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...excellent for congress.

Actually, South African congress has been using these chairs since 2008.

http://youtu.be/JdrcOGoszlE

This guy makes a compelling case that it was intentional (I especially like the "can't put my finger on it" shot): http://youtu.be/K1r5dOwUS6Y

For example, I was highly skeptical of will.i.am when he made his first appearance at the 2011 FIRST Robotics Kickoff, but he has consistently and passionately supported FIRST and other STEM related initiatives. He's one of the few celebrities that sees that the spotlight needs to be on the current and future scientists and engineers of the world. He's not an engineer by training, but he's eager to learn and expand his knowledge of STEM as he uses his fame to help promote it.

A good example starting at 2:00 with some of will's thoughts starting at 3:50 - http://youtu.be/SyIpO_aJIxU?t=2m

I just hope that it's stable. Just look at what Mr. Bean does to the 3 wheeled car all the time. http://youtu.be/Gb54PRcekIY

Exactly, Kirk was more "beautifully metaphoric" with his commands.
Like in Star Trek 6 "second star to the right, and straight on til morning"

It exists already... http://youtu.be/yYHEygjMi1k

...busted this one already
http://youtu.be/3Hji3kp_i9k?t=2m42s
(that's a finger print lock that's detecting signs of life)

Maybe, she has always just wanted to have a boat.. and seized the opportunity to have that one. What with the way she got all excited and stuff. ; )

And I bet she was singing this to herself as she did so....

Ad rates have gotten so low that Google would probably be as poor as Yahoo if they weren't keeping tabs on you wherever you go and offering that profiling to advertisers. Facebook as well.

The reason that ad rates are low is because anyone in an industrialized society is so constantly bombarded with ads that the ads fade to an incomprehensible background hum that does nothing but interfere with the transmission of the information people actually want. Collapse of this system is inevitable; and when it does, it might be replaced with something saner where ads are rare and subtle.

Meanwhile, Bill Hicks said it best: http://youtu.be/gDW_Hj2K0wo

http://youtu.be/a5Wuwi9ZKxE

Wow it's North Korean Laverne and Shirley. Amazing. Guess that makes the fearless leader "Squiggy". Quite apropos.

http://youtu.be/mRmKzxhMzwo

And an episode with a horse in it:

http://youtu.be/-8_GSk2ptMo

Wow it's North Korean Laverne and Shirley. Amazing. Guess that makes the fearless leader "Squiggy". Quite apropos.

http://youtu.be/mRmKzxhMzwo

And an episode with a horse in it:

http://youtu.be/-8_GSk2ptMo

I don't want either iOS or Android, but I might get a tablet with KDE Plasma Active.

There already is KDE running on Nexus 7 http://youtu.be/Bb7isMAmwW0

Being a very large site they often make outrageous and unfounded claims like "The Galaxy's Largest BitTorrent Site."

I think it is hilarious if not true as well.

Did you see the documentary? http://youtu.be/eTOKXCEwo_8

Since at least 40 years it's possible to get Disulfiram implanted into your body to get the very same effect. In some countries this is even done by court order.
http://www.alustonhealth.com/disulfiram-implants

Several Polish movies contain scenes of someone cutting out their Disulfiram implants (trade name: Esperal) in order to have a drink. For instance (mildly NSFW): http://youtu.be/BbFWIBxtLaQ?t=1m20s

Oblig: http://youtu.be/kAG39jKi0lI

Actually, this has been done. The most useful progress indicators do the following:

1) Show overall progress
2) Show progress of subprocess
3) Have some type of message display that actually tells us what is happening (in fact having this may be more usefull than showing progress of the subprocesses).

Here are some examples of great progress indicators (granted, not all are installers, but they are informative):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14684652/how-do-create-progress-bar-while-clicking-remove-button-in-nsis

http://doc.zarafa.com/7.0/Migration_Manual/en-US/html/images/MGR_Progress.png

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/files/Copy_files_with_Progress/copyfiles.jpg

http://help.comodo.com/uploads/Comodo%20Backup/b11a8045cb003891d886ace8f138a534/5eac818f1e1c4adc19d335055b06586b/d871fb826e82b18c4d9d5f28f76278a5/cbu_restore_final1_022012.png

http://openchrom.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/openchrom-installer-unpack.jpg?w=640

The last one I want to show is actually from a game I like, and I was having a ton of issues trying to find a screenshot of the progress indicator, so instead, I found a Youtube video. The installer is about 5 minutes in - when you first launch the game, you have a progress indicator, but, its a little dark in this video, in the upper left hand corner, you can see how many files there are, what file it is on, if its downloading or installing, etc. Probably one of the most helpful progress indicators I have ever seen:

http://youtu.be/ROOJFT6ae7M?t=5m2s

Yes it's now "Nuked the Fridge"

http://youtu.be/lbrzQMbTYZM

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nuke-the-fridge

Man being dragged, beaten, and stripped of clothes - http://youtu.be/AlgUUGKZ4R4

You sure that's not Los Angeles circa 1991 with some terrorist lettering superimposed on the video?

I contacted DD yesterday and reported they had pulled the video, the sent me a link to "part 2" here:

http://youtu.be/xY16r6EkUNY

From experience. I have noticed that anglophones, specially the ones in USA choose not to understand if the accent differs. And if they understad you then they might mock your accent. My coworker claims he can't understand black peoples english and needs subtitles when watching a movie with black actors.

It's not always a choice.

I've taken to switching on the subtitles on BBC DVDs for my wife's benefit. She still misses a lot of the references, but at least she knows what the words were.

From experience. I have noticed that anglophones, specially the ones in USA choose not to understand if the accent differs. And if they understad you then they might mock your accent. My coworker claims he can't understand black peoples english and needs subtitles when watching a movie with black actors.

Guess you didn't watch the video on the site then???
2:50+ into the video you get the offending statements

Here I made it easy for you:

http://youtu.be/jJN0B2RIIMI?t=2m50s

They should be hiding.
Monty Python provided a good illustration of the importance of Not Being Seen:

http://youtu.be/zekiZYSVdeQ

If you say the words different... what then?
SPESS MEHRENS WE HAVE FEHLED THE EMPRA

http://youtu.be/I9_hWoGrxWg

There's a whole bunch of problems. A big one is efficiency. More tangibly the problem is that increasingly the internet is just how we do nearly *everything* these days. Another problem is that there's really no excuse for the state of things except monopolistic corporate greed (ie. corporations with too much power doing what they are designed to do: enrich themselves while providing as little as possible to everyone else). And a minor point is simply national shame: pretty much every other developed country does better at providing bandwidth.

For an amazing explanation of all of these things check out this talk: Susan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

There is precedent to the former http://youtu.be/o2HPq-WDnFQ Ghost in the Machine (1993)

Ricky Jay tells it best, Magnolia (1999) http://youtu.be/Ah-_35R1ZqY

It's a whole new world!

http://youtu.be/MLsdJlfA23E

Thank you muchly!

Be sure to let people know about it too, everyone who's seen it seems very keen but we are lacking coverage so far, so every view really helps us out.

If you liked the Douglas Adams reference see if you can spot the Carl Sagan theme in our first update video: http://youtu.be/KakpodIR0O8

(Hint: it's not very hidden)

I thought weird al yankovic nailed the white person wannabe song White and Nerdy!

Grab an aluminum can and pour some sodium hydroxide and you'll end up producing hydrogen on demand. I know producing aluminum requires lots of energy but so does heating up the sand to creat silicon. video

Lens flare never gets old

Because in many cases the textbook was written by the teacher, and its an added income, you pay the premium the instructor specifies. That and a textbook comes with a teachers edition, supplemental content, etc, so writing a textbook is an order of magnitude bigger a job than writing the great American Novel. That said, we need to be able to go through the hundreds of great out of print textbooks on Google Book or whatever repository and piece together some great books particularly in math and other fields for which lower division work hasn't changed much. I mean excluding material science, inorganic chemistry looks pretty much the same since I took it, the books now are just prettier. Student should have a wide selection of texts from free to expensive. They should also have limited access to online copies served by the school for free. Drop the price of the book and give teachers a bonus for every textbook written, the bonus being contigent on the quality of the book.

That or maybe supplement the Khan Academy with rich media online text books that mirror standard class studies so student can read but also play with the periodic table directly and understand why the rows and columns, get a quick history lesson of how it all happened, listen to Tom Lehrer sing "The Elements". We have such dramatically better tools now to feed curiosity and encourage young minds to blossom, we should take every opportunity. We also MUST remove the burden of education from students and their parents, at least for basic state universities. Sure charge an arm and a leg for an Ivy League education, just remember these schools have also become places of indoctrination to the very ideology that has gotten us in the jam we're all currently faced with and a slightly more free and open education combined with critical thinking and learning how to learn, might prove a marked advantage to the future of our society and race. People ask how we can afford this, and I wonder how can we not. For every thousand dollars we invest in education the educated person returns it a hundred fold back to society in increased tax base, skilled labor and enhanced capacity to participate in the American Economy. So you can save your money now and pay big time later or you can invest wisely in the future of our children.

Hawking is fairly conservative with his tech. As another post said, working is the primary requirement, even if slow. Remember, a FUBARd system is no use no matter how cool or fast it worked in the lab.

Besides, Hawking has a nice media career going for himself: http://youtu.be/tOimeRod4TY (yes, it really Hawking help sell financial products!).

So nothing in there but beef? How does it all stick together?

Here is a video of a TV show Heston Blumenthal did in the UK, which demonstrated how you can make a burger using only chunks of sirloin and salt as the binding agent.

Looks pretty good to me!

It must be all the frozen Ewoks: http://youtu.be/5r_TlPwZOvU

And here is a recent demo of real world performance. Compared to SSB the encoded voice is more artificial sounding, but there is no background noise (hiss and clicks) and it uses less than half the bandwidth to transmit. There is more info and a large playlist of demo/tutorial videos on David Rowe's blog (the creator of codec2).

it's gross, but he could have done a lot worse!

It's from an episode of CSI. Clip here: http://youtu.be/hkDD03yeLnU

Fortunately, there are scientists studying these things. Here is a simulation of the formation of the milky way (it took 8 months to create it).
http://youtu.be/VQBzdcFkB7w

So, way. A spiral of such definition can be created in 13.5 billion years.

http://youtu.be/CGIP2WAIupY When words do not say enough.

The flying wedge was originally a rugby play. It was used on kickoffs, just like the American version. Here's what it looks like:

http://youtu.be/enTb9wlLB1I?t=22s

It wasn't banned from Rugby until the 1980's.

I saw an episode of Real Sports with Gumbel(sp?) where the NFL is reducing the number of practice days with full contact to reduce hits to the head. When the NCAA was asked to do the the same they balked. http://youtu.be/UKIYAtnLLOA?t=6s NCAA is now being named in a class action lawsuit: http://oklahoma-criminal-defense.com/blog/2012/11/ncaa-named-in-head-injury-class-action/

Bullshit http://youtu.be/Mm9o3vhKoF8 And in Israel a school shooting was stopped by an armed student that killed the gunman. How about you stop being a fucking idiot and learn some factual information?

Except in real scenarios the outcome would be more like this http://youtu.be/wWoLGC-n4i4

A smart gun? Can't "smart" be just as destructive? Zorg ZF1, anyone? :)

http://youtu.be/7jVsQToSfag?t=31s

>bullets are made of lead

Most bullets are, but not all of them. Bullets can be made of a variety of materials, from steel to - believe it or not - hot glue.