Great Olympic moments on YouTube
One of the best ways to watch the Olympics is to chase down all the references made by NBC’s commentators on YouTube and watch them in addition to (or instead of) the regular telecast. Here are some of the ones I’ve found.
Yep. Still funny.
Slow-motion lightning.
Oh, ratfarts, that’s cool.
(In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron. Lee Trevino)
If you stress glass in that way, it does tend to make it more susceptible to breaking.
I’m allergic to most cats, and especially sensitive to the behavior near the end of the clip.
via Wanderings
“Eddies,” said Ford, “in the space-time continuum.”
“Ah,” nodded Arthur, “is he. Is he.”
This time, though, Eddies in the penny. And he enforces Lenz’s law.
You can see a similar effect if you drop a magnet down a copper pipe, because the eddy currents will flow, and the induced field is such that it opposes the acceleration, so you get braking.
If you want to be more practical, instead of moving the magnet you could move the copper around, cyclically, and tap into the current that would flow. Just a thought.
DelFly Micro Air Vehicle Weighs Just Three Grams
The ‘dragonfly’ has a tiny camera (about 0.5 grams) on board that transmits its signals to a ground station. With software developed by TU Delft itself, objects can then be recognised independently. The camera transmits TV quality images, and therefore allows the DelFly II to be operated from the computer. It can be manoeuvred using a joystick as if the operator was actually in the cockpit of the aircraft. The aim is to be able to do this with the DelFly Micro too.
Here’s the DelFly II
And the Micro, which can be hard to follow
Rockin’ with the Muppets on Sesame Street
Feist, counting to four
R.E.M. singing “Furry Happy Monsters”
via Madam Lamb
Western Spaghetti. Neat stop-action stuff.
via Madame Lamb