Impressive

Soccerball bouncing skills. (via Google Blog)

He's a doctor and a ninja

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (via Metafilter)

Rockandroll

Party Photos. (via LA Observed)

Dancing mermaids

Trippy music video. (via Robotwisdom)

Summon the funny

Screenshots of what it would look like if Fox News had been around throughout history. (via Metafilter)

Sage or conman?

This entry on The Huffington Post from renowned self-help guru Deepak Chopra seems to be insightful and devoid of BS.

The basic question is how to escape the paradox that resisting fear (or evil or neurosis) only makes it stronger, while giving in results in the same thing. This situation of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" has led generations of people to desperation over their inner lives.

Here comes the video of a hurricane

Great timelapse video of the entire hurricane season in the Atlantic from miles above the planet. (via Robotwisdom)

Cromulent was not a real word

Words and phrases coined on The Simpsons. (via Metafilter)

Rockandroll

Clip of John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, Keith Richards, and Mick Jagger playing live. (via Robotwisdom)

Wild lions

There are only a handful of mountain lions left in the Santa Monica Mountains. Development has encroached on the habitat of these animals leaving them isolated and threatened. Now their existence depends on a tunnel underneath the 101 to the Simi Hills to the North and beyond. If the tunnel can be built in time they may survive.

Deep in the Santa Monica mountains, her exact whereabouts known only to biologists tracking her by GPS, the puma gave birth a year ago to four kittens. Two males and two females, their newborn eyes and ears sealed shut, their tiny bodies making swimming motions against the lapping of their mother's rough tongue. It was a solitary act by a secretive animal in a wilderness her species has roamed for thousands of years.

Cell shorts

It's easy to text a cellphone using email. (via Slashdot comment)

Sprint: 10-digit-number@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: 10-digit-nmber@vtext.com
AT&T: 10-digit-number@mobile.att.net
T Mobile: 10-digit-number@tmomail.net
Nextel: 10-digit-number@messaging.nextel.com
Cingular: 10-digit-number@mobile.mycingular.net
Alltel: 10-digit-number@message.alltel.com

And Google allows you to send text messages through a web form or through their toolbar. (also via Slashdot comment)

AmISprawlOrNot

This Washington Post article claims that the greater Los Angeles area is the most densely packed American urban ares in the US.

The urbanized area in and around Los Angeles has become the most densely populated place in the continental United States, according to the Census Bureau. Its density is 25 percent higher than that of New York, twice that of Washington and four times that of Atlanta, as measured by residents per square mile of urban land.

Monkey infuriates alien

For those who think Rock, Scissors, Paper is too limiting, there is RPS-25. (via dm)