Email scammers get a taste of their own medicine when they get conned into videotaping a re-enactment of Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" skit, courtesy of a group named 419 Eater. Talk about karmic retribution.
Stunning super slow motion video of surfer Dylan Longbottom gliding through a 12 foot barrel wave. The scene was shot with a special HD camera that can film at 20 times the normal speed. This clip is taken from a BBC documentary that looks at the islands of the South Pacific.
From the BBC site:
"I really wanted to slow the wave down, so it was like being there,
immersed in that environment," says the BBC's Huw Cordey, series
producer of South Pacific.
"I wanted to capture the scale of the event."
Doing so took special skills and equipment. Australian cameraman
Bali Strickland, renowned for filming expert surfers at some of the
best surfing sites in the world, had to float in the water as the wave
passed over him.
He filmed the wave using a £66,000 ($100,000) high-speed camera that
captures the action at 20 times slower than normal speed, and in high
definition.
The kit required a special housing unit designed and built by German
specialist high-speed cameraman and technician Rudi Diesel.
Until this film, no one had ever tried using this type of camera underwater before.
A beautiful and hypnotic re-interpretation of Alice in Wonderland, courtesy of Pogo. Should you wish to crank the trippy factor up to 11, take a look at this.
If doctors everywhere are puffing on tobacco that is "naturally mild", "toasted" and contains "smoke scrubbers", there is no way cigarette smoking can do you harm. Here is a collection of lovely, utterly deceptive cigarette ads.
According to a new study to be published in the Journal of Consumer Research, shoppers are less likely to spend their dough if they are carrying
cash in large denominations. This so-called denomination effect can be a
powerful predictor of consumer spending habits. Through a series of
experiments, the study shows that if people have an equivalent amount of
money, say $100, the folks with a Ben Franklin in their pockets might not
part with it, while those carrying Andrew Jacksons and George Washingtons
more easily give up the cash.
"NASA's Cassini spacecraft is now a
nearly a year into its extended mission, called Cassini Equinox (after
its initial 4-year mission ended in June, 2008). The spacecraft
continues to operate in good health, returning amazing images of
Saturn, its ring system and moons, and providing new information and
science on a regular basis. The mission's name, "Equinox" comes from
the upcoming Saturnian equinox in August, 2009, when its equator (and
rings) will point directly toward the Sun. The Equinox mission runs
through September of 2010, with the possibility of further extensions
beyond that. Collected here are 24 more intriguing images from our
ringed neighbor."
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