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Video: The last Lecture from a Dieing Professor
I was visiting a blog site of someone I admire earlier today and was reminded of this video again. I watched this video when it first came out, transfixed by someone who is dieing of pancreatic cancer give one of the most powerful and moving speeches of my life. He gave the speech for his [...]
Moog unveils new guitar with infinite sustain
6500.00 dollars means I won’t be buying this anytime soon, but it sounds cool. I have a monophonic analog Moog source synthesizer that I love.
The special sauce: strings that have “a specific metallurgy designed to work with the Moog pickups.” Marketing manager Chris Stack told Listening Post, “the pickups are simultaneously listening to the strings [...]
Video: Exoskeleton
If you haven’t seen the amusing and interesting movie, Project Grizzly, about Ontario, Canada inventor Troy Hurtubuise I strongly recommend you check it out. It features Troy on an expensive quest ($100,000) to build a suit that would allow him to go head to head with a grizzly bear. I won’t spoil the ending but [...]
Video: Lego Zombies
Video: The Physics of Waves - King Crab Fishing in Alaska
Some of the most treacherous water in the world.
Video: A Tour of Tibet
Bread - Easy to make
This recipe couldn’t be easier from Mark Bittman of the New York Times. He is being shown how to do this in a New York Times video with Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery in Manhattan.
Video: One long escalator ride in Moscow
Now that is what I call an escalator.
Also, as a bonus - this escalator in Prague is apparently the longest in the E.U
Video: Pika Pika (from Japan)
Long exposure film combined with LED lights. Enjoy.
Tochka Japan Web Site
PikaPika Web Site
Movies: Dune is being remade
While some purists dislike David Lynch’s interesting 1984 release of Dune , I have always liked the movie. Its not perfect but for the most part it matched up fairly closely with my mind’s eye that was formed while reading the books when I was a child. Sometimes movies look quite different from what I [...]
