maby at 70 the water would have still brken his fall and not been to hard.

I was reading an article on this a couple of days ago and it said the skydiver didn't aim for the water because he thought if he hit the water he would be knocked unconscious and drown. The site also had the flash video of this but it was not from a site that video sift accepts. :-(

Here's a link to a longer version.
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/mos/skydiver.html?in_article_id=435694&in_page_id=1990&in_a_source=

From the maker:

Me testing out my newly finished home-made high accuracy pressure / tilt sensitive touchscreen. Ignore the moire patterns, that's just a problem with videoing a screen, it looks fine to human eyes.
The Wacom Cintiq costs £2000, this one cost £80.
Check out the build log on http://www.bongofish.co.uk.

http://www.videosift.com/talk/The-Essence-of-Sift

This is from the French version of a popular American game show. The question asked is “What Orbits the Earth?”

A. The moon
B. The sun
C. Mars
D. Venus
E. Uranus
F. B

What's even funnier is that the majority of the audience got the question wrong too!

I think this is one of those dream sequences from Twin Peaks.

If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

I heard B-boy died doing a head spin for a Pepsi commercial.

Needs a 'brutality' tag.

Obvious duplicate http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=8962&where=index

Not! That one is only 2 minutes long. This is over 7 minutes.

It's not Bolero, it's Aragonaise from Bizet's Carmen.