I'm just not musically educated enough to make the necessary shifts and tempo changes (and probably other things) in my head to judge this, so no vote.

Interesting, though.

That was smoking-hot.

As for greats being alive or dead, Stevie Wonder, of course, is quite alive.

Not utterly thrilled with the animation, myself.

I have to say, while theo47 and his crowd continue to make me faintly embarrassed to be nonreligious, this is an amusing piece. It's not meant to be a deeply thought-out argument - it's a simply-sketched bit of amusement for people who actually know a bit of science.

It's specifically attacking a lot of creationist/intelligent design arguments, including those based on the strong anthropomorphic principle - the claim that the physical laws of the universe seem somehow designed to create Life As We Know It. But, as this guy points out, most of the universe doesn't really seem to have anything to do with the creation of life, and the universe seems nearly infinitely hostile to it.

It's not an attack on religion or even some conceptions of God as the First Mover who kicked the universe into motion, but on the psuedo-scientific rationalizations of creationism called "intelligent design".

The original joke (or at least one version of it):


There were three engineers in a bar having a couple of drinks and brooding about what kind of engineer God is.
"Of course God is a Mechanical Engineer," said the Mechanical Engineer, " look at the human skeleton, it's a marvel of joints, linkages, support and it gives such free movement to the body."
" No way, God's an Electrical Engineer", piped up the Electrical Engineer," just think about the brain and the nervous system, it's an incredibly vast and complex electrical masterpiece!"
"You're both wrong," said the Civil Engineer, "God's a Civil Engineer!”
“No way,” The others chorused, “how could God be a Civil Engineer?”
“Well, think about it,” the civil engineer replied, “what other engineer would run a waste water line through a recreational area?"

Very hot. And I liked the music.

This is a "hack" in the old sense of a "clever trick" or "neat solution".

(The mechanism is that the "sensor bar" of the Wii actually just has infra-red LEDs that the "Wiimote" uses to triangulate your movements with. People have made homemade versions of the bar with LEDs, but this is really the ultimate simple replacement - two candles as IR sources.)

This is a truly ancient prank, dating back to at least Win95.

I like cobalt's variant, though.

I have to concur, building the design it comes with is ehn.

I wonder whether you could make a nice LEGO aircraft carrier out of those parts.

They should put a "Student Cameraman" warning on the guy's shirt.

Amazing work.

This remains up there among the most awesome of awesomes.

Something funny from modern SNL. Color me amazed.

Very funny, but I'm trying to think of what wouldn't be vegan in your typical soda...

Not as good as "Weapons of Mass Destruction", but I've always liked this song.