The most anticipated trailer of the decade has finally arrived my peeps… here’s the red band (i.e. 18 years old and older only) trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno. And it looks good. Really good! Now you’ll be hearing people say how much more hilarious, and how much more racy it looks compared to Borat. And they’ll be right – it makes Borat look like an episode of Happy Days. This movie is going to be freaking insane. Bruno hits theaters July 10th, 2009.
And here is a video clip of my all-time favorite Bruno moment to hold you over until the movie is released, and to get you reacquainted with his fabulous journalistic exploits. Enjoy!
Following the new Apocrypha expansion for EVE, the best MMO game in the world, a series of new videos were released to showcase the game and the four playable races. Which one are you?
EVE Online: Apocrypha Expansion Intro
This is the new in-game intro for EVE Online, made using in-game graphics. It is part of the change for the new player experience for EVE Online: Apocrypha.
Never been a terribly big Alan Keyes supporter, but I have heard good things about him and had heard one or two sound bites before that impressed me. In this brief interview he hits the nail on the head so many times he could have built a picnic table.
There are a number of videos on science and philosphy I’d like to get back to posting on Merch. Here’s another from the late, great Carl Sagan. I’ve featured him before in a now-classic video, but it’s time for another visit with the man who brought science to popular culture.
Can anyone do it better? Very few people can match the passion and articulation of this great man who took 62 trips around the sun with us. What a shame to have lost such as this:
Louis CK reflects on the marvels of today’s modern times and the jaded twerps who fail to appreciate them. Priceless at this time of year and when modern civilization is being blamed by the leftstream apologentsia for all manner of ills it never fostered.
Blame the schools and the Me Generation, who apparently fostered the Me First Generation.
I’ve seen the teasers, but this is the first full-length trailer for the new X-Men film and it looks amazing. The origin story of Wolverine is told and it looks like they are remaining faithful to the comic book canon. See it for yourself in hi-res:
The video below is of dolphins playing with the unique silver colored rings they have the ability to create underwater.
The explanation for how dolphins make these silver rings is that the phenomena are “air-core vortex rings”. Invisible, spinning vortices in the water are generated from the tip of a dolphins dorsal fin when it is moving rapidly and turning. When dolphins break the line, the ends are drawn together into a closed ring. The higher velocity fluid around the core of the vortex is at a lower pressure than the fluid circulating farther away.
Air is injected into the rings via bubbles released from the dolphin’s blowhole. The energy of the water vortex is enough to keep the bubbles from rising for a few brief moments of play time.
Besides being nice to look at (and a cool demonstration of fluid mechanics), this phenomenon also might throw some light on dolphin cognition, since the skill to create the rings is a bit subtle and tends to be taught from one dolphin to the next via careful observation and practice.Â
Also intriguing is the report that they seem to be using sonar to locate the vortex in the water, since that would be a fairly amazing bit of audio analysis.
First heard of this project about a year ago and thought it sounded intriguing. I’m also curious to see if Tom Cruise can salvage his career and public image with a great film.
Directed by Bryan Singer and based on the true story of a World War II plot by elements of the German high command to assassinate Hitler, Valkyrie is looking better and better with each new preview.
