March 2010
42 posts
WatchWow that looks like it was tedious.
February 2010
50 posts
The biologist E.O. Wilson estimates there are...
Insects 9 million
Bacteria 1 million
Fungi 1 million
Viruses 0.3 million
Algae 0.3 million
Worms 0.3 million
Plants 0.2 million
Protozoa 0.2 million
Echinoderms 0.2 million
Mollusks 0.2 million
Crustaceans 0.2 million
Fish 30 thousand
Reptiles 10 thousand
Birds 10 thousand
Amphibians 5 thousand
Mammals 5 thousand
Source.
Hot dogs & poached puppies
Google’s synonym system understood that a dog was similar to a puppy and that boiling water was hot. But it also concluded that a hot dog was the same as a boiling puppy. The problem was fixed in late 2002 by a breakthrough based on philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s theories about how words are defined by context. As Google crawled and archived billions of documents and Web pages, it analyzed what...
WatchHooray for tilt-shifting!
WatchAnd the making of that cool music video!
WatchCool music video!
This is my 200th post.
Kudos Conflectual. You rock.
WatchWhat happens when you mix holograms with turntables?
The group is called Neurosonics. You might want to check out some of their other music videos.
“I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study...”
– John Adams
WatchVisualizing piano music with 2D and 3D images.
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“[A]dvertising will in the future world become gradually more and more...”
– T. Baron Russell, A Hundred Years Hence, 1906.
WatchAn interesting @TED_talk on corruption.
WatchNike has such cool videos.
WatchNew uses for analog cameras. Crazy videos.
Watch“the films of the 2000s.” A wonderful mashup. And all together, a pretty good decade for movies.
“Congress is a whiskey drinker. You can put an awful lot of whiskey into a man if...”
– Lyndon B. Johnson
WatchKinda makes you wanna drop out of film school. (At least, if I was a film student, I would worry about this kind of competition.)
For anyone with an iPhone, some free time and... →
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
– Woodrow Wilson
WatchNo idea what this is. But it’s quite visually appealing.
“The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond...”
– H.L. Mencken
“A prince, then, must be very careful not to say a word which does not seem...”
– Machiavelli
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects...”
– Aristotle (343 B.C.)
WatchOh my god! WHY is this man on television??
