Osama at APEC?!

This is an interesting bit of news. A team of comedians from the Australian gag show "The Chaser's War on Everything", have managed to cause the first embarrassing APEC security blunder with one of the members dressed as Osama bin Laden managing to ride a fake motorcade through two police cordons into the red zone.

The stunt embarrassed Sydney police who have imposed the tightest security measures in city history for a summit of leaders from Pacific Rim countries, including Bush. Cast members put together a sham motorcade, hiring two motorcycles and three large cars on which they put Canadian flags. Police waved the motorcade through two checkpoints before pulling it over near the Intercontinental Hotel where Bush is staying.

"No particular reason we chose Canada," cast member Chris Taylor was quoted as saying on The Sydney Morning Herald's Web site. "We just thought they'd be a country who the cops wouldn't scrutinize too closely, and who feasibly would only have three cars in their motorcade as opposed to the 20 or so gas guzzlers that Bush has brought with him."

Below is the episode when they aired the said security breach. The Chaser, just brilliant!

Cool Physics in MIT

I wish we had these in our engineering classes. It would've made it more interesting and a lot easier to understand since less imagination would be required. For sure, I wouldn't sleep!

Kiwi!

This video is great! It leaves a lot of room for discussion. Most wished the best for the kiwi, we never really knew what happened next.

All I can say is that we have to be like this kiwi. If you think about it, what it did took a long time to do. It had set out time and effort only for the dream to be reality, no matter what will happen next. Bring out the KIWI in you!

What's Bad About UAAP Season 70

These commercials are soooooo wrong! Makes me want to boycott the games. BAKEEEEEET?! ANUNG GAGAWIN KOOOOOOH?!

The Most Annoying Sound In The World

The clip above is just for fun! For me, the most annoying sound in the world is the sound of the studio audience in a talk show like Oprah, Tyra or Ellen. It's the collective high pitched "Hoooo..." the audience makes as they clap whenever the show cuts to commercial or the host gives away free stuff.

And speaking of free stuff... It's annoying that people expect free stuff whenever they attend a talk show! I remember an episode of Ellen where she was explaining a product and that every purchase would help a charity or something like that. After the explanation, the crowd made the most annoying sound in the world, thinking they would each get one. Ellen then said, they wouldn't, ahahahahaha!!! Serves them right!

Non-Newtonian Fluid

You have to pull the trigger on a water pistol to get the water to squirt out. To make the water to come out faster, you have to pull the trigger harder. Fluids resist flow. This phenomenon is known as viscosity.

Newton devised a simple model for fluid flow that could be used to relate how hard you have to pull the trigger to how fast the liquid will squirt out of the pistol. Picture a flowing liquid as a series of layers of liquid sliding past each other. The resistance to flow arises because of the friction between these layers. If you want one layer to slide over another twice as fast as before, you'll have to overcome a resisting force that's twice as great, Newton said. The slower one layer slides over another, the less resistance there is, so that if there was no difference between the speeds the layers were moving, there would be no resistance. Fluids like water and gasoline behave according to Newton's model, and are called Newtonian fluids.

But ketchup, blood, yogurt, gravy, pie fillings, mud, and cornstarch paste DON'T follow the model. They're non-Newtonian fluids because doubling the speed that the layers slide past each other does not double the resisting force. It may less than double (like ketchup), or it may more than double (as in the case of quicksand and gravy). That's why stirring gravy thickens it, and why struggling in quicksand will make it even harder to escape.

For some fluids (like mud, or snow) you can push and get no flow at all- until you push hard enough, and the substance begins to flow like a normal liquid. This is what causes mudslides and avalanches.

I got this exact description from General Chemistry Online. I also found other articles but they all seem to bore me. In this video, they filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water. Who would have thought something scientific would be this much fun?! Apparently, they did, enjoy!

What Did He Just Say?!

GMA 7 Saksi's Michael Fajatin reports on... I DIDN'T GET THAT!!! Just a sample of FILIPINO joy and HUMOR.

Bamboo - Probinsyana

Ang probinsyana ay di basta-basta..
Mahirap bolahin, kailangan haranahin.
Ang kanyang lakad, mabibighani ka..
Di biro! babaeng probinsyana..

Mahirap amuhin, ang probinsyana..
Pag napa-ibig, wala kang duda..

Sa umaga, pisngi namumula..
Pag naka saya, maaakit ka.
Ang kanyang lakad, mabibighani ka..
Di biro! babaeng probinsyana..

Mahirap amuhin, ang probinsyana..
Pag napa-ibig, wala kang duda..

Probinsyana….

Aking diwata, saan ka pupunta?
Lumuwas ng maynila, dala ang pangarap nya..
Ang kanyang lakad, mabibighani ka..
Nasan na aking maria clara?!!

Mahirap amuhin, ang probinsyana..
Pag napa-ibig, wala kang duda..

Probinsyana!
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Why is it that I can relate sooooo much? =P

Minority Report becomes reality

This was added in YouTube August 6, 2006 - a year ago! Just before the iPhone was known to man. This has been one of my favorite videos for a long time. Really cool!