Awesome video from flixxy.com:
Flixxy videoUnited States Olympic Aerialist Ryan St. Onge and Science reporter Henry Fountain, break down the "double full full full", a jump St. Onge may perform at the Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver.
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My friend Michael Chepovetsky forwarded me this video link from inside an underground roadway in Russia with this explanation:
The 3150 meter Lefortovo Tunnel in Russia is the longest in-city tunnel in the world. It is nicknamed The Tunnel of Death. See for yourself why. There is a river running over the tunnel and water leaks through in some areas. When the temperature reaches nearly 0°C (as it does during winter in Russia), and the road freezes. The result is the attached video which were taken during a single day with the tunnel's surveillance camera.
Congratulations to the dual-carriage bus driver - imagine the passengers in the back! What a ride! The next time you complain about traffic, remember this video... Russian Engineering!
According to wikipedia, the video is a compilation and not necessarily over a single day. Still.
Today's geek moment: IT staffers assemble a computer that uses 24 Samsung 256-GB solid state drives in a RAID configuration, creating a 6 TB drive that flies. Ripping a DVD to disk takes less time than a disk takes to fall out the window to the ground.1
1. For suitable height windows, of course.
For our [ImprovEverywhere's] latest mission, Agent Lathan gave out 2,000 high fives by standing next to a subway escalator during the morning rush. Five additional agents spread out along the adjacent stairs, holding signs that prepared commuters for the upcoming high five fun.
New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo returns to HBO for a second season. Season 2 Online Premiere available here.
Brett: Are you living in your car, Murray?
Murray: No. Of course not. It's illegal. You can't do that. Apparently. Unless you move your vehicle every three hours. [Beeping] I've got to go.
Marketplace Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains a number of concepts in current financial news by way of extended metaphors. Very instructive videos.
Korean Freestyle Slalom Rollerblading (2 minutes)
Amazing 12 year old girl skates slalom course to music
Blind date (30 seconds)
The Clapton, Kravitz, and Young covers are worth watching. The Brian Ferry one is pretty anemic. YouTube has many worse covers, including U2's, that I wouldn't even link to.
Clapton and Kravitz
Neil Young]
Brian Ferry
Update 2009-04-09: The Clapton and Kravitz links have been removed from YouTube for copyright violation. Sigh. They were great. Still, try the new Clapton and Kravitz version.
Internet comic book reviewer takes a break to look into internet dating tips:
10. Kiss her softly, then kiss her passionately.
This is another sequentially challenging one. What you don't want to do is, you don't want to kiss her passionately and then kiss her softly. That would just be seriously messed up. I've made up a little mnemonic device to help me keep it straight.
"First kiss soft, next one passionate,
In World War Hulk, My green homey be smashin' it."
[10 tallest statues in the world]
Not sure if these really are the 10 tallest. Includes Motherland in Kiev, Peter I in Moscow, and Motherland in Volgograd. Plus Statue of Liberty.
[Implementing the Singleton Pattern in C#]
State of the art answer on coding a singleton. The main problem is to have thread-safe access to the singleton while doing lazy construction.
