Strange but Weird

From Japan, home of all manner of weird stuff, we learn of Zuiikin English. Originally aired in the early 1990s, the program combined English conversation lessons with aerobics in a unique educational package. The series was re-aired on Japanese satellite TV in 2005, and a few clips have been uploaded to Youtube, where they’ve been viewed millions [...]

Down With This Sort Of Thing

Quote: “How do you, ideologically speaking, defeat a crowd that is enthusiastically demanding that you ‘DO A BARREL ROLL! DO A BARREL ROLL!!’ ?” It was a busy weekend, so in case any of you missed it, here is a pretty complete blog entry about the Anonymous protest outside of the UK Scientology HQ in [...]

Morning Mind-bending

Take 10 minutes and watch this: Only works with sound. Can you feel it? The universe . . . makes your head spin. (This is old but quite a famous movie; among others, it has been cited by Will Wright as one of the inspirations for Spore.)

Zoom in, Zoom in . . .

You like Google maps? Just make sure you’re not looking at the wrong street . . .

Navy Video Strangeness

OK, you’ve got my interest piqued. What is LiveScience doing posting this video? (The same one as posted from YouTube below.) I agree with the comments on I Need Gun. That Live Science vid looks totally dodgy and almost certainly not output by the US Navy. Anything the Navy puts out is going to be [...]

Pro Tip – Video Bloggin’!

It’s fun. It’s easy. And it makes you look like a pro. Instead of putting hyperlinks to web video in your posts, you can just post vids direct in the body: Like that. To do this, find the vid on YouTube (or whatever sharing service you’re looking at). To the right of the video (on [...]

Greetings!

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