Music: Bruno Mars Dog On The Couch

Did you see the Bruno Mars perform on American Idol last night with the dog and the brass section sitting on the couch. Very nice!


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Philosophy: Money, Love or Knowledge

Great stuff from Scrivle on the pursuit of happiness. Choose Love!

Choose Knowledge, and you’ll have the flexibility of picking between Money and Love at will.

Choose Love, and you’ll go on the slow but consistent road to having it all.

Choose Money, and you’ll bankrupt yourself trying to reach the other two.

Movie: Harry Potter Trailer

Here's the trailer for the final Harry Potter. Somehow, I never noticed the similarity of the wands to light sabers. Harry why do you have a red light saber?

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Medical: Heal

Cool video which describes many surgical orthopedic techniques in an interesting story. Hopefully, rarely used all on the same patient.

Heal - Animated Trauma, from Ghost Productions on Vimeo.

via Neatorama.

Music: Steve Earle NPR

NPR's Tiny Desk Concert with Steve Earle. The second song is a memorable love song with these lyrics.

I love you with every thing; all my weakness and all my strength.
I can't promise you anything except my last breath will bear your name.

Games: Tetris Heaven

Should be embeddable and play here (uses flash). If not here's the original page.

Embed code doesn't seem to work, try on the website.

Trees: World's Tallest Tree

Check out this tree. Sounds like a fun summer quest, in search of the tallest trees in the world.

Poetry: Vintage Man

Poetry by Hafiz, link via EveryDayIsAwesome. Keep sculpting light.

The Vintage Man

The difference
Between a good artist
and a great one

Is:

The novice
Will often lay down his tool
Or brush

Then pick up an invisible club
On the mind’s table

And helplessly smash the Easels and
Jade

Whereas the vintage man
No longer hurts himself or anyone

And keeps on
Sculpting

Light.

Birthday: Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Birthday Mom. As you teach us to say, "We love you as high as the sky, and as wide as Texas." We hope the day fills your cup with love and beauty; because, you have certainly kept ours overflowing.

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare

Sport: Throwing Kinetic Chain

This article in The Atlantic site describes the "kinetic chain" sequence of events to successfully throw a ball (or hit a tennis ball, or swing a golf club).

Interesting test to see how quickly you could teach yourself to throw left-handed with this knowledge.

In the kinetic chain, momentum is built up in the larger muscles of the body, then transferred to increasingly smaller pieces. This transfer of momentum creates a whip-like action.

1. Rotate the legs and hips back in the direction of the throw (body should be rotated at least 90 degrees away from target)
2. Torso rotation- from waist to shoulders (since its mass is less than that of the legs momentum makes it rotate faster than the hips and legs did)
3. Upper arm comes past the head (elbow should be above or level with the shoulder)
4. Forearm and wrist, which snap forward at tremendous speed (elbow should be more extended - not close to the head)

This Red Bull advertisement shows the sequence in slow motion in the comparatively slight built Tim Lincecum.

Birthday: Happy Birthday ISAAC!

What a great kid. I am thinking of all the things I've watched you learn in the last year and it is entirely amazing. (Here's the birthday card I made for you!)

How about these (I'm sure there's plenty more:

• How to tie a fishing knot
• Learned (and forgot) how to spell every state in the union
• Learned a shot-gun snap and a pancake block
• Started learning how to solve algebra equations
• How to throw a rugby spin pass
• Beat us fair and square in dominoes
• How to hunt for fossils from an unlikely roadside expert
• How to write your own HTML page
• Learned a triangle choke submission hold
• How to mow the yard
• How to grow tomatoes from seed (and that they need more sun to produce better fruit)
• Learned to play scales on a guitar (and Sweet Home Alabama)
• Learned to use vocabulary other than 'good' to describe your school day
• Learned to give amazing and deep meaningful hugs

There are many others, but this is a good start. You are an awesome son, keep it up! Happy Birthday!


Check out this music mixing application (via LifeHaker) as we're both learning to make a mash-up.

Games: HTML5 3D Cycleblob

Interesting 3D Tron lightcycle online game and NO Flash. Cool display of HTML5, but will only work with browsers which run HTML5 (Firefox 4).

Maps: Conflict History

This is a pretty cool Flash application which shows a historical conflict timeline superimposed on a Google map. Also includes informational pieces from each conflict (not sure how this is generated, but it would be cool if it mashes with Wikipedia).

They have a conflict from 3000 B.C., the Kurukshetra War in India.

Programming: HTML5 Canvas Flip Example

In celebration of Isaac's birthday (and because I've been creating some HTML5 sample projects at work) I created a sample flip book over on Isaac's website.

It requires a browser which runs HTML5 (I use Firefox 4.0). Also this is code modified from a similar subject on HTML5Rocks. I took away the images to simplify and added pictures instead of text.

Music: Werewolves Of London Studio Track

A studio track of one of our favorite songs, "...his hair was perrrfect *DIDT*."

No piano on this one. Warren Zevon's howl is even more accentuated without the piano part.



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Comic: Suck It Up!

Must remember this today.


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Games: Tetris Labs

Tetris Labs games. Check it out.


via Woot!

Picture: Monday's Incredible Times Pictures

A few pictures as a reminder from gapingvoid, "we live in incredible times."


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via everydayisawesome


via ThisIsNotPorn

Study: Wolfram Course Assistant Apps

Need to check some of these apps out from Wolfram. They have Algebra, Astronomy, Calculus (even multi-variable calculus), and Music theory.

Math: Binary Hand Dance

Isaac and I learned to count binary on our fingers last year, but this video certainly puts a new spin on it. Always good math stuff from ViHart.