The first supersonic flight re-done using radio controlled planes. The B-29 is powered by four 80cc engines, has a wingspan of 21 feet and weighs only 98 lbs. It does loops, rolls, spins and flies inverted over the runway, drops an X-1 rocket plane from its wing.

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Hat tip to Karen L. Myers.

The Yoshida Kyōdai (aka the Yoshido Brothers) perform Kodo on the shamisen, used by Nintendo as the theme music for its Wii game console.

Their style of music is called Tsugaru-jamisen, a shamisen style originating in Aomori prefecture in the northern end of the island of Honshū.　

3:46 video

The ever-cheery video makers at JibJab have a new 1:26 video featuring a lively version of the national anthem performed by a remix of recent US presidents. Their sunny perspective is refreshing, as always.

Some people fall off roofs. Others are more lucky.

1:33 video

That clever Ann Althouse has a larger, easier-to-watch version than Hillary’s own web-site does.

Despite the cut-to-black, Hillary’s website actually does reveal her choice of campaign song: Celine Dion singing You and I.

The video is amusing. Her choice of song is lame.

A touching tribute to US WWII veterans.

11:30 video.

A remedy for our democrat friends having problems achieving the necessary enthusiasm for a certain candidate.

1:40 video

Reva Bhalla, director of geopolitical analysis at Stratfor, offers the perspective of a dove and insider on the recent US-Iran talks.

Pat Dollard, however, takes a considerably more hawkish perspective in interpreting exactly what brought Iran to the negotiating table.

Watching the pundits discuss our historic meeting with Iran, you would have mostly heard despair at the notion that we have no leverage in these talks, and so therefor why would Iran give on anything? Why would they stop waging war against us in iraq if they have nothing to fear? To all the experts in the media, the whole thing seemed like some grand puzzlement. Was it just an attempt to appease the administration’s domestic critics who have been chiding it for not engaging in diplomacy ( a vaguery if there ever was one ) with the world’s top terrorist? No one you heard from could really quite grasp what was going on.

For some reason, no one told you that just 5 days before Monday’s talks, an entire floating army, with nearly 20,000 men, comprising the world’s largest naval strike force, led by the USS Nimitz and the USS Stennis, and also comprising the largest U.S. Naval armada in the Persian Gulf since 2003, came floating up unnanounced through the Straight of Hormuz, and rested right on Iran’s back doorstep, guns pointed at them. The demonstration of leverage was clear. And it also came on the exact date of the expiration of the 60 day grace period the U.N. had granted Iran.

And it came just a few weeks after Vice President Dick Cheney had swept through the region and delivered a very clear and pointed message to the Saudi King Abdullah and others: George Bush has unequivocally decided to attack Iran’s nuclear, military and economic infrastructure if they do not abandon their drive for military nuclear capability. Plain and simple. Iran heard the message as well, and although a lack of leverage may seem clear to America’s retired military tv talking heads, it is not so clear to the government in Tehran.

The message to both Iran and Syria is that if the talks in Baghdad fail, the military option is ready to go.

The US warships entering

Arabian Sea

3:56 video – A very impressive sight.

Hat tip to Charles Johnson.

0:59 video

2:52 video morphs the female image in 5 centuries of paintings from Da Vinci to Picasso.

World’s oldest Rock group: the Zimmers.

3:40 video

African video of lions attempting to take young Cape Buffalo.

8:23 video

I think Glenn Reynolds would say that those Cape Buffalo behaved like “a pack, not a herd.”