Moving Pictures.

New Orleans in the 1920's:



How much has changed; and how much looks the same.

Today's Wicked Cool.

Human-powered helicopter.  Really:

Happy Birthday, Jack!!

From an old ground-pounder who will be happy if you sit behind this desk in a few years.



P.S. No staying up too late playing, OK?

Wednesday Wicked Cool.

A Sears 'Die Hard' battery video, complete with 80's nostalgia music:



I know, I know; the electron-heads out there will point out that it proves nothing really about the battery - the amperage draw never gets close to the battery's rated capacity, and once the first car starts it's alternator helps start the next, meaning the load drawn from the battery decreases accordingly. This is true.

This is also the reason engineers are no fun at parties.

Hattip: Gizmodo via Instapundit.

'Top Deer' ROTFLMAO!

If you are fans of Clarky-poos, The Hamster and Captain Slow, then these videos will have you on the floor. (If you are not fans of Top Gear, then your life is not worth living. No, really; it isn't.)
I almost want to buy a Hyundai now. Almost.

Sunday Morning 'Oh Yes'!

Coolness, brought to you courtesy of the United States Air Force:

If the US government is going to waste money, this is the way to do it.

PS: Those planes don't run on presidential moratoria. Just sayin'...

Hattip: Theo Spark.

Thursday Morning Wicked Cool.

Fun with buildings and geometry.

An Now For Something Completely Different.

And very cool: Vadrum - The Marriage of Figaro. But wait! There's more!

Hattip: Borderline Sociopathic Blog For Boys.

Indeed.

Man Was Not Put On This Earth, Equipped With That Huge Pre-Frontal Cortex, To Live At The Mercy Of The Elements.

OK-GO Does It Again. (UPDATED)

The guys who gave us the uber-geek treadmill video, hit another one out of the park. Watch it all.

Hattip: The Borderline Sociopathic Blog For Boys.

UPDATE 6MAR10: And another (earlier) OK-GO video of the same song. Not as complex, but gillie suite are involved. Really.

Water, Water Everywhere...

NASA finds lots of water on the Moon. Not that it will do NASA or the US a damn bit of good, now that Obama scrapped our return to the Moon to pay for his pet projects. Per my buddy Rich, from his Facebook post: "Well, at least the Chinese and Russians will have water for their bases."

Team Hopenchange has replaced the New Frontier with a financial rat hole. The career rich and the career poor need the cash.

Virtual Unreality.

Wow. Jack Bauer has never been to Washington? Damn.

Hattip: Maggie's Farm.

How Do You Fix "Global Warming" On the Cheap?

Ask somebody who knows something about technology and making money. His solution:

The global warming solution proposed by Nathan Myhvold involves running a hose up to the stratosphere with balloons and using that hose to pump out enough sulfur particles to dim the sun's heat just enough to counteract the effects of global warming. The estimated cost would be about two hundred and fifty million dollars.

Not that it would do any good mind you, as we do not control the climate. But at least it'd make the chicken-littles happy without having to tear down the achievements of the entire Free World in the process. Though, I strongly think the elimination of the Free World and our way of life is the true goal of the "climate change" agenda. Plus, Myhvold's solution wouldn't make the likes of Robert Mugabe any richer.

Personally, I think you'd do more to stop the "global warming" crisis if you ran the hose straight up Al Gore's arse.

But Will We Have To Measure It In Smoots?

This is pretty cool: Some folks at MIT have decoded the "DNA" of concrete.

Hattip: Instapundit.

(For those who are not Boston-area geeks, here's the Smoot reference.)