Melting Rock With Focused Sunlight

Absolutely amazing. Focused sunlight isn't just for burning twigs and scolding ants with a magnifying glass - this reaches temperatures in excess of 3500c "Nothing on Earth can withstand this" says the scientist from the Solar Furnace Research Facility in Southern France. So all this incredible energy from the Sun, is free?! Imagine what else you could do with it.

It's also amazing because I've always thought that the BBC's Bang Goes The Theory is a dumbed down version of the classic science program of yesterday, Tomorrow World, as well as a blatant copy of Mythbusters for those that don't have the Discovery channel.

Thanks to the fantastic Geekologie

The True Size Of Africa / Fun With Maps

LOVE this. Click here to see it in all its splender.

Lennart Green

One of my all time favourite clips, from the TED series of talks, this is rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green, who has definitely got that Tommy Cooper gene, the ability to make people laugh without really doing much. Oh, and whilst appearing to be rubbish at magic tricks. This is superb.

PVC Pipe Instrument (2.0)

Amazing what people get up too isn't it.. and the with internet, we can all watch. Found on b3ta.com. More info about the performer Snubby J click here

1,200 Hot Wheels

Incredible Pics From The International Space Station

On September 22, 2010, with the departure of the Expedition 23 crew, Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock assumed command of the International Space Station and the Expedition 25 crew. He is also known as @Astro_Wheels on twitter, where he has been tweeting pictures to his followers since he arrived at the space station.

Simply stunning photos from the ISS. Click here to see them all and read more from Astronaut Wheelock. Thanks also to J McNamara from Retrofuzz for posting them on Facebook.

Charlie's Finger Bite Has Been Watched Over 250million Times

Officially the most viral video of all time, "Charlie Bit My Finger" has now been watched over 250million times on YouTube, the moest watched video on YouTube of all time. Why? Why!

Here's YouTube's Top Ten Most Watched Videos Of All Time (as of 20/10/2010)
1. Charlie Bit My Finger Again! - 250,450,874 Views
2. Sneezing Panda - 85,581,204
3. Paul Sings Neesum Dorma HQ Version - 72,121,438
4. Coldplay "Viva La Vida" - 62,837,622
5. High School Musical 2 "Everyday" - 60,801,332
6. Dirty Dancing "Time Of My Life" - 57,465,403
7. Susan Boyle "Britain's Got Talent 2009" - 53,067,060
8. Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" - 45,498,090
9. Very Angry Cat "Funny" - 37,572,642
10. The Ultimate Drunk People Compilation - 33,353,074

Hold on a second. What happened to Evolution Of Dance, I thought that was the most watched video of all time EVER?! Ah - here it is. 156,946,269 view. Well that makes it the 2nd most watched video of all time? Oh dear YouTube..

The Severn Bore From The Air

One of the things i'd love to see first hand, and coming from Malvern, which is only a few miles from the River Severn you'd think I would've done it regularly - nah, too busy walking on the hills. It's a tidal wave, and one that occurs regularly - find out more here. Beautifully shot video below - showing how fascinating the natural world is

Worldwide Teleport

Travel the world from the comfort of your keyboard.. visit MapCrunch - it'll randomly stick you somewhere in the world using Google's street view. For added time wasting, turn the location map off, and try and work out where the hell you are.. this is Yi Tung Road in Hong Kong;

Milk Crate Stop Frame Animation

Utterly Brilliant Marble Run

Bet he doesn't get much sleep..

John Cleese's Speech At Graham Chapman's Funeral

North Korea Military Parade

Beautifully shot this, its just asking to be made into a viral..

Free Running.. On Two Wheels

Blurring The Lines Between CGI & Reality

I remember watching an episode of BBC's Horizon program over 20 years ago, about the development of computer graphics, and the then incredible speed in which processors worked to conjure up the fantastic image of a ball rolling on a flat surface. Towards the end of the show it aired clips of Pixar's Luxo Jr, which compared to anything else at the time was absolutely breathtaking.



Computer animation has come a long way Toy Story, Shrek, Wall-E, Avatar.. now, watch this TV ad - it is entirely computer generated by Alex Roman from Third Seventh

Silestone -- 'Above Everything Else' from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

'Above Everything Else' found on Gizmodo