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It’s Called Le voyage dans la Lune or Trip to the Moon done in 1907 by Georges Méliès a french filmmaker:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0BmQaIIR4]

Seem Familier? You may have seen a tribute on this Smashing Pumpkins Video:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZYqaSc4cU]
Motion Pictures are awesome…….

More Georges Méliès films here via Youtube.com

This is a must see video of a Multi-Touch Interaction System, the future of computing.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LByAFrcOwJk]

I can see so many ways I could use that in the lab I work in. Listen to Jeff Han describe this technology.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLhMVNdplJc]

imagine using it for a drilling in to a 3D model of an atom or an chemical compound, or showing a molecular interactions. Organic chemistry would have been a whole lot easier.

Imagine using this for real time animation or applying this to audio engineering. The possibilities go on and on and this technology is just in its infancy.

I may not be able to fly around with a jet pack yet but this is just as cool. The Future is upon us and its good to be a part of it.

This poll shows you just how closed-minded the American Public is.

How does being an Athiest, Homosexual, or even married 3 times make you less qualified to be president? I don’t get it. None of this would even drop in to my mind when deciding who I would vote for.

Again I ask…what kind of world do I live in?

Found via richarddawkins.net

Because they may become a surgeon (medpagetoday.com):

Surgeons who played video games at least three hours a week in their past were 27% faster, with 37% fewer errors, in simulations of laparoscopic surgery than nonplayers, reported James C. Rosser Jr., M.D., of Beth Israel Medical Center here, and colleagues in the February issue of the journal Archives of Surgery.

Among the 33 residents and attending physicians in Dr. Rosser’s Top Gun Laparoscopic Skills and Suturing training program, those who currently played video games committed 32% fewer errors and were 24% faster than nonplayers.

Who would have thought that a 400 dollar gaming console that everyone thought was going to fry the brains of our generation would have an impact like this?

Now if only those doctors could figure out the real life equivalent of up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A start.

You can’t go wrong with Rose McGowen in this one.

Teaser Trailer:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRp7gdGJAyc]

Longer Theatrical Trailer:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVUwLi7sUZg]

(link to a trailer i saw a while back that aired on spike TV)

Finally, Some reconciliation for all the torture of Vanderbilt Football.

The Baseball team is ranked #1 in the country and the Basketball team is #17 or #21 depending on which poll you look at.

I personally think the SEC is the toughest conference (The east the strogest) in college basketball today and the reason there are not more reanked SEC teams is because they are all beating each other. I hope the SEC get it fair share of teams in the NCAA tourny. But we will see. Should make the SEC conference tourny all that more exciting.

 

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe-er9FqhYA]

found via GiFS

And that girl is quite the hottie. Happy Sunday!!