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Webology Weekly #3: Hang Drums, Samurai Swords, and Some Classic Videos

Peng — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:12:37 +0000

Time for the third installment of Weekly Webology! (or should I call it Week-and-a-half-ology?) The past week was pretty hectic in terms of schoolwork. I was supposed to be working on my research paper and graduation project. Luckily for you, I spent the entire week crashing cars in Burnout Paradise and constantly refreshing Reddit. You might call that procrastination, I call it dedication. :/

Hang Drum

This instrument should be a lot more popular. I get mesmerized every time.

Listen to the Hang Drum on Youtube

Samurai Sword Handle Umbrella

An umbrella never looked so badass.

Get one at Thinkgeek

Fences Help You Organize Your Desktop

This is now a must-have tool for me. My desktop has never been so organized.

Download it at Stardock Source: Lifehacker

Escape From City 17

The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve.

Watch it in HD on Youtube

Verizon is Good At Math

Verizon thinks 0.002 dollars is equal to 0.002 cents. Unbelievable.

Watch it on Youtube

Google Earth 5.0 Beta Lets You Go Back in Time

Download Google Earth + Google Earth Demo Video

$819 Billion Stimulus Package

A nice visualization of the new stimulus package.

See it on the Washington Post

Oldies But Goodies

These are some old but really good videos. I’m thinking of making a pure video Weekly Webology for next week.

Webology Weekly #1: Internet Dissection

Peng — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:19:47 +0000

As part of my continuing effort to waste time, I present to you… Webology Weekly: Internet Dissection. If you know me at all, you know I live on the internet. I don’t even know how much time I’ve wasted staring at a monitor. If you’re reading this, I’ve already wasted 10 seconds of your life. Hey, I feel better already. :]

In a nutshell, Webology Weekly will be a weekly digest of the web. All of the coolest, funniest, weirdest, dumbest, and WTFest stuff on the internet smashed into one delicious post. Calm down, it’s not healthy to be that excited. So let’s get started.

Windows 7 beta keys for all

Microsoft extended the 2.5 million people cap for the public beta of Windows 7. The public beta is now available for download until January 24th and lasts until August 1st. Grab yourself a copy, you won’t regret it.

Bonus: List of special features in Windows 7, How to dual boot Windows 7

Earth, Observed – The Big Picture

As always, Boston.com delivers a breathtaking view of the world with their photo-blog series, The Big Picture. See for yourself.

Where Tijuana meets San Diego

A picture of the Mexico – USA fence keeping the illegals out. Oh yea, USA is on the left.

Damien Walters is a ninja

Click here to view the embedded video.

I lost count after a gazillion backflips.

Double Decker Smart Car

smart car + dumb people = funny.

Youtube Street Fighter

Click here to view the embedded video.

Ingenious use of Youtube’s annotation feature.

Chart of Charts

This helps you choose which type of chart to use.

Cheers to You!

Click here to view the embedded video.

This is sad beyond all comprehension. I’ll take two.

Wingsuit Base Jumping

Crazy Europeans.

UN Headquarters in Gaza hit by Israeli white phosphorous shells

The Geneva Convention prohibits the use of incindiary weapons against civilians or in civilian areas. Israel has denied the use of white phosphorous before. Enough said.

Bonus: Pictures of white phosphorous victims. (not pretty)

Honorable Mentions

Again, I’ll be posting one of these a week. An RSS feed of my blog is available or you can subscribe to the email notification.

The Super Happy Awesome Bridge (cont)

Peng — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:13:02 +0000

Here are the pictures for the rest of the class.

Back to pictures of the Super Happy Awesome Bridge

The Super Happy Awesome Bridge

Peng — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:01:00 +0000

After a month of preparation, we put our physics bridges to the test today. Our Super Happy Awesome Bridge was, in fact, very super, happy, and awesome.

The bridge held about 300 pounds (we actually ran out of weights) plus the force of Mr. Ohl standing on it. It only broke when he stomped it a couple times. I made an animated gif.

Video and pictures below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Click here for the pictures of other groups’ bridges.

More pictures on Moose’s gallery.