Friday, December 29, 2006

Special Delivery 10 Pop!Tech



Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

Question 15 "Deciding Like A Ninja"



Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

Question 16 "How To Kill A Ninja"



Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

Question 26 "Least Favorite"



Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

Special Delivery 1 "What is Podcasting?"



Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

Question 17 "Ninja Omnibus"



Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

Sunday, December 24, 2006

The Origin of the Human Mind: Insights from Brain Imaging and Evolution



UCSD cognitive scientist Martin Sereno takes you on a captivating exploration of the brain's structure and function as revealed through investigations with new advanced imaging techniques and understandings of evolution. Series: "Grey Matters"

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The Apollo 15 Hammer-Feather Drop


At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott performed a live demonstration for the television cameras. He held out a geologic hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as Galileo had concluded hundreds of years before - all objects released together fall at the same rate regardless of mass.

BBC Horizon: Nice guys finish first



In this 1986 video, Richard Dawkins, author of the book, The Selfish Gene explains how natural selection can favour co-operation in nature - so long as it is of benefit to the selfish gene. His search for stable co-operate strategies, which remain unaffected by cheating and exploitation involves an extraordinary game known as the Prisoners' Dilemma, normally used by psychologists to study human behaviour. In their attempts to earn real money, players must wrestle with a dilemma - whether to follow their natural instincts of co-operation or the dictates of reason and behave selfishly.

Monday, December 18, 2006

350 Years of Economic Theory in 50 Minutes



Presented to homeschool parents and students, 09/29/2006, Mises Institute by Mark Thornton

Cheese Shop



The "Cheese Shop" sketch is a famous sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. It appears in episode 33, "Salad Days."

The sketch is a fairly typical John Cleese set-piece. In essence, John Cleese attempts to purchase some cheese from the cheese shop; unfortunately the proprietor, Mr. Henry Wensleydale (Michael Palin, playing the obstructive shopkeeper to Cleese's irate customer), appears to have not one single variety in stock, not even a morsel of Cheddar cheese, 'the single most popular cheese in the world'.

Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit


"Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit" is a Monty Python sketch. It is about an RSM-type instructor who is teaching a class about self-defense, but all he teaches is how to defend oneself against an assailant "armed" with a piece of fresh fruit.

The teacher (John Cleese) is about to start off his class, but he notices that everyone, save for four students, is absent. He starts off the class by carrying on from where they got to last week, when he was showing them how to defend themselves against anyone who attacks with a piece of fresh fruit.

Jay Chou - Huo Yuanjia


Jay Chou music video for the film Fearless

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Five Most Common Myths about International Trade


Robert Murphy, Five Most Common Myths about International Trade
From the 2006 Supporters Summit: Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom, 27-28 October 2006, Auburn, Alabama

Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook



Dirty Hungarian phrasebook is a Monty Python sketch that first aired in 1970. The sketch starts by saying that Hungarian nationals have moved into London. John Cleese plays a Hungarian who enters a tobacconist's shop. He says to the tobacconist (Terry Jones), reading from the phrasebook he is holding, "I will not buy this record; it is scratched." When Jones corrects him he says, "Ah, I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched." Cleese then proceeds to read more bizarre phrases from the phrasebook, including "My hovercraft is full of eels" (may I have some matches?) and "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"

Rubens' Tube



The Rubens' tube, also known as the Standing wave flame tube, or simply flame tube, is a physics experiment demonstrating a standing wave. It shows the relationship between sound waves and air pressure.

Honda Civic Choir



As images of Honda's being driven are shown, the sounds to accompany the cars are provided by a chior in an underground garage. The Choir provides all the sound from the car accelerating, the wiper blades, even as a car speeds through puddles.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

The Philosophers' Football Match



The Philosophers' Football Match was a comedy sketch on Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus and later a part of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

The sketch depicted a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics, between philosophers representing Greece and Germany, including Plato, Socrates and Aristotle on the Greek team, and Heidegger, Marx and Nietzsche on the German team. Instead of playing, the philosophers competed by thinking while walking on the pitch in circles.

South Park - Chewbacca Defense


The term Chewbacca defense is used to refer to any legal strategy or propaganda strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience or jury with nonsensical arguments, as a way of confusing the audience and drowning out legitimate opposing arguments.

Chewbacca Defense originated in the animated series South Park. The show satirized attorney Johnnie Cochran's closing argument defending O.J. Simpson in his murder trial.

Matrix Ping Pong



Matrix Ping Pong is a recording from the popular annual Japanese show Kinchan and Katori Shingo's National Costume Competition (欽ちゃん&香取慎吾の新!仮装大賞) showing a group of people attempting to mix moves in the style of The Matrix with Ping Pong, using kurokos -- stagehands in kabuki theatre -- to hold the actors and the props up. This performance won the competition on March 31, 2003.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The Black Knight



The Black Knight is a fictional character in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He is, as his name suggests, a black knight who guards a tiny bridge for unknown reasons. Although supremely skilled in swordplay, he suffers from unchecked overconfidence and a staunch refusal to ever give up. Though he only appeared in one scene, he has gone on to become one of the most popular characters of the entire film.

Tim Burton's Vincent



Vincent is a 1982 stop-motion short film written, designed and directed by Tim Burton and Rick Heinrichs. At approximately six minutes in length, there is currently no individual release of the film. (...) The film was narrated by Vincent Price, a life-long idol and inspiration for Burton.

The Life and Death of a Pumpkin



WINNER: Best Short Film and Best Concept, 2006 Chicago Horror Film Festival, October (Chicago, IL)

A cherished holiday from a new and horrible perspective. Brought to you by Blame Society Productions.

Directed by Aaron Yonda

Monday, December 4, 2006

Röyksopp - What Else is There?


"What Else Is There?" is the third single from the Norwegian duo Röyksopp's second album The Understanding. It features the vocals of Karin Dreijer Andersson from the electronica duo The Knife. The album was released in the UK with the help of Astralwerks.

Knights who say Ni



The Knights Who Say Ni are a band of knights from the comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, feared for the manner in which they utter the word "ni" (pronounced [ni], like knee but clipped short). As it was said in the movie, "Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale!"

Sunday, December 3, 2006

Goodness Gracious Me - Going for an English


One of the more famous sketches featured the cast "going out for an English" after a few lhassis. They mispronounce the waiter's name, order the blandest thing from the menu (apart from one of them, who opts for the safer option of a curry) and ask for 24 portions of chips. This parodies the often-drunk English people "going out for an Indian", ordering chicken phall and too many papadums. This sketch was recently voted the 6th Greatest Comedy Sketch.

SeaWorld's Punishment For Shamu



Late Show with David Letterman

Killer whale Shamu almost drowned a trainer. See how SeaWorld is responding.

Goodness Gracious Me - Hindu Santa


Mr "Everything Comes From India" - A man who insists that just about everything comes from India or was invented by Indians, including William Shakespeare, Cliff Richard (who was actually born in India), Leonardo da Vinci, most English words: (Veranda, shampoo, conditioner), the British Royal Family (all except Prince Charles, whom he claimed to be African), and Superman (who is apparently Indian as he has two jobs and can run faster than the trains).