Stephen's Untold Stories

Guaranteed to provoke some serious conversation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8

Outstanding song and video!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHb5QVD7fo

Brainpop has a nice 9/11 movie you can watch for free today.

• http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/september11th/

Watch him hand-draw a map of the U.S. completely from memory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-FYyuvrRk

Hilarious newscast where they re-create a bear sighting with a cardboard cutout of a bear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOKHlWAp4No

Awesome arrangement of a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjbpwlqp5Qw

Nice work by our state school superintendent.

An Ohio State fan made a nice video welcoming the Naval Academy’s football team for a game this fall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Z52GKONPc

An awesome video for the start of a new school year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fma3Lvo7e7A

Thanks to Rick for this one.

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

Almost 4 million views as of this writing.

In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a one-week tour and my Taylor guitar was witnessed being thrown by United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago. I discovered later that the $3500 guitar was severely damaged. They didn’t deny the experience occurred but for nine months the various people I communicated with put the responsibility for dealing with the damage on everyone other than themselves and finally said they would do nothing to compensate me for my loss. So I promised the last person to finally say “no” to compensation (Ms. Irlweg) that I would write and produce three songs about my experience with United Airlines and make videos for each to be viewed online by anyone in the world. United: Song 1 is the first of those songs.

Read more here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

I wonder how long they practiced this.

Beautiful video!

Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world (Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

And I was lucky enough to be there!

Sometimes I forget how I much I like their music.

Thanks, Bruce!

More amazing stuff from NASA.

A team of Apollo-era engineers who helped produce the 1969 live broadcast of the moonwalk acquired the best of the broadcast-format video from a variety of sources for the restoration effort. These included a copy of a tape recorded at NASA’s Sydney, Australia, video switching center, where down-linked television from Parkes and Honeysuckle Creek was received for transmission to the U.S.; original broadcast tapes from the CBS News Archive recorded via direct microwave and landline feeds from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston; and kinescopes found in film vaults at Johnson that had not been viewed for 36 years.

“The restoration is ongoing and may produce even better video,” said Richard Nafzger, an engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who oversaw television processing at the ground tracking sites during Apollo 11. “The restoration project is scheduled to be completed in September and will provide the public, future historians, and the National Archives with the highest quality video of this historic event.”

See them all here!

Shared with me by a friend.

This is the last ride of an American hero to his home town. Watch and consider and reflect what an incredible privilege that you are able to be part of it.

Killed in action the week before, the body of Sergeant First Class John C. Beale was returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City, Georgia, just south of Atlanta, on June 11, 2009.

The Henry County Police Department escorted the procession to the funeral home in McDonough, Georgia. A simple notice in local papers indicated the road route to be taken and the approximate time. Nowadays one can be led to believe that America no longer respects honor and no longer honors sacrifice of the military.

Be it known that there are many places in this land where people still recognize the courage and impact of total self-sacrifice. Georgia remains one of those graceful places.

Below is a short travelogue of that day’s remarkable and painful journey.

http://blip.tv/file/2246058/

“Why are you here, soldier?

“I’m here because I’m bored!”

“Don’t you ever forget that.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

Interesting development. People are beginning to realize that YouTube has a lot to offer for education.

Brigham Young University, a Mormon Church institution where students agree to live a chaste and virtuous life, has lifted its almost three-year policy of blocking access to YouTube.

Administrators lifted the ban on Friday, citing an increasing amount of educational material on the popular video-sharing site, a university spokeswoman, Carri Jenkins, said.

YouTube has its own filters for pornography, but the university added it to the list of Web sites blocked by campus online filters in 2006 because administrators felt there was too much content that could violate the university’s strict standards.

The university’s software also blocks pornography, adult content and violence from other sites.

The university cited limited bandwidth as another factor in the decision. But some professors have complained that they could not gain access to relevant YouTube content in the classroom.

“I think there’s no other way but to provide all of it,” Ms. Jenkins said.

Read the rest here.

I’m not a Yankees fan, but I have always admired Jeter. He hit a double on Tuesday night, and I got some good footage.