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| I Know What I Saw is a documentary guaranteed to change the way we see the universe. Director, James Fox assembled the most credible UFO witnesses from around the world.Their accounts reveal a behind-the-scenes U.S. operation whose policy is to confiscate and hoard substantiating evidence from close encounters. I Know What I Saw exposes reasons behind government secrecy by those involved at the highest level. Watch Trailer |
| Sony Pictures is making a movie called 2012 and are using a viral marketing campaign to fool people into believing that the end of the World in 2012 is a scientific fact in order to promote the movie. Sony has set up a Web page that presents so-called scientists and fabricated facts: IHC: The Institute For Human Continuity - Exposé Trailer Thanks to Seanones |
| Earliest known sound recordings revealed as researchers unveil imprints made 20 years before Edison invented phonograph by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - Read Listen |
| The Cat & The Deer - a beautiful, touching little video that illustrates how despite differences getting along can warm the heart. For Bobbi Watch Thanks to joydrich |
| 5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake - this is a 'dangerous' treat & literally takes 5 including microwaving - See Recipe Thanks to Suzycobs |
| Patriotic Retirement - This idea is still being talked about all over the place, spreading like wildfire. It was the big topic on Talk Radio back in March. There are problems with it - Read Thanks to Suzycobs |
| How to Make Your Own Drive-In Movie Theatre with a few basic parts and accessories, you can take the same projector you bought for your home theatre and set it up in your car and creating a drive-in theatre anywhere - Watch Thanks to joydrich |
| Seven-year-old David After The Dentist - His dad used his flip-phone camera to record David's post-anaesthetic musings in their car - Watch - Read Thanks to Rebschat |
| Expialidocious - Disney's Mary Poppins Techno Dance Remix Video - Very tasty visuals from the movie with a track of a sine wave bass, custom drum sequences, and sounds recorded from the film - Watch Thanks to Susan Franz |
| Susan Boyle sings Memories on Britain's Got Talent - Saturday, May 23, 2009 and knocks 'em dead again. Watch |
| 77 WABC New York, the most listened to Top 40 station in history has posted complete 1964/65 airchecks from Dan Ingram, Cousin Brucie, Harry Harrison, Bob Lewis, Ron Lundy, Jay Reynolds and Roby Young. Original commercials - and all downloadable or streamed on demand. - Listen & Read - Thanks to RadioActive & SOWNY |
| CBC News - '5D' storage could hold 2,000 times more than 1 DVD Researchers in Australia have demonstrated a new storage technology that could potentially allow 10 terabytes to be stored on a DVD-sized disc. Read more |
| Hubble's Final Servicing Mission - 31 Stunning Photographs- See Thanks to patricknorton |
| PBS
- Antiques Roadshow
Guest: My grandfather was the secretary of the Independence Baseball Club and for some reason, he just decided to keep... their checks, and he kept them from going to the trashcan after they got cashed. Appraiser: Well, you've got two wonderful pieces here. You've got a payroll check for Mickey Mantle from 1949 and a team photo of the Independence Yankees of 1949, and it's an original photo that has Mickey Mantle in it... Watch Jackpot! Special |
| Duck Planet - Ducks Without Borders Canards Sans Frontières - serving Rubber Duck collectors since 1999 - everything rubber-duckie - See Thanks to Lytlemary |
| Barum-pa is an accentuating sound your editor uses on occasion - an aural rim-shot. Now if he's near a connection, he can use the real thing and so can you - Play Thanks to Fretfrenzy |
| 2 Live Jews - Oy' It's So Humid - 2 Live Jews is a comedy hip-hop duo composed of MC Moisha (Eric Lambert) and Easy Irving (Joe Stone). Their name is a parody of 2 Live Crew. They are known for songs that mix and spoof hip-hop culture and Jewish- American stereotypes, and the fact that the 'members' are purportedly two elderly Jewish men who had recently discovered their rhyming ability. In reality, Eric Lambert and Joe Stone are young men who were raised in the Jewish tradition. Watch Thanks to GreeneTara |
| Advanced Cat Yodeling - Teach your cat to yodel with a shortened edit of An Engineer's Guide To Cat Yodeling [with Cat Polka] by Paul Klusman. Paul is an animal lover and often takes in cats from the streets, get them fixed/cleaned up, and adopt them to loving homes. Caution: May offend some cats Watch More Engineering Comedy Thanks to Fretfrenzy |
| CBC Radio 1's The Current - Our oceans are in trouble from rising temperatures, overfishing and pollution. And if you think that doesn't matter to us dry-land types... think again. On this podcast, host Anna Maria Tremonti talk to Alanna Mitchell about her new book, Sea Sick: The Global Ocean In Crisis - Listen Thanks to joydrich |
| The Great Flydini on The Tonight Show - Many people don't know that Steve Martin was a magician before he was a comedian. As a young man he practiced both arts and in this routine he combines the two marvelously. This classic of comedy magic is from the Johnny Carson days. Keep an eye out for Martin's impeccable comedic timing - Watch |
| The
Pessimist's Mug - In these irrationally exuberant times, it's getting
harder and harder for the self-respecting pessimist to stay unhappy. So
pervasive is the hope, so overwhelming the positivity, that without the
firmest grip on your sullen perspective, you might actually lose it. Then
one day, you wake up looking at the bright side, whistling some inane
showtune, and generally annoying everyone around you.
Fortunately, Despair, Inc. created a solution & is proud to introduce The Pessimist's Mug® Specifically engineered by the chronically cynical pessimists of Despair Laboratories™, this crystal-clear mug will help all who drink from it to Stay Grounded™ by forever reminding them to see when the glass is half-empty. Fashioned by the perpetually miserable using the extremely rare silicon dioxide compound, fused at very high temperatures with borates or phosphates. - See Thanks to Lytlemary |
| The Art of Body Art - replacing clothing with the work of artists - See & Here |
| The 2008 Darwin Awards - named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. Stories Ranked by Vote - See Thanks to MoonLin |
| On a busy freeway in Santiago, Chili, a small dog is hit by car and then saved by an unlikely hero: another dog. Watch - Thanks to fretfrenzy |
| Hotelicopter Hoax Flies Over Bloggers’ Heads - Several websites, including some that should know better, are reporting that a guy named Alvin Farley has spent five years converting the world’s largest helicopter into the world’s first flying hotel. The modified Soviet Mil V-12 helicopter is 137 feet long and features 16 cabins and two suites decked out with queen-size beds, heated toilets and whirlpools. The flying five-star hotel makes its inaugural flight June 26. Thing is, the story has a few holes big enough to fly the Hotelicopter through. Read Pictures - Thanks to MoonLin |
| The T-Mobile Commercial Sing-along in Trafalgar Square - a 4 minute extended version of the moment 13,500 people sang Hey Jude together. Everyone involved arrived thinking they would be dancing - no-one had any idea how the event would unfold. Watch - Thanks to DonnaT & AndyB |
| Pimp That Snack is custom, banging, A1 Tip Top, jamming club fare. It's a sandwich of fun on ecstacy bread wrapped up in a big bag like disco fudge. It doesn't get any better than this. Taking Snacks to their limit and showing what they're capable of with a little ingenuity, a little cash, and a lot of imagination. See - Thanks to Fretfrenzy |
| Georgia Guidestones: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse - The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern. Each 16 feet tall, four of them weighing more than 20 tons apiece and inscribed with directions for rebuilding civilization after the apocalypse in eight languages ranging from English to Swahili. Together they support a 25,000-pound capstone. They are quietly awaiting the end of the world as we know it. - Read |
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CBC Radio 1's The Current - The recent release of a report of the US Senate Armed Services Committee made clear that senior Bush Administration officials approved the use of interrogation or torture tactics such as waterboarding. Janis Karpinski paid a steep price for the Bush Administration's policies. She was a Brigadier General and the person in charge of more than a dozen detention facilities in Iraq after the U.S. military invasion including the now-notorious Abu Ghraib prison. She was demoted, one of only two high ranking officers to be punished over what happened. Listen Read: 1 2 |
| More than 200 dancers perform their version of Do Re Mi in Antwerp Central Station, Belgium, at 08:00 a.m. on 23rd March 2009, with just 2 rehearsals! It was a promotional stunt for a Belgian TV talent hunt for someone to play Maria in The Sound Of Music... "It's silly things like this that make me think world peace may be possible." --- Thanks to buddyguy - Watch |
| Worldwide one of a kind, the Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables - Watch - Thanks to Fretfrenzy |
| Prezi.com and the death of Powerpoint - Read See |
| Puppets on the street - Watch Thanks to Neens for the inspiration |
| Secrets Of The Star Disc - BBC 2 TV - The extraordinary story of how a small metal disc is re-writing the epic saga of how civilisation first came to Europe, 3600 years ago. "Its the find of a lifetime. Indeed, the find of several lifetimes." - Professor Miranda Aldhouse-Green, University of Wales [49:25] - Watch |
| Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget - Until recently, no one had ever heard of Jill Price. Her friends and family knew her memory was remarkable, but nobody in the scientific community did. James McGaugh, a UC Irvine neuroscientist who specializes in learning and memory. was skeptical at first, but it didn't take long for him to become convinced that Price was something special... Read Watch |
| Cold Fusion Is Hot Again - 60 Minutes: Once considered junk science, cold fusion gets a second look by researchers - Read [12:22] Watch |
| Updated - CBC Radio 1 - Q - April 16: To celebrate Q's 2nd anniversary - poet, novelist, songwriter, legend... a special exclusive feature interview with Leonard Cohen... recorded at his home in Montreal. [42:02] Listen Watch |
| Ghosts, Sprits, and Demons - Warning: This video might shock you, and may even scare you! - Watch Thanks to fallssue |
| Joe Cocker's With A Little Help From My Friends from the movie Woodstock with clever, funny 'wha'd he say?' captioning - Watch |
| Procul Harum's A Whiter Shade Of Pale, which spent six weeks at the top of the charts during the Summer of Love in 1967, has been confirmed as the most-played song in public places over the last 75 years. Read |
| Bonnie's whistling isn't so surprising to her caregivers. The 140-pound (63.5-kilogram) orangutan at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., has been whistling for about two decades - Read & Watch |
| Is the Shroud of Turin genuine after all? A scientist who first studied the 12 foot-long cloth has spoken - from beyond the grave - of how he came to believe it could be genuine - Read |
| Never judge a book by its cover! 47-year-old Susan Boyle sings I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables on Britain's Got Talent 2009 Watch Thanks to buddyguy |
| A University of Waterloo, Canada, engineering research team has developed the world’s first flying micro-robot capable of manipulating objects for micro-scale applications - Read Watch |
| Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a group of all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele players, using instruments bought with loose change, which believes that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the Ukulele, including Nirvana, Le Freak, Shaft & The Orange Blossom Special - Watch - Thanks to Fretfrenzy |
| Your Call Is (Not That) Important To Us: Customer Service And What It Reveals About Our World And Our Lives. Journalist Emily Yellin explores the inner workings of this multi-billion-dollar industry in her book. [23:25] NPR/AARP.Org - [23:25] Listen |
| Take two companies whose products are sort of a joke, slap them together, and here's the result: The P.U.M.A., a sort of giant, two-person Segway that is designed for commuters, with a 35-mile range from its lithium-ion batteries. It has a top speed of 35 MPH, which is plenty for city cruising. - Read & Watch |
| Billy Bob Thornton 'Blow Up' on CBC Radio 1's Q-TV - Watch |
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Playing For Change: Song Around The World Stand By Me - from the award-winning documentary, Playing For Change: Peace Through Music, comes the first of many Songs Around The World being released independently. [05:27] Watch Thanks to FretFrenzy |
| CBC Radio 1 - Q - Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Gordon Lightfoot interviewed [52:55] Audio Podcast Video |
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CBC Radio 1 - Tapestry - March 22, 2009 - Pico Iyer has known the Dalai Lama for 40 years. He has travelled with him, interviewed him, and observed him. Mary Hynes talks to Pico Iyer about his book The Open Road: The Global Journey Of The Fourteenth Dalai Lama. [53:22] Download |
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The Eyes Right! command is the biggest compliment troops on parade can pay and is reserved for dignitaries on reviewing stands. A lone, young Belgian boy is waiting to salute Canadian troops passing by who had been attending a memorial service. Such class from the Canadian's - watch what they do for the little boy... [01:28] Thanks to Bill K |
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CBC Radio 1 - Q
- Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 - Yoko Ono & Bruce Cockburn
are interviewed by Q host Jian Gomeshi [56:08] Download
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| The Giants Of Rock & Roll - Rome 1988 Concert Finale with: Little Richard, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Mavis Staples, Bo Didley, BB King, etc., etc.! [08:49] Watch |
| Hanky Panky is a five minute choreographed magic strip-tease by Ursula Martinez. The act uses a simple disappearing handkerchief conjuring trick at its core. - Watch |
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Simon Tofield's Cat 'Cat Man Do' - A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to wake its sleeping owner. [01:29] Watch Thanks to Bill K |
| CBC Radio 1 - Tapestry - April 5, 2009 - Survival of the Kindest -Mary Hynes talks to Dacher Keltner about his book, Born To Be Good: The Science Of A Meaningful Life. Dacher Keltner says we only need to look at emotions such as compassion, awe, and embarrassment, to see that humans are wired to be good. He also suggests that those positive emotions are designed by evolution to ensure the survival of our communities, and of our species. He also shares his amazement at the power of the Dali Lama. [49:24] Download |
| Michael Moschen - The most incredible juggler on the planet! Watch |