Apollo 11 Launch 500 fps Video

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Wow -- this is an incredible video. It's a slow-motion video of the Apollo 11 launch. I didn't know they had such high camera technology back then! There's a very interesting running narration that's the audio for the video.

Baby Carrot Ads

Here's a hilariously clever pair of ads for baby carrots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbZHasnugts&feature=player_embedded&hd=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=8bhq_NL6jL0

And, while we're posting youtube ad videos, here's the new Old Spice ad.

And finally, if you use Safari as your browser, here's an extension you can download to reduce every youtube video page to just the video and the title. It's excellent. (kudos to them, by the way, for using the Dramatic Chipmunk video (the best 5 seconds on the internet) in their example on the page)

Beethoven Op. 81a

There's a YouTube video of Daniel Barenboim playing Beethoven's 26^th piano sonata! First movement and part of second here, and here's the rest of the second and the whole third movement (attacca).

He plays the first movement with a crazy amount of rubato, but it is a very Romantic-style movement, and, after all, he's Daniel Barenboim; he can do whatever the heck he wants. His playing of the second and third movements is absolutely perfect. Look how relaxed his hands are! What an incredible pianist.