Web: A Parody of 24

I must be officially old when people start to reminisce about life and technologies in the 1990's as they do in this Engadget Blog Posting.

Spin the clock back another 15 or 20 years and now you have a television show with no cell phones, pagers, or even personal computers and it would be doubtful anything could be done in 24 hours. Roll the clock back just a bit more, and the show would be called, The Wild Wild West.

Web: Time lapse movies

Carl Backstrom's Blog mentioned a cool video of a trip from LA to NY taken with time-lapse photography. But the link to the movie from that site seemed to take too long to download. So I found a better source here. The mount did not seem to drift at all. It is also pretty interesting that nobody tried to steal the camera from the back of that convertible (or maybe any attempts were edited out). Someday, or more likely some might, I might drive from one end of Interstate 80 to the other.

This blog collection of time lapse videos has several other interesting clips as well. I particularly enjoyed anything that included San Francisco, of course, along with the aurora displays. The video of A Year in Antarctica was educational and entertaining.

Web: 21st Century Schoolhouse Rock

... or maybe it's trance / house with a shade of David Byrne, but

Vitamins are Good for You

Wonder if there's a video for this.

Web: Backyard Bellagio

Two guys show what happens when you mix Diet Coke and Mentos.
Thanks to ex-talk.bizarre contributor bc for passing this out along with other neat finds.

Web: Belated Happy Easter

Work and other commitments have kept me busy this week. Posted my Friday movie reviews on Monday and may not get around to my Amazing Race reviews until Saturday. So I'll continue the trend of being 3 days late by pointing you to a (cartoonishly violent but) funny video.

Also, here's a photo of two recently hatched Canada gosling and parents lounging at the Oracle pond.

Web: A couple of funny sites

I usually discourage "chain e-mail" from my friends and relatives. They usually take on the form of old jokes, urban legends, actual chain mail that says I'll have bad luck if I don't forward the message to several other people, or even stale parodies of urban legends about the ill fates of people who do not forward chain mail. I'd almost like to think I've seen it all by now. But every so often a new joke (to me anyway) actually does appear. Plus it's nice when the e-mail does not have some huge dubious attachment and only contains a safe URL to some web site that is not infested with ad-filled pop ups (particularly with content considered NSFW).

Not sure how long this has been floating around the Internet, but this is a pretty interesting test for people who write software or hang around people who do.
Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer

If you score pretty low, you may have to start wondering of over-exposure to programmers is leaving you with a false sense of security.

Here's a (homemade?) video of a woman and a car.

Speaking of videos. If you know how to search the Internet, there are a couple of entertaining rap videos from recent Saturday Night Live episodes popping in and out of existence online. One features Natalie Portman (maybe channelling the grown up version of the character she played in The Professional).