One of my co-workers sent this to me back in June. Well worth a peek, these many months later.
The description on YouTube reads: "Civilization, a video mural created for the new Standard hotel in New York City, depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through modern film language using computer-enhanced found footage..."
Enjoy!
I'm a sap, I admit it. This is a wonderful video:
Thank to my Aunt Lee for sending this my way!
This is pretty cool:
Thanks to my Aunt Lee who sent this to me back in April!
Check out this amazing camera view of the Presidential Inauguration.
I only want to know who discovered this and how it works...thanks to Cynthia for sending this my way!
This comes courtesy of my sister Lehua in Hawai'i:
Happy Holidays everyone!
Here's a bevy of things that have been lovingly cluttering up my inbox for months:
Eddie Vedder sings Old McDonald (sort of) in Kids' Rock by Tim Hawkins:
Thanks to Jonny G. for sending that to me.
Next up, from Santa Barbara, The Dog, The Cat, and The Rat:
Thanks to the BillyBlogMom for sending me that.
If you've ever wondered if there's a website for everything, there is. Or, if you've ever wondered, if you see a story on the news about a truck crashing somewhere, and releasing its load of chickens, and wonder if trucks have ever released, say, alligators, 
head on over here and see. Thanks to Ben for sending me the link to TruckSpills.com!
My friend Felicia (Jonny G.'s better, sexier half) sent this link explaining the Time Loop Theory on the show Lost. Very creative. Some people take television very seriously.
Ben (my friend, not the guy from Lost) also sent me more evidence that Japanese game shows are truly insane:
Human Tetris anyone?
Worth watching. This is amazing. Melanie sent me this link.
Only great minds can read this
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
Or maybe not.
More humorous images courtesy of Aunt Lee!
What they're saving in transportation costs will go right into therapy for the child.
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Cool wheels, but does it pass emissions standards?
"Oh, so that's where I left the other half of my steak sandwich!"
"That's not what I meant when I said you could pick a car you liked!"
I thought the Bay of Bengal was much larger.
Beer-eautiful!
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It runs on fumes.You may have seen some of these before, but they are still reeking of blogworthiness. 
Try to count the number of black dots in the image below:
This one is the coolest. Read the instructions, then proceed. I get how it works, but am still amazed.
Stare at the four black dots in the center of the image for 30 - 60 seconds.
Then quickly close your eyes and look at something bright (like a lamp or a window
with sunlight coming through it). You should see a white circle with an image inside it:
The eldest child (aka Jolee) starting bring home some word problems for math that a) initially confounded me, and b) gave me horrid flashbacks to the days of yore. I was instantly reminded of Professor Ben Friedman's "Math as a Liberal Art" class my freshman year at Occidental, which helped me eliminate my mathematics requirement. The course was more difficult than it sounded, much to the chagrin of the football players who ventured into Fowler Hall, thinking they were about to encounter the "Easy A". No such luck.
Which brings me to the following examples. Rather than leave a question blank, isn't it better to make an attempt and perhaps get partial credit? Or is it better to entertain (my choice, I think)?
Do mathematicians have senses of humor? Do math professors? I'm sure.
I remember the story from high school, undoubtedly a tale of urban myth. A class arrives for a final exam to be confronted with a one-question test, and the question is "Why?"
Scores of students spend the two hours filling their test books with lengthy essays expounding on all they had learned, or what they thought the professor was looking for. The tale, as it is spun, ends with the results: only one student passed, the rest failed. The student who passed responded simply to the question. "Because," he wrote, and then turned in the test.
Unlikely, it seems, to be real. Sad, however, if it is true. Because none of the following examples from creative students were rewarded for their creativity. Even on the web, there work is presented with the mask of anonymity.
Enjoy. Click on an image to enlarge for better resolution.
I think the above was a perfect response. Below, we shift to science for a brief moment.
The answer is funny, the mental image even funnier. Here's more:
Kudos to Peter:
This one makes more sense than what the actual answer most likely would:
Next, nice try, but maybe art school would be better?
Saving the best for last:
And finally, the simplest answer is not always the most correct. If correct at all.
That whirring noise is Pythagoras spinning in his grave. x=5 cm.
I thought last week it would be cool to take some pictures of icicles hanging off cars in Brooklyn.
Then I got an e-mail that humbled me.
Passing it on:
Thanks to Lee Bujold for the drop!
