Hearken the voice of reason. Racial venom is like social dynamite.

I've been doing some writing about the last days of apartheid, so far mostly for myself but hopefully some will be sharable. In the process I've been rewatching some movies on the subject and listening to music from the time. I was rewatching, Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part ( Read more... )

This is sensational. I kinda collect dance videos... and somehow I missed this incredible one of Marquese "Nonstop" Scott... until now. People, I implore you... watch this and be amazed. It starts slow, but then gets awesome. And the slow bit in the middle is actually a setup to a great climax. Incredible stuff.

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This is utterly incredible. The earth from space, including a visible atmosphere, aurora borealis and lightening storms. How beautiful our world is. Watch this. Take the time. And watch it is full screen mode!

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Most of us geeks know and love Weird Al Yankovic's White and Nerdy video, something of a classic. It is a send-up of Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone's Ridin', but became a geek classic in its own right. To put it in some perspective, the highest number of views on the original video is around 11 million, but Weird Al's version is at over 50 million ( Read more... )

Bwahaha. Conan O'Brien decides that the reason Palin's farewell speech was incomprehensible and rambling, is not because she's a daft moron, but because it's poetry... so he gets William Shatner to read it as performance art.

Just read a cool article on the ways we might make use of personal computers in the future. The article is solid and the video is well worth watching, just to get you thinking, though if you're like me you can see several ways that they could take ideas further and flaws galore with the projection idea. Much of it gets back to the old eyepiece idea ( Read more... )

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The girl in the video is Severin Suzuki. That's a pretty courageous speech for a 12-year-old girl to give at the UN's Earth Summit in Rio, even if her father was (and remains) a leading environmentalist. In fact it was her decision to attend Earth Summit, not her father's. He had not planned to attend. She formed a group of 5th grade girls into a ( Read more... )

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Harlan Ellison rant: Pay the Writer

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It picks up in the latter half even more. One of those videos where one feels that its okay to say, "Like ZOMG! WTF? Wow!"

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Silly things that make me happy.