Archive for the ‘video’ Category
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.
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Dr. Strangelove
April 30th, 2010
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.
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!
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?
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.
Hamlet
March 28th, 2010
The Royal Shakespeare Company put their latest production of Hamlet online. Patrick Stewart plays Claudius & the Ghost.
It’s in modern-day dress, but if that’s enough to make you refuse to watch one of the greatest marvels of the English language then I don’t know what to tell you.
Content-Aware Fill
March 25th, 2010
I don’t know which dark god Adobe sold their collective souls to to make this work, but I think they got a good deal for them.
Unrelated P.S.: It looks like a team of researchers at Caltech just cured cancer. FYI.
Strandbeests
March 13th, 2010
Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who specializes in building artificial animals.