Friday 8/31/12

This week marked the opening week of the para-olympics.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/linkableblob/4233578/data/australian-team-at-the-opening-ceremony-data.jpg

Channel 4 was kind enough to put together some highlights:

For the current medal count, see here:
http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/medals/medal-count/

And if you're hoping to watch the para-olympics, don't count on NBC showing much of it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2196209/NBC-faces-backlash-refusing-Paralympics-opening-ceremony-live-broadcasting-half-hours-Games.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Friday 8/24/12

NASA's latest Mars rover, Curiosity, recently made a successful landing and sent back some of it's first images:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-237

NASA also allowed members of the public to participate and put their name on board Curiosity, which I did. Just over 1 million people worldwide also took part:
http://marsparticipate.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/worldmap/

The landing itself was a complex process which can be seen in this video:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/videos/index.cfm?v=49

Friday 8/3/12

This week we had a mish-mash of clips sent in.

Evil owl:

Sesame Street- Share It Maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTIGg3I5y8&feature=related

Paper Towls:

Scary Prank:

Working Wall-E:
http://www.geekosystem.com/working-wall-e-replica/