http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhF-7suDsM

 
Amazing performance by Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray
This is incredible. Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray (from the 50s “Your Show of Shows”) are locked in an argument - to the sound of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony… “No cue cards, no teleprompters, and no second takes”
 

The Ultra Green City

Before you go patting yourself on the back for recycling your water bottle yesterday or turning the tap off while you brush your teeth, consider what life will be like in the eco-city of Dongtan. The city won’t have a landfill. Why would they need one since they don’t plan to have […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyTtBNQ0PAg

Bruce Sterling on the future
Bruce Sterling is a brilliant futurist and science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre. More photos and videos after the jump.
 

Would you feel comfortable driving on ONE wheel?

Get out of the way, everybody! Here comes the one-wheeled Audi Snook. Maybe this auto-stabilized monowheel design concept isn’t such a bad idea, though, because it won German student Tilmann Schlootz a Michelin Challenge Design Award 2008 at this year’s Detroit Auto Show.

Farmer demonstrating Tai Chi for cows
A dairy farmer who believes a happy cow is a productive cow has discovered an unusual way to relax his herd and increase milk yields – tai chi.
Rob Taverner performs the ancient martial art in front of his 100 cows every morning to get them in the right moo-d […]

A controversial study shows vitamins do not prolong life and some are even harmful
Popular vitamin supplements are swallowed by millions of people in the belief that they will prolong their life expectancy, but according to a new research they may actually be harmful and could increase risk of death.
The review of studies found no evidence […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei2JM8xLb3c

Launching of Sealand in 1967
The Principality of Sealand was founded in 1967 upon an abandoned wartime gun tower 7 miles off the coast of out into the North Atlantic. Ray Essex (Prince Ray) has run radio and tv stations; issued passports, coinage and postage stamps from his principality while holding his ground amidst storms, coup […]

Futurists Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard on the Future of Advertising
Advertising has always been something we suffered through, particularly in such passive activities as television watching. On the other hand, online advertising has become more context sensitive. Glen and Gerd discuss how this new model will continue to grow in the future as a better […]

A Variety Of Letters That Can Be Used In Graffiti Art

Graffiti Taxonomy is a project by Evan Roth aka ni9e of Graffiti Research Lab. It is a study of the styles of the alphabets used in graffiti found New York:
Graffiti Taxonomy presents isolated letters from various graffiti tags, reproduced in similar scales and at close […]