Here are some fun videos in random order…
Funny video song about Apple, Google, and Gold
Funny song about how he could have been rich if he had just bought Apple, Google, and Gold stocks instead of listening to his broker.
PermalinkDouglas Adams Humorous Talk about Conservation
Science function writer and satirist Douglas Adams gave this humorous talk…
But it has a serious message about conservation of our planet. He talks about his adventures tracking down exotic animals and what he learned from them.
PermalinkBuilding landscape art from food
Watch this video of how Carl Warner creates landscape art from food. They are beautiful.
PermalinkMovie: “Slumdog Millionaire”
The acclaimed movie Slumdog Millionaire depicts life in India as two orphan brothers (Jamal and Salim) grows up in the slum of Mumbai. Through a series of adventures in search for his love Latika, the protagonist Jamal ends up working at a call center and then ended up on the India’s version of the show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” — which he wins since he happens to know all the answers to through his previous adventures.
The other brother Salim was not so lucky as he got involved with gangsters — a by-product of the crime-ridden neighbor in which they grew up.
Slumdog Millionaire was winner of the 2009 Oscars for Best Picture, best Directing, best Music Song, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Cinematography, and Writing Adaptive Screenplay.
Director Danny Boyle talks about the film here.
Also hear interview of Danny Boyle on Fresh Air.
Hear another review of the movie here.
PermalinkMathemagician Arthur Benjamin
Arthur Benjamin perform multiplication of 5 digit numbers in his head using math tricks — an amazing performance in front of and with participation from the live audience.
PermalinkVideo of Robot Dog
This mechanised robot dog by Boston Dynamic does a pretty good job of navigating through various terrains such as gravel, snow, and ice. It stumbles a few time when pushed or slipped on ice, but it knows how to recover quite well.
PermalinkTime Elapsed video of baby at play
Want to know what a baby does all day? Well, here is a time-elapsed video of 4 hours of 9-month old baby at play squeezed into 2 minutes.
PermalinkSinging the Periodic Table
David Newman sings the periodic table. Those who knows chemistry will appreciate this.
Permalink“Code Monkey” Song by Jonathan Coulton
For better sound quality, you can listen at MP3 at JonathanCoulton.com or on listen to Jonathan Coulton on Last.fm.
Or read the lyrics as you listen.
Last.fm has more videos of Jonathan Coulton.
This is a song by Jonathan Coulton about a software coder (code monkey) who likes a girl. Jonathan quit is day job of writing code, and now he writes songs instead. You can find more songs by Jonathan Coulton at JonathanCoulton.com
PermalinkVideo of Flash Stick Figures: “Animator vs Animation”
This great animation was by Alan Becker. The original is at alanbecker.deviantart.com where he mentioned that it took him three months to do.
If you have ever worked with Adobe Flash, then this will look familiar. Fun and cool. Note that the sound effects are excellent.
Here is a sequel also animated by Alan Becker…
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