I need to link this one back to my "people are stupid" thread.... Un-be-friggen-lievable 911 calls

Awesome webcam-filmed music video. It's awesome because of the synchronization and kaleidoscope effects of the many webcams used.

Awesome! Whenever I've watched the X Games, the only events I watch are bike riding ones. It amazes me what those guys can do.

And a little Band of Horses never hurts.

I think your link broke.

That's cool, sort of like free running but with bikes. He can't have pneumatic tires surely?

Updated the link (in this post only) with a working one from YouTube.

Here it is again as plain text...
SOUR '日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBlUQguvyw&feature=player_embedded#t=39

Yep - pretty normal bikes. He does break them on occasion :-)
He does a lot of training at my mate's skate park in Ocean Terminal in Edinburgh, and works at the bike shop you see in the video. Very cool - if mental!

Watching trials riding is always amazing. I recently saw this artistic cycling video which blew me away at their bike control.

Time lapse battlecat.

*edit*
(given the average age here, there's probably not too many He-Man fans)

Protect Insurance Companies PSA with Will Ferrell, Masi Oka, Olivia Wilde, Donald Faison, Jordana Spiro and more...

AWESOME.
Saw that last night.

Damn!

Tree touching powerlines bursts into flames

Yeah, that stuff is scary.

Each city contracts with a tree-trimming company, whose job is to keep that from ever happening. When they don't keep their end up, you get problems. One of the largest wildfires in my home town area was caused by that very situation, causing the loss of thousands of acres and millions of dollars of property damage. The resulting lawsuit was a thing of legend.

Shut Up Woman, Get on my Horse

Possibly NSFW.

Video of a very well done case mod. The Mac OS Xbox (YouTube link).

The music however, sucks. Sucks bad. Engadget quoted the video's author saying there's about $1500 worth of hardware in this case, which he claims (so incorrectly) is equivalent to $4500 Mac Pro (maybe in his wet dreams). That's like saying a Hyundai is the same as a BMW because you can put premium gas in it and drive it on the same road.

Using a single Core2Quad processor, 2.5" drives and shite Ballistix memory.

But, again, the mod work and the video are really great.

Mostly images, but there are some videos of it in action...

Volpin Props' BioShock costume.

Initial build, and images from initial Dragon*Con appearance.

Recent photo shoot at aquarium. BRILLIANT idea. Results: Phenomenal. More.

His current Ebay auction for the costume. I love some of the text at the bottom, including "Creepy Fiancée shown above is not part of this auction", and "How are we supposed to know what it looks like if you only show the luscious game art? How about some real photos?? Edit: Holy CRAP!"

The known universe - wow. Kind of irrelevant whether there's life on another planet when that other planet might take you a billion years to get to.

Yeah. That whole speed-of-light thing's a real downer...

Meh, it's not the speed of light that's the problem. It's the limited lifespans of the squishy wetware that wants to get from place to place.

Damn, if if we were immortal, I think a million or billion years, traveling at the speed of light, is still a hell of a long time to get from point a to point b. Especially when you consider that unless you're also visiting immortals, chance are when you get there whomever you were gong to see won't be home. Or that their home may not be there.

Any hugely meaningful space exploration will require the craft to get from point to point faster, much faster, than the speed of light. Even Star Wars and Star Trek speeds are ridiculously slow when you factor them into the size of our real universe. Though I suppose they've addressed that in a number of Trek episodes and series.

Both Star Trek and Star Wars pretty explicitly limit themselves to a single galaxy.

Star Trek occasionally comments on other galaxies as being very far away; for example, Kirk once noted that it would take thousands of years to get to the Andromeda Galaxy. Also, Voyager was transported to the "Gamma Quadrant", which is a quarter of the Milky Way disc, and it was impossibly far away from the "Alpha Quadrant" that the vast majority of the rest of Star Trek occurs in. The stable wormhole near to Deep Space 9 and Bajor led to and from the "Delta Quadrant", which had been unexplored territory before the discovery of the wormhole. Also, the original series shows there being a nearly impenetrable border at the edge of the galaxy.

Star Wars is less explicit, but it does state that it happens "in a galaxy far, far away".

Normal Star Trek speeds max out around 1500c, though, which still means that it would take decades (5-ish) to go from one end of a quadrant to the other.

I'm not familiar with Star Wars speeds.

They are exactly as fast as the waving of a hand.

This is (also) good. 7 part review of the Phantom Menace, 10 minutes per part. I've only watched the first two so far. Probably NSFW.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG1AWVLnl48

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGU22UeZMM

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOlG4T1S2lU

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBvp1r2UpiQ

Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORWPCCzSgu0

Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWKMgJs_Gs

Similar concept, opposite direction.

tanstaafl.

Ajijic? Admit it, you just let a chihuahua walk across your keyboard.

Tony's T-Shirt silhouette game had me looking at some old videos when I stumbled upon this gem. I didn't want to put that thread off topic so here it goes...

What's better than an original 1980's music video?

The 2005 music video for a remix of a classic 80's song...


Original: Owner of a Lonely Heart by Yes.

Pee Wee Herman previews the iPad - unfortunately you can't play this video on an iPhone or iPad.