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YouTube - Amazing Sand Animation

YouTube - Amazing Sand Animation

Video added by Mahroo Araeenejad at 03:23 PM CDT
Ferenc Cako: Live Sand Animation Live @ the Seoul Animation Festival in 2003.
YouTube - Alabama3 - too sick to pray (legendado)

YouTube - Alabama3 - too sick to pray (legendado)

Video added by John Goodwin at 01:59 PM CDT
Alabama3 - Too Sick to Pray

The Periodic Table of Videos

Bookmark added by Oliver Masciarotte at 10:19 AM CDT
Totally great, experiential chemistry!

IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

Bookmark added by Jefferson Hunt at 08:49 PM CDT
Mozilla did its best to throw a spoiler into Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 2 launch on Wednesday. But the new Ubiquity add-in for Firefox doesn't sound all that different from what Microsoft is doing with the version of its browser due to ship in November. That's my take, but you ...

GeoEye signs deal to provide imagery to Google | Technology | Reuters

Bookmark added by Ralph Mercer at 07:08 AM CDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - GeoEye Inc on Thursday said it will provide imagery from its new $502 million high-resolution GeoEye-1satellite to Google Earth and Google Maps after the spacecraft is launched

Ubiquity prototype lets users take command of Firefox

Bookmark added by Dale Hinch at 03:10 AM CDT
A natural language command interface for the Firefox browser. Anyone who enjoys quicksilver will love this

Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

Bookmark added by Jefferson Hunt at 08:52 PM CDT
Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed to obtain personal data on Taiwan's current and former presidents : "The ...

Techiest celebrity endorsements - Network World

Bookmark added by Jefferson Hunt at 08:44 PM CDT
Word that Microsoft is reaching deep into its pockets to get Jerry Seinfeld to pair up with Bill Gates in a series of newcommercials to sell the world on Windows Vista and counter Apple's ubiquitous Mac vs. PC ads is sure to generate lots of jokes,and we're not talking about the gags in the ...
Virtual mirror destroys all the fun you have trying on outfits - Engadget

Virtual mirror destroys all the fun you have trying on outfits - Engadget

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 11:58 AM CDT
The always-imaginative gurus at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft never cease to amaze, and at this year's IFA, they're delivering oncemore. The so-called "virtual mirror" gives to-be garb buyers an accurate look at what different outfits look like on theirperson without requiring them to try a single ...

Capped: Midnight Run by ASD

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 01:27 PM CDT
Midnight Run by ASD.
YouTube - Midnight Run by Andromeda Software Development

YouTube - Midnight Run by Andromeda Software Development

Video added by Aasemoon at 01:26 PM CDT
PC demo by Andromeda Software Development entered in the demo competition at NVScene 2008http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=51450

The Blue Talkz...: ASD - Midnight Run

Bookmark added by Soren C at 01:05 PM CDT
ASD's "Metamorphosis" was one of those demos that made us all "think" for a while. Very deep and meaningful, and also veryfresh from the design point of view. "More of this please" is defnitely something that I was thinkg while watching that demoover and over again. Well, I guess somebody ...
Mind Hacks: Unreality TV and the culture of delusions

Mind Hacks: Unreality TV and the culture of delusions

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 12:49 PM CDT
Today's New York Times has an interesting article on the tug-of-war over the cultural influence on paranoid delusions andwhether contemporary-themed psychosis is a new form of mental illness or just a modern colouring of an old disorder. The article focuses on the recent interest in the ...
Wireless networks mimicking biological systems

Wireless networks mimicking biological systems

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 12:48 PM CDT
The goal of the EU-funded WINSOC project is to build self-organizing networks of wireless sensors by applying principles learnedfrom living organisms. These wireless sensors will be used for a wide range of environmental monitoring purposes. As saysthe WINSOC scientific coordinator, 'Living ...

NVISION: Displays, software to change the way we see the 'Net

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 12:44 PM CDT
3D hardware and software are much on display at NVISION, and the vendors from both sides of the industry are focused on increasingthe usability and usefulness of their various solutions. NVIDIA can talk about the magic of visual computing and the bravenew frontier it opens to us weary ...
Step By Step: Host Your Own Music Playlist with Opentape

Step By Step: Host Your Own Music Playlist with Opentape

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 12:02 PM CDT
Beloved music playlist hosting service Muxtape's gone offline to "sort out a problem with the RIAA," but if you've got someweb server space, you can host, stream, and share your own digital music mixes Muxtape-style with newly-launched PHP web applicationOpentape. Opentape isn't affiliated ...
NVIDIA announces native SLI for Intel X58 chipsets - Engadget

NVIDIA announces native SLI for Intel X58 chipsets - Engadget

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 11:56 AM CDT
It may not have produced quite the onslaught of news that Intel's recent Developer Forum did, but it looks like NVIDIA's NVISION08conference was at least able to pull one big rabbit out of its hat, with NVIDIA itself dropping word that it's going to allowIntel's X58 chipset to natively support ...
Quantum 'Traffic Jam' Revealed: Findings May Help Get Current Flowing At Higher Temperatures

Quantum 'Traffic Jam' Revealed: Findings May Help Get Current Flowing At Higher Temperatures

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 11:53 AM CDT
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at CornellUniversity, Tokyo University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Colorado, have uncovered the firstexperimental evidence for why the transition ...

Wireless Sensors Learn From Life

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 11:52 AM CDT
European and Indian researchers are applying principles learned from living organisms to design self-organising networks ofwireless sensors suitable for a wide range of environmental monitoring purposes.
Clash Of Clusters Provides New Dark Matter Clue

Clash Of Clusters Provides New Dark Matter Clue

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 11:50 AM CDT
New Hubble and Chandra observations of the cluster known as MACSJ0025.4-1222 indicate that a titanic collision has separateddark from ordinary matter. This provides independent confirmation of a similar effect detected previously in a target dubbedthe Bullet Cluster, showing that the Bullet ...
Minimum Mass For Galaxies Discovered: Breakthrough Sheds Light On Mysterious Dark Matter

Minimum Mass For Galaxies Discovered: Breakthrough Sheds Light On Mysterious Dark Matter

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 11:49 AM CDT
By analyzing light from small, faint galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, UC Irvine scientists believe they have discoveredthe minimum mass for galaxies in the universe ? 10 million times the mass of the sun.

Scoot Pittman--Fatback

Bookmark added by rpfiii at 03:33 PM CDT
This one's just plain fun, in a sort-of-james-brown AAIIIIGGGHHHYYYAAAA kind-of-way :-)

Last.fm?s Playground

Bookmark added by John Goodwin at 09:39 AM CDT
The world's largest social music platform. Show off your taste, see what your friends are listening to, hear new music, getpersonal radio, recommendations, and downloads, all for free.

Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid?s Limits - Series - NYTimes.com

Bookmark added by Oliver Masciarotte at 04:49 PM CDT
Clean energy?s dirty secret is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.

Etta Baker-Knoxville Rag

Bookmark added by rpfiii at 03:31 PM CDT
Etta Baker is wonderful. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4536802 Amazing woman, still playing "piedmont blues" on her guitar much later in life. (there's hope for you yet, Jack).  Another great series of musical tunes to get you going and on your way.

CHORUS of Tribes--Myth

Bookmark added by rpfiii at 03:27 PM CDT
Excellent collection of haunting, sometimes beautiful, musical imagery.  Helps to get me on the right track when I'm down.

Epson Develops New High-Resolution LTPS LCD

Bookmark added by Phil Duby at 11:22 PM CDT
Epson today announced the development of a 4-inch high-resolution low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT LCD featuring PhotoFine Premia technology, which boasts both a wide viewing angle and a wide color range. The display produces beautiful imageseven when viewed from an angle of 80 degrees ...

New sensor to detect cancer biomarker gases exhaled in breath

Bookmark added by Phil Duby at 10:54 PM CDT
Early cancer detection can significantly improve survival rates. Current diagnostic tests often fail to detect cancer in theearliest stages and at the same time expose a patient to the harmful effects of radiation. Led by Dr. Patrick McCann, a smallgroup of internationally known researchers at ...

Boston Dynamics: The Leader in Lifelike Human Simulation

Bookmark added by Aasemoon at 09:57 PM CDT
RiSE: The Amazing Climbing Robot RiSE is a small six-legged robot that climbs vertical terrain such as walls, trees and fences. RiSE?s feet have claws, micro-clawsor sticky material, depending on the climbing surface. RiSE changes posture to conform to the curvature of the climbing surfaceand ...
IBM demonstrates light-emitting nanotube

IBM demonstrates light-emitting nanotube

Bookmark added by Phil Duby at 09:54 PM CDT
IBM demonstrates electronic control of the optical emission properties from a light-emitting nanotube including the emissionwavelength, the spectral and spatial distribution of the emitted light, and the efficiency of the emission.