Video featuring Subject Zero from Mass Effect 2.

From BoingBoing: "This morning, some friends and I had a "Green2Steam" party, where we start with green coffee beans, roast them in a hot-air popper, grind them, and immediately brew them up in a siphon... more inside

A well-done video giving a good run-down of the SCRUM method of software development. YT: "Learn the SCRUM software development methodology in less than 10 minutes. By the end of this fast-paced video, you'll know about burn-down charts, team roles, product backlogs, sprints, daily scrum."

Tofu promotional video. In German.

Fascinating new commercials for the Scrabble board game. Each one has a slightly different style. More: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kr0QEwfZBk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NThCPpyoW7U

Mind Hacks has a good write-up on this clip: http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/02/sir_humphrey_teaches.html

The proprietor of The Black Hole, Ed Grothus died today: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/13/rip-atomic-ed-grothu.html YT: "Footage of Ed Grothus, former nuclear bomb maker and proprietor of the Black... more inside

My father used one of these in the seventies and I did some programming on a simulator running on a Multics system in the eighties. From YT: This video demonstrates how one programmed a 1970's era... more inside

From Slate writeup (http://www.slate.com/id/2197041): "Fifty years ago, oil was discovered in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Today, at 2.1 million barrels per day, Nigeria is the sixth-largest oil-producing... more inside

Trailer from the 1967 Rankin-Bass animated feature Mad Monster Party.

Cloris Leachman introducing Schoolhouse Rock on the 1987 VHS release.

From YT: "This video is part of Kitchen Gardeners International's "Eat the View" campaign to convert part of the White House lawn into an edible landscape. It features KGI founder, Roger Doiron, digging a new garden on his "white house" lawn."

March 10th was the 49th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising which resulted in the exile of the Dalai Lama. This was supposedly captured inside Lhasa. BoingBoing's coverage: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/1... more inside