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A new take on an old classic… The Ghostbusters theme (which is awesome!!) played using a singing tesla coil!

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A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.

Engineer:  What’s with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!

Doctor:   I don’t know but I’ve never seen such ineptitude!

Priest:   Hey, here comes the greenskeeper. Let’s have a word with him.

Priest:   Hi George. Say George, what’s with that group ahead of us? They’re rather slow aren’t they?

George:  Oh yes. That’s a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight while saving our club house last year. So we let them play here anytime free of charge!

(silence)

Priest:  That’s so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight.

Doctor:  Good idea. And I’m going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there’s anything he can do for them.

Engineer:  Why can’t these guys play at night?

This is a really cool Transformers inspired Mac vs PC short.  Someone did a fantastic job.

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Really cool invention where the author cut out a section from an opened up harddrive and mounted timed LEDs under the disk.

When the disk spins he can control the timing of the LED flashes to create various clocks and color patterns.

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For those who don’t know who or WHAT a guido is, urban dictionary defines it as:

The Guido is an entirely American phenomena, with its epicenter in the New York/ New Jersey metropolitan area. Although most of its examples are of Italian-American descent, many times other non-descript Caucasians will follow suit in an attempt to achieve an identity- in fact any identity. The Guido is highly recognizable by his attention to muscular development, status symbols, and regional dialect. Guidos are fortunate in that they usually tend to be loyal to their heritage and cultures. However, their interpretation of the Italian culture is unique to Americans. They fall sorrily short when attempting to emulate the sophistication of European-born men. In fact, their shortcomings include a tendency toward alcoholism, legal problems (usually related to assault, reckless driving, noise violations), and an inability to compete in legitimate business. Fortunately for them, they usually live an exciting, care-free existence. They are easily satiated by tacky mall attire, drunken nights with similar-minded women, and nightclubbing in the lesser desired beach towns such as Seaside Heights, New Jersey. In the end, although they maintain a unique sense of identity and pride, their superficial lives often leave them empty. The tolls of excessive grooming products, STDs, and alcohol abuse age these specimens quite poorly. The time spent in fitness clubs is usually far offset by their lifestyle choices.

“Although he spends all his time in the gym and dancing in the clubs, that Guido will soon be a burned out alcoholic working a thankless job, living alone in his one-bedroom apartment in North Jersey”

Now that we have that out of the way, below is a pretty funny and somewhat sad video called Guido beach where the camera man basically rolls around interviewing different Guidos and Guidettes.

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Most ridiculious line ever written, and then spoken, in any CSI, EVER. Read more…

Incredibly accurate vid illustrating eCommerce and other functions we take for granted now… only catch is, this video was created 41 years ago!

This is probably one of my favorite clips on this site.

The official blurb:

Clip from the 1967 film 1999 A.D. in which we see the family of the future shopping, paying bills and using electronic mail from home.

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Sweet video showing how to take apart a CB radio and implement a crystal from a toaster to gain access to the frequency Taco Bell uses to manage the drive through requests.

31337 phreaks!

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This sphere is made of an abstract elastic material… it can stretch, bend and pass through itself.  You cannot rip or punchture this material without destroying it.. AND you cannot crease it or bend it sharply…

So, how do you do it?

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Made with wood and marbles.  This is an ingenious way to explain how binary numbers are created.

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AKA, the first “Female” robot.  Check out this robot’s strut.  Geeze.

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College Humor did a fantastic job with this sketch.  The premise is the show 24 set in 1994.  Awesome.

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Another musical one for ya.  This time it’s the infamous theme song from Super Mario Brothers played by TWO Tesla Coils.  Here is an additional blurb of info regarding this clip:

Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI.
The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software. These coils were constructed by Steve Ward and Jeff Larson. Video was captured by Terry Blake. What is not obvious is how loud the coils are. They are well over 110dB.

And now the vid…

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Half of this hard drive is covered by a clear plastic case and it allows you to see the HD as it works. Check out he speed at which the disk spins… It’s amazing how the arm is able to accurately switch to specific bands within fractions of a second.

This is George Hotz… a 17 year old savage who hacked the iPhone and unlock it, which means you can use it with any network.

This kid is a brain and an animal… and sorta laughs like a little girl

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Sorta stupid… sorta funny… fun though!

I wish this was how it went down @ my work.

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Earth! Fire! Wind! Water! Heart!

Addiction! Fanboyism! Idiocy! Marketing! Stagnation!

WHEN YOUR POWERS COMBINE, I AM CAPTAIN PLANET JACKASS!

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This is a cool elevator hack but I should warn that it doesn’t apply to ALL elevators. Basically what happens is when you put the elevator in “express mode” it will goto the floor you want without making any other stops. So for example if you are on floor 1 and want to goto floor 55, you hit the 55 button, hold down Door Close for a few sec and the elevator should zoom up there without stopping for anyone else.

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hehehe… this is a cool way to eat your Pi(e)!

Someone took the liberty to make a Pie plate with the Pi symbol on it.  There are many layers of humor here… as you probably know, pi (3.41) is the ratio between a circle’s circumference (around it) to it’s diameter (across) so putting the numbers around the plate is pretty witty imo.

Nice!

Read the caption on this image… if you don’t understand the humor then you are not geeky enough and you need to upgrade your pocket protector with the latest Mega Protector 9000.

And the caption says:

Hello dear,

I found the disk you were so frantically looking for yesterday.

OK, OK…. I won’t leave you out, basically a diskette is made from a piece of plastic with iron oxide on it. Iron oxide is a ferromagnetic material which just means if you expose it to a magnetic field, it will stay permanently magnetized. And yes, i did say ferromagnetic.

So when you save something on a disk what happens is little particles of that iron oxide are magnetized to indicate if it represents a 1 or a 0. Binary!

This nice lady just put a magnet on her husband’s disk — which he had been frantically searching for — and most likely scrambled everything on that disk. Oops!