Videos

So very beautiful. As an introvert by nature, it captures so eloquently the value I get out of spending time alone. Something I so rarely get the opportunity to do yet so desperately need. (via Swiss Miss)

Boardwalk Empire is an upcoming HBO series from Terence Winter, Emmy Award winning writer of The Sopranos, and director Martin Scorsese. It looks fantastic. I don’t have cable but it might be worth it just for this. 

I seem to be on a “show my system” kick lately so, I thought I would take some time to do some show-&-tell with my beloved Levenger Shirt Pocket Briefcase (which just happens to be on sale right now).

lonelysandwich:

John Underkoffler is the new Jeff Han

Meaning: watch this. You will be using it in a couple of years.

via Zadi Diaz

Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak.

Mind exploding. Seriously, watch this and your iPad will suddenly seem outdated.

Airplane vs. Zero Hour (widescreen) (via flipflomas)

Proves the fact that the classic film comedy Airplane was a shot by shot send-up of the serious 1957 film, Zero Hour.

There are many cases like this in film. For instance, the 1989 movie Heathers has many shots and plot points with the 1976 film Massacre at Central High. 

Just further proof that few ideas are truly original, especially in Hollywood.

RSA Animate – Drive (via theRSAorg)

Great talk on Drive by Daniel Pink. Even better is the execution. Most engaging thing I have seen in a while. (thx Frank Chimero)

http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=104317949,t=1,mt=video

So. Much. Fun! (thx Mrgan)

doanepaperfeed:

Happy St. Patricks Day! Time to travel back to 1984 and take a look inside the workings of the Brian Eno produced classic The Unforgettable Fire.

“I believe the songs are already written. And I think, the less you get in the way of them, the better” – Bono

Akihabara Majokko Princess – Kirsten Dunst (via sailorsean)

I’m not even sure where to begin with the awesomeness that is this…

Fact: I am still surprised by the number of folks who don’t know that “Turning Japanese” is a metaphor for the jerking off (which is what this song is about).

The video is NSFW by the way and neither is this post really.

http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf

A molecule of uranium has a million times more energy than a molecule of coal.“ He and Nathan "Mosquito Zapper” Myrhvold are backing a nuclear approach. It’s called Terrapower, and it’s different from a standard nuclear reactor. Instead of burning the 1% of uranium-235 found in natural uranium, this reactor burns the other 99%, called uranium-238. You can use all the leftover waste from today’s reactors as fuel. “In terms of fuel this really solves the problem.” He showed a photo of depleted waste uranium in steel cylinders at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky – the waste at this plant could supply the US energy needs for 200 years (woah!), and filtering seawater for uranium could supply energy for much longer than that.

Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! | Video on TED.com

(via boingboing)