Hey ping pong fans! What if you had Matrix-type special effects in a live play instead of a movie, and instead of fighting, you played ping-pong?

Here's what it looks like.

Watch it for a minute or so and you can see how the effects are done. Doing this with actors instead of wires and video is way cool.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and thus clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H.L. Mencken

There are two futures - the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
- J.D. Bernal

Somehow it has always seemed difficult for us to take a bearded man seriously unless he is riding a horse.
- Jeff Cooper

Best quote I've read in ages

The ethos of engineering is very different from that of physics. A good physicist is a man with original ideas. A good engineer is a man who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.
- Freeman Dyson

As a designer of web sites and someone who appreciates machinery, I love that last quote. The best designs seem to be the ones built on a proven, time-tested foundation. Novel designs are too often in service of the designer's ego rather than the customer's needs.