some visual representations. Refresher on good ol' Eular's formula from high school which segues into some even more beautiful and advanced concepts. When you start seeing the patterns that occur in nature, as perfectly exemplified by math and numbers, you might start having a genuine respect for all that it dares to explain.

Story of 1

A video plotting the course of the evolution of our modern numerical system. Follows the path from notches on a stick, all the way through into our Indian based system. Narrated by Terry Jones, one of the pythons.

The Samurai Archives

I enjoy spending my time studying indepth the history and cultural information from countries around the world, this site provides good information specifically about Samurai from the Asuka-Nara Period to the Edo Period of Japan.

Turn a calculator into a metal detector

How to turn a calculator into a metal detector.

MJ Violin

Guy plays Owner of a Lonely Heart and Smooth Criminal on a violin. I've never heard someone rock out so well on the violin!

The Quantum Apocalypse

Excellent video explaining how the brain perceives and creates its own reality.

Giant Bat-Eating Centipede

Something without a backbone nom-nom-nomming on a vertebrate makes reliably disturbing viewing.

First half: Mildly annoying. Second half: friggin' incredible. First half second time: Good heavens.

Christianity through an Atheists eyes

It is not distorted, he just took the bible literally. Don't a good bit of christians think the bible is the literal word of god?

To Speak the Truth

I like this, but I'm not sure I agree with the whole observation bit of it... particles get smaller as we look at them? There's no way you can prove that. And Of course you can't bite your own teeth, but you can look at other parts of the universe, just as you can look at the house across the street, or even your own house.

The Riddle of Epicurus

I'm an atheist and I can come up with several answers to that riddle. It is basically just a false trichotomy. If you do not want to Bible-thumpers to throw "Jesus: lord, liar, or lunatic" at you, you shouldn't throw Epicurus at them.

Instant Ice!

This is one of those things that demonstrates a property. In this case, the property is supersaturation. If you supersaturate plain table salt into boiling water (which will take more salt than cold water) you can make crystals form by disturbing the solution.

Elephant Self Portrait

An elephant paints a picture. I'm not sure if this is cruel or amazing. Either the elephant was forced to do this by trial and error, or the elephant is painting something under its own free will. Either way the elephant is damn smart.

Ultimate Machine - the LeaveMeAloneBox

There is nothing quite as diabolical as a device which only serves as a way of turning itself off. Douglas Adams said something to that effect. Of course, he said it much better than I ever could hope to.

CNC lathe pencil sharpener

That is one damn fine example of modern engineering. When can you deliver a desktop sized version for the home? The most precisely sharpened pencil ever.

Tim Russert - Paul Krugman vs O'reilly

Watch Bill O'Reilly try to argue economics with Paul Krugman, the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Field Music - In Context

An interesting video set to an indie rock song and depicting a hand drawing something on a wall with a marker using a single line in a way that makes it look almost completely nonsensicle. But when the camera pulls out, it looks pretty good.

Dennis Weavers Earthship

This video is surprisingly informational, inspirational and non-preachy. It's political in its own way, but more importantly, it makes a bold statement that people with money and influence sometimes give a rip. If you have to build a massive dwelling, this is the way to do it.

Moebius Transformations Revealed

This is a fascinating little film about moebius transformations by two University of Minnesota mathematics professors. No, really. Watch it. You might even understand it, and even if you don't, it's a very nice try.

Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice

A great presentation on the paradox of choice. I would also observe that option paralysis is related to information overload. The internet provides access to infinite information, but who has time to sort it all?

Juggling Man Accidentally Spears pigeon

This has to be a one in a million shot, some guy juggles a couple of metal skewers and accidentally spears a pigeon as it flies by.

Alka-Seltzer added to spherical water drop in microgravity

Alka-Seltzer added to spherical water drop in microgravity. if I could afford to go up into orbit in microgravity, I'd probably spend all my days up there doing stuff like this.

atheism and the afterlife

Richard Dawkins talking to Iain McEwan on atheism and the afterlife.

The 11th Hour

The 11th Hour offers practical, industrial solutions for climate change, and highlights the cognitive nature of the problem. It's also oddly spiritual, remanicant of Carl Sagan or Brain Swimme. I loved this movie. It has a very evolutionary outlook.

Excavating a hude ant nest

In science, the act of observing often alters that which is being observed. This video shows a group of entomologists taking this to a new level as they study a giant underground ant city by pouring 10 tonnes of concrete into it to make a cast. Not so nice for the ants, but the entomological discoveries that emerge are astonishing.

In It's Image

A masterfully conveyed monologue that introduces radical concepts about the induction of intelligent machines smart enough to evolve into their own state of conscious being. Fascinating, but when he starts talking about cosmic consciousness at aroudn 24:40 it gets a bit loopy.

The Atheists Spreading the Word

Documentary about atheism, aired on CBC's The National, October 5, 2007.

Biblical Literalism

Wonderful clip from "For the Bible Tells Me So".

Superfluid helium

This is some cool shit. I mean, when liquid helium gets really cold, it becomes a "superfluid". If I was a billionaire i'd have a frictionless fountain in my home.

Wii Failure

Tantrum Kid gets humped by the dog, and he'll never be able to deny it. Wow. Crazy-ass internet age makes sure everyone gets to see it at least a dozen times. Don't get me wrong, it's the funniest damn thing I've seen in a long time. But what's a mere laugh for me is the beginning of a lifetime of emotional trauma for this kid, I'm afraid.

How superman learned to fly

Plane lands = runway rash?

Crop Circles

This video of the "Alien" crop circle is amazing. I remember when this happened and was reported on the NBC evening news. It gave me chills and I researched it further. This is an excellent video with translation as well as pictures. Everyone should see this for themselves. It is not only an incredible sight to behold, but the detail and coding involved boggles the human mind.

Amazing Sustainable Cardboard Chair Design at RISD

Got friends coming over but not enough chairs? Go grab yourself some cardboard and voila! Problem solved.

Philosophy, Physics, Mathematics - “Dangerous Knowledge”

A great video, showing how mathematics, physics and science in general evolves, how new theories challenge all that has come before and how nothing is certain now, nothing was ever certain and nothing will (possibly) ever be. I read about Godel's incompleteness theorem 1 week ago and this documentary explained how it and many other intellectuals are connected. Great review of the troubled lives and findings of Cantor, Boltzmann, Godel, and Turing.

Derren Brown - Subliminal Advertising

Here is a video of an experiment carried out by Derren Brown. Using extremely subtle subliminal suggestion he is able to guide the creative ideas of two top advertising designers as they create a new campaign, supposedly from their own imaginations. You will be shocked by the conclusion. It raises serious questions about how easily we are influenced in every area of our lives, and even makes one question the true nature of creativity and where ideas really come from.

Obama Win Causes Obsessed Backers To See How Empty Lives Are

For humor to be funny, there has to be a touch of truth. And this is funny. Haha, I admit I'm one of these losers. President Obama is the right man at the right time.

Moore on The Role of the Artist

Fascinating stuff. I'd never quite looked at it like that before. This makes sense, the church spend time and cash to wipe them out in search of power.

Amazing ferrofluid

Ferrofluid is a magnetic liquid. It is composed of tiny nanoparticles of magnetic material. It flows like a liquid and attracts to a magnet. Where can I get me some of this stuff? Looks freaking awesome.

Exploring Benford's Law

Nice little video about Benfords Law and its use in detecting fraud. It's pretty interesting that a seemingly random set of data usually follows that pattern.

How to make an easy homemade smoke grenade

Half Man - Half Tree

Root of all Evil? - CBC Debate

I like how there are moderately reasonable religious people here (who are only silly in their superstition) who try to make arguments and who then are cut in by other religious people talking complete GIBBERISH. I also like the host, and the people laughing in the background at the stupidity of some of these people. But still, Dawkins rules.

The Monty Hall Problem

Yep, moves along too slowly and repeats too much, but if you turn a blind eye to that fact it does a great job explaining a really hard probability trick. No, I am serious, you can clean up over this sort of thing on bar bets! Drunk people will hate you and wish you ill! :)

A pool filled with non-newtonian fluid

They filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water made on a concrete mixer truck. It becomes a non-newtonian fluid. When stress is applied to the liquid it exhibits properties of a solid.

Women Know Your Limits

Heh. It's obviously dubbed over, but it's still quite clever. And did Palin come to anybody else's mind, near the end?

AIseek Intia Processor Tank Demo

Arleas, it's a demo of tech that's in current-gen games like Company of Heroes. It's dynamic pathing.

Also, games are generally GPU-limited, but recently we've seen physics being done on GPUs because it's in-order execution and can be done very fast that way because physics is just number-crunching. AI relies on branching, which would not work very well when outsourced to an in-order card.

Besides, these days we have a lot of CPU to spare while we're waiting for the GPU to render the scene, and AI can be done in parallel with minimal overhead, which is great for multi-core CPUs.

Helix Wind Turbine

Hell yeah. Youd think that with such a great idea the presenters enthusiasm would overcome the staleness of the scriptedness. Not so much. Killer evolutionary branch of the wind turbine though.

Adam and Joe go Tokyo: Meiwa Denki

Absolute nonsense. And I love it! It's a wonderful philosophy.

Magnetic Fluid Screw

Two of my favorite branches of physics are fluids and magnetism. Naturally I liked this very much. It's beautiful.

Smart Orcas

What's crazy is they didn't even kill the seal. They were using it just to train young hunters. Amazing.

Genius fast calculation by kids

These kids are fast and genius. They use the abacus to solve difficult arithmetic problems. The most difficult part is to do the calculations with mental abacus and solving something like 2.34343*6.4545 in seconds. These kids are truly mathematical genius.

Scientists create beating heart

Scientists build a new heart from scratch using stem-cell technology. Fascinating. Though I'm sure they'll be a few anti-progress luddite nutjobs who get their panties in a twist about them..."playing god."

Cheoptics hologram

Free floating hologram inside a pyramid. Foreruner of mixed reality. Images produced by machine are very acurate and vivid, maybe too faint.

How to Turn a Sphere Inside Out

For those who have not been introduced to the concept of mathematical topology (the study of abstract "shape"), this video will give some insight into the flavour of the subject.

Jesus Camp

This film was a mind trip. It really did not have as much of stuff against the right-wing-christian-nut-jobs as I had expected. Honestly not sure if was worth two hours of our life to watch, but certainly brought up some alarming things about the Evangelical movement that were a bit unsettling. The scene where this minister hands out plastic molds of aborted fetuses at different stages proclaming "God hates abortion" to a group of children ages 4 to eight was enough to make me grab my gun and go after those sick bastards.

Creationism

"CREATIONISM: There are indications that the world is not as old as as we are told. For instance, at the bottom of the world it says made in china, it is also made from a form of plastic rubber which was not around until 1943."

Damn it, now I'm forced to accept intelligent design as fact :(

Invisible Octopus

Nice video of a mimic octopus. They can also immitate other creatures like crabs and fish, this species was not even discovered until the 90's because any sightings were assumed to be something else.

Fuck the Corporate Media

I think it is great that we can easily see both sides of a dispute, not just the view carried by main stream media. With relativity inexpensive equipment, Now almost any one can broadcast, and let it be seen on Youtube. Make your own decision, on where you stand!

James Randi Debunks Peter Popoff Faith Healer

James Randi debunking creepy televangelist Peter Popoff. Religion is nothing more than a cult. A way to put fear into people and take their money. People will wise up some day I hope.

Free Will and Physics - Waking Life excerpt

I've been struggling with free will versus determinism for a long time myself, and have pretty much come to the conclusion that the universe is indeed deterministic. What I think will be the next big step in the evolution of human thought will be to realize that we, as living, perceiving things, are merely parts of the universe's nervous system. But the scale of the individual is relative, so we have to decide for ourselves if we want to feel important or not. It would be smart, I think, to recognize the importance of the part we play in the system as a whole. If we weren't here, it is safe to say, the system would be different. Anyway, this little part of Waking Life encapsulates the major arguments. There really is no getting around determinism, so we might as well face it courageously and intelligently. Only then can we move forward into the vast depths of truthfulness.

Everything you need to know about the brain

Excellent documentary. It summarizes and introduces things I've heard from various sources about the great power of the brain.

The Root of All Evil? - The God Delusion

A wonderful video that houses a man with lovely opinions. I was very satisfied with this, and highly recommend it. Very important program by Richard Dawkins on the delusions of faith and relegion. A must-see.

Freak drilling accident

A historical event that documents why we need to communicate more as humans. How is it the drilling crew didn't know about the mine? The video shows footage of shorelines and boats near them sucked down into a vortex.

ISS daily life

This is a super-cool video (with corny music) of astronauts playing around with weightlessness on the Space Station. Personally, I would be careful flying through hatches, etc. It's a long way home to the hospital!

Archer Fish

A great little video of archer fish in action.

A study made on people's eyes movement while they think. It corresponds to changing the area of thinking: imagination, memory, expression, language, emotion and logic. It's pretty interesting, sometimes impressing.

Andy Griffith Vs. the Partiot Act

Does it really take an Andy Griffith show to remind us of American fundamentals like due process? What a sad commentary on the current state of affairs in this country. Although this video has nothing to do with the Patriot Act, since there is no provision therein (to my knowledge) that allows for violation of attorney-client privilege, and for the resulting evidence to be admissible in court. Still, a good moral lesson.

Exercise Ball mayhem

Oh shit. I'm buying some next weekend and go crazy. Awesome.

The system of ownership of ideas

What if we revolted by living an open-source lifestyle. We would discover and share alternatives for products, causing humanity to sustain itself without corporate control. Please, consume less.

T.S. Elliot's poem read by Michael Gough

A great poem, and a great reading. Excellent. Brings back memories of English class.

Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human

Nietzsche a BBC biography on his thoughts and works as well as his in suing madness; a must see for those who want to get a brief view (49min)of the great umbermench. A good stepping stone to further research on his amazing philosophy and miserable life. "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him".

Dan Rather on media consolidation and "junk media"

This is not just happening in the US. It is worldwide. It is what happens when large conglomerates owns and therefore controls both television news and newspapers.

Mondo Spider

I want one! I'd cruise down the street dressed like an evil overlord from the future and see how many people I could freak out.

Fox News Interviews Atheist Brian Flemming

The best part is that this is from a news interview. The fact how biased the interviewer is... it's unbelievable.

Read a Book (Dirty Version)

A splendid way to teach those dang youngsters of today to read them dang books! Lyrics here.

TERMINUS

After inadvertently offending a strange entity that accosts him on his way to work, a 1970s businessman quickly finds himself in the midst if a bizarre predicament. What follows is a rapid descent into madness, a journey both eerie and darkly humorous. The exact nature of the businessman's tormentor is purposefully ambiguous, lending itself to a variety of interpretations.

Bolivia Bug

The Bolivia Bug AKA The Puss Caterpillar. Looks like a fluffy Persian Cat, but it's the most venomous caterpillar in the United States. I love that at the end of the video, you hear a woman's voice warning the camera-operator: "Don't touch it!"

Feynman Chaser - The Inconceivable Nature of Nature

The immortal Richard Feynman explaining the electromagnetic spectrum for a general audience.

Fuelless Heater

This machine is a good representation of how the function of a design works, not worrying about the starting power source, instead of a motor, you could chain that shit up to your bike and run it that way, but an incredible amount of power is needed to craft such an accurate design, i'd like to see this hand crafted and run off a hand geared power source.