Video

• May 11 2008 - Saturday night science link (DNA Visualization) ...

  Fantastic molecular visualization of how dna, rna and ribosomes work… where was this kind of stuff when I was going to school?

  
  
  
  
  

• Mar 28 2008 - clever youtube covers ...

  In the spirit of using the blog as a personal online searchable storage medium here is a playlist of some covers on youtube that I totally get a kick out of… most of these are songs I came across in the past year and am now just logging so I don’t forget them.
  
  Youtube is absolutely full of crap song covers by amateur artists in their basements. I think that’s cool and all, I can imagine myself posting something like that when I was first learning guitar but it’s not something I want to watch (does anyone?). These are a little different and with the exception of the first cover, which just rocks because it’s a wicked song, all do something a little different with the original song.
  

  1. Fairytale of New York (The Pogues) - The Mahones With Damhnait Doyle (a lot like the original, very good)
     
  2. Hey Ya (Outkast) - Matt Weddle of Obadiah Parker (very different, I had no idea the lyrics to this song were good. Matt has an amazing voice, wait for the end when he really belts it out)
     
  3. I might be wrong (Radiohead) - Amnesiac Quartet (jazzy instrumental)
     
  4. Idioteque (Radiohead) - Matt Weddle of Obadiah Parker (not as good as hey ya, but I happened it across it while looking at the others so here you go)
     
  5. Who is it (Bjork) - Matt Weddle of Obadiah Parker (it’s a Matt Weddle playlist, this song is much more mellow than Bjork’s version, doesn’t really get good until about half way through)
     
  
  

• Mar 28 2008 - robots are your friends ...

  OMG, I so love this freaky dog robot thing… we need more like this! Truly exciting the kinds of things that are going on, I can’t wait to have a robot servant.
  
  Watch these all the way through, in the following order. The second one is f’n hilarious after you watch the first.
  
  

  The original