Artificial Animals

Here are some links to videos of outstandingly cool artificial animals:

Theo Jansen: The art of creating creatures - These giant wind powered beasts gracefully stroll along the beach.

All Japan MicroMouse Contest - This robotic mouse solves a maze with incredible speed.

Festo Air Ray - This is a robotic manta-ray shaped blip that flaps to propel its body though the air.

Science Eye Candy

Here are some links to science videos with footage that provides greate eye candy:

The Invisible World - a documentary about sights that can only be seen with unusual methods of video recording, such as time lapse, infra-red, etc. There are lots of awesome clips in this.

Water bubbles in zero gravity - this is a video of some experments with water bubbles in zero gravity.

Thinking Far Ahead

Here are some links which share the theme of foresight far into the future:

The Long Now Foundation - This group is dedicated to thinking far into the future. Some of their projects include the Rosetta disk, a modern equivelent of the Rosetta stone, and the Millenium Clock, a clock that will run for 10,000 years, and chime every 1000.

Scientist Call for Earth 'Backup' on Moon - Some ideas about how we might plan to preserve human knowledge in the face of catastrophe.

The future mindset of the class of 2029 - This article states some ideas and notions that may be held by students of the future. Their mindset will undoubtably be very different from our own.

Dance Videos

Here are some interesting liquid dancing videos:

UNIQLO MIXPLAY - this is a very cool video with people robot/ liquid dancing. Surreal.
Some dude liquid dancing - he's got amazing flow.

Randomly Cool Images

Here are a few random cool images:

Wasp catches a spider mid flight
A bicycle with a shoping cart on the front
The buddhabrot fractal
A collection of spirals

Pretty Mathematical Curves and Surfaces

Here are some curves, surfaces and other mathematical objects that I think are pretty:

Daisy
Whirl
Epispiral
Hyperbolic Helicoid - this is my all time favorite parametric surface!
Gear Curve
Swirl

Futuristic Computer Technology

Here are some links to cool futuristic computer technology:

Content Aware Image Resizing - resizes images intelligently to preserve content.
A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces - this software extracts a 3d model from images of a face, which can then be morphed or manipulated.
Pico Interface Merges Multitouch and the Physical World - This is a multi-touch tacticle computer interface with the capability to suply its own forces.
Photosynth - This software stitches a large number of images together to create a 3d scene.

Documentaries by Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis is the maker of The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares, both excellent documentaries that explain the rise of advertising and propaganda.

The Century of the Self
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis

The Century Of The Self - Part 1 of 4 - By Adam Curtis
The Century of the self 2 of 4
The Century of the Self 3 of 4
The Century of the self 4 of 4

The Power of Nightmares
This documentary continues where "The century of the self" leaves off, discussing the use of fear to control people in the late 20th century.

The Power of Nightmares Part 1: Baby it's Cold Outside - by Adam Curtis
The Power of Nightmares Part 2: The Phantom Victory - by Adam Curtis
The Power of Nightmares Part 3: The Shadows in the Cave - by Adam Curtis

Web Games in Flash

Here are some flash web games that I wrote:

Magic Plant Flash Game - Help a magic plant grow by giving it the elements it needs.

Cave Flyer Flash Game - Fly your ship through an ever winding and shrinking cave. Go as far as you can.

How many elements can you name in 10 minutes? - Test your knowledge. How many elements can you name in 10 minutes?

Space Miner Flash Game - Pilot your space ship through dangerous asteroid fields to collect precious crystals. Avoid the spike balls and turrets that oppose you.

Xonf Flash Game - Save humanity from an invasion by a never ending swarm of aliens, each of which is different. In this top-down space shooter, the enemies and their flight paths are procedurally generated, so they are always different. The shield reflection and combo mechanics are inspired by the old-school hard-core classic Mars Matrix.

RSS Tools

Here are some tools that can do useful things with RSS feeds:

FeedMarklet -This site lets you instantly create an RSS feed (no sign up). To add links to the feed, you get a bookmark button, which is very efficient.

MakeCloud - This site turns any RSS feed into a cloud that can be embedded in a blog or anywhere else.

Yahoo Pipes - Yahoo pipes is a sort of visual programming system for combining, filtering and mashing RSS feeds.

xFruits - xfruits offers services to interchange between rss, email, mobile phones, blogs, etc.

Pingoat - This service pings a large number of directories with updates to a blog.

Ping-o-matic - Similar to Pingoat, but with a different set of directories.