“The drink proven to burn calories – Enviga – hits the U.S. market” I’m too lazy to type or even copy the long-length claim from Coca-Cola so you can read the press release yourself. The drink contains calcium, caffeine, and green tea extracts (which apprently contains the calorie burning ingredient). I drank a can of [...]

If you really want to feel nano, here’s an illustration to make you feel nano … Or from Nikon, a flash movie showing you in a scale our Milky Way to an atom. There’s music & the narration which you might want to turn down & off and wait out the opening intro – then [...]

Today’s NanoPhoto instantly makes sense once you know what it is… Velcro! Yep. Otherwise known as hook-and-loop material (sans copyright) and it is very interesting to see at the nano-level exactly how this wonder material works. Of course there is always duct tape which should be placed in every boy’s crib at birth. You can [...]

If you knew about widgets before Konfabulator was sucked into the Yahoo vortex, bonus points for you! If you are new to the game, it is not too late to enjoy the benefits of setting up widgets on your home page. For example, do you find yourself logging into Flickr and then opening up another [...]

Dude! Believe it or not, this sucka is a wood tick! It’s a good thing that God has a sense of humor or he would have made these Kong sized.

Showtime’s Tudors is coming in a couple of days and it looks great so far – heaving bosoms, disrobing (for both teams) – some jostling, beheading and even some naked sweaty wrestling (alas, it’s two guys) but everything is brightly lit – highly recommended … but hey, the thing hasn’t actually aired yet … how [...]

Das a small boot! This small submarine is 4 millimeters long and about 65 millimeters in diameter. Freaking small. This photo was magnified 17x. Precursors to these little dudes being injected into your body, preprogrammed, to fight viruses? Let’s hope so (and hope that Putin doesn’t shift his attention to nanotech). Yesterday’s NanoPhoto of the [...]

How about 7,300 frames a second? Phantom High-Speed Cameras – they are not kidding around – amazing stuff – you turning a key is suddenly all cool and artistic. All the videos are cool – my personal favorite – the car explosion.

This will be an on-going series on how you can make up your film school education just by watching DVD’s. I’m going to randomly declare 1967 as the cut-off point between the “classic” age of the studio system and the beginning of the “modern” age of film-making. Of course, the studio system was already pretty [...]

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