'Humor / Just for fun' Category
Casual Friday — “The Matrix” as a silent movie
A fun skit from the Russian actor’s group “Big Difference” (Bolshaya Raznitsa), postulating what “The Matrix” would have looked like if it had been made back in the silent movie era…
Casual Friday — world’s smallest working model train layout
The world’s smallest working model train layout, all of 0.125″ x 0.2″ across — a model of a model…
Casual Friday — the ultimate pocket watch
Anybody that’s at all familiar with the steampunk ethos will be comfortable with the idea of melding old and cutting edge technologies. But here’s one take on the idea I didn’t see coming — an LED pocket watch…
Casual Friday — John Hodgman’s brief digression
A fun, 18 minute ramble about aliens, physics, time, space, and the memory of falling in love…
Casual Friday — The Matrix, on Windows XP
Take the red pill, get the blue screen…
Casual Friday — how not to implode a building
We’ve all seen videos of buildings being demolished by controlled implosion…
Casual Friday — how globes are made
Step by step, how globes are made (at the Repogle Globes factory in Chicago)…
Casual Friday — “something called the internet”
It’s always fun to see how things we now take for granted were first perceived…
Casual Friday — the Jewish origins of Spock’s Vulcan Salute on Star Trek
A clip from the Archive of American Television, in which Leonard Nemoy talks about his introduction of the “Vulcan Salute” to the original Star Trek TV series — based on a gesture used in Jewish worship…
Casual Friday — Star Trek, the barbershop quartet version…
OK, so this is about as nerdy as you can get. Still, you’ve got to admire the creativity these guys display (4m 30sec)…
