Chiptune and geeky Lego videoclip

Nice videoclip combining Lego and chiptunes by Swedish ubergeeks Rymdreglage into something reminiscent of the demoscene. Found at waxy.org

Pecha Kucha about katana and technology

At Ignite Boulder (using a Pecha Kucha derived format) Jonathan Kahan gave a talk about the samurai sword (katana). It’s an entertaining short presentation on the craftsmanship and highly technical methods used by the swordmakers in ancient Japan in creating these sophisticated weapons. As a Takeda-Ryu budoka I’m happy to know that if Tom Cruise looks cool (see 1:27 minutes into the talk) with a sword then there might be hope for me as well

The talk is published by O’Reilly under a Creative Commons BY-SA license

Educational visalisation of the credit crisis

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Thanks Nat Torkington of O’Reilly Radar