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If you believe what you see, a fellow seems to have wandered into a shop at St Austell in southern England and accidentally destroyed severa...

This trailer introduces a pleasant video called Loving Vincent : Click here to visit the movie's website.

Click YouTube for a bigger version of the video I couldn't help thinking that, when the girls got up out of the uncomfortable pos...

In this blog, here , I’ve already mentioned the prestigious annual Darwin Awards . They’re necessarily posthumous awards, because a winne...

Three psychology researchers (including the Queenslander Matthew Thompson ) have hit upon one of the most amazing distortion illusions I...

American-born Drew Berry has achieved fame as a creator of amazing animated biological videos in a celebrated scientific environment in Aus...

Some of my readers are likely to wonder whether I found this story by hanging around sleazily on websites about Japanese adolescents. In fac...

I shot this video clip this morning, at the top of the stone staircase (which I built last year) leading down into my flower garden. Sophi...

I recorded this video talk on Sunday afternoon, before the amazing US raid on the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan. It's essentially an e...

WARNING : This is a rather technical blog post. Maybe it won't interest many people. In fact, I'm totally unaware of the number of A...

Many observers of the English have evoked their eccentric nature. It would be silly to generalize, of course, but I've always had the im...

If I haven't blogged much over the last week, it's because I was busy tidying up the house for the arrival of Manya and Hakeem . I ...

On Bastille Day, Natacha and Alain came to visit me at Gamone. Knowing that I'd created a garden, they gave me a set of solar lamps. T...

This amazing little video was produced by pointing a camera at a real-world scene composed of four tracks that guide the movements of rollin...

From an artistic viewpoint, this English road-safety video is particularly aesthetic: One might wonder, though, whether this strong dose of ...

When I worked at Ilog in Gentilly (just outside Paris) and I annoyed my brilliant colleagues with nasty technical questions (mainly about U...

Randy Pausch , a 47-year-old professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, died yesterday of complications from pancreatic ca...

Australian TV viewers thought it hilarious when a comic crew succeeded partially in getting through the security barriers at the APEC circus...

I'm most impressed by this beautifully simple video: The association of religious music with the images of astronomical bodies is most e...

I'm pursuing my experimentation with the Sony camera and the Macintosh editing software called iMovie . Click the following photo to see...