Archive for the ‘video’ Category

A Case for Careful QA

August 22nd, 2010

The unspeakable shame felt here by Asimo’s quality assurance team is the main reason that I don’t want to be a test engineer.

Also, orientation starts tomorrow. Woo!

computer science, science, video | No Comments »

The Oregon Trail: The Movie: The Trailer

August 3rd, 2010

“I’ll take four oxen, and all the bullets $1600 ‘ll get me.”

games, video | No Comments »

Powers of Ten

July 27th, 2010


This 1968 film zooms out by powers of ten from a picnic in Chicago to encompass the visible universe, then zooms back in to a proton in a carbon atom. Behold the power of logarithmic scales.

art+design, maps, science, video | 2 Comments »

Werner Herzog Reads Where’s Waldo

May 16th, 2010

Why all this travel? We search for Waldo, but what is Waldo searching for? Perhaps he’s not searching at all, but running from something. Does this man even want to be found? Or, in searching for Waldo, did we really find ourselves? No, probably not.

See also: Werner Herzog Reads Madeline, Werner Herzog Reads Curious George, and Werner Herzog Reads Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel.

books, video | No Comments »

Brontësaurus

May 13th, 2010

Brontësaurus comes with barrier-breaking feminist vision!

books, history, video | No Comments »

Wikipedia In Print

May 8th, 2010

A new feature of Wikipedia allows users to compile articles into books, arrange them, and have them printed, bound, and shipped. This video demonstrates.

books, video, web | No Comments »

Dr. Strangelove

April 30th, 2010

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One of my very favorite movies is now available on Hulu!

Go learn to protect your precious bodily fluids, watch Peter Sellers play every character, and enjoy a nasty bit of commentary on Wernher von Braun.

old dead white guys, video | No Comments »

Philosophers’ Football

April 27th, 2010

Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside.

The not-quite-classic Python sketch is being re-enacted. Enjoy, Londoners!

old dead white guys, video | No Comments »

The Turbo-encabulator

April 25th, 2010


Oh, man, I hope the turbo-encabulator can interface with my old DMC-12 flux capacitor.

On an extremely unrelated note:
Don Quixote: the first LARPer?

books, science, video | No Comments »

Dogs, Sledding

April 15th, 2010

I was originally going to post some articles about Kyrgyzstan or Thomas de Quincey but I decided that watching dogs play in the snow is more important.

animals, video | No Comments »