Category: Videos

Swirling Vortex of Doom

Worth posting for the title alone.

Damn Interesting: Early in the morning on November 21, 1980, twelve men decided to abandon their oil drilling rig on the suspicion that it was beginning to collapse beneath them. They had been probing for oil under the floor of Lake Peigneur when their drill suddenly seized up at about 1,230 feet below the muddy surface, and they were unable free it. In their attempts to work the drill loose, which is normally fairly easy at that shallow depth, the men heard a series of loud pops, just before the rig tilted precariously towards the water. (more…)

MMM: Don’t Want One

It’s just silly, isn’t it. And so un-Audi; even the RS4 is relatively subtle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQMaRRrXX-8

Content Aware Image Resizing

(Another one stuck in the flush mechanism.)

The narration is textbook nerd, but get over it and watch the whole thing. These guys and their technology are going places. Gone places actually, one of them’s already been snapped up by Adobe.

The New Bruce Lee

Cute baby stuff is almost as bad as cute animal stuff*, but there are always exceptions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdJjgau5vk

Thanks osarusan.

* Are you listening b3ta? Enough with the cute crap already.