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Friday Five: 12/9/11

Tod — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:16:13 +0000

Time-lapse traffic in Vietnam

Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam from Rob Whitworth on Vimeo.

Compare this to the time-lapse traffic footage from New York in Koyaanisqatsi and look at how organic and chaotic this is. Beautiful.

Black Friday Prank

Two guys make blind lists for each other and take them to Target to ask the employees for help finding the made up items. Turtle Mix? Mormon Disco Ball?

10 quick science tricks for parties!

You know… if you go to nerd parties…. like I do!

Scratch-built Lego farm equipment

This kid scratch built all the equipment on his farm out of Lego. Not only are they to scale, but this kid now knows how all the machines on his farm work. There’s a lot of talky talking in this video, but skip around to see the models.

NES Controller for etch-a-sketch

Handy for making those pesky diagonals.

Ripped and reposted 1000 times.

Tod — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:30:26 +0000

This is amazing. This guy uploaded a video to Youtube, ripped it from Youtube and then reloaded it 1,000. Like photocopying a photocopy of a photocopy etc etc. The degradation is really cool

1,000 times

The halfway point 50;0

100 times

the original video

Diet Coke and Mentos Rocket Car

Tod — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:30:20 +0000

The guys at Eepybird are at it again. expect to see this on Mythbusters within the year.

Fun with balloons and Dyson Air Multiplier fans

Tod — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:30:47 +0000

It’s like a giant particle accelerator. Fun!

every infomercial fail.

Tod — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:04:03 +0000

or at least a lot of them.

webcam video

Tod — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:00:33 +0000

“Hibi no Neiro” (Tone of everyday) by Sour. what an amazing coordinated effort.

weed milk

Tod — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:53:26 +0000

weed+milk=science

Crazy cool and intricate analog wave sculptures

Tod — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:33:13 +0000

Maker Profile: Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area artist

Milk and Cookies

human popcorn machine

Tod — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:53:03 +0000

the trick at the very end is awesome.

Un cracheur de feu fait du popcorn – Koreus

via Andy’s Blog

Chi-City man disputes a traffic ticket

Tod — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:44:07 +0000

The RC cop car cracked me up.