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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

Long-eared Jerboa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et3ACIELWAQ
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

spore's creature creator.....
http://kotaku.com/5016165/spores-organic-fruit-fucker-in-motion
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Jastermereel · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject:

Sebastian's Voodoo:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/12/bbtv-sebastians-vood.html

Time lapse of Simi Valley fires from 2005
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/12/time-lapse-of-simi-v.html

Also...I think I've got a copy of The Way Things Go on a CD somewhere if people want the whole thing. If I can remember it, I could bring it as an alternative "what do we watch before the game" thing...though I think peoples' attention will fade long before it's over.
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

...........................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItWpoUMbqJE&NR=1
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Jastermereel · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:12 pm Post subject:

Creepy slowed-down baby laughing:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=35995019

Cranford Rose Garden tilt-shift timelapse:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/19/cranford-rose-garden.html

Top 10 Lightsaber Mashups:
http://videogum.com/archives/the-ultimate-argument-settler/lightsaber_010339.html
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://www.thescificast.com/2008/06/20/all-too-easy/
go to about 3:20 if u can't make it all the way through....
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Jastermereel · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:48 am Post subject:

Just how immersive is Assassin's Creed?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=20QBe43tyVM

Diet Coke/Mentos World Record with 1900 in Latvia
http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&vid=9ca53367-64ff-4e15-83ce-085049fd7d0f&playlist=videoByTag:tag:viral:ns:Gallery:mk:us:vs:1&from=MSNHP&tab=m137&GT1=42003
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7RlK0Xd4c2c
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Jastermereel · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject:

Kiwi!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs
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Mogri · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject:

Big bad John Cornyn political ad

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tt05KC3Add8
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Jastermereel · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject:

The Toast Cannon
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/06/24/the-toast-cannon-the.html
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

for some reason I found this fun:
http://www.vimeo.com/1211060
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Katrina · Good Karma Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 215 Location: Uranus

The song is catchy.
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/29/glados-gps-voice-pack-just-wants-to-help-you-find-your-way-to-t/
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/05/28/displacements/
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/entertainment_scientists_warn
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'

--Isaac Asimov

Jastermereel · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject:

A Wall Street Journal blog covering this year's Origami Convention: http://blogs.wsj.com/buzzwatch/2008/07/03/above-the-fold-buzzwatch-goes-to-an-origami-convention/
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://gizmodo.com/5024242/cornstarch-%252B-water-%252B-subwoofer--amazing-physics-video
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'

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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

we should totally fight that....
http://kotaku.com/5024608/super-chuck-norris-bros--wait-this-is-real
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'

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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkDBlEvfbgg
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--Isaac Asimov

Jastermereel · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject:

"The Matrix vs. Carl Sagan"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BlpyGhABXRA

And for context:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KT4M7kiSw&NR=1
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

A bunch of things out of E3 to waste your time with:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/07/14/fallout-3-in-game-footage-at-last/

http://kotaku.com/5025214/mirrors-edge-e3-demonstration

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/15/witness-the-second-geometry-wars-unfold/

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/15/video-glados-assures-us-portal-is-still-alive/

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/07/15/e3-the-trailers-prince-of-persia-next-gen/
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

angree nerds are funny....

response to Square releasing FFXIII for Xbox360

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/15/final-fantasy-xiii-petition-video-is-an-instant-comedy-classic/
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fate · Uber-Karma Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1178

i reeeeally hope he was joking. I couldn't stand more then a third of that.

EDIT: so apparently this was a troll brought to you by a nerd on the somethingawfull forums. It makes me strangely happy to know that it is in fact a troll.

EDIT 2: which the article mentions now. Reading is fun.
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=538846
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--Isaac Asimov

Jastermereel · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:00 am Post subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUPBgYeanZ0
by way of: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/17/eccentric-dude-puts.html
more at: http://www.youtube.com/user/Goldentusk
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Jastermereel · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:08 am Post subject:

epMotion
http://www.eppendorf.com/int/hawkpopup.php?contentid=13&gclid=CKa1593Sx5QCFQOjFQodTS20kA
via: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/21/video-uses-boy-band.html
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Jastermereel · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:08 am Post subject:

Dramatic Lemur:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/18/obligatory-cute-anim.html
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Trool · Good Karma Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 1486

Remember Hitachi's perpendicular thing....here is what's next:

http://www.youtube.com/teraera08
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isn't 'Eureka!' but rather 'hmm....that's funny.'

--Isaac Asimov