… ooops, wet 'em. 
I thought it was great. It reminds me of old Rube Goldberg cartoons. For some reason it reminds me of Barnabus the Barnard rat too. http://www.rube-goldberg.com/
Google didn’t turn up anything on Barnabus but the rat was trained to make its way tharough a complicated apparatus with tubes, stairs, a bicycle that it pedaled and so on. When he got to the end, a flag was raised and the rat was fed.
Deffinately Rube-esque.
I just love things like this. I watched it twice . Some of those moves were so brilliant—the balls of different colors, the roll of tape on the stick, the cup moving around on top of the books. I liked how they used so many things from around the house instead of fancying it up. It seems like projects like these would be so good for using both imagination and critical thinking. I wonder if these were school projects or from some sort of club?
Anyone know the language? Or what the phrase means?
The important question is why is it a link to the Italian Google Video site.
Y’all recall that classic board game “Mouse Trap?” Barnabus reminds me of that as well.
How fun! 
Someone has way too much time on their hands.
Dana
Oh, this is good.
http://www.alwaysbeta.com/2006/05/31/pythagorean-switch/
You can see the TV show and the words on the screen. You have to watch the Algorithm March video. Someone explains on the comment section what an algorithm is. Apparently the show is aimed at 4 to 6 year olds ! I’m clearly WAY behind.
That’s the only one I use. Is there another? Because the Italian one is kind of inconvenient for me.
Yes. Danish. Everyone knew that but you.
Pitagora Suicchi!
It’s not Danish or Italian, but Japanese.
There is a kind of genius operating there, no question,
but I remain glad I’m not japanese.
I think you should specify the particular aspect of Japanese society you are not comfortable with. Your statement is too broad. As the statement stands, I find it very offensive. I’m sure this is not your intention.
This might have been better as a PM, at least for round 1.
You say Rube Goldberg, we say Heath-Robinson. The style is similar.
That music sting is irritating - like that “mmm Dnne” one in the advertisements, or the announcement “Because you’re worth it!”
(NB. Please don’t go turning me into a commodity. Which is what it sounds like. )
I love the contraptions (with the sound off). I wish I had the opportunity to build something along those lines.
No offense intended.
It isn’t that I have something against being
Japanese that trumps the ingenuity of these devices–it’s something
I saw in the aesthetics and the ingenuity of the video itself. I figured
it was Japanese almost immediately. But I am not
so foolish as to explain this here, now.
By the way I’m also glad I’m not British, not the highly educated
type of Brit, anyhow. I don’t mean this as a criticism and I certainly
mean no offense. A British philosopher once said to
me that in the USA if you say something personal, people zero
in and want to know more. In the UK if you say something personal
people move away. Once she went to her friend’s house and said:
"My flat has become impossible.’ Her friend said ‘Then you must
stay with me,’ and so she did for six months–during which time
her friend never asked her WHY her flat had become impossible.
I’m not the stiff upper lip type.
Generally I’m not a big fan
of extraordinary quantities of inculturation.
Personally I prefer Huck Finn and the Wild Colonial Boy.
Dale, here is another one:
Am I the only person in the world who remembers Billy Bean and his Funny Machine? Did I dream it?
I remember it from occasional exposure to a neighbour’s TV in Edinburgh in the mid-fifties.
b