Boasting some really impressive animation and design, this short film strings together a host of sociocultural metaphors; though a bit heavy in some ‘symbolism’ and confounded in ideologies, it’s still very impressive stuff.

Holy crap. RZA has finally made a martial arts film and it looks fucking awesome.

So, following the release of yesterday’s Meet the Pyro short film, comes the beta announcement of Valve’s video/editing tool: The Source Filmmaker.

Fuck. Yes.

• What Radiohead Teaches Us About Musical Innovation
• How to reinforce learning while you sleep
• Scientists Harness Human Power for Electricity
• New Record for the Highest Man Made Temperature: 4 Trillion Degrees Celsius
• Planned TV retelling of Peter Pan based on the Lost Boys 10 years later
• Video: Mock Dora the Explorer Movie Trailer
• Finnish mathematician constructs “world hardest sudoku puzzle” (confirmed to be a goddamnmotherfuckingsonnofabitch)

I honestly can’t stop enjoying this musical of sorts…

by Tomislav Safundžić

Just in time for the weekend. Thanks science.

Been busy and the bookmarks have been piling up so this is a somewhat larger collection and all over the place at that.

First, Space & Science stuff:
• June 30 to be 1 second longer
• Mars Reality Show Could Fund Manned Colony by 2023
• How Humans Could Get to Mars in Weeks, Rather than Months
• BBC’s Space Travel Guide
• Researchers Test Infinite-Capacity Wireless Connection

Internet/Computers stuff:
• Pre-computer chess algorithm by Alan Turing goes up against Grandmaster Kasparov
• We know what your doing: a social networking privacy experiment
• Because of Google Ads, TV Tropes Deletes Every Rape Trope
• List of Worthwhile DOS Games

Sports!
• London’s wildly over-budget Olympics (101% over and counting)
• The US Olympic running team’s upcoming coin toss decision its 387-word procedure

And other things of very different tones (sorry)
• More than 200 church leaders across the US now say they no longer believe in God
• Conservative Rabbis Approve Gay Marriage
• Girl Found Alive In Dead Mom’s Arms After Tornado Throws Them From Home
• Journalist Natasha Smith’s account of being sexually attacked in Cairo
• Fan gets kicked out of Kenny Chesney concert for looking too much like Kenny Chesney
• Skater Punk Gets Stuck in Soda Machine, Needs Jaws of Life Rescue
• Swedish police appeal for help to find girl’s missing teddy
• Warren Ellis on the fiction of money
• Video: Nick Offerman Read Tweets from Young Female Celebrities
• Videos: 10 Essential Dirty Phrases in Sign Language
• Announced! The Big Lebowski 2: The Dude Goes To Washington
• Letters of Note: Helen Keller’s letter to Mark Twain in lieu of being unable to attend a Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind conference

So I wanted to post about this robot developed at Tokyo Uni’s Ishikawa Oku Laboratory that uses a high-speed camera to predict how a human hand moves during a game of paper-scissors-rock, allowing it to react within one millisecond…

But then I scrolled down to see the youtube comments and as always, they’re the wonderful antithesis of horror and hilarity.

It’s only taken five years since the release of Team Fortress 2 and the debut of their awesome “Meet the…” promo shorts, but “Meet the Pyro” has finally been released and it is oh so darkly funny.