Holy crap! There are a lot of podcasts by universities out there on the web!
webcast.berkeley (really an impressive collection of classes here)
I haven’t checked these all out yet (The Berkeley one looks like it is going to to keep me busy for a while). There should be enough here to keep you stuffing your head for some time.
Tags: audio, classes, colleges, education, lectures, my idea of fun, podcast, universities, video
This is a work in progress, but what this guy has accomplished so far is really, really amazing. This is a wooden rolling ball machine that contains intricate parts and some really ingenious mechanisms.
Tags: damn impressive, marble machine, rbs, rolling ball, rolling ball machine, wooden
Gobekli Tepe is the ruins of a temple in Turkey that is impressive both for its incredible age as well as its size. The temple is around 11,500 years old – 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid was built, 6,000 before Stonehenge. And it’s large, very large. And sophisticated. And really nifty.
Newsweek article: clicky.
Response to the article: clicky.
Tags: archaeology, Gobekli Tepe, history, ruins, temple, turkey
The band OK Go wanted a Rube Goldberg type machine for their latest video. However, to make it tricky, the machine had synchronize to the music, play part of the song and be filmed in one shot.
And it had to be interesting.
And interesting it is.
Tags: Art, kinetic artwork, machine, music video, rube goldberg
I’ve managed to somehow, despite all the general weirdness in my life, find my way to San Jose. Really. I’m here. Right now. Not really sure how that happened.
So, yesterday the Tree and myself went up to the Muir Woods. That, my friends, is a truly amazing place. A canyon full of incredibly big and incredibly old redwoods.
The canyon floor is dark, quiet, damp. The sky above is clear and sunny, but very little of that light makes it through the layers of canopy. Below, everything is green. Smaller trees are covered in moss and ferns.
We hiked around the massive redwoods. At the cathedral grove someone had the good sense to put up a sign suggesting that it may be a wonderful idea to shut the hell up and listen for a change. I did. Saw a deer licking its child here.
Today we got to pantheacon. People watching is a lot more interesting when the people are more like me. Even better when I could be described as more “mainstream”. Of course some may look weirder, but I can vocally out-weird just about anyone.
So anyway, there are pagans everywhere. Finding friends, taking classes, arguing, drinking too much, talking smack about the king of upper and lower Chicago, singing. Basically doing exactly what you’d expect a building full of pagans to be doing.
Tree has gotten flames sewn onto the bottom of her cloak. It’s the perfect way to repair it after the bottom got burned after the temple burn at Burning Man. Of course, any story that starts with “this one time at Burning Man…” is going to be… interesting….
So, uh, yeah. I’m having a good time here. It’s a good place for me.
Here’s a little Denver Post article on what happens when cut taxes to the bone but still want the things those taxes would have paid for.
It’s fun living in a right-wing theme park.
Tags: Colorado springs, cuts, fail, funding, right-wing, taxes
It’s funny.
Then it’s not funny.
Then it’s freakin’ hilarious
Tags: culture wars, gay, gay rights, Humor, parody, television
