9-Year-Old Girl With Helmetcam Psyches Herself Up Before a Ski Jump
The next time I get nervous about doing something, I’m going to have this young girl’s voice in my head. This, THIS kind of stuff is why I freaking love the Internet.
Posts Tagged "awesome"
32 Hours, 7 Minutes, Revisited Eight Years Later
Phil came by my desk yesterday morning, asking if I remembered a link I had sent him many many years ago, back when we were still at the Merchandise Mart. It involved cars and a cross-country race, but neither of us could recall the actual title. Funny thing – we both remembered the website being…
TED: Luis von Ahn on CAPTCHAs and Massive-Scale Online Collaboration
Whenever you’re filling out a CAPTCHA (those blurry, wavy words they sometimes force you to type on web pages), you should think of Luis von Ahn. He was involved in the early days of CAPTCHAs, but ended up starting a company called reCAPTCHA that revolutionized this seemingly mundane task.
Moran Cerf: On Robbing Banks and Saying Yes
Moran Cerf had an incredibly interesting day job: breaking into banks. I don’t want to say anymore, so I strongly, strongly encourage you to watch this video and to listen to his story. Say “yes” to watching this – I promise, it’s well worth your time.
The Nicest Place on the Internet: Hugs From People You’ve Never Met
Having one of those days full of sad rainclouds, where nothing’s quite going right? Well swing on over to the nicest place on the internet, and we’ll see if we can’t make you feel a little better.
Made entirely from user submissions, the site features a rolling display of people hugging their webcams – and is surprisingly moving. Users can also create their own videos on YouTube and submit them to the site for possible inclusion.
A Surprise Game of Lazer Tag (In My Apartment)
After reading things over, it dawned on me what I was looking at. This wasn’t some mere list of instructions or rules…
This was a challenge.
Ben and Allison’s Honeymoon Photos Used in Flickr Commercial
Last March, Ben and Allison had a ” target=”_blank”>lovely wedding, and spent their honeymoon ” target=”_blank”>in Iceland.
Both Allison and Ben are avid photographers, and take some fantastic pictures. It’s easily proven too, since Flickr decided to use some A LOT of their honeymoon photos in a recent ad campaign for Photo Session.
Rick Perry, the McGurk Effect, and Why We All Want to Save a Pretzel for the Gas Jets
Before we get started with the giggles, let’s take a moment to talk about the McGurk effect: an interesting audio illusion that comes from our eyes seeing one thing, and our ears hearing another. Specifically, when different video is shown with the exact same audio… viewers will alter what they hear to fit what they see.
Industrial Revolutions: Danny MacAskill, A Bike, And An Abandoned Ironworks Factory
I don’t know much about Danny MacAskill, other than he’s able to drop my jaw with the things he can do on a bike. As a kid, I had a BMX bike and used to do jumps off a ramp in my backyard. There was a decent hill at my house (and a killer one…
Captain Awesome
Captain Awesome is about to save the day once again, when an upset stomach threatens to ruin it all. Created by The Animation Workshop, it’s incredibly funny, super slick, and well… awesome. [via MetaFilter] Related:The Awesome Foundation: Providing $1,000 For Your Awesome IdeasThis Is A Useless (And Awesome) MachineI Have No Idea What This Is,…
Derren Brown Takes on Nine Chess Masters, Simultaneously
Derren Brown, famous mentalist and mind-trick guy, challenges 9 chess masters… simultaneously. And the amazing thing? He ends up winning more than he loses. I guess this is an old trick, but still fun to watch Brown in action. All the YouTube videos I could find of this had the embedding disabled, so you’ll have…
The Clock in the Mountains
Deep inside a mountain in Texas, there are men who are hard at work clearing out enormous amounts of stone. They are building a clock inside the mountain. The clock is meant to run for 10,000 years: equal to the age of civilization, give or take a century. First conceived by Danny Hillis in 1995,…
Talking Funny: Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Louis C.K. on Comedy
Talking Funny is an HBO special that features a group of great comedians: Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Louis C.K.. The four of them talk about the mechanics of comedy, and go through a range of stories and jokes – talking in depth about what it is they actually do. As you can…
Sonar: Numeric and Circular Music Visualization
Sonar is an absolutely beautiful animation. It syncs up with the music in a lovely way, and I’ve watched this repeatedly now for a few times. I can’t seem to find much about this, beyond the fact that it was uploaded by YouTube user techdx5 about a year ago. Tracked down the video to Renaud…
Optimist: Festival of Color, Slow Motion Video
Optimist is a lovely slow-motion video by Brian Thomson, capturing the Festival of Color celebration at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. There are so many lovely moments to this video – the initial few bursts of color, followed by the entire crowd. There’s the kid breaking into a smile at…