Brian Nahas

An exploding banana mask. The mad-genius work of one William Lamson.

The IEEE spectrum website has an eye-opening video on the cutting edge of upper-limb prosthetics that is worth a moment of your time. The latest arm from Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, looks eerily like one from a Terminator. I suspect they are still pretty limited by the bio-interface and battery technology, but it’s just a matter of time.

A great demonstration of emerging technology in image processing and rendering. You’ll find this video interesting even if you’re not technically oriented.

This video is a little long and of poor quality, but the confrontation that is captured is fantastic. Well worth your time if you enjoy nature footage.

If we can’t take the time out of our lives to stay a moment and listen to one of the best musicians on Earth play some of the best music ever written; if the surge of modern life so overpowers us that we are deaf and blind to something like that — then what else are we missing?

Pearls Before Breakfast is a fascinating article from the Washington Post about a simple social experiment in the subways of Washington D.C. The embedded videos, vividly illustrating what people walked past, make it all the better.

Like the general public, I was under the impression that the Enron debacle was caused by a collection of executives who knowingly withheld vital information from their investors. Turns out that wasn’t the case. Everything about their schemes was publicly available, it’s just that there was so much information available that no one bothered to really look and see what they were doing until it was too late. A great article on Enron in “The New Yorker” brought this to my attention.

A pretty amazing astronomy picture of the day from NASA. At first glance, you’ll wonder what this has to do with Astronomy, but if you look closely at the middle of the picture, you’ll notice the Comet McNaught.

…it’s the size of the bird kicking the dog’s ass (Okay, technically a fox in this case). Swiped from Tarsiger.com via When Eagles Go Bad.

The narrator is rather grating, so I’d hit mute if I were you, but the video itself is rather fascinating.

“Yip yip yip.” “Moooooooo!” “Brrrrrrrring!” Classic.