>>"I've never seen a cat willing to do all these tricks. I thought they were above it all."

maybe it's a stupid cat :-/

after a long and hard battle the kids were gone, the sidewalks were clean

and then the graffiti crew moved in

I once had the "pleasure" of attending an event which supposedly warranted this kind of performance for the audience. I ordered a gin tonic and would have preferred a quick walk back to the music desk where i was originating from.

The dude took so long he was still juggling when the track went out.

The gin-tonics afterwards were nice though.
I'm sure the tips were nice, too.

In reply to this comment by messenger:
Why is this on the TED stage? I saw neither an idea nor anything worth spreading. Mixing beats on the fly is nothing new. The guy's got talent, but again, why is this on TED? I don't think this would even be siftworthy if he weren't standing in front of those big red letters.


The problem you seem to have with the entire TED thing is that it does not imply a certain "minimum standard". If you think about that concept for a while you will probably start to recognize how damaging that concept can be to "ideas worth spreading".

TED is a show- do not take it for its name or "status" but enjoy the stuff that you find interesting on it. It is an industrial and political plaything- you should be aware of it. There's just as many clever people all around you. But this is the internet. That doesn't diminish the stuff you can draw from it while it lasts.

That being said I understand your sentiment ;-)

HIGH ON 100% WHEAT FLOUR

/that being said I know a portion of people who had been promised such a kind of device for use in 3rd world countries, but for whatever silly reason it took like another 20 years and even then the process from lab-ready to mass-production is bound to take another 20- still... SCIENCE

My question then: can anybody provide a video/image-link to a "proper" super-hero landing?
Let's say the conditions are as follows:

A) you need to be mobile afterwards
B) you are holding a potentially breakable/stabby/shooty device
OPTIONAL C) You are jumping/falling from a certain height

Try to give conditions for that landing to succeed for bonus points. Let's also say bonus points for style.

I immediately get a image of parcour-style stuff...

>> ^VoodooV:

[...] but it just bugs me that we'll listen to someone like him and not someone who has actually done the research.


Think about it- the job of the scientist is not necessarily to sell an idea- it is a to find it- likewise, the job of a politician should be to deal with the formalities (legal consequences, society framework) of said idea.
The job of a "POP-STAR" should hence theoretically be as a archetype citizen, i.e. to focus support/interest and ideally "playtest" or introduce models/ideas for society (that is why we are interested in them).

That is how it is supposed to work in a confetti unicorn way- something, we often forget.

As an example:
imagine Cristopher Walken explaining Stephen Hawking's theories.
imagine Justin Bieber educating the youth on globalism.
confetti and unicorns...

naw, this is a fake, but a really good one - there is this dude who is writing an EVE Online blog who sounds oddly familiar... but who cares- writing this stuff takes some serious metal brah :-p

this is full of win. unfortunately probably also full of copyright

now Obama just needs to stop taking campaign moneys from the local oil multis and fossil fuel conglomerates (politicians on both sides do it GLADLY) and everything will be golden...

I'd probably nominate the keystone issue as a benchmark as to how much hot air is in that one

this logic makes my head hurt. There are no conservative colleges?

In reply to this comment by Shepppard:
You can't critique something you've played literally less than 10% of.

Seriously, I'm not generally one of the people who get pissed off at his reviews. However, when 90% of what he's saying is very obviously wrong, I have a problem with that. [...]


Imagine me as a back then Eve Online nerd when he did his review of that playing the game like a single player :-)

For the record- I still enjoy his videos.

TLDR: I feeeel your paaaaaaaain.

very nice music. thanks for finding that

I don't like this documentary though some of its concepts are interesting.
The theory of the passive majority being manipulated by the psychopathic minority (i.e.: the mirrored blame model) seems to be a key-token when looking for the source of a problem these days (and it is and has been pretty easy to discard when you come to more detailed studies).

Trademark of a psychopath would be watching this and then analyzing his peers for signs of psychopathy :-/

*updated description

Here's some follow up stuff:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16040655

"The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth, and has a temperature of about 22C.
It is the closest confirmed planet yet to one like ours - an "Earth 2.0".
However, the team does not yet know if Kepler 22-b is made mostly of rock, gas or liquid."