I’ve been everywhere [Video]
I found this to be the best way to get to know of Australian town names – listen to one of the giants of Australian folk music, Lucky Starr performing “I’ve been everywhere“. And here’s a lyrical list of the towns he says he’s been to.
Henry the fiddler [Video]
John Walkenbach (yeah, him of the Excel Bible series), posts some superb links of musicians (& you thought all Excel users were geeks?). You won’t see Henry the Fiddler being touted as the next big thing, but watch this man play the violin & feel the hair on the back of your neck stand on end. Incredible!
What to do with a little space [video]
Graham Hill has 8 rooms in his tiny 420sqft apartment in New York. Let him take you on a 5min tour of his small house – and be inspired by the incredible functionality that can be built into even the smallest of spaces.
This space is yours too [Video]
In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. The tour includes scenes of each of the station’s modules and research facilities with a running narrative by Williams of the work that has taken place and which is ongoing aboard the orbital outpost.
Born to rule – the chasm between the rich and everyone else [article]
Dedication…[old but inspiring news article]
Un-natural wonders of the world…[pictures]
Should you be merciful towards robots? [Article]
More & more robots are getting into mainstream work, replacing humans at a fraction of the cost – an industrialist’s dream come true. They’re also becoming more human-like in their appearances, as Scott Adams points out, and asks the question: ‘Who has the right to kill a robot?’ But more importantly, as this other article about a 2007 research discovers, the way humans relate to ‘human-like’ machines is changing too – discover how
A psychic experience [Video]
All I will say is watch this video: for your own online & offline life’s sake.. and do something about it.