The Last Minute Blog

• Accent Game
  guess where people are from
  (tags: accent game video linguistics language)
• How the underwater dive camera works at the olympics
  simpler than i thought: "there's a rope. There's a pulley. And the rope and the pulley work a contraption made out of a pipe. The whole gizmo is based on the brilliant insight that objects fall at the same rate regardless of mass."
  (tags: video tv technology physics photography olympics media)
• Kite-surfer confronts Fay, loses
  (tags: weather video kitesurfing kiteboarding)

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Sorry for the lack of posts. I’ll be back around the 18th.

[Pics]

[McCain Poster | Obama Poster | UPDATE: Hillary About Face]

• apprently lupe fiasco is ‘da culest’
  sigh
  (tags: comment ghetto lupefiasco)
• Google Calendar CalDAV support!
  (still doesnt let u make/edit appointments in calendar on iphone though) hat tip to Rene for this one.
  (tags: webdav synchronization sync)

• D-bag Cop Loses Job For Body Slamming Critical Mass Rider
  funny that nothing would have happened if the video hadn’t been put online
  (tags: nypd cop cops criticalmass)

• Online, R U Really Reading?
  The family’s name is “The Sims”.
  (tags: literacy reading technology)

Interesting to hear this coming from an oil billionaire republican…

[Pickens Plan | T. Boone Pickens]

I love the aesthetic of these little motion graphics educational videos.

[Good Magazine | Infographic]