Voice Of God...

Voice Of God Revealed To Be Cheney On Intercom...
Read the entire article here on The Onion.

Ricky Gervais

Last night was a lame night for TV. About 9pm I was bored of flipping through all the channels and did something I should do more often... I hit the off button.
I've been gathering a bunch of podcast's on my computer but can never seem to find the time to listen to them. Well, just the other day, I discovered that Ricky Gervais has produced a podcast. For those of you not familiar with Ricky, he's one of the co-creators of the British TV show called "The Office". I was lucky to have gotten this dvd set from "J.D.E." (Thanks!) and very much enjoyed it. (the second season wasn't as good though). Anyway, If you're a fan of british humor I recommend giving this a listen. Warning: there are some crude moments and some foul language, so it's not kid appropriate. If you are not familiar with podcasts (Wiki description), I think you can also just download mp3 files of the show, and listen to them via any mp3 player on your computer.
Just to give you a taste of the topics of the podcast... They have done two episodes only and both featured a segment called "Monkey News" :)

TGIF!!! Enjoy your weekend!

soda bottle

While at work today, I was looking up some information on types of bottle molding, and did a search on google for how to make a soda bottle. I found this link talking about the inventor of the plastic soda bottle...
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/wyeth.html
Simple read, but in a nutshell I was surprised to find out that the inventor "Nathaniel Wyeth" was the son to the famous painter N.C. Wyeth. What a talented family.
To see some of N.C. Wyeth's paintings click here for a google image link.
I'm also going to check out the mit link above to see who some of the other inventors are.

Wind Robots

I've heard of this guy before - Theo Jansen, and have seen the videos on his website some time ago, but just stumbled upon a link today where someone interviewed him on a podcast (mp3 audio file) so I thought I'd blog about him today.
I don't know how he does it, but this guy designed these amazing wind powered "robots" that walk across a beach. They're pretty large too!
Here's the link to his website.
Here's the link to the podcast interview.
I had difficulty in viewing the film files on his website (using a macintosh with quicktime). If you also have problems I can recommend this... Download a copy of VLC (a free opensource video player). When you get to the link on his website for the film files, "Control click" and download the files to your desktop, then drag and drop onto the VLC player.
Link to the VLC website.

King Kong

Just a quick story to share...
The other weekend, I had the opportunity to see the new Harry Potter movie. While sitting through what seemed like 30 movie previews there was one for the upcoming King Kong movie. Don't forget the Harry Potter is mainly a children's movie (though it did get a PG-13 rating). While watching the King Kong trailer they had these incredible images of the giant ape running through the jungle, smashing things left and right, fighting dinosaurs, loud roaring, etc... then there happened to be a quiet moment in the trailer, and a few rows behind me I heard the voice of a little girl say, "Look mommy! a giant monkey!"
I almost laughed outloud at this, to hear the big scary "monster" of this fantastic big budget hollywood movie summed up in the eyes of a little girl.

google video not working

Regarding my previous post about the supercooling water... It seems the link has been broken and the video removed from google (inspite of the upload page telling me it's "live"). I've emailed google to report the problem (it is a beta version afterall). I'm curious what sort of response (if any) I get back from google. In the meantime I'll look for another video service...
Sorry for any problems.
Cyen

Update: Lol. I no sooner published this post, and clicked on my link one additional time, and what-do-ya-know... it worked. I guess the word Beta sums it up best. If you have a problem with the link, try it a couple times, or come back later. Again, sorry for any problems.

Supercooling water

Finally... The post I blogged about a few days ago is finally "live" via google video. It was the first I used the google video service and all went well. Only downside was that it was not clear about how long the approval process would take. I thought a few minutes, but instead it took a day or two. Then, when it finally did say it was "approved" and that I could search for it, it came up with nothing! So I was just patient, and checked again tonight, and finally it is searchable.
Thanks to Matt for responding to my email, and letting me post his video on google.
Enough gibber-jabber... check out this video it's amazing.
To read about the experiment go to Matt's blog here.
Cyen