colbert was at google nyc recently. the lines were crazy.
Tag: video
Giant Iceberg calves
what it looks like when a manhattan-sized iceberg gets born.
Free culture
the canonical free culture talk by lessig, from 2002. i remember being in the audience when that happened. it has aged well.
Year in Search 2012
a bit self-serving but also very nicely done.
Baikonur
“Whatever falls from heaven, you may keep.” So goes the unwritten law of the Kazakh steppes. A law avidly adhered to by the inhabitants of a small village, who collect the space debris that falls downrange from the nearby Baikonur space station.
Building battlebots
i got a chance to go to techshop menlo park to assemble some robots with some coworkers, and then fight them. it was great fun. think of techshop as a gym with tools, amazing place.
Parrot trains human
for the first time ever, a parrot has successfully trained a human to design and build robots specifically for the parrot’s use and entertainment.
Epic 2014, 10 years later
Self-balancing motorcycle
this is quite possibly more revolutionary / impactful than the tesla sedan. i am especially impressed with the gyroscope action going on in the video to keep the scooter upright.
Instagram idiots
everything that is wrong with iphone / instagram idiots.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 