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why real explosions don039t look like movie explosions - youtube
Bookmarked 264 weeks ago explosions on film are made to look good: fireballs and flame in reality though they039re a bit disappointing here039s how hollywood does it bull produced with |
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the difference between high explosives and low explosives - youtube
Bookmarked 261 weeks ago i didn039t even realise that |
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hill hill hill hill debunked debunked - youtube
Bookmarked 269 weeks ago torpenhow hill in the lake district in the north-west of england is the only place in the world whose name has the same word four different times that039s t |
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google glasses: a new way to hurt yourself parody of google039s project glass
Bookmarked 730 weeks ago http:tomscottcom - i made the google project glass team a new commercial i don039t think they039ll like it |
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would you swim in power plant wastewater - youtube
Bookmarked 289 weeks ago normally the answer would be no but in these very limited circumstances at iceland039s blue lagoon you can swim in geothermal power plant wastewater and i |
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if educational videos were filmed like music videos - youtube
Bookmarked 265 weeks ago there039s a reason music videos look strange i could just talk about framerate cuts and continuity or i could get an actual music video director and a le |
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i know what you did five minutes ago
Bookmarked 723 weeks ago http:tomscottcom - my talk from ignite london 4 http:ignitelondonnet: in which i rattle through the online privacy settings of fashionable web services and leave a surprising messagefaq: is the data really pulled in live from the webwith the exception of the wikipedia articles which i summarised in advance yes everything on screen really was live data did you know who was going to appearno but the selection process was algorithmic not random it was always going to pick someone interesting as an extra safety net a few minutes before i went on stage someone else checked who the system had chosen: they forced a re-selection if it picked someone under 18 someone in the middle of anything stressful or traumatic or someone who appeared likely to react badly to the phone call what presentation software were you usinggoogle chrome running a regular web page written with html javascript and jquery the data was pulled in using the sites039 official apis with the exception of the live facebook profile facebook has excellent security and will not let you put its pages inside an iframe so another computer took a screenshot of the profile and uploaded the result as a png how did you do the day-of-the-week calculationsee the annotation during the video credits as for the speed i was exceptionally lucky: the date was a very easy one to calculate did the person you called ever call backnope but then i did drop that disposable phone in my glass of water at the end of the talk |
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i know what you did five minutes ago - youtube
Bookmarked 259 weeks ago http:tomscottcom - my talk from ignite london 4 http:ignitelondonnet: in which i rattle through the online privacy settings of fashionable web servic |
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ridiculous minigolf: crazy golf holes inspired by portal minecraft the crystal maze and more
Bookmarked 727 weeks ago how it works who made it and where you can play: http:tomscottcomgolfi figured that i should probably celebrate my 10000th day on this planet so i took over part of a grade 2 listed building asked hackers and makers i know to make ridiculous minigolf holes and invited loads of people to come and play themmost of these holes will be at the derby maker faire on the 3rd june but after that they039ll be scavenged for parts and lost forever however: if you039ve got a space big enough to hold them and a bit of a budget to get us there we039d love to tour with them get in touch |
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the circle visible from space - youtube
Bookmarked 239 weeks ago mount taranaki on the north island of new zealand is a large-scale circle that039s visible from space: a stratovolcano with six miles of forest around it bu |
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the hidden rules of conversation - youtube
Bookmarked 241 weeks ago gricean maxims are a vital part of how we understand each other: a set of well maybe |
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the library of rare colors - youtube
Bookmarked 233 weeks ago the forbes pigment collection at the harvard art museums is a collection of pigments binders and other art materials for researchers to use as standards: s |
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do the numbers on toaster dials mean minutes - youtube
Bookmarked 282 weeks ago http:tomscottcom - http:twittercomtomscott - there039s been a |