11/24/2007 - POOL TRICKS

You gotta have some admiration for pool trick shot experts. Their dedication to the "sport" can lead to some pretty amazing sights that leave you wondering if physics were somehow defied in the process of hitting those balls in the pockets. It always amazes me to see the high-english shots that make the ball curve and sometimes go backwards. Some trick shots are so elaborate that they rival even the most complicated Rube Goldberg contraptions. Of course, when trick shots go wrong, they're quite underwhelming. But that's why they invented video editing...

8/10/2007 - Cool Webpage Trick

This video isn't exactly a great video, but what it's demonstrating is undeniably cool. If you're using a browser and you can copy and paste, you can amaze your friends (and yourself) by following the instructions in the video's description to make the images of any webpage dance around the screen. I've been programming for years, and I didn't even know something like this was possible. Not the concept, but the fact that a piece of JavaScript pasted into the URL field of the browser would activate that script on that page. I'm not sure why browser programmers would allow that to happen... seems like a security risk to me, but it does make this cool trick possible!