Not a big truck

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA[/youtube]

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/5467118[/vimeo]

There’s a new band out of San Francisco called I Come To Shanghai. They’ve decided to release their first and self-titled album on their website in the “name your own price format” made popular by Radiohead. More importantly, their video (above) is rather grand.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMV2is6oy_U[/youtube]

Rejoice in Candy!

China Blocks Youtube, Google Tries to Reinstate Access

It will be interesting to see Google fighting China on this one, considering how compliant they have been with China in the past.

What happens when you save an image as a .jpg 600 times?

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/3750507[/vimeo]

Open the last saved jpeg image
Save it as a new jpeg image with slightly more compression
Repeat 600 times

Code is here if you want:
hadto.net/category/sketchbook/generation-loss

Conrad has made 6310 youTube videos of himself smoking different pipes and cigars. It sounds like he’s also very fond of Facebook Chat.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcxT937aQ_Q[/youtube]

His profile description:

SMOKING:BIG CIGARS, AND PIPES TOBACCOS; WITH HATS, T-SHIRTS, T-SHIRTS OF SURF, SCOTLAND SHIRTS, SWEATERS, ANORACKS, ANORACKS T-SHIRTS, GAMULAN, BLUE JEANS LEVI’S CLOTHE, CAMOUFLAGE CLOTHE, LEATHER CLOTHE, GLOVES; AND TENNIS.

SMOKING, SINCE THE 18 AGE.

BEGIN, SMOKING; IN THE UNIVERSITY.

View all 6310 videos

[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/portable/video/x5odhh_pop-corn-telephone-portable-microon_news[/dailymotion]

SAVE YOURSELF: www.freeheadset.org

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOZZ6dJiIgo[/youtube]

Turns out this was a viral marketing campaign by Cardo Wireless, a bluetooth headset manufacturer. The kernels were digitally deleted and the popped kernels were dropped from off camera.

Learning the difference between science and magic is an important part to surviving in our everyday life.

Ex. Coke Zero is 12oz of nothing = Magic
The world is curved and has gravity = Science

Luckily, Bill Nye has explained the difference between science and magic in common tongue.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ag6rcM9V-U[/youtube]

Also, the Internet plays a vital role in clarifying the distinctions between science and magic.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xjInNt9KW8[/youtube]

2006 World Champion Taki Nishimura showing off his yo-yoing skills.

The World Yo-Yoing Contest is held every year in Florida, around early August. The contest is seperated into 5 divisions, and this is division 4A, or “offstring”, where competitors yo with the yo unattached from the string. Coincidentally, this is similar to what you’d find in Cirque Du Soleil. You know, those crazy Chinese girls with their diabolos.