Sorry.

The web is watching you

So this police officer abuses some 14 year old kids and someone films it and puts it on Youtube and then 72 hours later someone posts the guys name, phone number and home address and a month later the guy gets suspended for being an asshole.

Doncha just love it!!



Story here


UPDATE**

Less than a week after the video hits youtube.com, a second video of the officer roughing up a young artist surfaces. The Officer in question is a 17 year vetran, so you have to wonder how many others have been the subject of this rough justice. Officer Rivierie, I hope you enjoy your steaming hot plate of justice, served with a side order of WHOOP-AH! Heh

Rubicks Cube Solving Robot

Mark this date. It's the day the machines began to take over. This guy should be given a Nobel Prize for this.

Brawndo and powerthirst - Holy f*cking shit!

This is the best thing to come out of 150 years of advertising.

Video lectures on Neuroscience

Aha, I return. Like Frodo Baggins from the Mountain of Doom, only with all my fingers. This link to a series from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on neuroscience was kindly donated by Mark "The Wingman" Dingman.

Check em all out here and also here

Echolocation.

Amazing story about a young blind boy who learns to 'see' with sound. Such a good story. Courtesy of the Amazing Angus

Generation Z - The big eight trends for 2008

Hopefully we can bid farewell to the "Second life hype" and "Activist documentaries with no answers" trends of 2007.

Phew. Check it out here

Geographic Memory

Amazing article about memory at the National Geographic website. One woman remembers every single day since she was 11, while a man can barely remember what happened ten minutes ago. She may have the world's best memory, he the worst. In the archives of our mind our lives linger or disappear. Check it out here

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Check out this awesome lateral thinking game. So much for ideo games rotting your brain.

Steven Pinker on All in the mind

Steven Pinker talks with everybody's favourite meme queen, the awsome Natasha Mitchell about his new book, The stuff of thought. Check it out here