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Tablecloth Pulling Trick Amazingly Done with a Yo-Yo
World yo-yo champion Black performs this amazing trick where he pulls a tablecloth out from under a table of stacked glasses of wine with a…
Balloon and Kite Imagery in Google Earth
The Google Earth team recently announced they are incorporating aerial imagery from an unusual source—the balloon- and kite-borne cameras of volunteer mappers from The Public…
RecordSetter World Record Day 2012
On April 28, 2012, RecordSetter is hosting the first annual RecordSetter World Record Day, a global event to “celebrate human achievement through a day of…
LeWeb London 2012 Tech Conference: Faster Than Real Time
LeWeb is Europe’s largest tech startup conference and this year’s LeWeb London is themed Faster than Real Time. Speakers for this LeWeb London 2012 include…
Google Launches Google Drive, An Online File Storage Service
Google has begun rolling out Google Drive, an online file storage service that will allow users to store up to 5 GB for free. It…
Joey Skaggs & A Band of Pissed Off Muppets Protest Goldman Sachs
As we posted about recently, prankster Joey Skaggs brought his mobile Trojan House and a band of “pissed off muppets” to protest “greed and corruption…
CNET Interview With Al Jaffee, Creator of the Mad Magazine Fold-In
Seth Rosenblatt recently did a CNET interview with Al Jaffee, creator of the Mad Magazine Fold-In. In issue 515 of Mad Magazine, Al created a…
All Star Celebrity Bowling: Mad Men vs. Nerdist
Team Nerdist took on Team Mad Men for a game of All Star Celebrity Bowling at The Spare Room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Mesmerizing Swinging Pendulums
Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations presents a demonstration of simple harmonic and periodic motion, fifteen swinging pendulums of differing lengths create beautiful waves, beats, and…
PBS Arts: Off Book – The Art of Film & TV Title Design
“The Art of Film & TV Title Design” by PBS Arts: Off Book takes a look at credits and title sequences in film and television.…