This advertisement from Olympus for their new, small, DSLR-style camera is pretty cool, and surprisingly engaging.

Song by Michael Kadelbach is available for free.

You can see some whacky stuff in Google Maps. Like this:

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This is an aerial view of a series of circular fields in Wilcox, near Tuscon, Arizona.

Google Wave mashes together every social and collaboration tool you currently use into a really cool new interface – really a personal social dashboard. More about it on my tech website. This is unbelievably cool. Check it out.

If Parkour is the art of running around town like a maniac, pretending to be a ninja, then doing that on a bike is Parkour-Plus – actually it’s just stunt bikes. That’s marketing for ya.

There are so many amazing stunts in this video, I’m not even sure I could describe them, although the first two minutes are amazing. The best has to be towards the end where you see people looking over the edge of where they saw a bike drop, expecting to see a bright red blob.

This is the way to commute to work. Music by Band of Horses is damn fine too. Find more here, or just head over to the source at Danny MacAskill. Or go and buy a trial bike from Inspired and break your ass.

I just came across this awesome ZX Spectrum emulator – entirely Java based, embedded within the browser. It’s remarkably accurate in it’s graphics, sound, and even response; although try something like “The Empirse Strikes Back” and things get real slow, real quick. In general though the key presses are even the right timing for some of the game maneuverer’s my muscles remember from 20 years ago! They also have emulators for Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, PS2/3, and xbox, but really who cares? They have a Spectrum emulator!

Created entirely by LotR fans with a $5000 budget, The Hunt for Gollum is a 40 minute high-definition movie that picks up sometime after the LotR trilogy, with The Heir of Isildur, Aragorn, trying to find Gollum to discover the truth of the Ring.

https://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x92k47

Check out the full movie. Incredible.

I’ve had a melody from the theme song of a BBC TV series called “The Changes” stuck in my head for years. Somehow this tune has been swirling around in my head since I was 7, which is when I first saw the TV show. When I finally found the theme music though, it’s not quite as I remembered it – somehow I’d increased the role of the initial repeating synth-loop and made that the main part of the tune. I much prefer my own version, as the original sounds weak, and not nearly as sinister as I remember the show being.

The theme music was by Paddy Kingsland, who also wrote the theme songs for some “Dr. Who” shows, and also “Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy”. Classics.

In 12 minutes, with mini-sagas, broom-men, and the birth of C3PO, the Millenum Falcon is build, minified, and finally destroyed by the dark-side.

American Idol. Bosh show of the year. An hour wasted whilst eating dinner. Adam Lambert however, brings the show to a whole new level. Since his initial Bohemian Rhapsody audition, he’s musically and vocally so far ahead of the other contestants they might as well go home now. Beautiful, and goose-bump inspiring. Outstanding. Plus it’s a great performance.

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Just stumbled across this great set of photos from the National Geographic. Looks like they cull the best shots they come across during the week.