And no, it is not fake, the the making of will attest:

The official site is http://walkmanproject.com/ which has the add and the making of (if they dissappear from youtube). Interestingly, the official website is also encouraging everyone to contribute their own tracks, mix up other people's tracks and rate other people's mixes...

From The Guardian, UK:

Walter Lewin is not your average Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. He teaches introductory physics with a difference: electric charge is demonstrated by beating a student with cat fur, he rides a fire-extinguisher propelled tricycle across the lecture hall to show how a rocket lifts off. ....

....Each lecture, complete with stunts (others have included making himself into a pendulum and firing golf balls at a stuffed monkey in a bulletproof vest) takes about 25 hours to prepare....

The lecture videos can be downloaded! Check them out at the MIT site.

... that makes them so incredibly cool?

A few days ago, a dolphin helped rescue two stranded whales in NZ. Check out the BBC report.

I think my favourite dolphin story is still this one. Trippy!

One morning, while driving past Kaikoura, NZ, some years ago, i had the good fortune of seeing a huge number of  dolphins out for a breakfast hunt. There must have been more than a hundred out there. It remains one of the coolest things i've ever seen.....

For a long time, I thought that Stevie Wonder was a pretty good musician........

.......silly silly me...... the Man is a Golden God!

First time i saw this video, I was completely stunned. I didnt even know he could play the drums. He does some things in this vid that I think would make many a musician cry, and he doesnt even look like he's breaking a sweat!

This video actually made me go out and get a hold of his music and have a proper listen. I am now convinced that Stevie Wonder is one of those rare musicians whose genius is unclassifiable, trancending instruments and genres. Maybe I'll check out his latest album sometime soon....

Ok, it was about a month ago, but in case you missed it...

YouTube recently had an interesting collaboration with CBS for the Grammys. They put out an open call for string and brass musicians to audition by posting YouTube videos. The top 15 performed on stage with the Foo Fighters on their song 'Pretender'.

What I found most interesting was that even a month later, YouTube did not have the actual performance avilable to view. It felt like watching the teaser of a great movie that was never released. Googling any term including 'mygrammymoment' was hopeless - you only got the 'official' YouTube site (bear in mind YouTube is now owned by Google). I finaly figured out by Googling 'grammy awards 2008 foo fighters' I could find the actual performance from a less official source.

I'm not entirely sure what I feel about all of this. Its an interesting concept, combining the music, broadcast, and internet industries, but I felt the performance only used the winners fo about the last minute of the song as a flashy finale - it didn't quite do them justice. But I guess that is what the YouTube component was for. 

Just saw the movie 'Genesis', and was throughly impressed. Its a French film (with English subtitles), taking an artistic view of creation and what it means to be human. But as another reviewer said, don't be mistaken for thinking it is another Discovery Channel show. The visuals are captivating, and perfectly reinforce the 'story', often in very innovative ways. A couple of facinating ideas discussed:

We are all products of the cosmos - literally made from atoms that were once stars, nebulae, and then rivers, trees, volcanoes. Once we pass on, our atoms will once again become those wonderful works of nature.

We are not made of atoms. Atoms flow through us like water in a river, but our life is more like the river - directing the flow of matter. Defying the laws of entropy that pull us towards decay. This refers to the fact that much of the tissues in our body is replaced every few days/months/years. So we are in fact a different 'person' to ourselves even just a few years ago.

IMDB Details and a good, short review here.
A more detailed review here. 

A little something that Siva sent out a while ago. Good for a 1 minute laugh. Would love to see more .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA-aEqbU6jE