Great quote; small quibble:

The police are BOTH undermining the public's safety AND securing it. A society without any police is far less secure than one even with a really bad police force. The power we currently give police officers allows them to be abusive and undermine security. We can reel in their power so they're less able to undermine security, and do it in such a way that they're still empowered to enforce security.

I did wonder if it was a viral for Spalding, but yeah, the stuff at the end suggests it's more a demo-reel.

Back when he was trying to reel the tree in I thought he was about to invent the kitty catapult.

Personally I'd have liked this more if it were a supercut of films with basketballs already in them that bounced from scene-to-scene. Given the quality of it though I imagine this is someone's demo-reel for VFX, and even if I didn't enjoy it in the way I expected, I'll upvote for how well done it was.

I did tape scratching in the 90s a lot, with modified reel to reel machine. The technique i used is harder, doesn't differ from vinyl scratching a lot (except in mine, i didn't cut the audio with fader but lifting the tape head from tape. THe end result surprised me, didn't expect it to work as at that point, had no knowledge of anyone ever using that (now i of course know that i was actually late..) It is a lot like vinyl, you still need to keep manually rotating the reels, working with the tape motor, needing to hit hits precisely without actually seeing where they are (easier with reel but there's a lot of tape in that reel and manually rotating against the motor and motion, makes the tape tighten so you can't use marks on the reels either...) Plus few handy effect like taking both reels and just turning them opposite directions, making the tape sits still but stretching, making all kinds of nice screeching sounds as the vibrations from the reel and the tape are heard, not the audio material on tape...)

Next i'm thinking of refitting old 5,4" floppy disk with analog tape head and maybe drawing the recordings on to to it, attaching the tape head to the end of my index finger.. Then i could get even closer to vinyl as there is something interesting on rotating sound sources.. Mainly it is the recording part that makes tape scratching interesting, taking a scratch sample, scratching it, resampling it again, using signal generators, designing harmonics etc.. Maybe that's next for me, using one hand to record and the other to play back.

Refreshing to see a highlights reel that's not about the crashes (though I love those too).

I am often befuddled by the logic of what's allowed and what's not, and the seemingly arbitrary choice of same by different TSA employees... The cane that Ms. Robotcow is holding in the opening sequence looks like it might be able to inflict some serious damage by anyone skilled in the art of baseball. On a flight to Canada three weeks ago, we were not allowed to carry on a short (fits in the measuring device) 4 piece fishing rod with spinning reel attached, in a soft sided, zippered travel bag. Seemed they thought it could be weaponized. Thankfully, our driver was close enough to retrieve the offending package and take it back home. Oddly, on the return to USA, my fingernail clippers were confiscated as they had a fold out file - these were just good old Walgreen's, have carried them for 7 years and approx. 100 flights. I could do more damage with a key, a pen, a plastic knife or a wooden pencil. I also carry a beautiful blue machined aluminum pen/kubaton from Smith & Wesson, which is pointy, but hey, it's just a pen. I do give the TSA high marks for consistency in the application of inconsistent policies. Well done everybody.

I think both advices are terrible simply because they are very generalized and too unspecific. Sure, they're simple messages that sound uplifting and make sense at first glance but the same could be said about my horoscope in the daily newspaper.
Somebody surely told Rebecca Black to follow her dreams and the same must been told to all the casting show rejects that sucked hard enough to be put on the gag reel that makes up most of the ridiculing-others-part at the beginning of each season.
On the other hand I'm sure Bill Gates could've been a wonderful elderly care nurse but I prefer him super rich and very charitable. The same goes for topathletes and moviestars that spend bazillion dollars and their PR forces on charity.

Without sufficient data any advice except the really obvious ones (Don't eat spoiled food!) are nothing but a coin toss. You don't know if you need heads or tails until that coin has landed for good.
Jim's dad didn't follow his dreams and now we may have missed out on a great comedian. Hitler did and now we wish he hadn't. Who's got the last laugh now?
Godwin, that's who.

Five/5 Fun Facts about TETRIS (Shack Reels) has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.

Great wings show reel if you haven't seen it yet http://vimeo.com/89526883

Well, that was kind of my point, though maybe you didn't take it that way.

The Akira film wasn't even faithful to the Manga, and even then it is still a really amazing piece of cinema. All this seems to be is a rehash of the animated film. It does nothing different or innovative.

The only time I think I would accept an Akira live action is if their little demo reel was a few scenes done in SUCH an inventive way that it completely took the story from 90-degrees from the left. Just wholly unexpected, but something you would watch and think "I recognize what scene this is, but I never even imagined envisioning it that way. That is fucking genius".

This was not genius. Most of this was hardly even on par with my College student films. I will agree with @chingalera that it's probably moderately better than anything hollywood would turn out, but I also don't think that's hard to do.

Though some may be real, I'm pretty sure most of these are fakes. Fun fakes during an era where making blooper reels was a religion.

This project was inspired by *related=http://videosift.com/video/Universal-Capture-System-UCap-Reel

Universal Capture System (UCap) Reel has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash.

"It's five sigma at point two". Now I know how to impress physicist chicks.

In actuality, I'm reeling at this discovery. Finally, solid evidence of gravitational waves and basically staring at the Big Bang. Astrophysics is advancing so fast these days.