Now that's some break...

A company has released a glass pool table.

Yes, you heard that right, a glass pool table. Cost is about $26,000.

Why do I have the feeling it would be a bad idea to combine hard, heavy pool balls and wooden sticks with glass?

A special video...

... about a special cat named Charley.

Solenoid concert

A video where someone uses a computer music sequencing program to control solenoids tapping on various objects.

Slinkyman

Well, I have to admit has me wondering how they do it. It's "Slinky Man" entertaining at a halftime show at Creighton University in Omaha.


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Vicent Dooley ... "invent destiny"

The web video, with its developing conventions and aesthetics, hasn't really impressed me so far. Web series have a penchant for going after a particular demographic (like Lonelygirl) with such gusto that the internal references are obtuse and the characters and plots are, well, kind of boring. In other cases, such as the many video series at crackle.com, they're so poorly acted and scripted that they're painful and embarrassing to sit through like half-baked failed television pilots.

This web series looks more promising. The first video is funny and well written. The lead actor is really creates a character here and has a great sense of comic timing. So, let's meet Vincent, inventor. From California...

More videos are at the YouTube channel for the series.

Video clip - Captain Kangaroo

From YouTube, a wonderful bit of nostalgia for those of us that grew up in the late 60s and early 70s, a clip from the opening of a 1968 episode of "Captain Kangaroo". Sure, we were easily amused, but this seems much more charming than the Teletubbies.