Geek Lifting

“ In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

Absolutely amazing magic tricks with a honking huge green laser

MADtv - iRack (including blooper in the end) (via ORLY0wl). Finally Apple, MadTV and The Global War On Terror combine to be genuinely funny. Who’d a thunk it?

» Blogging Is About Writing

No matter how pretty or flashy you make your blog, its all about great writing. Here are the ways to ensure content really is king.

» Universcale

Another “Power of 10” type of presentation. This one is in the form of a Flash app and its good looking and has a lot of up-to-date facts. Great learning resource!

Death Cab for Cutie - “I Will Follow You into the Dark” (on YouTube). This one gets you right there :-(

“ Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we’d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. If death were indefinitely put off, the human psyche would end up, well, like the gambler in the “Twilight Zone” episode.

— Ray Kurzweil, In Death

The immortality of Nelson, 1807, by Benjamin West© NMM London, Greenwich Hospital Collection

The Spiral of Life

“ Welcome to a world where the air I breathe is mine
There’s nothing to overwhelm me and nothing to cloud my mind
Be anyone, do anything I’d ever want to try
Time doesn’t exist here, I will never die

— Lyrics from “Own Little World” by Celldweller.

» 30 Sexy One Page Websites

Have a look at these lovelies and be inspired to cook up some CSS magic.

Steve Jobs net worth jumps from 6 billion to 20 billion cool ones. Cha-Ching!

I’m a Mac (Jobs), I’m a PC (Gates) on YouTube

“ Our Machine is born. It’s on.

— Kevin Kelly (2005)

“ The network is the computer.

— John Gage (1988)