This video makes the 15-odd years I put toward practicing and performing with a musical instrument to shame, and I'm pretty sure this guy probably set this all up in an afternoon. Sick, nevertheless. [ExciteChina via Random Good Stuff]

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This is the world's first phone directory—and it's going up for sale next month in New York at Christie's auctioneers. The Telephone Directory, Volume 1, Number 1, for New Haven, Connecticut, aptly enough, is, at 20 pages, more of a pamphlet than the kind of thing that big strong men rip in half to make the ladies swoon (and us geeks shrug and say, "SFW?") But the funniest thing about The Telephone Directory (apart from the estimated price) is the first eight pages—which are instructions on how to use the telephone.

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