transmothraWill Wright is an incredible genius! The man behind the “Sim” games, his new game, Spore, is most definitely going to be the most amazing and mind-blowing game ever created. It will be a very, very, very long time before anybody ever tops this one. Watch the entire video to get a sense of the sheer godawful scope of this gargantuan thing. Mere words simply cannot do it justice.
[googlevideo]8372603330420559198[/googlevideo]My friend Mike, who’s a fantastic drummer and gifted in so many ways it’s not even funny, filmed this hilarious video. Check it out:
[youtube]fQzVYVe3JYY[/youtube]Check out this angrily passionate editorial by the great Keith Olbermann re: the new, absolutely diabolical Military Commissions Act. (Read up on it and know that this is terrible and insane.)
[youtube]uqxmPjB0WSs[/youtube]I have nothing to add to this.
ProTV Video, a Romanian private TV station, has a video of soldiers of the People’s Republic of China actually killing unarmed, harmless Tibetan refugees trekking through the snow on a pilgrimmage to see the Dalai Lama.
Who will stand up to this brutality? Who will make the PRC pay for their numerous despicable crimes against humanity?
YouTube has an amazing video of RuBot II – The Rubik’s cube solving robot. I so want one. My birthday’s coming up, but the creator’s website isn’t, so I have no idea if they have a Wishlist feature. [UPDATE] I was typing in the wrong address; it’s http://mechatrons.com/.
This is the new version of RuBot by Pete Redmond from Dublin, Ireland. It’s very different to the prototype but it has to be the coolest looking robot solver ever. There are cameras in the eyes of the head that scan the cube before the pneumatic arms solve it. It usually solves the Cube in a max of about 50 seconds (not including the scan) no matter how much it is mixed up.
The solving algorithm is taken care of by Herbert Kociemba’s Cube Explorer software and usually solves the cube in a maximum of about 20 moves. In this video, the cube wasn’t mixed up too hard so RuBot was able to find the optimum solution.
Thanks to all of those who think it is too good to be true. That is a real compliment!
Probably the weirdest, coolest thing ever posted on YouTube: Album Cover War
The Posies performing live on CJLO in Canada. Includes audio and video clips. Jon and Ken rule.
I had no idea: the famous Iggy Pop peanut butter incident was provoked by Dayton’s own Rev. Cool (from WYSO)!
Did you know: If you’re really serious about getting your favorite greasy politician elected, you could
or you could
We Are The Web – coolest video i’ve seen in a while, and it’s got a Net Neutrality message, too! Plus, it’s got Peter Pan guy, who’s site i first ran into way back around Y2K or so! Watch for those wacky Chinese Backstreet Boys lip-syncing guys, too! Awesome.
This is who you really really are, America.
National Film Board of Canada: 50 animated shorts – excellent stuff!
Dr. Miracles – short film. Completely juvenile, and hilarious. ER gone badly weird.
This Flash “mind reader” seems spooky at first – until you figure out how it works (but do try it first, following the site’s instructions): Notice that the symbols repeat. Also notice how one number may have different symbols when you repeat the process. Then, notice that you can’t just pick a symbol, you HAVE to do the math. NOW… try this: Do the math for 5 different numbers. Do you see a pattern? They’ll all be the same symbol! So no matter what number you pick, if you do the math and pick the correct symbol, it will ALWAYS be right!
Bizarre fish with human-like teeth caught in Texas lake. (Not just human… British.)
Speaking of which… catfish, um, really get this big?!
Bandai’s hilariously weird “God-Jesus” robot toy from the 1980s.
Experiments in the Revival of Dead Organisms. Fucking creepy. Found via Grey Lodge Podcasting Company’s YouTube link dump.
Mazen Kerboj, musician and artist, blogs from ground zero in Lebanon. Check out his improv piece, Starry Night, during which you can hear bombs and air $raid$ sirens in the background. Beautiful and unsettling, all at once. Read his blog and pass it along. Chilling. I hope that he stays safe. He seems like a good man. He says things like:
“we know you are with us. we know you are seeing us. we know you hear the fucking bombs we are hearing. we know you worry for us. but don’t. because you know we are tough guys. you know that we’ll [survive?] this shit. you know that we survived massacre and we’ll do it again today. you know we’ll see each other soon. keep in touch and stay with us.”
People get ready: all this Middle East violence is giving the End-Timers a serious hard-on for the Rapture. A sicker bunch of fuckwits probably do not exist. Zealots are fools. It is religious zeal that has got the world into the mess that it’s in now. How do you spell worldwide suicide? Z-E-A-L-O-T-R-Y.
Zealots of the world: fuck you. I do hope that you all die the vainglorious deaths that you ridiculous, ignorant fools are all hoping for. So GO APESHIT FOR JESUS/MOSES/MUHAMMED! Kill each other to bloody, pulpy fucking smithereens and let the rest of us get on with our futures!
If this video of what would happen if a giant meteor were to crash into the Earth doesn’t give you lifelong, recurring, and probably increasingly violent nightmares… nothing ever could. My god, did you see the ___ed up _____ ___ at the end? Chilling and creepy.
Henry Rollins: A Love Letter To Ann Coulter
“But mostly, Ann, you will shut the fuck up.”
Priceless!
Top 10 places to find royalty free, public domain, stock photos
Stephen Hawking in the news: “It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species… Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.” – He’s also working on a children’s book a la Harry Potter, sans magic. Dude!
Footage of meteoroid hitting the moon.
Court orders Bob Taft (Governor- OH) to disclose potentially scandalous records. Corrupt Bob must give up. What a loser.
Aussie lyrebird is like a freaking dictaphone of nature! I’ve heard wild stories about this bird, but hear it imitate – perfectly! – a buzzing chainsaw, and two different camera shutters!
After the Rodney King riots in South Central, the city gave residents a plot of land in good faith. How nice! They’ve since turned it into the largest urban farm in America! Unfortunately, it is at this very moment under corporate and police attack. It seems the land was dubiously sold out from under The People to developers. Shame, shame, shame! This is outrageous, and reeks of the kind of “indian-giving” that white people are most famous for.
Don’t even try to cancel AOL. They’ll just give you the runaround and, erm, ask for your father. WTF.
Sexy ro-bots having sexy sex.
An even weirder video: “dancing” Japanese girls teaching defensive English. I guess. Don’t make fun of them.
EFF‘s The Corruptibles!
You don’t want to miss Jon Stewart skewering conservative Bill Bennett over gay marriage. Way to go, Jon!
Stewart: So why not encourage gay people to join in in that family arrangement if that is what provides stability to a society?
Bennett: Well I think if gay people are already members of families—
Stewart: What?!
Bennett: They’re sons and they’re daughters—
Stewart: So that’s where the buck stops. That’s the gay ceiling.
Bennett: Look, it’s a debate about whether you think marriage is between a man and a woman.
Stewart: I disagree. I think it’s a debate about whether you think gay people are part of the human condition or just a random fetish.
Billy Preston has left the studio at the tender age of 59.
A kinder, sweeter man i have never met. He had tons of heart. He saved the Beatles in their last year. Rock music wouldn’t have been so good without this wonderful man. Here’s just a partial list of credits. He also played with Earth Wind and Fire during the group’s heyday.
(1970) Let It Be — including “Get Back”
(1970) All Things Must Pass (George Harrison)
(1971) Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones)
(1971) The Concert for Bangladesh (George Harrison And Friends)
(1971) There’s a Riot Goin’ On (Sly & the Family Stone)
(1972) Exile on Main Street (Rolling Stones)
(1973) Goats Head Soup (Rolling Stones)
(1974) It’s Only Rock’n Roll (Rolling Stones)
(1975) Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan)
(1975) “You Are So Beautiful” (Joe Cocker’s biggest hit)
(1976) Black and Blue (Rolling Stones)
Pink Floyd Echoes Music Video with 2001 A Space Odyssey – Google Video
Very cool.