Dave Kellam

Shoot the Monkey is a popular physics demo (watch the video), that demonstrates projectile motion. Here’s a java simulation of the experiment.

The Paratrooper mountain bike from Montague is lightweight and foldable; designed with jumping out of a plane in mind. It would also be pretty handy size for an apartment or throwing in a car.

Monkeyfilter’s wiki has a fairly comprehensive list of mp3 weblogs, enough to keep you nice and busy for awhile.

The Mascots for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing have been announced. They’re adorable little cartoon characters. That said, the only thing that scares me more than the one holding a pistol (or the one holding a sword) is the one holding a pistol and sword, riding a horse.

The NGDC has some interesting global relief and mapping materials available including an origami earth (and dodecahedron).

An article describing a recent push of wines from the Rhone Valley. I spent a couple weeks there in high-school, that’s when I started to enjoy wine. Picked up a bottle of the Perrin Reserve last night, it’s damn good.

Egg & Muffin 2-Slice Toaster and Egg Poacher. Oh god, I want one.

Empire’s list of the 50 greatest independent films. I’ve seen 17 out of 50.

The I/O Brush out of MIT is a amazing to watch. It uses a ccd embedded in the brush to record video images that are used as the palette for subsequent strokes. Just watch the video is mind-blowing; it would be awesome to see a room full of kids using it.

Piero has posted a new 5Q interview with Paul B. Drohan of D5ive for Seal Club.

5 things you probably didn’t know about the upcoming Transformers movie.

The Atlas of North American English is a new book by Dr. William Labov, that constitutes the first coast-to-coast mapping of the major dialects spoken in the US and Canada. There is a draft chapter and a number of maps available at the UPenn site.