Ever thought to yourself “You know…I could understand science so much better if it was sung to me in a rap song”?
Me neither. Still, Katherine McAlpine’s ‘Dropping Mad Science at the Large Hadron Collider‘ video that was featured on TED yesterday is pretty good :)
ChannelFlip’s Justin Gayner made a really fun animated video to be used as a DVD extra in QI’s first season DVD that’s soon to be released.
It’s based, by the way, on this bit from QI:
:)
Lifehacker Australia has a good roundup of the ‘Five Best Note-Taking Tools‘ available today, as judged by its readers. I’ve written about note-taking before and Lifehacker’s post just reinvigorates my pining for a tablet PC (*sigh*). Soon, soon.
I’ve been wanting to find a use for Yahoo! Pipes for a while now but I guess I’m rather unimaginative. Today, though, I removed the RSS application I was using on Facebook and entered my blog’s RSS feed directly to my Wall (thanks to Friend of a Squid who alerted me to this nifty bit of functionality).
Unfortunately, Facebook only lets you add one feed to your Wall in that manner. I, on the other hand, have two blogs. What to do? Well, combine the blog feeds, of course! How to do that? Why, through Yahoo! Pipes, of course!
So that’s what I did — you can see the Pipe’s output here — and I now have both my blogs on my Facebook wall. Woo hoo!
Zeb and Haniya, the awesome musical duo that I know and have had the pleasure to jam and perform live with, have just released their first album, ‘Chup’, in Pakistan. If you’re in Pakistan, go buy it — I highly recommend it.
For the rest of us, their first video for the song ‘Aitebar’ is available online:
Enjoy :)
With all the China-bashing and Tibet-praising that’s been going on in the media over the last few months — what part of not politicising the Olympics do they not get, I wonder — it was great to listen to Brian Dunning’s recent Skeptoid podcast titled ‘Should Tibet be Free?‘.
Dunning probably knew he was going to get bashed regardless of what he said but I’m really glad he said all of it anyway. Too many people are going around shouting “Free Tibet” without knowing the history or the details of the situation and it’s really easy to take the moral (or “we are more civilized”) high ground on something that, at first glance, seems very cut and dried but, once you start examining critically, ends up being much more complex.
[Note: This bears repeating: Watch Dunning's 'Here be Dragons: an Introduction to Critical Thinking' video. Teh awesome.]
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