Einstürzende Neubauten- Sabrina

Some fairly disturbing late night listening from the best German rock band ever... You can disagree with me in the comments if you have a better nominee.

A Driverless Car

I apologize, TED Talks and Blogspot just do not seem to work well together. Blogspot always cuts off the right side of the TED talk screen and TED talks simply will not reduce down to the width allowable by Blogspot. So here is the link if you want to watch it fullscreen.

The Lennon Sisters singing Dry Bones

Makes my inner goth smile.

Is my date religious?

I saw this entry today on OK Cupid: Best Questions for a First Date.
I had to share.

If you want to know...

Is my date religious?

 Ask...

• Do spelling and grammar mistakes annoy you?

If your date answers 'no'—i.e. is okay with bad grammar and spelling—the odds of him or her being at least moderately religious is slightly better than 2:1.
As someone who is not himself a believer, I found it rather heartening that tolerance, even on something trivial like this, correlated with belief in God, although I should've figured out that religious people are okay with small mistakes. Next to intelligent design, what's a couple typos?
It's also nice when two completely independent datasets corroborate each other. Last summer, we analyzed the profile text of half a million user profiles, comparing religion and writing-level. For every one of the faith-based belief systems listed, the people who were the least serious wrote at the highest level.

The Genius of Photography- BBC Documentary

The Susumu Yokota video got me thinking about the history of the moving image and of photography itself. I did a bit of research and stumbled on this great BBC documentary.
Episode 1- Part 1 of 4

Episode 1- Part 2 of 4
Episode 1- Part 3 of 4

Episode 1- Part 4 of 4

Susumu Yokota 'Kaiten Mokuba'

Handspring Puppet Company: The genius puppetry behind War Horse

TED Talks never cease to amaze. In this one puppet makers create an unbelievably convincing full scale horse, complete with movable legs, neck, ears and tail. At points you seem to forget you are only looking at a lifeless puppet.