Take 20 minutes (ok, 21 actually) out of your day for this very well-made video. If you're concerned about over-consumption or the future of our environment, this is for you. If not, watch it and tell me you still aren't:

Found via @swissmiss. Thank you

I just found this (via @swissmiss) and must say I have never watched a table tennis match with as much enthusiasm (nor with my mouth so embarrassingly wide open!). The fact that it's advertising a special edition Nokia phone is pretty much irrelevant:

He looks like he wasn't even trying hard!!!!

Bruce Lee, Legend. Basta.

We all love a hug - go on, admit it!

That old standby, the tree, was probably feeling a little neglected in London when The Anonymous Hugging Wall was in town (I'm not sure when or where this happened as there's no indication on the blog).

Nice concept, and I'm sure a lot of people took advantage of the chance to have an anonymous hug with a living person instead of a tree... or did they? That'd be interesting to know...

At least this young lady seems to have found it's soothing qualities.

(photos: keetra dean dixon, fromkeetra.com)

Stanford University environmental and climate scientists Cristina Archer and Ken Caldeira have revealed, in a study, that there is enough energy locked up in high-level winds to provide approximately 100 times the energy needed by the whole of civilisation.

The up to 10 times faster winds would be turned into electricity by turbines fitted to Sky WindPower kites, such as the one pictured above, flying in jet streams at a height of around 32,000 feet. The kites would then be tethered to a distribution grid on the ground below to provide the electricity to the rest of the power grid and, ultimately to homes and offices, etc.

According to the study, you'd need solar cells covering an area 100 times larger than these kites to produce the same energy. One also presumes that these solar cells would have to be laid out somewhere and therefore take up land space too.

This seems like a fantastic way to harvest nature's power and one that would be pretty much limitless, as the study points out. Jet stream winds are relatively reliable, unlike the winds we experience closer to ground.

I am left wondering how the challenge of constructing, erecting and ultimately protecting 32,000 feet of tethering and power-carrying cable is going to be addressed. There would certainly be a need for redirecting air traffic around "Sky WindPower" Farms.

Here's the article about the study on the Stanford University website if you'd like to read more!

Thanks to physorg.com and KurzweilAI.net for bringing this to my attention!

This little gem has been out for a while now but I only stumbled upon it today (thanks to @funniness).

Pretty well made and funny:

Enjoy!