Unlike Apple with the iPhone, Google figured out how to do background tasks and a clipboard in Android. Have a look at how copy and paste works on the Gphone.

"Waterloo Sunset" is a song released as a single by The Kinks in 1967, and featured on their album Something Else by the Kinks. It was composed and produced by The Kinks lead singer and songwriter Ray... more inside

“You don’t have to do all this stuff perfectly, you just have to make the transition from weird to eccentric and then you’re okay.”

This is going to be on mythbusters soon. $1600 from focus designs.... WANT.

Very nicely done amateur travel video, from a 2007 trip.

appears to be real...

He makes it look so easy...

Cool/entertaining/quick history of the Japanese sword. Did you know there are more old swords in the US than Japan?

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/conservative-radio-hosts-waterboarded/

6-minute Trailer for a PBS profile on Pete Seeger. Absolutely inspiring. --- Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), better known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist, and a key figure in the... more inside

Mary Roach, author of the new book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, relates how she and her husband became the first couple to be filmed on 4-D ultrasound while having sex. We have the tape, too.

Harvard professor Dan Gilbert discusses why we are especially unsuited to respond to global warming. Update: jwray points out that the frog thing is a myth. As a metaphor it may not be true - but it sure is truthy.

It's hard to figure out what channel this belongs in... "I was being interviewed by a TV producer to see whether I should be on their show, and she asked me, "What are you seeing out there that's interesting?" ... more inside

12X Faster than Gone in 60 Seconds! The Departed is an Academy Award-winning 2006 film directed by Martin Scorsese (who won his first Academy Award for this film after five previous nominations.) starring... more inside

IFC News coverage of the 2007 New York Film Festival Press Conference for the animated adapatation of the graphic novel "Persepolis." Writer/Director Marjane Satrapi responds to critics who have labeled... more inside