Tonight's dating site video bio:
(By the way, it's a spoof). :)
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Thunderstorms
Tonight's time-lapse video, from the Hector Thunderstorm Project in Northern Australia:
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Lip dub
Tonight's musical interlude lib-dub, from Grand Rapids, MI:
From the video's description:
From the video's description:
"The Grand Rapids LipDub Video was filmed May 22nd, with 5,000 people, and involved a major shutdown of downtown Grand Rapids, which was filled with marching bands, parades, weddings, motorcades, bridges on fire, and helicopter take offs. It is the largest and longest LipDub video, to date.
This video was created as an official response to the Newsweek article calling Grand Rapids a "dying city." We disagreed strongly, and wanted to create a video that encompasses the passion and energy we all feel is growing exponentially, in this great city. We felt Don McLean's "American Pie," a song about death, was in the end, triumphant and filled to the brim with life and hope." - Rob Bliss, Director & Executive Producer
*Note: The "NEW WORLD RECORD" designation refers to size and scope, not duration. Storyboards and concept art by Greg Oberle. ...
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Automotive long jump
Tonight's car jump - from the video's description:
The Yellow Driver of Team Hot Wheels breaks the world record for distance jump in a four-wheeled vehicle at the Indianapolis 500 on May 29th 2011. Watch as the Yellow Driver, Tanner Foust, drops 10 stories down 90 feet of orange track and soars 332 feet through the air. ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Miniature race
Tonight's not-your-average-RC-toy video - from the 2008 1/10th TV world RC car championship, from Bangkok Thailand. These little cars are fast!
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
It's kind of like Capture the Flag
Tonight's asian twist on capture the flag, except the objective seems to be to tear the flagpole down:
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Lifeguard, Elephant Edition
Tonight's it's-not-exactly-Baywatch video - female elephants rescue a baby elephant from a watering hole in Africa:
Sunday, June 12, 2011
The Domino Domino Effect
Tonight's domino effect - domino shapes made of dominos do what dominoes do:
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Takeoff
Tonight's airport video - time-lapse of planes taking off from Boston's Logan airport - about an hour and 10 minutes of elapsed time, compressed into less than 3 minutes:
Friday, June 10, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
sings 
:Four myths about the Crusades
Today's myth-debunking:
In 2001, former president Bill Clinton delivered a speech at Georgetown University in which he discussed the West’s response to the recent terrorist attacks of September 11. The speech contained a short but significant reference to the crusades. Mr. Clinton observed that “when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem [in 1099], they . . . proceeded to kill every woman and child who was Muslim on the Temple Mount.” He cited the “contemporaneous descriptions of the event” as describing “soldiers walking on the Temple Mount . . . with blood running up to their knees.” This story, Mr. Clinton said emphatically, was “still being told today in the Middle East and we are still paying for it.”Read the whole thing here.
This view of the crusades is not unusual. It pervades textbooks as well as popular literature. One otherwise generally reliable Western civilization textbook claims that “the Crusades fused three characteristic medieval impulses: piety, pugnacity, and greed. All three were essential.”1 The film Kingdom of Heaven (2005) depicts crusaders as boorish bigots, the best of whom were torn between remorse for their excesses and lust to continue them. Even the historical supplements for role-playing games—drawing on supposedly more reliable sources—contain statements such as “The soldiers of the First Crusade appeared basically without warning, storming into the Holy Land with the avowed—literally—task of slaughtering unbelievers”;2 “The Crusades were an early sort of imperialism”;3 and “Confrontation with Islam gave birth to a period of religious fanaticism that spawned the terrible Inquisition and the religious wars that ravaged Europe during the Elizabethan era.”4 The most famous semipopular historian of the crusades, Sir Steven Runciman, ended his three volumes of magnificent prose with the judgment that the crusades were “nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which is the sin against the Holy Ghost.”5
The verdict seems unanimous. From presidential speeches to role-playing games, the crusades are depicted as a deplorably violent episode in which thuggish Westerners trundled off, unprovoked, to murder and pillage peace-loving, sophisticated Muslims, laying down patterns of outrageous oppression that would be repeated throughout subsequent history. In many corners of the Western world today, this view is too commonplace and apparently obvious even to be challenged.
But unanimity is not a guarantee of accuracy. What everyone “knows” about the crusades may not, in fact, be true. From the many popular notions about the crusades, let us pick four and see if they bear close examination. ...
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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