Thoughts

The original Powers of Ten, by Charles and Ray Eames

This is great! The original “Powers of Ten” video, done by Charles and Ray Eames, has been placed online! If there’s some point this should drive home, it’s this: we are some pretty insignificant specks of dust in a very, very large universe. We ought to be a little more humble and respectful of our surroundings.

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A very cool walk around the Gaza pyramids

This fellow called Jason Clay is working out of Cairo, Egypt, as a graphic designer, and he’s put together these great videos of the pyramids made up of hundreds of still shots. He walked around them, and took shots every 10 seconds. The result is very cool!

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Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment

The silly folks at EepyBird have put together a wonderful video (synchronized to music, nonetheless) illustrating the explosive combination of Diet Coke and Mentos, and imitating the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas. Beautiful, just beautiful!

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Google Video Player for the Mac just launched

Have a look for yourselves, this is pretty cool. Google just released their video player for the Mac. This is a player more compatible with Google Video. I had problems in the past when I tried to play Google Videos on my Mac, and this should solve it.

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Talking Cats

This video is just amazing. The cats are talking! The last cat even recites a whole stanza from a song!

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