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18 Stephen Fry from the futrueTo commemorate Stephen Fry's one millionth follower on twitter, the future has sent us this message. 25 LittleDog looks even creepier than BigDogLittleDog was developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA. It is used for research on legged locomotion and learning by groups at MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, USC, U Penn and IHMC. -YT See BigDog here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Boston-Dynamics-Big-Dog 15 Fox News Version Of The Sum Of All Fears: Cheney/Palin 2012So the world really is gonna end in 2012? I'm not sure which possibility would be worse. Cheney/Palin or Palin/Cheney. 13 Sex Life of RobotsWired.com published a NSFW robot sex gallery from Michael Sullivan's movie, the Sex Life of Robots, with a link to his video on YouTube. After a few days of high traffic, YouTube removed it. We've republished it with the permission of Sullivan. - wired 17 Drowning Pets - "Bedtime Story" Climate Change AdApparently this ad caused some controversy and got hundreds of complaints. Bringing kids into the debate when they're the ones who will have to live with the consequences seems only logical to me, however. 16 Trillions - The future of computingTrillion-node computing lies in the future. It's just a matter of when. 81 GoogledA short film about the dystopian possibilities of an all-pervasive Google in the near future. 11 We Shall Not Be Moved, Act II: "The Joy"Uploader Description: More than 100 New Orleans musicians and vocalists came together over nine months to produce the We Shall Not Be Moved music video to heal, uplift and unify the people of New Orleans... more inside 12 2012: Anti-Monument Laser - FIRE!Well, it's not a laser, but Futurama said nothing about monument-destroying natural disasters. 13 Uncovering the True Structure of Andromeda GalaxyAndromeda is no longer a spiral galaxy. Here's why. 17 Avatar Making-Of - James Cameron's Vision (New Footage)Some really nice new footage in this that's not in the trailer. Lovely stuff.... in HD too! 36 Brian Cox on The Colbert ReportBrian Cox discusses relativity and describes what it's like to be named one of People Magazine's sexiest men alive. (06:05) 96 Fanwing - Incredible New Form of AircraftGuy replaces wing and propellor with an entirely new method of using a horizontal axis fan instead aerofoil wing. A little clumsy looking as a prototype, but given the years since the airplane was invented... more inside 19 MIT Scientist Explains OLEDs By Electrocuting A PickleHopefully they'll get rid of the burnt pickle smell in the next Zune. | Top Sift for Nov 20th, 2009Friends O' the Sift Subscribe Top 15 Future Sifters of All Time Top 6 Future Sifters of the Past Week Newest Appreciated Comments |