Leonardo da Vinci: Animated Illustrations

This is really cool! Some of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings brought to life through animation, and explanation. This man was a true genius if ever there was such a thing.

Hand bind your own books

How to bind your own books. From Insturctables.com
Another article on how to bind books. Also from Instructables.com.

Old time radio horror shows.

This is cool. 100 old time radio horror shows posted by The Monster Club.com.
link to the plays:

The elephants seem to be starting a revolution of their own!

This article was fascinating! It seems the elephants are starting a revolution of their own! They are fighting back!...And teaching us about ourselves at the same time. I found the last little bit the most interesting. An elephant kills a human aggressor, then takes, and buries it, and mourns it with her herd as if it was one of them. They even defend it against potential harm. Are we truly the only intelligent, or even the smartest creatures on this planet? The fact that elephants seem have a sense of morality, forgiveness, an understanding of death, and social cohesion that rivals, if not surpasses that of our own really makes me wonder. (The article is quite long. 10 pages. but well worth it. It made me think!)

Olbermann - "Advertising terrorism"

This is good! But is it really Bush that's the problem? No. He's just a puppet, and doing what he's told. They want to destroy the American nation to install a global government, but they want to piss you off bad enough to make YOU do it for them. 'Make them fight amongst each other, and they themselves will destroy it.'

Dumping Bush is definitely a move in the right direction, but it only cuts the dragon's toenail. The head of the dragon is what needs to be chopped off in order to stop it. If you want to know where it all is truly coming from, follow the money trail back to the bank. It's the banks that truly decide what gets built, when, and by whom. Who really makes the laws? Is it the politicians themselves, or the people that fund them? "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild.

The Disclosure Project

Are we alone in the universe? People from the military, government, and intelligence communities don't think so. This is a link to their site. Here are more videos.

Learn physics...

Learn what this guy had to teach the world...

...And learn about the science of energy! This is an amazing series called "The Mechanical Universe". It's basically a video highschool physics class that you can stream for free from Annenberg Media. (you do have to fill out a form, and hand over your e-mail address, or you can use this username: "learner@mailinator.com" and this password: "mrnobody" courtesy of Bugmenot.com ) If you took "high-school" a little to literally, and weren't quite there for all of your classes, and want a refresher, this is the right place for you!
An outline of the episodes

The Carver

I think this is the coolest car that I've ever seen!

The power of resonance:

A cool video on how vibration and magnitism can be used to bring matter to 'life' and animate it. (I havent watched the rest of the series yet, so I dont know what that's like.)


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Ths Structure of Man

"The Structure Of Man" is a nonprofit project for Art Education.

Let this guy show you how to draw people. These videos make it easy to understand how the masters do it, and soon you'll know the secrets.

Alternate stream from Google.

Make a spoke POV for your bike:

Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display!

Make a belt:

I like this! Make a belt out of an old bike tire and cassette. I'm always wondering what to do with this stuff after it wears out on my bike. Throwing it out seems like such a waste.

If you're not going to ride it, then you might as well sit on it.

Fix your bike:

Sheldon Brown The guru: Sheldon Brown. Just about anything you need to know about bikes, and bike mechanics. Also has really good articles on the elusive art of wheel building.

Go Play In Traffic!!

Want some excitement in your day? Do you just want to be who you want to be, and not who some guy in a cornflower blue tie tells you to be? Become a bike messenger!! Fun, adrenalin, freedom, amazing exercise, beautiful scenery. "It's the best job in the world!!" some of our local messengers can be quoted as saying. I almost wish that I didn't call in sick today! Watching these guys splitting traffic makes me all tingley inside. Although there's a lot of assholing going on, which sucks.

This looks to be an alleycat race in New York.

Are We Really Any Smarter, More Evolved, and Civilized Than They Were? Are We Really The First? Are we? Really?

This picture is taken of carvings in the temple of Abydos in Egypt.





Abydos was supposedly built around 3000 years ago.

This page has more.

Darkness

"The shadows we fear are cast by our own mind" -(I found this in an old notebook that I kept. I can't remember where it's from.)

"Anyone who is forced from his own course, either through not understanding themself, or through external imposition, comes into conflict with the order of the Universe, and suffers accordingly." -(Unfortunately, from the same notebook.)

A Letter to One Who's Past

Please show me the path to peace, and highlight the path to happiness, so that I can achieve all that I need to in this lifetime. Help me find the courage and strength to understand so that I can grow and change what will not pass during my journey through this world.

Let me know when I am right so that I need no guidance from this world so touched with evil. But please show me when I am wrong as well. Mercy will make me weak and dull.

Please let me share this peace with all that are, while keeping in mind when thoughts come to criticize, I am only looking in the mirror.

I know I ask a lot of you, and you have given me plenty through my time. As I have anger, I am weak. Its release I have not found. I live as human, though no excuse. Precisely this I have come to seek. Its method I'd like to share with all that be.

The Doorway

There is a door in your head that everything that you know points to. A door that has been magically locked by the fire god, and sealed with a crucifix. Your pain is the map, and your will is they key. Only you can - and you must - fully step through this door.

Puzzling

Imagine I come over and bring ten puzzles with 5000 pieces each, and dump them all on the same table. There are ten pictures to build, and fifty thousand pieces on the table. You still know what all ten pictures are, but that doesn't really relate to your very full table of puzzle pieces. You have a hard time relating to the information on a single puzzle piece, and nothing really makes any sense. But you still know all ten pictures.


In time, you manage to get the border of one of the puzzles complete. (Or at least you think that you do, but all ten puzzles are cut from the same template; only the picture is really different).


If I were to come along, seemingly randomly pick an unplaced puzzle piece, state that "this piece goes right here, believe me!" and place the piece with some apparently random position and orientation, within the border of the puzzle, what would happen?


Time and memory would tell us that this piece is now "in" the puzzle, and that its picture, orientation, and position may be correct. But one or all (orientation, etc) may also not be correct.


The only external way that you have to judge this situation is by how much you believe me; how much you trust me based on things like experiences with me and my judgment, and your temperament. How much you "like" me. Unfortunately, if you see me in a positive way I can still be wrong, and if you see me in a negative way I can still be right. But if you don't judge this puzzle piece, it will scream at you until you do.


This is where religion comes in.