Speaking Truth to Moral Adolescence

Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives.
For a nutshell account of Haidt’s work and its various detailed implications click here: Compromising with Moral Adolescence: A Losing Strategy

How big are we?

Not very as it were…
Hattip: Bad Astronomy Blog

Amusing: Windows XP Outshines Vista in Benchmarking Test

This made me chuckle, (I may have even chortled)

Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
New tests have revealed that Windows XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.
Vista’s first service pack, to be released early next year, is intended to boost the operating [...]

Zhelatin Worm; Botnet Spread to 10 Million PCs, Now Via Automated Blog Postings

ARS Technica tells us that the Zhelatin gang’s “Storm Worm” has now evolved way beyond spam and infected e-card greetings.
The “Zhelatin gang”—named after the trojan it installed—was responsible for what started out as the “storm worm.” First spotted earlier this year, the spread of the “storm worm” started via e-mails purporting to provide [...]

One Horsepower Car … Literally One Horse!

By way of idiocracy and AutoBlog: Politech Presents The … Fleethorse!

One Horsepower Car … Literally One Horse!

idiocracy is asking if this idea is serious or satire. PoliTech says it’s seriously stupid!
But funny!
Here is the site: FleetHorse.com

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License Launched

The latest version of the Creative Commons licenses — Version 3.0 — are now available. Read more here. Via: /. & BoingBoing.

Exposed: HD DVD and Blu-ray Processiong Keys for All HD Titles

I was following this discussion on Doom9 yesterday, where arnezami claims to have found the “processing key” used to decrypt the DRM on all HD DVD and Blu-Ray Disc films.
It looks like this is the real McCoy and the news is starting to get around…
arnezami claims to have found it by simply watching his [...]

Has your video been removed from YouTube based on a bogus Viacom takedown?

Unfairly Caught in Viacom’s Dragnet? Let the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) know!

Well, with its 100,000 DMCA takedown notices aimed at YouTube users, now it’s Viacom that is netting its share of dolphins. Among the 100,000 videos targeted for takedowns was a home movie shot in a BBQ joint, a film trailer [...]

Video: John Edwards Feeling Pretty

This is just too funny…

Hattip: RogerRmjet

Cancel or Allow?

This is the first MAC vs. PC advert that is actually pretty funny.

The PC Guy is just more likeable than the MAC Guy.
Hattip: YaBlog!

Add Video From LiveVideo.com to Your WordPress.com Blog

You can embed videos from livevideo.com

Well that is very cool.
Now that GooTube (Google Video/YouTube) has begun performing Censorship on an industrial scale it’s nice to have a video alternative.
Here are the “How-To” instructions…

Add Dailymotion Video to Your WordPress.com Blog

There was a petition for WordPress.com to add DailyMotion support, and here it is.
video of a Stirling cycle model engine …

Embedding instructions are here, you can also post to your WordPress.com blog directly from the DailyMotion player by using their “blog this video” feature.
Very Nice

Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy

50% movie piracy from Canada: Hollywood
As much as 50 per cent of the world’s pirated movies come from Canada, prompting the film industry to threaten to delay the release of new titles in this country.
According to an investigation by Twentieth Century Fox, most of the illegal recording, or “camcording,” is taking place in Montreal movie [...]

A Ballet of Molecular Machines

Via the Biosingularity Blog …

Video of RNAi in action

This superb video from Youtube explains the RNA interference mechanism that recently won the Nobel prize for its discovery. The original video is from the journal Nature.
RNA interference is a complex set of Cellular processes that converts a foreign piece of double-stranded RNA into a potent gene [...]

Video: Digital Waterfalls

This is really a cool display.

Hattip: BoingBoing

How to destroy your enemies with Web 2.0: A five step plan

A funny social hacking plan using Web 2.0 … courtesy of Vallywag
How to destroy your enemies with Web 2.0: A five-step plan

With the social tools at your disposal, you can propose to your girlfriend with a $25 ad spot or call your local pizza place to say hi. Sure, you can be friendly. But wouldn’t [...]

UNIQLO MIXPLAY

Click here to make your own UNIQLO MIXPLAY dance mix!

A Short Course in Brain Surgery

Read more here at On The Fence Films

Microsoft’s Zune Advertising Is Really Strange

This is a good example of what I like to refer to as “WTF??? Marketing”

Direct Brain Control of a Humanoid Robot

Researchers demonstrate direct brain control of humanoid robot

A classic science-fiction scene shows a person wearing a metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out to detect the person’s thoughts. Another sci-fi movie standard depicts robots doing humans’ bidding. Now the two are combined, and in real life: University of Washington researchers can control the movement of a [...]

HD-DVD copy protection defeated … for now

BoingBoing reader Gunther says,
On the doom9 forums there is news of a new tool to decrypt HDDVD’s. How you get the key is not yet clear but there is a promise to have a tool to get the needed key later. (check the #9 post in the thread): Link, and related coverage at the [...]

The Inner Life Of A Cell

Banned by GooTube

Well one of my GooTube uploaded videos has been relegated to the bit bucket. And I didn’t even get a “strongly worded letter” from the GooTube management.
All Americans should be free to express themselves in song! Satire is a form of political expression and speech such as this should be protected, never suppressed or censored! [...]

Sexual Consent Form

This is funny…

I saw this at Glumbert first.
Here is the Sexual Consent Form for those who wish to play along at home!

Futbal Ballet

Who doesn’t think that all sports officials are subconsciously just like this one?!

Futbal (AKA Soccer)… not to be confused with Football.
On topic for this site? No.
Funny? Yes!

Enjoying YouTube video while it lasts…

And so it Continues: YouTube Adds “Hate Speech” Flag To Its Videos

This is not good…Who defines “Hate Speech? Are we to depend on the “wisdom of the group” to regulate what “is” and “is not” appropriate speech? Browse Digg.com for a few minutes and let me know how you think it will go.

YouTube Adds “Hate Speech” Flag To Its Videos
Posted by Noel Sheppard on [...]

And so it begins: YouTube nukes 30,000 videos

YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 videos after being contacted by the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers.

And so it begins: YouTube nukes 30,000 videos
Long before Google swooped in to buy up YouTube there were questions about the video sharing site’s future. In particular, concerns relating to copyright infringement have persisted: can YouTube [...]

A photo of himself every day…

vallywag almost made me spray coffee all over my desk with this post…

A photo of himself every day — no really, you’ll like this one

Ahhh Internet in-jokes, how we love you

The recent popularity of “photo of me every day” projects (like the ones by Ahree Lee, Noah K, Jason, and others) inspired this clever video:
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Happy 45th Birthday Message

Video of a message machine … with a nice birthday message for Bob.

Interesting mix of technology here…