Just this year in our great state of Tennessee, lawmakers passed a law making it illegal to text while driving. It’s really an unenforceable law, but I’m not going to get into all of that. It’s a common sense thing in the first place – if your attention is on your phone (this can include talking on the phone as well – I avoid it as much as possible while driving), you’re not nearly as focused as you need to be on your driving.
A coworker just showed me this video a few minutes ago. Before you click play, let me warn you that if you don’t like blood, you won’t want to see it. It’s not real, but it is graphic. It is a public service announcement put out in England about the risks taken when you take your attention off the road.
–update
Looks like the video was removed because it violated some part of YouTube’s terms of service. I’m not going to keep posting updated videos, but if you’d like, you can search for ‘texting while driving’ and it’ll turn up for you to see.
A while back, I saw this thing on YouTube where they wanted to put together a music video from all over the world. They called it the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, or YTSO. I considered trying to play a piece for it, but didn’t put all that much thought into it, and eventually forgot about it.
I ran across it again today, and they’ve just posted a mashup video of all of the entries that makes up the entire song. Pretty impressive! I sort of wish I’d tried out for it now…Take a look!
I ran across this video today and had to share it. If you’re a big Star Wars fan you’ll love it. Even if you’re not a Star Wars fan you’ll love it. I watched the first Star Wars episode when they were all redone, but never really got into it. This video, however is awesome.
Some say it’s staged, others say it’s real. I don’t really know of a good way to verify it. It looks real to me, though. My biggest question is, “Where were all the real ‘men’ the whole time this went on?” Somebody should’ve stopped it much, much sooner.
