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This image from a Flickr user is labeled Coolest Table Ever.  I don’t know if it’s the coolest, but it certainly is very cool and worth sharing.

I’d buy it, given the chance.  I’m in to the eclectic.

Technorati Tags: Flickr, Coolest table ever, Furniture, Cool

I just downloaded PopCap game’s newest – Bejeweled Twist.  The first couple versions of Bejeweled games grabbed me right away.  This one?  Meh.

But then, I decided to start paying attention to what the game was offering.  The concept is simple – spin a set of four jewels, try to get three in a row.  It lacks the immediacy of the original, but it gives some new twists that add depth and strategy.  Here’s a video someone else made showing a bit of gameplay.

Read more of what I saw in the game below the hump. More »« Less

Just watched this on TV.  So cool:

Now I just need to find time to fix the site so I can start sharing cool stuff again.

Technorati Tags: How It’s Made, Vinyl, YouTube, Video, Cool, Analog

While checking out the latest news on some of the geeky things that interest me, I found a link to this visual walk through of mathematics. The most interesting facet of the Dimensions Math page to me, and what made me think I needed to post about it, is that the 2 hour video that is the visual walkthrough of math was created entirely with the raytracing program POV-Ray. The entire video is available for free online, can be purchased on DVD, and is licensed for distribution under a Creative Commons license.

A film for a wide audience!

Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension.
Mathematical vertigo guaranteed! Background information on every
chapter: see “Details“.

Here is the sample video for the visual walk-through:

Watching this, seeing that it was made with POV-Ray, and thinking of the power of legally freely available tools like this makes me feel that I owe my readers a write-up of some of the many free tools and toys I use on my computer at home and for work.

Technorati Tags: Dimensions, Mathematics, POV-Ray, Video

One of the coolest innovations I can recall seeing that would be useful for the computer geek.

Oh, the gaming variations this would add.  (via TechCrunch)

For my gun enthusiast visitors. I worked with a fellow years ago who claimed to have a rated speed of 0.02 seconds for draw and fire motion of his handgun. I was skeptical, but knew this guy to not be one to brag in general, so I tentatively accepted his claim although I never could imagine it being true. After seeing this video of Bob Munden, I’m not so skeptical any more.

I’m especially impressed with his accurately shooting 2 balloons, tied 8 feet apart, with two shots fired so quickly that it appears to be only a single shot. This looks like a prime candidate for the Time Warp treatment from the folks at the Discovery Channel:

I think it would be awesome to see this quick-shooter filmed at 1800 frames per second or higher. Too bad it looks like Discovery Channel hasn’t taken that show past the first episode. (via Bill at DQ)

Technorati Tags: Quick draw, Quick-Shooter, Handgun, Fast, Video, YouTube

You can finally order your Optimus keyboard from ThinkGeek for a mere $1600. Well – you can kinda… While checking this to make a post, I noticed it is currently out of stock. But this is a bit of forward movement from the last 2 years of story-without-substance.

Just some of the highlights/features of this keyboard:

• Revolutionary Keyboard Features a tiny OLED screen on each key. 113 screens total.
• Play a GIF animation or Quicktime movie on a Key
• Key sets can be linked to an application, so whenever you open that app the appropriate keys come up
• Built in USB hub

More features listed on the product page at ThinkGeek. One suggestion I’ve heard is encoding your favorite pr0n and setting it to play across all keys, but honestly that sounds rather infeasible. I *would* like to have one and set it up with animations and key images for the kids when they are playing their games. But I’m going to have to wait until one of these comes out for under $100 before trying anything like that. Probably in 2-3 years, we’ll have that reality, though, right?

Technorati Tags: Optimus, Keyboard, OLED, ThinkGeek, YouTube, video, Stuff I want, 00 keyboard

Here’s what happens when cargo air drops don’t quite go as planned.

Fun times for all (via Danger Room)

As is made clear below, in some cases a bit more patience than normal is required.

Sure, it’s meaningless, but I thought it was interesting in a slow sort of way.

Technorati Tags: Sloth, Cross the road, I know there’s a joke in there somewhere

I’m always amazed at how much a bunch of small changes can really change an image. I mean, yes I know that it’s not that hard to change the images, and yes I know that I should expect big changes from a bunch of small changes. But the results still impress me.

However, on the other side of the photochopping craze we find the chops that just didn’t quite go as intended. The site Photoshop Disasters highlights these erroneous photochop jobs. For example, clips from a very funny pair of pics put up there where the DVD case claims to reveal the real star in question:

So real, except for values of not-real where we felt it appropriate to change things a teeny tiny bit.   Or something.

And apologies to Photoship Disasters for cutting out the watermark – I didn’t want to give away the full story just from the pics, so I clipped them down to the part that hopefully will push my visitors to click away via the site link.

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A little less synced with the song and video than last time around, but I guess there wasn’t a video of hundreds dancing in sync to Hammer’s music.

They sure can dance and handle large-scale choreography, can’t they?  But they need baggier pants to reallllly fully pull off that song.

Technorati Tags: Filipino prisoners, Dance, Hammer, Can’t touch this, Hammer don’t hurt ‘em