This ad by an Indian jewellery company featuring a trans woman, is a thing of beauty. The BBC news article, India jewellery ad starring trans model wins hearts News, says
The one-minute-40-second video charts the story of transition of a trans ( Read more... )

The Joy of Tech comic... The Cat Carol Have Kleenex ready; you'll probably need it.

[Crossposted from mdlbear.dreamwidth.org, where it has
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This isn't a Songs for Saturday. It's important, it's political, it's inspiring, and you ought to go watch A Message to All Police Officers From Occupy Wall Street, delivered in an extremely powerful speech by an LAPD officer.

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Can anyone out there recommend a good video editor for Linux? I have some .mov files of concerts that I want to split up and transcode so that I can upload individual songs to YouTube.

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I don't have all of the OryCon concert online yet -- I'm still waiting for audio to replace what my fat fingers missed. But the video of about half the concert is up on YouTube, and the audio from our songs in the KinderFilk concert is up on Tempered-Glass.info.

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I don't normally post links to video clips, but these (all found on gizmodo.com) are exceptional:
Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine Goes On and On, Does Nothing As advertised. The most impressive I've seen -- must have taken days to set up. Video of the Motion-Sensing Wave LED Coffee Table in Action Surely $2500 isn't ( Read more... )

Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really)

Video of a talk by Robert Bussard (yes, that Bussard, as in Bussard Ramjet) about inertial electrostatic fusion. Links to papers, in pdf, at EMC2 Fusion.

(From EE Times, June 4, 2007. Dead trees have their uses.)