Amazing Soccer Skills

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What keeps a train on the tracks? How sure are you?

What keeps a train on the tracks? Yeah, right, that flange on the inside of the wheels. Obvious right?

Wrong.

What I like about this information is not just how the truth of the matter, despite it having seemed obvious to me since I was a kid, is incorrect, but how the truth of the matter is so subtle and elegant and beautiful.

And isn't this always the pattern of discovery?  And how many other much more complicated truths do I hold that might be debunked by subtle, elegant, and beautiful re-understanding?  Lots, I hope.

First seen at www.boingboing.net

Forward

Wow, some kind of time dilation . . .

Milk In My Sippy Cup

Awesome Venus Transit Video

Wow.

Man Opens Beer With Chainsaw

If this doesn't make you laugh, check your pulse.

Use Condoms

Double Back Flip

Quote at the end, "Finally accomplished what I've been trying to do for years." Cool.

Sciaphobia: Fear of Shadows

Delightfully spooky.  Nice piece of work you guys!

Fun With Power Tools: Belt Sander

Gold Guns Girls, by Metric

Wow, cool song, as in this post at www.boingboing.net

Can't Go For That: Cool Hall & Oates Cover.

Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, as seen here at boingboing.net

RUIN CGI Animated Short

Tres cool from www.geekisawesome.com

Cameras Mounted on Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster? Priceless!

Wow. Awesome. Go full screen and listen. The sounds are amazing too. Found at geekisawesome.com.

Stunning Video of Earth and Space From the ISS

TED: Copyright Math

Very funny, and goes a long way to clarify the degree of damage suffered by the MPAA and RIAA.

Mountain Bike Helmet Cam in Chile

Wow, what a ride! Hold on.

Stoopid Cool

...starts about 1:15, and check out http://www.frdrk.org for more about the music...

Chinese Scenes from Base-Book - Matt Gerdes on Vimeo.