In The Know: Are America’s Rich Falling Behind The Super-Rich? | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Panelists discuss a new study showing the gap between the wealthy and the absurdly wealthy is widening, and how we can help the merely rich catch up. The Onion spoofs the left/right argumentative TV on the woes of the Rich versus the Uber Rich.
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Steve Bass’s Tips & Tweaks Outer Space Apps and Sites
For the last couple of days, I’ve had some fun exploring Google Sky and satellite videos. In the last of a series, here are some free tools and sites you can use to expand your knowledge of outer space.If you’re interested in tracking satellites and poking around in outer space (and haven’t had your fill with Google Sky), here are some programs and sites you might want to look at: Click on the Steve Bass link. Also check-out the 2 previous links on his page on Google Sky and Balloon pictures. You can also click on the picture and then on the video, from which this picture was taken.
Tornado of Starlings
Adam Brown writes…This is a crazy google video on starlings coming into roost at dusk…they make some incredible formations. It gets really good at three minutes in…..
Block YouTube Ads
TubeStop :: Now I Have a Blog Too
Now that Google is trying to generate money from YouTube with embedded ads, you can stop them with this plug0in for Mozilla’s FireFox Browser. TubeStop simply swaps out the site-based player for the embedded player, the ad-blocking feature is really just a happy coincidence. TubeStop is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that disables the autoplay on YouTube videos. This means that you can open multiple YouTube videos in tabs in the background without them all starting to play at once. TubeStop also disables the autoplay on YouTube videos embedded on non-YouTube.com sites (MySpace, for example).
Video: Postcards of Secrets
Frank Warren has been requesting postcards from strangers confessing their secrets. Instead of going to a priest in a confessional, these postcards express the need to anonymously expunge those guilty feelings. Here is a 4 minute video composite of some of the more artful/powerful ones.
Video – 1920 Daytona Motorcyle Race
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Vintage film of boardtrack racing with motorcycles — teens to 1920’s. Boardtracks were wooden tracks built in the early 1900’s that were abondoned or dismantled after serious weathering caused the death of riders and even spectators. Cars also raced on the boardtracks. Thanks to Vincent racer Carlton Palmer.
Optical Illusion of a Castle
CNN just featured this year-old video, with no scary pop-ups, just how your eyes can play tricks with you.
Skateboarder’s X-treme Fall
It still makes him feel like a kid – Los Angeles Times
Skateboarder Jake Brown, whose 45-foot free-fall Thursday night brought a hush to the crowd at Staples Center, remains hospitalized after suffering bruises of the liver and lung, stress fractures in his vertebrae and a small fracture on the top of one hand.
He also suffered a mild concussion and could not immediately remember performing a 720-degree spin across the 70-foot gap leading to the quarterpipe — the first time that maneuver has been accomplished in competition.
Brown, 32, who was injured during the big air competition on the mega-ramp during a silver medalist performance, is expected to be released from the hospital today or Sunday and make a full recovery. Thanks to Randy Marks. Continue reading “Skateboarder’s X-treme Fall”
Bird does the MoonWalk
This is a red-capped manikin, apparently from Belize. Now we know where Michael Jacskon learned his moves. Thanks Natalia for this version. There have been quite a few over the last year.
171 Starbucks in 20 hours
Mark Malkoff Takes the Starbucks Challenge .:. Watch the Video!
On the day that Starbucks raised prices the Today Show featured this guy on his bicycle, who had a coffee at 171 Starbucks stores in 20 hours and filmed it. He didn’t include the 17 bathroom stops.