TEDX – Joe Smith: How To Use A Paper Towel
Posted on May 16th, 2012
Gruber linked to this one yesterday. So great.
Gruber linked to this one yesterday. So great.
I missed this when it made its rounds on the Internet a while back, but I couldn’t resist in posting it. Thanks to Merlin for making me aware of it.
Love this.
Casey Neistat tries to steal his own bike in several locations around NYC and finds out that it wasn’t hard. He even does this right in front of a police station: I recently spent a couple of days conducting a bike theft experiment, which I first tried with my brother Van in 2005. I locked my own bike up and then proceeded to steal it, using brazen means — like a giant crowbar — in audacious locations, including directly in front of a police station. I wanted to find out whether onlookers or the cops would intervene. What you see here in my film are the results. I would guess that this may be easy to do in most large cities, what with out…
Ryan Paul, at Ars Technica: One year later, Google still hasn’t followed through with that commitment. Mozilla says that it can no longer afford to wait for Google to do what it has promised. In his blog post, Eich explained that H.264 has become too deeply entrenched in the mobile space to be easily displaced and that browsers that don’t support it are jeopardizing their own future relevance. “H.264 is absolutely required right now to compete on mobile. I do not believe that we can reject H.264 content in Firefox on Android or in B2G and survive the shift to mobile,” he wrote. “Losing a battle is a bitter experience. I won’t sugar-coat this pill. But we must swallow it if we are to…
Video from cameras attached to the booster rockets of the Space Shuttle with this minor exception: it is high definition and the audio has been remastered by Skywalker Sound. Watch it all the way to the end with your headphones on – the audio is great. Also, at the end, you can see the other booster splashing down in the ocean nearby.
via Jason Kottke. ∗
Jason Kottke, at Kottke.org:
The people who shot this video claim the iceberg exploded but it looks more like the collapsing ice caused the air and water to shoot out of that hole suddenly. Still cool though.
From the TED Talks video page:
Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed — Eratosthenes’ calculation of the Earth’s circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau’s measurement of the speed of light in 1849.