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.

The Dangers of Twitter and URL shorteners

Oh, gosh, this is so surreal... a spokesperson for Meg Whitman, the Republican nominee for governor of California, tweeted a link to the campaign website... only it wasn't a link to the campaign website. They used a URL shortener, and, when tweeting, accidentally left off an 'r' at the end. I won't spoil what it linked to, but I will provide the link: http://bit.ly/bNCAV.

Cats Morph into Croissants

Waaah... what a hilariously amusing video. I can't stop watching it...

(thanks to Wendy/Sarah for showing me this!)

Youtube video encoding quality

This is interesting: some guy uploaded a video of himself to youtube, then downloaded the same video from where he uploaded it, then uploaded that newly downloaded video again, and repeated the process. It's cool to see how the audio/video really deteriorates. Here's the video at 25 times, 100, 250, 500 and 1000. By 1000 (the last one) , it's completely unintelligible.