Link: http://cybernetnews.com/jaycut-free-online-video-editor/

This is way cool - a full featured online video editor. Now no matter where you are or what hardware you have, you can stitch up something interesting.

* Remix/trim videos and images
* Add music, transitions and effects
* Add captions and subtitles
* Automated transcoding
* 1-Click export to YouTube
* Export videos for iPhone, Windows and Mac (MPEG-4 – H.264, MPEG-4 – XVID, AVI – XVID, Flash – H.264)

That’s not all either. They just upgraded the editor a few weeks ago to include webcam/voice-over support, slow motion effects, green screen compatibility, and colorization techniques

Link: http://www.madville.com/out/cool/326510_minas_tirith_made_from_matchsticks

Not every day you see something like this... way to go.

Check out the article for bigger pics.

Link: http://artatm.com/2010/08/25-fantastic-jquery-techniques-and-effects-for-creating-awesome-websites/

A whole new batch of jQuery goodness -

Many of us have been using jQuery to a great deal. Be it for photo gallery or featured items or be it any other purpose, jQuery helps in developing any application that you want.

In this post we are publishing 25 Fantastic jQuery Techniques and Effects For Creating Awesome Websites for your use. If you like any of these jquery and you plan to use them then please read the license agreement of the creator as they may change from time to time.

Link: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=105822368

How about 2 cool things in one? Here we have a Sci Fi video that's way cool and then we find out it's for the new Iron Maiden song. Bonus.

I'd never seen this Pixar short ( must have missed the movie it was released with ). Tell you what though, if you've got 5 minutes to spare this is well worth the watch and full of that Pixar magic.

High 5 for this one!

Link: http://www.ohgizmo.com/2010/08/02/air-hogs-hawk-eye/

Gotta hand it to Airhogs- I have two RC choppers and now I want one more.

Their new Hawk Eye RC chopper, which is due sometime in the Fall for about $65, is able to capture around 5 minutes of 320×240 resolution video, or hundreds of photos at 640×480. Useless for those of you hoping to use it for 2nd unit aerial photography on your low-budget blockbuster, but good enough for the rest of us who want to capture the annoyed reactions of visiting family and friends.

The Hawk Eye can also be connected directly to your PC for transferring the videos, and while you’re doing that the helicopter also charges, so you can kill two birds with one stone and be back in the air in no time. It also comes with a 2-channel remote of course, letting you control altitude and spin the chopper left or right, and start/stop the video recording or snap photos.

Link: http://www.burwenaudio.com/Sound_System.html

Think you have a high end sound system? This guy spent years building his whole house around the stereo and I can only imagine how this sounds.

Looking down on Dick Burwen's Sound Studio built in 1965-1966, the plan has not changed. He designed it for 5 channels at that time and
built his home around it. The left rear speaker horn contains a Lowry organ, now used as a sound diffuser, and the right rear horn holds
a 120 year-old Steinway B piano. At the listening sofa the rear speakers deliver reflected sound.

Dick started designing the equipment for his current sound system in 1962 and it is almost finished.

You could have some serious fun with this - imagine building a huge 3 foot glowstick!

Wow ...

Multiple tower upward lightning flash captured at 9,000 images per second in Rapid City, SD on 6/16/10

Link: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/d03a/?cpg=cj&ref=&CJURL=

Mark this one as the coolest RC toy EVER.

The RC Tank can transform into an RC ship in seconds. And if simply chasing your chosen victim isn’t sufficient, the cannon mounted on the top of this RC Amphibian Tank can shoot Air Soft BBs almost twenty meters...

With LED Lights for night missions and get this, 4 can holders just in case you want to deliver some beers after shooting up the family pets.

Product Specifications

* Rechargeable R/C Amphibious Battle Tank
* Runs on Land and Sea
* Shoots BBs up to 20 meters
* Comes with 200 BBs
* Wireless R/C Controller
* Flashing red & blue LEDs on both sides
* Superior quality water resistant body
* Moves forward, back, left and right and does a 360 degree spin
* Can be used indoors or outdoors
* Tank Dimension: Length: 235 mm, Height: 158 mm, Width: 215 mm
* Requires 9 volt battery for remote (not included)

For $59.99 it's a steal - Over at ThinkGeek

Link: http://oldspicevoicemail.com/male.html

The fine folks at Reddit created this app - now go ahead and make you a new voicemail.

I'm on a horse.

Link: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

A very smart move from Google on this one .....

You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.

But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.

Link: http://lifehacker.com/5583762/access-hulu-from-outside-the-us-without-a-proxy-server

Lifehacker has the goods for all of you that want to see Hulu but are barred from viewing simply because of your geographical location.

This method should allow access not just to Hulu, but many other US-only streaming sites. Note that this may disable Flash on other sites, so you'll only want to enable this while you're watching video on one of these sites.

I so totally forgot about this one

We saw Toy Story 3 at the Drive in theater this weekend and I was very impressed with how awesome the new short was. The movie itself rocked too....

Link: http://www.criticalpast.com/

Awesome HTPC fodder and it's educational too - Images as well, but you have to pay to download the images.

Link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iT2LvU72jbaLrcXxfKe2w2m2az2g

Wow, that's a lot of phones - looks like Android is the iPhone killer.

More than 160,000 mobile phones powered by Google's Android operating system are being sold every day, the Internet giant said Wednesday on the eve of the launch of the new iPhone from rival Apple.

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, speaking to the CNBC television network at the unveiling of a new Android phone from Motorola, the "Droid X," said his company was engaged in a "battle over the next set of mobile platforms."

Link: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/06/tron-toys/

A light cycle that can climb the walls - and a keyboard with the coolest themed blue lighting I've seen in a while ... and let's not forget the lighted Xbox controllers.... omg and the holographically projected faces on the action figures - WOW.

The gravity-defying racer uses suction technology developed by a company called Air Hogs. Although the toy light cycle is a tad noisy, it spins around on the wall as easily as it does on the ground. True to the movie, the vehicle projects a beam of light behind it, and if it’s crossed by another light cycle, it loses power and will fall off the wall.

You're welcome - now go and crank this at work ... over and over and....

Just watch this and tell me you don't want one.

I love it when people use fire to create cool things - and this short video is pretty awesome.

Awesome ! it happens so fast you can't even see it in slo-mo recap.

woah - this is one heck of a DIY project eh?

Link: http://www.3point.com/taverncraft/default.aspx?ProductLine=Hobbit

Be still my geeky heart, I want one !

Taverncraft proudly announces The Hobbit Stein Collection, an extraordinary series of new steins based on the beloved fantasy masterpiece by J.R.R. Tolkien. Each iconic moment is brought to life with panoramic, bas-relief sculpting and are hand-crafted in the old-world style with fine-grain stoneware by the world-renowned stein artisans. An absolute must-have for fans of both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, each exquisite stein stands over 10" tall (25.4cm), weighs a hefty 3 lbs. (1.36kg.), and is topped with a sculpted pewter lid.

Link: http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=2684

Phones have come a long way eh?

I installed the benchmark onto my trusty T-Mobile G2 (a rebadged HTC Hero, currently running Android 1.5) and on firing it up discovered that it tops out at around 2.3 Mflop/s which makes it around 66% as fast as a single processor on a 1979 Cray 1 supercomputer. OK, so maybe that’s not particularly impressive but the very latest crop of Android phones are a different matter entirely.

According to the current Top 10 Android Linpack results, a tweaked Motorola Droid is capable of scoring 52 Mflop/s which is over 15 times faster than the 1979 Cray 1 CPU.

Heck yeah - this is a way cool project.

Link: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-05/japan-wants-moon-base-2020-built-robots-robots

Well, this is one way to get the party on the moon started....

As currently envisioned, the robots that will land on the lunar surface in 2015 will be 660-pound behemoths equipped with rolling tank-like treads, solar panels, seismographs, high-def cameras and a smattering of scientific instruments. They'll also have human-like arms for collecting rock samples that will be returned to Earth via rocket. The robots will be controlled from Earth, but they'll also be imbued with their own kind of machine intelligence, making decisions on their own and operating with a high degree of autonomy.

Go Japan!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agk2svo7svI

5 minutes of pure CG awesome for your holiday weekend enjoyment.

Link: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/

I have died and gone to heaven, I was barely able to drag myself away from this one. My fav being the 1986 catalog as I had so much of the stuff in there it's not funny. Oh the good old days!

Link: http://www.3planesoft.com/fantasy-screensavers/the-one-ring-3d-screensaver/

Tolkien nuts rejoice - this godlike screensaver showing the one ring in animated 3D goodness is free and available now.

background is made of a map of Middle Earth. In the foreground you can see the Ring of Sauron engraved with those famous words from Mordor.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/gwz40#p/u/6/_8aH-M3PzM0

The lad and I went to the battleship Mass this spring and saw some of these on the ship - they were entire rooms full of analog equipment called computers.

I just found these videos made by the US Navy detailing just how much went into these mechanical marvels.

Link: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gutcheck/2010/05/win_your_dad_a_years_supply_of_bacon_become_child_of_the_year.php

Oscar Myer has my vote here for the coolest contest ever.

In what has to be the only contest that should make your dad incredibly happy but also slowly kill him, the title of "Oscar Mayer Bacon Sizzling Dad" can be bestowed upon your father just in time for Father's Day (Sunday, June 20). Dad will also be awarded $5,000.

Submit a photo of your dad with a caption that is no more than 50 words, explaining why you dad should win, why he's great, why he loves bacon, etc. Participants have to enter at Facebook.com/OscarMayer between today (May 14) and June 4.

Talk about your odd titles eh? These guys have a sparkling day on the water acting like first class idiots. Nicely done gentlemen.

Link: http://www.hulu.com/voltron-defender-of-the-universe

Set the wayback machine to 1980 Sherman! Gather the kids and pour some big bowls of sugary cereal - it's time for Voltron.