I followed a few links from the comments on a post about the Poly.Touch found on NotCot today, and wound up looking at this instead: the Reactable. Watch it in action:

Apparently it’s not exactly new (posted October 25, 2006!), but it’s new to me!

I made this this week with some friends from work. Just paste in your YouTube URL, pick a start time, and it spits back a link that will start the video wherever you like. Stupid and simple.

www.youtubetime.com

I really really want to recreate this video at home, but I think I would be in a ton of trouble:

Friendly Fires ‘Skeleton Boy’ by Clemens Habicht from Nexus Productions on Vimeo.

Via GOOD

Watching this visualization of a piano piece has me just a mesmerized as watching the internal workings of an old music box. It’s a demonstration of a piece of software called Music Animation Machine. It’s the same concept, but with a longer piece and the addition of color:

Here’s a fun post from Games Radar demonstrating that pretty much anything can look like Pac-Man. Sadly, none of the examples are sinks.

Pretty self explanatory, but very neat stuff.

Found it here on Neatorama, where else?

You’ve probably all heard about Radiohead’s little game of letting anyone remix their single, “Nude”, but this one takes it to a whole other level. James Houston played forced the tracks out of old and abused computer equipment (or at least sampled them).

He had this to say about the idea:

This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm… …I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.

See for yourself (skip in to 1:09 for the music to start):

You can also catch it in full res and full screen at the source here.

I shot this time lapse footage of last night’s lunar eclipse as a fun little experiment. Enjoy!

Print may be dead, but printing isn’t. Pazazz hopped on the viral bandwagon with this Dave Attell style rant:

Funny. And true. But mostly funny.