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JENGA! ! ! !

take a block from the bottom and you put it on top

You know what's fun? Jenga...everybody likes Jenga

Between this, the Jenga pistol and the world's fattest monkey, I'd say Videosift's back on track.

Some one needs to play more Jenga...

This is beautiful but scary. A little too much form, and not enough function. 60 stories @ 14' makes this over 800'. I highly doubt this design tested well in a wind tunnel... good thing NYC doesn't get typhoons or tornadoes.

Even Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (pivotal example of cantilever design) is only 2 floors tall and even it had to have a steel support beam added years later otherwise the porch would have fallen into the creek... I'm sure building materials are better these days, but contractors are always cutting corners...

The jenga description is perfect though, just a question of when it'll collapse. I give it 40-50 years. (or much sooner should a suicide bomber strapped with C4 be taking a tour of one of the apartments on the lower floors...) But then again the security better be pretty damn tight if your apt is between $3.5 million and $33 million...

google maps location of the building here . Be sure to check street view.

Also, they'll probably enact a tenant agreement saying that residents can only buy Apple computers

lots of information and floorplans here - http://www.56leonardtribeca.com
site photo from october here , somehow I doubt they'll finish by 2010...

Looks like a giant game of jenga.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Clumsy-Reporter

Sorry brother. Don't feel bad; I duped it too.

It's a toss-up between this one and JENGA for greatest ESPN commercial of all-time!

Sorry ma, but this is a dupe:

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Clumsy-Reporter

*Discard. Sorry. About two months ago or so I duped it too, if it makes you feel any better.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Clumsy-Reporter-Knocks-Down-World-Record-Jenga-Tower

>> ^firefly:
it's here already
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Clumsy-Reporter
though KP's is slightly longer.

*discuss

Mine is 1:12 run time, hellbender's is 45 seconds. Is that enough of a difference for me to keep it, or should it be * discarded as a dupe? I'd like to hear from all of you. I place its fate in your hands, my sifting brethren and sistren. If it must die then I'd rather kill it now before it gets more votes.

http://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/28/clumsy-reporter-jenga-tower-hilarity/

Check that out, it's sorta become a ritual for him.

In reply to this comment by rychan:
Where in that page did he acknowledge that it was staged? I'm not doubting that it is, but I couldn't find it.

This was acknowledged as staged by the builder himself.

http://faculty.nmu.edu/ims/jenga.htm

Thank you for the congrats on the star. Unless it turns into the glaive from Krull it will be the same as bronze...but who doesn't love a promotion!

Haha, nice attempt at deflecting the real issue with the types of comments you make and the manner you make them in. In psychology this is what's called a classic case of projection, and quite a passively aggressive one as well.

My comments are what they are. I'm not reacting to the submitter, I'm reacting to the content of the sift and how it "moved" me. Sometimes I go in depth...other times I'd rather lay down a one-liner if it's going to be another Obamorgy. I've perhaps not made it clear enough that when sifters want to argue (in the friendly, debate-sense, not angrily) they're welcome to stop by and elaborate their position. A few have.

Projection is a confusion of self and other that results from attributing to the outside something that is truly self. An example of healthy projection is art. Pathological projection results from not being aware of and accepting responsibility for that which is projected.

I wouldn't consider your comments so important as to actually affect someone in their personal life beyond minor annoyance and pity.

I'm thinking about the psychological makeup of the submitter. Let's go inside their head: they've just posted yet another lopsided fake newsman like Colbert or Maher or the despicable Keef Overbite, bashing Bush or criticizing the war in unproductive fashion. The same 5-10 kudos arrive and everyone's in agreement.

Then, a qm/shroomy/ post.

Mind you, by the time I stop by our hypothetical sift usually has 20 or more upvotes and is in no danger of falling, it's already one for the Archives.

So I drop a one-liner, or call Olbermann Olbyloon, and suddenly the whole Jenga falls to pieces. Do people jump out of buildings? No. But they probably frown or shake their heads in disgust. I've made people I don't even know less happy. Who's wrong or right is irrelevant.

So it dawns on me "recently", why spoil it for others? They're letting off steam and for the most part, they're in agreement. Why ruin it?

Where we disagree is the emotion behind the words. I would hazard maybe a third of the liberal sifters really do have an absolute hatred of Bush that borders on psychotic and a great many atheists around here are quite militant.

Liberals take their worldview very, very seriously, to the point there are no other valid points of view. So, I says to myself, I says, even if you're trying to "educate" among the fun-poking, none of these people signed up to hear from you. And so I says to myself, "Self, you're right."

And that's where we are today. I don't expect anyone after these few comments to even bother. Another month and no one will know I was there. There's enough music and tech and stuff not to bother with election '08 and beyond.

I'm still around and my views remain the same. But just as I wouldn't walk around Target or the (hated) Wal-mart telling strangers what I think of Bush or Colbert, now it has its place. That's all.

simple physics... how else is it supposed to fall?
nothing's pushing it sideways, and it isn't stiff enough to stay in one piece past a certain angle of leaning, and the impact was not at the bottom. i have no idea why people expect it to fall any way except "straight down".

This is not Jenga.

What i don't understand is how the core disintegrated so completely, but the reason i don't understand that is probably because i am not a structural engineer. However, you can't rule out the possibility of a classified material being used by the government, they do have secret weapons you know, that's a fact.

So you're arguing about inconclusive bullshit, and meanwhile neither George Bush nor Tony Blair is in the Hague on trial for his life, for starting an illegal and catastrophic humanitarian disaster. So, guess what, they win.

"take a block from the bottom and put it on top... JENGA!"