"This is a short tribute to my AeroPress. Two years ago, one was given to me, and it changed everything.

For a little more than $20, this marvel of science will produce arguably the best cup of coffee you've ever made in your home. It makes no sense."

A kinetic typography music video for Jonathan Coulton's "Shop Vac".

"The ultimate dream of flight - soaring through the air, with total freedom in all three dimensions, not within a heavy and complicated machine but with only one's body and sensations - a dream everybody had at least once in their life.

JETMAN made it real."

"In this tutorial created for philipbloom.net, Eve talks you through simple to advanced lighting setups that are easy to achieve and produce beautiful results. She explains simply, how to get the most from your existing lights and some quick tips to create a really impressive shot."

"Photographer/Director Chase Jarvis shares his workflow and backup for every image he shoots, stills and video alike. This in-depth look includes all the steps from capture to archive and gives you a method to ensure that you’ll never lose a single image."

Great presentation of a rather well-thought-out DAM/backup strategy. Plenty of holes in the architecture and lots of room for improvement, but far better than many attempts to solve this problem, especially with such large data sets awkward/ornery software.

Brilliantly simple explanation of a Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

"A complete from scratch recreation of Super Mario Bros. with a focus on perfectly imitating the feel the 1985 classic gave us. Then give Mario a portal gun, add puzzle game mechanics from Portal and there you go. And if that wasn't crazy enough, play 4-player coop, with everyone having their own Portal gun!"

A brilliant dubbing of an infomercial for a completely ridiculous product that probably doesn't actually work. But hey, it has rubber feet!

"Over the past few years I’ve probably encountered dozens of terrible, kitschy animated interpretations of Edvard Munch’s The Scream or Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, but this interactive version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night seems to be something wholly different and wonderful. Greek digital artist Petros Vrellis used openFrameworks to convert the post-impressionist painting into an interactive artwork, where touch-sensitive gestures change the direction of the wind, sprout new buildings, and create ambient background tones. I bet if Van Gogh rolled over in his grave to look at this, it might make him smile a bit."

Ingredients

• 350g - Chopped Dried Soft Prunes
• 250g - Raisins
• 25g - Currants
• 175ml - Honey
• 125ml - Tia Maria or similar favourite
• 2 Oranges - Zest & Juiced (I use less, 2 can make it soggy & too orangey)
• 1 teaspoon - Mixed Spice
• 2 tablespoons - Good Quality Cocoa
• 175g - Softened Unsalted Butter
• 175g - Dark Muscovado Sugar
• 3 - Free-Range Eggs, Beaten
• 150g - Plain flour
• 75g - Ground Almonds
• 1/2 teaspoon - Baking Powder
• 1/2 teaspoon - Baking Soda

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Preparation

• Try a square tin, it's easier to cut the slices.

• 300 Degrees F/ 150 Degrees C for around 2 hours.

• You can slightly alter the flavour elements of this recipe, it's quite forgiving, just keep the quantities about the same to avoid issues.

• To protect the top of the cake from burning even further, you can insert a disk of greaseproof paper in the top, make it a little larger than the tin, snip it a cm or so around the edges, and it will happily hover above the cake - as long as your oven is not too hot and you don't forget the cake's in the oven, this shouldn't be necessary.

• Heat the mixture until it reaches a very gentle boil (remember lots of delicate ingredients in there), stirring the mixture as the butter melts. Let the mixture simmer for 10 minutes; remove the saucepan from the heat and leave to stand for 30 minutes.

• After around 30 minutes, the mixture will have cooled a little, now add the eggs, flour, ground almonds, baking powder and baking soda, mix well with a wooden spoon or spatula until the ingredients have combined.

• Then carefully pour the fruitcake mixture into the lined cake tin. Transfer the cake tin to the oven and bake for around 2 hours, or until the top of the cake is firm. If you insert a sharp knife into the middle of the cake whilst it's warm, depending on how wet you made the mixture, with more or less orange juice, the knife will not come away clean like usual; so it does require some nerve the first time you make it to say, 'Yes, it's cooked' ;-)

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Decoration

Mix a super thick white/ royal icing, so that it doesn't want to run at all, thickly paste all over the top then slightly scrape it down the sides, not all the way, and if you get it right it looks a little like icicles on the side of a house. Then roll out some marzipan, cut out small & large stars, paint them gold if you like (cake shop item), and attach as you like, bending over the edge of the cake too. It gives you the classic taste, but looks really fun & modern.

Randal Schwartz presents "Introduction to Git", presented on January 5th, 2012 for the monthly UUASC-LA meeting.

The cat is his copilot.

"This commercial isn't real, neither are society's standards of beauty."

"Had 2 days to myself in Tokyo so I decided to take about 10,000 photos. All shot on a Canon 5D MkII. All the video footage was shot handheld."

A brilliant bit of awesome dark magic voodoo remixery, wherein Michael Bublé's music video for "Haven't Met You Yet" is re-dubbed with an absolutely hilarious spew of clever and poetic techno-pop.

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what i need is a rare, vermillion, ukranian unicorn

i should not have had those cajun rice and beans

I got a porcupine called "Zazoom". He leaves his scent on people's graves. (Why is Zazoom always around so many graves?)

i got your barbie zucchini... ohhh happy monsoon day... and you promised you'd lick it

i'm gonna save a mental kitty

(I poisoned my dog so he can't keep chasing that baby giraffe)

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"iTUNES LINK: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/russian-unicorn-single/id449742733?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Original video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJmKkU5POA
If that link is blocked, try this one: http://youtu.be/gcF9ICgLqi4"

"(PG -13) Maybe take a look before you show this to any children. And we love you."

"Landscapes: Volume 2 is the second of a three part series (probably). Every frame of this video is a raw still from a Canon 5D2 DSLR and processed with Adobe software. In Volume 2 I again show off my beautiful home state of Arizona and I also made several trips to Utah. This video has some iconic landmarks that we have seen before. I felt that showing them again with motion controlled HDR and/or night timelapse would be a new way to see old landmarks."

Fantastic black and white music video. A work of art.

"'3 Dreams of Black' is an interactive film by Chris Milk and some friends at Google that showcases the creative potential of WebGL. WebGL is a context of the HTML5 canvas element that enables hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in the web browser without a plug-in. In other words, it enables your browser to show some really beautiful visuals. On this page, you'll find a WebGL model viewer featuring several of the "3 Dreams of Black" creatures. You'll also find 8 demos created by our development team, a link to the code base, and some links to resources on the web that will be useful for getting started in WebGL programming."

"The WVIL camera is a concept camera envisioned by Artefact's award-winning design team. It answers the question: “what’s next for camera design?”

The patent-pending WVIL system takes the connectivity and application platform capabilities of today's smart phones and wirelessly connects them with interchangeable full SLR-quality optics.

More information at: artefactgroup.com/​wvil/​ "

"It's a short film - a visual poem - about that moment in New York when you emerge from the subway and find yourself in a new and sometimes unexpected world"

Cool kinetic text video describing "the most typical person in the world." Very interesting.

"Shot over 1 night at the Shangri-La hotel in Sydney in room 3513.

[...]

Shot on 5dmkIi with 24mm ts v2, Panasonic Gh2 with 8mm fish eye and 7-14mm. Iphone 4. Canon S95 and AF101 with Olympus 14-35mm"

"The Antikythera Mechanism, is, allegedly, the oldest version of a scientific computer. The Greeks, who used to be so clever that they never endured too much of a financial crisis, built it around 100 B.C."

"the world is full of interesting things..."

Genki Sudo and his World Order entourage perform the retired mixed martial artist’s signature faux-slow-motion “entrance dance” to a mesmerizing song off their self-titled debut, aptly titled “Mind Shift.”

"This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace"

"A collection of time lapses I took around the San Francisco Bay Area roughly shot over the period of one year." —Simon Christen

"A montage of my timelapse shots from the past year or so. This is just my timelapse showreel - it was never meant to be a standalone film.

The dolly moves were done using two custom track and dolly systems that I engineered, utilizing some off the shelf components.

I'm currently Beta testing an all-in-one motion control dolly system:The Stage Zero Timelapse Dolly Kit from dynamicperception.com and getting even better results.

Music is Hans Zimmer, "Dream is Collapsing" from the Inception soundtrack."

An absolutely gorgeous set of time-lapse videos from around Iceland.

"This is a 3:30 war movie made entirely with cardboard weaponry. It's incredibly well made though. Granted not as good as Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers, but if you expected it to be you obviously have zero grasp on reality."

A short film "AT-AT Day Afternoon" by animator and filmmaker Patrick Boivin, created from a childhood dream of pet Imperial Walker.

"A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal."

Incredible.

2 minutes and 13 seconds of brilliance.

"All shot on the RED ONE @ 4K 16:9 from some of my favorite spots around the city."

Beautiful, beautiful video.

Very, very meta. And hilarious.

"Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936."

Absolutely dripping with awesome.

"This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG."

If this isn't in our future, I will be rather sad.

"In 2004, four Open Source Software fans from Wolverhampton started an Internet radio show. It ran for four years, had over two million downloads and spawned a string of live conferences. Often imitated, never bettered, this is the story of LugRadio.

Including interviews with Jono Bacon, Ade Bradshaw, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, Matt Revell and Adam Sweet, as well as exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from LugRadio Live USA 2008 and the last ever recording session.

Contains occasional swearing."

TED talk about merging the physical world with digital UI design. This is the future.

An amazing short film done in a stop-motion-esque time-lapse style with a tilt-shift lens.

Casual video talk about "burnout". What it is, the signs of it, how to avoid it, and how to dig out of the hole.

Cute short film with some really nice design elements.

1000 FPS videography. Whoa.

Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education.

A delightful (and quite well-made) short film.

Nice and simple screencast software for OS X.

Interesting and potentially useful.

Direct link to the 1080p version of Star Trek's trailer #3.

Far too true, which makes it all the funnier.

Hilarious.

Interview with the Ma.gnolia guy about the site's death, current status, recovery possibilities, and where Ma.gnolia goes from here.

Mark Pilgrim's excellent series: "A gentle introduction to video encoding"

Keith Olbermann's Prop 8 Special Comment: It's "About The Human Heart" (VIDEO) - The Huffington Post

High-speed video showing water bouncing on a superhydrophobic surface.

Obama's infomercial.

John McCain turns to famous Hollywood directors for help with his attack ads.Featuring: Paul Welsh, Saj Pothiawala, Logan Smith, Paul Briganti, Jared Neumark...

A humorous guide to looking after your cat.

How to make a nice music recipe

Actor Matt Damon speaks out on the Republicans' choice of hockey-mom Sarah Palin for VP. Damon compares her rise to a 'really bad Disney movie' and says it's...

How can anyone take this campaign seriously anymore?