This is a very cool and compelling motion graphics piece by a team of students from the Vancouver Film School. The numbers are interesting, to say the least, and more than a little provocative. RTFA has posted about the Iranian blogging movement before, but I was shocked to learn how many young Iran...

I love beatboxing. I’m not too good at it myself, but I dabbled in linguistics as an undergrad, and I like programming languages (as well as using them). Somewhere, along with these concepts, beatboxing seems to fit in. Mostly, my enjoyment of beatboxing involves the ability of people (who fun...

This is just a sequence of jaw-dropping events; eye candy for the masses, to serve as a chaser for the brutal economic news this morning. Don’t worry - no one dies in this video. In fact, that’s what’s so remarkable; these people have defied death. RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwHjaik5qpg From Security Cameras at a NY Pier showing multiple Shots of US Airways 1549 Landing in the Hudson River WOW - this is remarkable footage of US Airways 1549, captured from multiple angles. From watching the video, it’s clear that the airplane co...

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eUibFQKJqI Curator Michael Wright shows off his model of the Antikythera mechanism. The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek clockwork machine found in a shipwreck, that has taken more than a century to decipher. Wright’s handmade reconstruction is th...

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGMhQnrKzTg Erik Mongrain. Air Tap! Pure Brilliance. Watch all the way to end. Comment-Rate-Appreciate No Spam. No Haters. It will only be deleted. Thanks. Enjoy. Whoah! This is an amazing technique. Seriously, this video is mind-blowingly … um, my mind is ...

Sunday Morning News Roundup Barack Obama announced a large public works project yesterday. This project will help rebuild roads, make public buildings more energy-efficient, renovate our crumbling schools and install modern computers with high-speed Internet access in our schools. It should put 2.5 ...

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada. Filmed about 5:30pm Thursday November 20th 2008 Really dramatic video of a HUGE meteor falling from the sky, crazy flames and all. I wonder how many people saw this and ran for the bunker. Probably not ...

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21OH0wlkfbc I was a bit bored last week, so I edited some old Bert & Ernie episodes to the sound of M.O.P.’s Ante Up. EPIC. Bert & Ernie get DOWN. Related posts: YouTube - Carrot clarinet RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWbj7FYEi3M&eurl=ht......

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWbj7FYEi3M&eurl=ht… Linsey Pollak drills out a carrot and turns it into a clarinet and plays it, live looping with a Boss RC20 to record 3 layers….from his solo show “Making Jam” Yes! This is great! Not only is it a pretty good prese...