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While speaking to the woman in my computer, with whom I converse regularly, I mentioned that I hadn’t written anything on my blog for a while now because I was suffering from … well … a lack of anything of any note. She said that it didn’t matter what I wrote about, it was more the practice of writing. So, in that vein, as I don’t have anything to write about I thought I’d describe my night…

Most of my nights recently have been spent in front of a computer trying to be productive and build the world’s next Google or Facebook, but ultimately spent skipping through YouTube videos. Tonight was no exception! There used to be a point when I thought that I’d eventually have watched all of the YouTube videos available. That is until I learnt that every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded and that in order to “catchup” I’d need to employ a rather large team of professional “video watchers” (couch potatoes who can paraphrase large volumes of information?) to help me assimilate the swathes of information available. Anyway, I can’t remember exactly how my search started but I thought I’d share some points along the path that I’d chosen by selecting from the “Suggested” videos….

I was amazed by how varied and easy to make some weapons are (I would like to point out that I’m not a “gun nut” and that there were many search items before this!). Don’t get me wrong these homemade DIY devices aren’t going to cause the next 9/11. But it is interesting that 1/4 million people have view this and now know how to make a Tazer!
how to make a homemade tazer

My next turn after learning how to build a Tazer (watch out criminals!) was “lasers” (I wish I could put air quotes around that and pretend I’m evil). I’ve always been amazed by the laser shows in some of the big night clubs. Endless oscillating tunnels of light hitting smoke. Amazingly – you can build your own with Lego:
DIY Laser Show: Number 1

Visualising music with light is one thing, but visualising it with a non-Newtonian fluid is another:
cool corn starch and speaker experiment

I learnt that the science of how fluid moves when exposed to sound is called “Cymatics”. Here’s another with explains it a little better:
Collin’s Lab: DIY Cymatics

Theres another substance which moves and arranges itself into some strange shapes when an external force is applied. Its called “Ferrofluid” and it can be used to create some truly amazing images:
Ferrofluid on the track of a Meatgrinder

Then I stumbled onto an element called Bismuth (Symbol: Bi). This is the heaviest element thats not radioactive apparently. Some of the strange geometric shapes that it forms are amazing:
Bismuth Crystals.

Then of course I found some boobs:
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Night!