Steve Harvey is Hilarious

I never used to think him/his show were very funny, maybe I was too young to understand, or maybe he's just a lot funnier live. Family Feud seems to be the perfect venue for him to unleash his sass on unsuspecting contestants. 

Quantum Levitation - Superconducting Material

The interaction between a superconductor and a permanent magnet produces levitation because the superconductor will reject the magnetic field. This is called the Meissner effect. The videos showcase work from the Superconductivity Group at Tel-Aviv University in Israel.  The first video shows a demo of this quantum locking and levitation in action, but the second video gives a better explanation of what is going on and shows a few very cool demos not shown in the first video. Both are pretty mind blowing and well worth watching.

Latte Art Printer

Ink jet printers can do a lot of things beyond printing paper. These day they can print vascular networks and organic solar cells. Now, they can even print on top of your grande latte! Using caramel as an ink it generates the logo of a coffee giant. A little frivolous, but for anyone who dislikes frivolities, just know that they still tend to advance the state of the art.

Super Mario Levels Designed to Mimic Songs

Oh my god. Super Mario paint song remakes are cool (click here for a thriller remake), but this takes it to a whole 'nuther level. Through a few levels actually. Making levels in which the sounds follow that of another song. Cool, but it makes me feel that there is so much of youtube that I cannot really explore.

Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

Designed by Jonas Pfeil, this ball has 36 cell phone camera sensors that allow it to take pictures a full 360 degrees (or 4*pi steradians for the nerds out there) around the entirety of the sphere. Meaning from ground to sky and everything in between. Pretty impressive. Just throw it in the air and it has a built in accelerometer that it uses to sense the when it's at it's highest point and then snaps the picture. It makes for some pretty neat shots that software can mesh together so you can fly through the area you took a picture of. And it foam padded so you don't have to worry about dropping it.

My KEEPING IT REAL Resume

!!WILL PERFORM MENIAL TASKS FOR A DECENT WAGE!!

Name: The Fecht
Hometown: P-ton
Education: MIT is the Georgia Tech of the North minus good football/basketball teams, Majored in Overthinking, Minored in Party Dynamics

Job Experience:
-Can keep a group of 10 six year olds alive for at least eight weeks
-Can Macgyver a complex machine out of just about anything
-Can perform highly repetitive tasks that require minimal brain activity
-Cannooot schpell nethink correkly

Skillz:
-Can distinguish between Coors, Miller Lite, Bud Lite, Natty, and Kieth Stone
-Indecisive, especially among indecisive groups
-Ability to stay awake at all hours of the night
-Can brew beer in tight spaces
-Procrastination has yet to fail me
-Music (Noise) production on a computadora
-I know more about computer programming than my job will ever require
-Seeexxxyyynneeesssss

!HIRE ME! GIVE ME MONEY!!!

Never Stop Learning

This book sounds like fun. I really need to make a reading list, so many books, so little time. Never stop learning.

"How heavy is that cloud? Why can you see farther in rain than in fog? Why are the droplets on that spider web spaced apart so evenly? If you have ever asked questions like these while outdoors, and wondered how you might figure out the answers, this is a book for you. An entertaining and informative collection of fascinating puzzles from the natural world around us, A Mathematical Nature Walk will delight anyone who loves nature or math or both."