Funny Science Videos

watch them and laugh

Thinking Ahead is Overrated

some lunch time fun (via failblog) that shows failure that kev avoided when he carried his golf club around

microscope fun

nikon small wold has some really cool microscope pics.

Toy Yoda

from here includinga little discussion on snopes for you fans.

Possum

[click to enlarge the awesomeness]

Femto finally figured out she can jump. she was running along the top of the fence one night when I called her in for the night. she was preoccupied with something and went over to investigate.

I got the camera and played with the manual focus and got a picture of our prehensile tail friend. it never did move, no matter how close I got. it just looked at me like i was an idiot for disturbing it. I'm generally not to scared of wild life, but this thing ranks right up there with a few bears i've seen. I felt like I was getting rabies just by looking at it.

It Can Stab You

check out this wind turbine. perhaps a reason for safety testing and a NIMBY policy. though i think i'd still let one be around my area.

TSB

check out nhtsa to see if you have any recalls on your vehicle. I wonder if the dealer is always up front. now you know where to look. when i went through the 5 or so that are listed for the VW, i think they have done a pretty good job bugging me to go in, but you may find your maker is not as forthcoming. there is alot of useless knowledge on the [obviously] government website. I say obviously because most government lacks asthetics, this is no exception.

about:config

go ahead and punch about:config in your firefox address and look at all the cool things you can customize. I wonder why i didn't find that sooner? you can see most of the list here. more firefox customization for the nerds

paperclip

kseb has a great link to the history of paperclips. how can anyone call themselves a nerdy scholar without being informed on this! jen and I loved the read and I compare it to the many fine examples of barbed wire I saw while on vacation in south dakota. the barbed wire may be dangerous to collect, so I think i'll switch my planned collection to paperclips. I say 'planned' because i've never collected anything, I usually just plan to. wait... i have like 3/4 of the 50 state quarters. oops.

Fail Blog

Fail Blog has some fairly epic failures. its worth stopping by and preparing yourself for reality before you face the general population.

for anyone that has ever questioned why i run studs (or did before moving to a local where we are afraid of the cold), I present the following:

gemcraft

Thanks kev for the terrible time waster. my wrist hurts now. GemCraft is the first games in along time that has kept my interest for more than about 10 minutes.

3d data

I saw the rendering of 3d data on a google code page. pretty cool! some of you may have even seen the music video. by-by regular camera, hello personal radar!

check out the city mode in full screen. pretty cool! (use the little icons on the bottom left)

bikes for dan

if this things for real, then i say we haven't made any real technological advances in bicycles in at least 60 years.

bookmooch.com

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send a book to someone, get points, cash points in for books others want to send.