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Evil Robots Work for Music Industry Lawyers
An emotionless kind of artificial intelligence crawls video websites and attempts to "listen" to them in order to pattern match in order to...
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Warka Water
Warka Water is an interesting project to harvest water from the air, a moisture farm or humidity harvester.
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Google Cardboard Really is Cardboard
Google is some kinda serious about the fact they made something out of cardboard that costs $20. If you can afford 16 GoPros, they also made a VR recorder. Why...
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On Being Politically Correct
I am going against my own advice and writing about my political and religious views on the internet. In the era of "personal brand", it should practically be...
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Meet BB8, the new Droid from Star Wars
Pretty incredible technology! Sphero is a neat toy based party on the mobile tech, but the ability for the detached head to stay relatively level is pretty...
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The Technoviking: Fighting the Meme
This is now an 8 year old meme with origins from an actual unscripted event in 2000. I look back at the years of my life when I existed without knowing the glory...
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An Old School Magic Player's Thoughts on Hearthstone
I avoided Hearthstone for quite a while, but recently I caved and tried it out. I play Magic: The Gathering and I love the face-to-face gameplay...
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Beauty in How It's Made (Real Close-Up-Like)
This $2.5 million dollar watch made by Patek Phillipe is examined under such lovingly closeup scrutiny, it might make you blush. This is a beautiful...
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Carl Poppa Should be Nominated for a Grammy
At 2:45 in this video, you are not prepared for the awesome.
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This is Isis.
In spite of Obama's numerous statements to the press and the State Department's official designation, the media refuses to call the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria ISIL....
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Comment Bots
I found a blog that had been "compromised" by a comment bot. That is, it successfully pasted in something spammy to a legitimate article. By "it" I mean either man,...
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How do you pronounce the word "Appalachian?"
Oh dear, someone on the internet is wrong. This never happens! Well, it happens all the time, but there is one ongoing debate that I actually care...
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We Just Do It All Again
This compelling video (and awesome track) mixes history with the present, fantastic wordless stories with a music video, and adds new meaning to the lyrics. Beautiful.
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Teaching Us Through Making Things
Shaun Bloodworth's beautiful video about a man who makes scissors by hand.
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Katy Perry's Vision is Beauty
Katy Perry appears as a multi-faceted reflection of the Egyptian Goddess in a wild array of colorful costumes: River Goddess, Goddess of Wealth, Goddess of Snakes &...
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New Wolves Shape Yellowstone
What a powerful and interesting story about the fitness of an ecosystem. What else cascades like this? Societies? Innovation?
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SquareSpace vs GoDaddy Ads Super Bowl 2014
The Super Bowl TV ad formula: { overwrought script } + { cheesy music } + { no actual branding until the verrrrry end unless you are Budweiser }. Is...
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How is Vimeo so beautiful?
This image just sums it up. Watch here:https://vimeo.com/84174057 - and if you have teenagers, send them to Vimeo's co-founder's latest project http://DIY.org. As...
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Association of The Blind Wins
What a beautiful commercial! As someone who has been working for many years to advocate and develop for the blind on the web, this one hits home.
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Who Was John Emmert?
I'm a skeptic. Still, when a wild conspiracy that refuses to die originated in my own back yard, I had to find out more. It's a great story, really. Most of all, as a...
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The L. C. King Centennial Sessions
Finished work from the sessions can be found here. What a weekend. Thanks to the people at the Birthplace of Country Music(BCM) and Live and Breathing, people...
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The Reboot Buggy: What is it Rebooting, Exactly?
This obnoxious tonka truck was created "without aesthetics." Is that even possible? Philosophically, I mean. The shocks happen to be...
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Privacy in 2013 and Beyond
The idea of privacy is a fundamental ethical, technological, and philosophical challenge facing us today. I believe we still need more people to stand up...
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Richard Relandli's "Touching Strangers"
This is a beautiful project for many reasons and showcases the brilliance of a photographer's art that isn't about the technique or even the...
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So, I'm in The New York Times today.
A Tennessee Clothing Factory Keeps Up the Old Ways
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They are Wildfang.
A beautiful intersection of style, innovation, independence, beauty, fashion, and freedom.
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Matt Mahaffey at TEDx Nashville — on Music
The amazingly talented and always entertaining and bright Matt Mahaffeytells it like it is about the music industry.
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Digitially Imported (di.fm) Launches New Website
One of the original streaming music websites (14 years running), di.fm has launched an incredibly beautiful new website that will certainly...
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The Pirate Bay Documentary — Criminal or Cultural?
A fascinating look at the world of Pirate Bay, a Swedish operation that claims to have been 50% off all BitTorrenttraffic - and who knows what...
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MadC, crazy genius graffiti writer from Germany
Hands down the most epic art I have ever seen created with cans of spray paint. MadC challenges us, boggles our minds, shocks the eyes with her...
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Little Talks by Monsters and Men
Ok, so I haven't seen every video with 20 million views and just in case you haven't either, here's a jewel. Featuring Icelandic mythos, zeppelins,...
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Birdy Nam Nam Goin' In is blowin up
Birdy Nam Nam's track Goin' In has gotten a remix blessing by Skrillex, which is cool and all, but the original (above) comes with a brilliant - if...
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Marc Donahue Elevates Timelapse: Dream Music Part 2
This took six months to create - it's a feat. It's also a really nice song, or is it even fair to call it just one song? I find the...
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Mumford and Sons' live performance of The Cave in Bristol, Virginia rocked the city like never before
So my town got lucky. Bristol, Tennessee / Virginia. We say that because main street is...
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The Rise and Rise of Dubstep
I love this track and home video. It's a Nero remix of a song by awkward crooner hearthrob Calvin Harris. It's also a good metaphor for the rising influence...
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Watermelons Face Discriminatory Practices. Do Watermelons Have Rights?
Ah, the sad plight of the watermelon. Time and time again placed nakedly on some pedestal and then brutally murdered.
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Music: Atom by Nari & Milani
These duo of waking, experienced Italian DJs found the groove with this latest track that is catching fire and igniting their American tour:
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