iHologram

For the iPhone. More here.

Britney and McCain in 2008

JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard

How to Irritate People

Pelican Eats Pigeon

Weird ... and disturbing. That's nature for you.

Six-Legged Deer

This is sad ...

How to Get Broke by Buying an iPhone

Evolution in under 8 minutes

Digitally painting Albert Einstein

BMW M3 vs Toyota Prius

Both make you feel smug behind the wheel ... but for different reasons.

JCPenny Commercial

This commercial is apparently not being played on US TV. Because in America, teens don't want sex -- they want to go off an die in Iraq -- this from the parental generation that brought us "make love, not war." I guess after free love, they grew up and found religion.

Brutal Cat Attack

In memory of George Carlin

George Carlin - Life is Worth Losing


George Carlin - Back in Town


George Carlin - Carlin on Campus


George Carlin - Doin' It Again


George Carlin - What Am I Doing In New Jersey


George Carlin - On Location


George Carlin - Playin' With Your Head

And now, the classic ...

George Carlin - Seven Dirty Words

Taipei 101 Earthquake Damper

This is the Taipei 101 damper in action during the May 12, 2008 earthquake.

Echelon: The Most Secret Spy System

BANKSY

Violent oppression of women in Islam

This video is violent and graphic. Please don't watch if you don't wish to be disturbed. Once you see this, you won't be able to forget the images.

Bill O'Reilly is an idiot

... it would take more than a sock to shut him up.

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Stupid Design

Bill Moyers addresses NCMR 2008

Bill Moyers talks about big media at his June 7, 2008 address at National Conference for Media Reform 2008.

Daylight Robbery - What Happened to the $23billion?

An investigation by BBC One's Panorama estimates the amount of money stolen, lost or just not properly accounted for in Iraq could be as high as $23billion.

For the first time the extent to which some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding has been researched by Panorama using United States and Iraqi government sources.

Based on information from these sources, the programme can reveal that as much as $23billion is not properly accounted for in Iraq.

In the run-up to the invasion one of the most senior officials in charge of procurement in the Pentagon objected to a contract potentially worth $7billion that was given to Halliburton, a Texan company with links to the White House. Unusually only Halliburton got to bid – and won.

Bunnie Greenhouse, a former US Army Procurement Executive, was assured by Pentagon officials the imminent invasion justified the lack of competition.

"It was absolutely the most blatant disregard for the federal procurement law I had ever seen in all the years I have worked in government contracting," she says.

During the course of her investigation, reporter Jane Corbin discovers that 70 cases exposing fraud and waste in Iraq are gagged by the US government – preventing the American public knowing the real scale of the problem and the involvement of some of the biggest names in corporate America.

Chura Liya Hai: Classic Asha Bhosle

This is a classic Asha Bhosle song, from the movie Yaadon Ki Baaraat [1973]. You can catch Asha singing it live, in Chicago, age 77, here.

Aap Jaisa Koi: Indian Disco

I grew up listening to this ... I remember seeing Qurbani when I was around 10-years-old.

New Math

This is actually good ...

Contact Juggling

Helping the Obama propaganda machine

... cause I'd rather have a less dangerous America as a neighbour.

Numa Numa Calculus

I Will Derive!

Yo, Stupid Americans ...

... please, listen to your smarter peers, don't vote for this idiot. John McCain lies.

The tragedy of suburbia

In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about.

"Hey Jude"

3-year-old version.

Stupid Fucking Americans

Obama Faces Racism in West Virginia - The best video clips are here

The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less

Google TechTalks April 27, 2006 Barry Schwartz.

Once I've seen your underwear, you are no longer a threat

JAPP chocolate bar

Life After People, The History Channel

Put aside an hour and a half ... and be prepared to feel small.

Molecular Visualizations of DNA

Cool!

Treadmill Kittens

Building Windmills in Malawi

... an inspiring story.

Pangea Day, May 10th

What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider

Stop Landmines

Invisibile Force Field Prevents Cat From Getting Cake

Pulsating Electrochemical Reaction: Mercury Beating Heart

Science is so fricken cool!

John Edwards on Colbert Report: 4.17.08

Enjoy, it won't last!

Will Ferrell as Bush w/Jon Stewart

The Politics of Lies

Obama will lose only if the American people are stupid enough to not want to hear the truth, but would rather wallow in their only self-denial. Since the American people have demonstrated this capacity previously (twice elected Bush), there's a good chance Obama will lose.

An Engineer's Guide to Cats

The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Professor Randy Pausch delivered the Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University on Sept. 18, 2007. The Last Lecture series asks preeminent individuals to give a lecture on things that really matter to them -- to imagine that it is the last talk they would ever give, because they would die afterwards. For Randy Pausch, the last lecture was not just a hyperbole -- he has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. In August of 2007, he was given six more months to live.

As of today, Randy Pausch is still alive.

The lecture is over an hour long, but give it a try. Full transcript can be found here [PDF].

Updated: July 25, 2008
Randy Pausch is dead.

2 Bunnies Fight ...

... 2 Chickens intervene to keep the peace.

Mathmaticious vs. Fergalicious

I don't like this song. I don't even like Fergie. Silly. No redeeming quality. But, here's Mathmaticious ... funny ...




And this is the context.

U Cant Touch This

I laughed and laughed and laughed! His mom was the best!

Altan Urag - Davalgaa ijii Mongol

Obama Speech: 'A More Perfect Union'

Full text of this speech, one of the most powerful speeches Obama has made in this campaign, can be found Huffington Post. In this speech, Obama addresses the issues of race in America.

Update: And Jon Stewart had this to say about the speech:

Updated: Here is Jeremiah A. Wright's full speech. In context, you can understand why the man is pissed.

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we're indignant -- because the stuff we've done overseas is now brought back into our own front yard. America's chickens are coming home to roost. Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism.

This is not the sound bites that makes it on the nightly news.

Patrick Leahy Explains ...

... to the Bush administration, just who they work for, and just who's interests they are supposed to protect. Of course, Bush ensured that his administration was populated with people no smarter than him.

Officer Wayne Guillary

This is officer Wayne Guillary of the LAPD dealing with protesters. He's an example to the rest of the his peers.

Four Hours In My Lai

And Now, A Message From MTV

WTF? This from the Corporate masters at MTV? What were they thinking? Hmm ... well, when the tide is turning, and there's money to be made, it doesn't matter what the message is.

Looks like thinking may be coming back in vogue. Go figure. I guess there's only so much dumb people can take.

Maureen & Scamp

Penn & Teller - Bullshit - Holier Than Thou

They may be rude, but gotta love the cynicism! (This is part three. You can find the other two parts on YouTube.)

AIDS Campaign, 1987

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

(Sigh) ... what if ...?

Will Ferrell's the Landlord

Here's the outtakes:

Here's the Criterion Edition ... with commentaries:

Why the Brits Don't Buy the Ford F150 Pickup

This is hilarious!

No Pant Suits on Fox

This was painful to watch. Women have so far to go.

Wim Hof

See more here.

Gates Without Irony on Turkish Invasion

Read more here.

Steve Martin - Michael Jackson Impersonation

And the real thing, when Jackson was still black:

Dirty Found Magazine: Santa

Dumb Americans are Scary

These are dumb Americans. Religion has been proven to rot your brain and cause independent thought to cease. Proof is in the video. Be forewarned however ... it's a frightening vid. Put the kids to bed first. Turn on all the lights. Pause the video repeatedly to allow yourself time to overcome the nausea.

Hilary says "Thank you"

Not that I don't like Hilary Clinton or anything -- actually, I really don't, but that's besides the point. What I would like to point out here is that people went to her site in the last little while and gave her $10 million. It's incredible. It's incredible, because worthwhile causes struggle to raise a fraction of that, yet the sheep throw their wallets at politicians. There's something wrong when it takes so much money to run a political campaign. It's also ironic that the people who donated to Clinton, were probably doing so using credit cards. Yes, American debt is funding putting its politicians in power.

Hilary also confirmed my worst fears in this video. She says she will work "24/7" -- "every waking hour" to help the poor Americans who can't afford health care or the money to own a home (yet managed to donate to her campaign?). Clinton doesn't sleep. She isn't human. She's a politician.

BTW, poor Americans ... if you didn't donate to her campaign ... who did? And guess who gets to curry favour from her if she's elected?

TV Commercial ...

... wait for the punchline!

The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

I just discovered the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra via Discover Magazine ... how ... interesting ...? After the concert, the make soup from the leftovers and feed it the audience. Mmmm ... vegetables ...

Snow Day!

Walking home ...

Crazy Weather

The snow was so bad coming home tonight, the buses were skidding all over Finch Avenue. That hill just west of Don Mills had all the Finch East buses coming to a stop, not being able to make it up.

You Suck at Photoshop #4

"I met a man on the bus today. I shook his hand. He'll never see his family again."

Aurora (Northern Lights)

Dan Savage on Mike Huckabee

Dolphin Play with Bubble Rings

Dolphin Play Bubble Rings

Japan Loves Whales

Japan continues to hunt whales for research. Not entirely sure why the world puts up with this. We all know that Japan is only hunting the whales for food. Really, what is wrong with the world. Put some pressure on the Japanese. This shit has got to stop.

Bloody Omaha

D-Day landing re-created -- by 3 guys.

People in Order

The Story of Stuff

The film is sorta preachy ... but we need to be preached to. Watch this film. Show it to your kids. Force your friends to watch. Save the world. We can all be heroes.

Citreön

New Citreön Old Citreön

Dupleggcated

Spaceship

Cool Japan Animation - Free videos are just a click away

Well tonight, thank god it's them instead of you ...

Inside Iraq's Kill Zone - Security Contractors

High Power Worker

Crazy!

For more on Faraday cages, see Wikipedia. [Thanks DH, for the video.]

Daily Show: Three Generations of “America to the Rescue”

Stolen from Crooks and Liars.

NO, I WILL NOT COMPLY! PERIOD!

America needs more teachers like this guy.

Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina Answers a Question

The question asked: "Recent polls have shown that a fifth of Americans can't locate the US on a world map, why do you think this is?" The answer that followed from Hilary Cruz is nothing short of bizarre.

Practical Joke

Troop of One Hundred

Japanese "flash mob" -- 100 people suddenly appear before complete strangers.

Indian Peugeot Commercial

Indian Parents

You'll find this amusing if you have demanding parents.

Royksopp - Remind Me

Non-Newtonian Fluids

You too can play with physics at home -- and not destroy your house in the process. Karsten Schmidt has a post over at Everyone Forever featuring Shear Thickening Fluids -- fluids whose viscosity changes in response to the forces applied to it by its local environment. Check out one of the videos below, and surf to Everyone Forever for more.

CPDRC's Thriller

Over 1,500 inmates of a Philippines Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center re-enact Michael Jackson's Thriller music video. They've also done a few other re-enactments. See below.
Radio Ga-ga, by Queen.

I Will Follow Him, from the Sister Act movie.

Dayang Dayang - Sister Act 2