Rocket Bike
This guy really likes go fast on his bicycle. So fast, he’s strapped a rocket engine to it. Dude, just get a motorcycle! Seriously, a flaming rocket angine strapped a few inches from your butt is just...
View ArticleFreezing Water at Room Temperature
This is pretty cool. It turns out you can freeze water at room temperature, creating so-called "hot ice." There are at least two known methods for doing this. Hot ice effectively transforms water into...
View ArticleAcoustic Locators and Sound Mirrors
Wow — this page has some fabulous photos of devices for locating things using sound. Think radar, only much louder…
View ArticleWater Powered Car — Too Good to Be True? Video.
OK this is a clip from Fox News, which is not normally a source that I consider to be factual or trustworthy — but it cerrtainly is an interesting story. The video clip profiles an inventor who has...
View ArticleWhat is in frame 2:19, Anyone?
Can anyone figure out what is in frame 2:19 of this old Apollo program video. Is it a flagpole? Well, it seems quite far away to be a flagpole. And if it’s that far away it would also be really really...
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Scientist Raises Possibility of Silicon-Based Life
Just read an interesting article on the possibility of "intraterrestrial" silicon-based life on Earth: SETI spends enormous amounts of money and resources looking for life outside of Earth’s realm, but...
View ArticleA Village Where Aging is Sped Up
Here’s an interesting video about a village in India where men have been stricken for over a decade with a disease that causes them to age much faster. Nobody knows what is causing this. Men in their...
View ArticleHelp Me Destroy My Treo 650
My Treo 650 has been an endless source of frustration. It’s probably one of the most annoyingly bad devices I’ve ever owned. First of all, the form factor is such that it’s almost impossible to grab it...
View ArticleMan Doesn't Know Who He Is
This is fascinating. A man is interviewed in this CNN video segment because he doesn’t know who he is and hopes someone watching will recognize him. So strange. Here is further footage from the full...
View ArticleMoments of Past Geekiness: Shatner Commercial for C-64
This is a nice, VERY dated commercial for the C-64 computer starring none other than William Shatner!
View ArticleThe Next Sexual Revolution?
This article is an over-the-top and somewhat gonzo review of an experimental nasal-spray that promises to revolutionize sex. It is currently in clinical trials. The very idea of nasal spray would seem...
View ArticleLOST: My Newest Obsession
I know, I know. I’m several years late to the party on this one, but I have become quite obsessed with the television show, Lost. It’s possibly the most addictive show on TV. Ever. You have to start...
View ArticleDog Addicted to Sucking on Hallucinogenic Toads
This article — a true story — struck me as very funny: Lady is a dog who struggles with a secret addiction to sucking on hallucinogenic toads. Other dog owners won’t let their dogs play with her...
View ArticleMinding The Planet — The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web
NOTES Master Copy can be found at this URL or http://tinyurl.com/yynb93 Last Update: Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 10:17AM PST License — This article is distributed under the Creative Commons Deed. If you...
View ArticleBritish Ministry of Defense Chief Resigns; Cites Concerns About UFO's
Ok, here’s a very unusual news item: During his time as head of the Ministry of Defence UFO project, Nick Pope was persuaded into believing that other lifeforms may visit Earth and, more specifically,...
View ArticleMust-Know Terms for the 21st Century Intellectual
Read this fun article that lists and defines some of the key concepts that every post-singularity transhumanist meta-intellectual should know! (via Kurzweil)
View ArticleThis Guy is Funny
Thanks to a recommendation from my folks, I just watched the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Have you ever seen him? He’s a Scottish comedian with his own US talk show and his monologues are...
View ArticleThis Freaks Me Out… Self-Referential Formula Reproduces Itself…
Umm…… take a look at this formula’s output….. OK. That must be some kind of a cosmic joke.
View ArticleNew Simulation Explains Why Extraterrestrial Life Hasn't Found Us Yet
Interesting new study… It ranks among the most enduring mysteries of the cosmos. Physicists call it the Fermi paradox after the Italian Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, who, in 1950, pointed out the...
View ArticleVery Funny Instructional Video — How To Poke Pole the Monkeyfaced Eel
My cousin, Jeremy (the reincarnation of Ernest Hemmingway, I am certain), lives out by Muir Beach, San Francisco. Today he and some manly-man friends are going fishing for "monkey faced eel." YUCK. But...
View ArticleVery Cool Laser Graffitti Technology
Josh sent me this link. It’s a video of a new technology for doing laser graffitti on the sides of buildings at night. Josh and I have been discussing how to do this for years. You could also project...
View ArticleScientists Encode Message into Bacterial DNA
Japanese scientists have developed a technique that can encode 100-bit messages into the DNA of common bacteria. The bacteria replicate and pass the message down from generation to generation for at...
View ArticleA Modern Day Da Vinci?
My brother pointed me to this video of some incredible kinetic sculptures by a man who appears to be a modern-day Da Vinci. Watch the video to see what I mean.
View ArticleThe State of our Country: Newscaster Refuses to Read Paris Hilton Story;...
This is quite an amazing video clip — a news anchorwoman on MSNBC took a heroic stand and refused, on air, to lead with more news about Paris Hilton, despite her fellow anchormen and her producers...
View ArticleRoswell Officer's Deathbed Confession: UFO's Are Real
This just in. Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the Roswell Air Force base in 1947 when aliens or a weather balloon allegedly crash landed on a nearby ranch. Lieutenant Walter...
View ArticleSteorn Set to Demo "Free Energy" Device Tomorrow
Steorn, the Irish company that claims to have invented a mechanical device that generates unlimited free energy with no fuel, is scheduled to demonstrate their device publicly for the first time in...
View ArticleChinese Authorities Make it Illegal to Reincarnate Without a Permit
This just in. The Chinese Government, in their ongoing campaign against the Dalai Lama and Buddhism in Tibet, have announced a new law making it illegal for a Buddha to reincarnate without a state...
View ArticleVirtual Out of Body Experiences
A very cool experiment in virtual reality has shown it is possible to trick the mind into identifying with a virtual body: Through these goggles, the volunteers could see a camera view of their own...
View ArticleReverse Anthropology: Native Tribe Visits UK to Study Brits
Check out this fascinating article about a new show on the BBC: ne bright morning in St James’s Park and a stream of tourists approaches Buckingham Palace, where trumpets will shortly herald the...
View ArticleNowism — A Theme for the New Era?
DRAFT 1 — A Work in Progress Introduction Here’s an idea I’ve been thinking about: it’s a concept for a new philosophy, or perhaps just a name for a grassroots philosophy that seems to be emerging on...
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