Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 111)

In this volume of my favourite YouTube videos, we meet the very interesting Lloyd "Lindybeige", so named because he's terribly fond of beige and the Lindy Hop. Beyond this he spends an awful lot of time thinking about things and also doing things. I don't always agree with the thoughts he thinks, but most are pretty interesting. Here are some of the things he's thought about:

• First, he has some thoughts about cloaks. Largely that they're terribly useful and possibly there is some reason that people used them for the most of human history.
• Next, he thinks about leg hold traps and how it's fairly likely that historians keep holding them upside down. I don't have any expertise to assess his theory, but I do have to say that it looks to me like Occam's Razor applies well here, what's the simplest way to use the object that doesn't require us to make up anything else to make it work.
• Finally, Lloyd thinks about quick draw bazookas ... or what people actually did with two-handed swords, when they actually used them.

Blog: Favourite YouTube Videos (Volume 32)

This volume of my favourite YouTube Videos we get everything we could need about video game history, dance and world history all in one awkward bundle.

• In the first video in this volume we learn everything we need to know about Dead Space. In less than a minute. What more could you need?
• Next up John Green teaches us everything we needed to know about Chinese history. In more than a minute. What more could you need?
• Next Rosanna Pansino does some chair dancing to the closing credits of Plants vs Zombies (written by perennial favourite Laura Shigihara). What more could you need?
• Finally, Husky and Kurt Hugo Schneider (and a lot of nerdy people) bring us their ... cover ... of "Sexy and I Know It". It's a little weird, but it's on this list for one very good reason: the zerging dance. First we have the video itself and then the behind the scenes. What more could you need?