Carbon Nation
Friday, February 18th, 2011 Posted in Creativity, Smart thinking, Taking a stand | No Comments »Carbon Nation is due to come out this week. Is this the climate change movie for people that don’t believe in climate change? I like the way the trailer makes its point: you don't have to believe in human-induced climate change to ...
The periodic table (revisited)
Thursday, February 17th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »In my May 2009 post I quoted some wonderful things people do with the periodic table of the elements, e.g. the famous Tom Lehrer song. Since then the following have come to my attention: The University of Nottingham has a Periodic ...
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Thursday, February 17th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Remember this? It's approximately 10 years already when the AYBABTU meme really took off: Read the Wikipedia entry for more info or watch this Fox newscast:
Death to the death penalty
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 Posted in Creativity, Taking a stand | No Comments »Fifty-eight countries still have the death penalty in effect. This video made for Amnesty International France, points that out: It was made by Digital District.
Life looks for life
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 Posted in Creativity, Taking a stand | No Comments »If ever I have heard an argument to look for life elsewhere in the universe, it is this one. Reid Gower set Carl Sagan’s words (We needn’t be afraid of the dark) to imagery: (Watch it full-screen in 720/HD resolution, the ...
There is beauty in the world
Monday, February 14th, 2011 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »I was at the European Summit for Global Transformation in Amsterdam last October (proof at 3:00 into the video). Here's an impression of the atmosphere and opportunities of the conference: Music for the video is 'Beauty In The World' by Macy Gray: Next ...
Kepler exoplanets animations
Sunday, February 13th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »The Kepler spacecraft is looking for planets around other stars and has found hundreds of them so far. Jer Thorp made this animation of the candidates found so far: (Actually, you should watch the video in full-screen HD mode) The BoingBoing post A ...
Floppy drives play ‘Toccata and Fugue’
Saturday, February 12th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »YouTube user FunToTheHead created an 'organ' from four floppy drives: See his comments below the video and on Reddit.
Liquid Tower Painting
Friday, February 11th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Holton Rower makes these colorful 'paintings': One Youtube commenter said: "It makes watching paint dry fun" ;-)
Teleshopping parodies
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Those terribly boring television infomercials lead to some great parodies. I remember the one with a fake Mike Levey (the host from from Amazing Discoveries who died in 2003 - you can still see many of his videos on Youtube) promoting ...
