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June 28, 2012

Sorkinisms - A Supercut

If you haven’t watched this video of repeated dialogue across Aaron Sorkin scripts, then you haven’t seen Shakespeare the way it was meant to be played.

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April 9, 2012

A Show

Ze Frank is back. An invocation for beginnings. Watch this.

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March 27, 2012

Veep

Trailer for the new HBO show from Armando Iannucci: The Thick of It meets The West Wing.

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September 2, 2011

First Digital 3D Rendered Film

Amazing bit of geek history: The first piece of 3D computer animation, by Ed Catmull, Pixar’s co-founder, from 1972.

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May 7, 2011

Amanda Palmer Present the Year's Most Amusing Tweets Played On The Ukulele

Just when I thought it wasn’t possible to love Amanda Palmer any more…

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May 5, 2011

BBC - Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Social Stew

God, Stewart Lee is a funny, funny man.

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April 27, 2011

With President Obama's Birth Certificate, Klansman Trump Reminds Blacks They Will Never Be American

Several friends posted this to Facebook with the message, “Please watch this. It’s important.” They are not lying. Please watch this. It’s important.

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March 17, 2011

Tubular Bells Played By An Army Of Synth Babes

Pretty ladies and fab instruments. Win!

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February 16, 2011

Tim Hwang - Exterminate Exterminate

Tim’s 5-minute talk at last week’s Ignite SF, covering his recently run social-battlebots contest. Must watch!

January 18, 2011

Exclusive video: PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder/The Last Living Rose

New PJ Harvey album on the horizon. <3 <3 <3

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January 17, 2011

December 29, 2010

Polar bears get the better of spy cameras

In related news, polar bears are FUCKING AWESOME AND DON’T TAKE NO SHIT FROM NO ONE!

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December 1, 2010

Shop Vac

Fantastic text-animation for a Jonathan Coulton song.

November 4, 2010

Automatypewriter

Old school electric typewriter, rejiggered to automatically type and read your typed input, so you can play Zork. <3.

October 6, 2010

The Coffee Wars of San Francisco

If Ken Burns covered SF coffee…

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September 17, 2010

Linotype: The Film

Nerdgasm! I had a fab discussion with a friend last week about the amazingness (and sheer impossibility) of the Linotype machine, so am thrilled that there’s a documentary being made about it.

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August 30, 2010

The Wilderness Downtown

Arcade Fire song combined with Google Maps and some JavaScript voodoo to make a lovely experience.

August 3, 2010

America has another bash at The IT Crowd

YouTube video of the 2008 pilot for a US remake of The IT Crowd, starring Joel McHale “as” Roy.

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July 5, 2010

Mogwai | Special Moves

Forthcoming live movie and album from Mogwai. The MP3s are already doing the rounds on teh torrents, and are expectedly epic. Highly recommended.

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July 2, 2010

The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time

My favourite is definitely “I don’t like your jerk-off name. I don’t like your jerk-off face. I don’t like your jerk-off behavior, and I don’t like you, jerk-off.”

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July 1, 2010

How Mariano Rivera Dominates Hitters

Lovely vid from the NYT. As a Sox fan, I loathe Mariano Rivera, for he is so damned good.

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June 5, 2010

Good Morning! Can We Interest You In This Highly Caffeinated Drummer?

AMAZING! “This drummer is in the wrong gig.”

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May 20, 2010

Fallen Leaf Lake

Some footage from a rare occasion where I remembered that my DSLR camera can shoot video.

April 20, 2010

Thinking 'Bout Somethin'

New Hanson video.

Yes, *that* Hanson.

Still, a great song, and a fine, fine Blues Brothers-inspired video.

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April 8, 2010

PIXELS

Short film about an 8-bit attack on New York. Fun spotting old software-house logos on the advertising!

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April 5, 2010

CNN: Is Foursquare the New Twitter?

Standard tech filler piece that aired on CNN this morning. Only notable for including, at 1m30s, a snippet of me being a Man On The Street at SxSW. (Thanks to Doug Mak for seeing this on TV and telling me about it!)

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March 31, 2010

A Turing Machine

I love, love, LOVE this. Someone has built a real-world turing machine which loads programs from an SD card, and uses a dry-erase pen to write on 35mm film leader. Gorgeous.

March 30, 2010

DILF The Movie

Excellent short film co-written by and co-starring Sarah Haskins, who used to do the Target Women segments on Current TV.

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March 19, 2010

“Creatives”

This is video of a 5 minute talk I gave at Ignite Bay Area 2. It’s inspired by the collision of cultures ten years ago at my first job, when they went from a purely tech/business/enterprisey consulting firm to being a cool sexy web firm. (I was worried before giving the talk that the problems had all been solved in the last decade — the reaction I got from the audience suggests not!)

The video isn’t the clearest, so the slides (sans nice fonts) are embedded below. If you hit the Play button on the slides at roughly the time I start talking, it should auto-advance in time with my blethering.

Incidentally, there are a bunch of upcoming Ignite events in San Francisco — at the Chirp, Google I/O and Web 2.0 Expo conferences — and it’s fabulous fun (and a great challenge). I highly recommend submitting talks.

March 18, 2010

Deconstructing Lady Gaga's "Telephone" Video

It fills my heart with love to see a pop star make a video _worth_ deconstructing! ♥♥♥

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March 8, 2010

OK Go Rube Goldberg video: meet the makers!

Interview about the making of the OK Go video. Confirms that there was some light post-production tweaking, but for the most part, what you saw was one machine.

February 9, 2010

T-Shirt War

Great stop-motion music video.

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January 28, 2010

Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News

Brilliant clip of TV news clichés in action.

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January 24, 2010

Chris Morris's Four Lions: a exclusive clip from the 'jihadist comedy'

Oh man, I can’t wait for this. A clip from Chris Morris’s upcoming comedy about English suicide bombers. Word from Sundance is that it’s as good as “In the Loop”.

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January 11, 2010

BBC News - Reporter breaks an 'unbreakable' mobile phone at CES

Wonderful wonderful wonderful.

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January 7, 2010

Muppets with Jimmy Fallon - One

Even my reasonably strong dislike for Jimmy Fallon couldn’t stop me loving the little outtake of him rehearsing with the Muppets.

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January 1, 2010

Built for speed

Built for speed

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December 24, 2009

Shadow Percussion Project

One of my all-time favourite things: A high-school percussion group performing DJ Shadow’s “Building Steam With a Grain of Salt” live.

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December 18, 2009

Pomplamoose - Always in the Season

Christmas carol by Pomplamoose, with Zoe Keating on cello. Ace!

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December 17, 2009

Let's Enhance

Every geek’s favourite TV Trope — “Zoom in and enchance that”

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December 10, 2009

AOL Reveal Films

I quite like this set of animations for AOL’s new corporate identity. Viewed together like this, it feels like when the BBC reveals a new collection of idents!

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December 9, 2009

Cassetteboy - The Web for Beginners

Another video slice-up by Cassetteboy. “The nice thing about the internet is that it is christmas all the time.”

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November 24, 2009

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

This just makes me so, so happy!

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November 13, 2009

Choose Your Own Adventure with Hard Left: The Beginning

Wicked funny video series by “Hard Left Productions”, using YouTube’s annotations to branch.

November 6, 2009

Tina Fey's 10 Favorite 30 Rock Moments

30 Rock isn’t the most consistent show, but by god, every episode includes at least one amazing moment that catches me off guard so I need to pause the DVR to laugh and enjoy it.

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October 25, 2009

Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now)

Thought-provoking video from Merlin Mann. It’s long, but chock-full of food for thought. (Protip: Click through to Vimeo and download the .m4v file from there — it’s the perfect format for copying onto an iPhone)

In particular, the topic of the “Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition” was of great interest to me, as I look back on how I’ve progressed over almost-a-year at Slide, and face the brand new challenge of having direct reports to manage.

October 23, 2009

The Congress today had five minutes of worthwhile dialogue - Salon.com

You, along with a democratically-elected representative, can learn about “bills of attainder”

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blog.reddit: Congressman Barney Frank Answers Your Questions

Redditors collaborated and voted on questions, Barney Frank answers them. His answer to the question about the GLBT march is essential viewing.

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October 22, 2009

October 12, 2009

Cat Shit One

I have not the words. Has to be watched to be believed.

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October 11, 2009

JoCo performs Flood (1/9)

When Jonathan Coulton realised that his concert in Chicago would collide with a They Might Be Giants concert, he did the only sensible thing: Together with his support act, learn the whole of “Flood” and perform it.

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August 31, 2009

Yahoo Serious Festival

For your RSS reader consideration: A new Tumblelog I’ve started, which will highlight ace online videos. Might turn it into a group blog at some time.

(And yes, the domain name was bought first, then the idea for the blog came later)

August 12, 2009

David Letterman's Top Ten Numbers From One to Ten

A gloriously silly piece of Late Show.

June 25, 2009

The 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time

I bloody love movie trailers. Like pop videos, it’s easy to miss the artistry involved in making a good one.

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June 11, 2009

What is a Browser?

Google question 50 people in Times Square. Reminder to the nerds: Users don’t know what a “browser” is.

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June 1, 2009

May 29, 2009

Hulu - Peep Show

Attention Americans with senses of humour (sic): Hulu are now streaming the first series of top-notch British sitcom Peep Show. You should watch it, because it is bloody funny, and only mildly uncomfortably close to the bone.

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May 28, 2009

Hitler tries a DMCA takedown

Brad Templeton makes a point about Fair Use of the Downfall clip… as subtitles on the Downfall clip. The first Downfall parody I’ve laughed at in a while.

May 27, 2009

The Bloody Apprentice

Some nice reslicing of Siralan and the numpties on The Apprentice.

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Panic Sale!

Them Panic lads know how to make compelling advertising.

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Nation's Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan: 'Let's Move In Together' | The Onion

An obvious and hackneyed joke, but beautifully played out by the Onion News Network.

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May 23, 2009

HardTime :: Illusion

Ze Frank has a new video series on what to do in these economically-challenged times.

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May 20, 2009

From Upstart to Startup to Grownup: Lessons Learned in the First Year of an iPhone Company

Video of a great talk by Jessica Kahn. Ignore the fact this is part of an iPhone course — it’s essential advice for *ANY* software engineer with even vaguely entrepreneurial aspirations. (iTunes link)

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May 14, 2009

Amanda Palmer's secret show sneak peek | Current_Music

Current TV filmed a half-hour Amanda Palmer concert. She’s completely engrossing live. Enjoy! (The new Current flash video player is quite lovely too.)

Peter Serafinowicz: 50 Impressions, 2 Mins

The uncanniness is incredible.

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May 12, 2009

in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word project

Each video has a soundtrack in B♭. Start and stop them to create a musical tapestry.

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May 5, 2009

High-Tech Cellist Fuses Music, MacBook

Interview with Zoë Keating, and a clip of her performing one of her wonderful looped cello tracks.

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May 3, 2009

Moray McLaren - We Got Time

Lovely music video. Make sure and watch the “making of” to understand how it was done without (much) trickery.

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April 25, 2009

BBC NEWS | Runaway bull's supermarket sweep

Some great CCTV footage. The china shop must have closed early.

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April 24, 2009

Honda Insight - Let It Shine on Vimeo

A nice enough advert, but the Flash design by Vimeo to enhance it is gorgeous and unexpected.

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April 5, 2009

Swinging with the Shermans

Brilliantly funny sample scenes of a film begging to be produced. Warning: Includes the word “burlap”.

March 31, 2009

March 26, 2009

Slagsmålsklubben

Fantastic video — Little Red Riding Hood told in an infographic stylee.

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March 25, 2009

Where The Wild Things Are

Where The Wild Things Are

This is the scene in the Where the Wild Things Are trailer that gets me most excited. For whatever reason -- the wolf outfit? the crown? the silhouette? -- it's the one the punches my memory and says "You love this book."

Can't wait to see what Eggers and Jonez produce.

March 20, 2009

"In The Loop" Trailer

This looks fantastic — A movie version of “The Thick of It”. Hoping it gets a US release. “You sound like a Nazi Julie Andrews!”

March 11, 2009

Channel 4 News - Cramer v Stewart

Slow news day in the UK, clearly. Channel 4 News covers the Jon Stewart / Jim Cramer kerfuffle.

March 5, 2009

Saturday Morning Watchmen

No worse than “The Real Ghostbusters”, I suppose.

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March 4, 2009

THRU YOU | Kutiman mixes YouTube

YouTube videos remixed into awesomeness.

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February 27, 2009

Bizkit the Sleep Walking Dog

Funniest video I’ve seen on YouTube in a while — poor dog looks so confused at the end. Makes our pups look positively intelligent!

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February 26, 2009

Röyksopp: Happy Up Here

New Röyksopp video — imaginative “real-life” space invaders.

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February 21, 2009

38 Cute Animals, 1 Cool Screen, 8 Different Uses

ZOMGKITTENS! (and ZOMGHAMSTERS, ZOMGPUPPIES, etc)

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February 20, 2009

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

One of the best explanations for the mess we currently find ourselves in.

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February 17, 2009

Amanda Palmer: On Abortion, Rape, and Humor

Amanda Palmer on her song “Oasis” being rejected for airplay by the British music media. While I could understand the “mainstream” (Radio 1, MTV, The Box) knocking it back, it’s sad to see that 6 Music, NME et al are also afeard of perceived offense.

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February 11, 2009

Chairlift: Evident Utensil video

Headfuck digital video compression artifactastic promo clip.

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February 10, 2009

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work | The Onion

Love the On-Screen Displays that this new goddamned cocksucking piece of crap produces.

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February 4, 2009

YouTube - Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

Wicked cool stop-motion music video.

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February 3, 2009

YouTube - David After Dentist

A tripping 7-year-old. “Is this gonna be forever?”

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January 28, 2009

Zero Punctuation : Gears of War 2

Best Zero Punctuation in a while, not least for introducing me to the phrase “triple-cunted hooker”.

ReactOS

ReactOS

Man, those ReactOS developers have really done a stellar job of replicating the Windows NT fundamentals.

(Okay, not really their fault! I chose to "upgrade" their demo VM when VMware prompted me. If you don't do that, it works OK)

(Also, the video is sped up by Flickr. Bug reported here.)

January 26, 2009

BBC NEWS | Stephen Fry's 50,000 followers

Stephen Fry explains Twitter.

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January 7, 2009

"The Noises Rest"

The YouLookNiceToday boys investigate the art of silent film foley.

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December 3, 2008

Prop 8 - The Musical

Massive amounts of awesomeness abound. Three solid minutes of musical greatness.

November 24, 2008

Dr. Awesome, Microsurgeon M.D.

Upcoming Qix-like iPhone game from ngmoco. While I didn’t care much for MazeFinger, these guys are clearly putting a lot of work into making the iPhone a respectable gaming platform.

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November 23, 2008

YouTube - Toby y Sheila: pata adopto perrito!!!

If “Weekend at Bernie’s” was remade with a beagle and a duck…

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November 13, 2008

New Watchmen trailer

Words can’t describe how much I’m looking forward to this.

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November 10, 2008

Get Your War On: New World Order

“America’s new flag is just a white flag, but there’s a picture of a burning American flag on it.”

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October 29, 2008

The Unfinished Swan

Video preview of a really interesting looking new indie game where the world is completely blank until you fire at it with your one weapon: A paintball gun which helps you “see” the obstacles. Watch the video to see it make sense.

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5th Grade Reporter Interviews Senator Joe Biden

Feeling oddly patriotic that the combination of easy access to video cameras and internet video distribution mean a fifth-grader can score an interview with a VP candidate and share it with the world!

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October 28, 2008

Bassets for Obama

Warning: contains awesome shots of basset jowls flapping in the breeze.

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October 22, 2008

John Hodgman's brief digression | Video on TED.com

Lovely and heart-warming fifteen-minute talk by John Hodgman on his “close encounters”

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October 21, 2008

Up, Up and Away! on Vimeo

One last bit of balloonery — a brief snippet of video from our trip.

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October 16, 2008

Everything your grandparents need to know about the analog/digital switchover

Courtesy of “Talkshow with Spike Feresten”, which is apparently still on the air. Who knew?

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October 8, 2008

Youtube, now in Super HD!

*FOUR* times the resolution of a regular YouTube video.

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October 6, 2008

YouTube - Take On Me: Literal Video Version

“Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video? Well now they do.”

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Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis

The Obama campaign aren’t resting on their current lead in the polls. This shows promise that they intend to keep fighting all the way to election day.

October 5, 2008

Early Dave: The Letterman Tapes

Compilation of interviews David Letterman gave between 1978 and 1993 — from his LA stand-up days to the end of Late Night.

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September 25, 2008

Sarah Palin as Disney

If the Sarah Palin story was a Disney movie… “An Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year!”

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September 23, 2008

Wario Land - Shake It! YouTube ad

Brilliantly-done ad for the new Wario game for Wii. Seems dull to start, but worth continuing with!

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September 22, 2008

WTF‽

WTF‽

(You might need to turn up your volume on this one)

Another test video. As I was playing around with my Zi6, filming the dogs, a sudden shout from the bedroom distracts Clyde.

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September 21, 2008

Treasure Island Music Festival

Treasure Island Music Festival

A video postcard from the stalls and side-attractions at the Treasure Island Music Festival -- my attempt to capture some of the vibe of the fest.

September 19, 2008

A couple of test videos recorded on my Kodak Zi6

I’m not sure if I’m happy with the quality or not. Without some kind of image stabilization, they’re fairly unwatchable. I’ll spend some more time playing over the weekend.

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September 18, 2008

DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson

Cal Henderson on “Why I Hate Django”. At last, someone willing to stand up and publicly state the “All serious programming language inventors have BEARDS!” theory. (Some seriously useful performance thoughts mixed in amongst the bile and kittens)

September 13, 2008

Frost/Nixon trailer

Oh man, this looks so fucking good.

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August 17, 2008

ERNEST BORGNINE - Secret to Old Age

Ernest Borgnine delivers a pitch-perfect stage whisper on Fox News.

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August 6, 2008

Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad

“See you at the debates, bitches”

August 4, 2008

Deep Fried Scotland

Short video review of all that is great about Scottish cuisine: Deep-frying. Helpfully subtitled.

July 31, 2008

Political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology

Google has a first stab at making video content searchable, across a selection of political speeches. Will be interesting to see how well this works.

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Zero Punctuation : The E3 Trailer Park

Zero Punctuation is always worth watching — viciously funny videogame reviews — but this week’s is a great sampler if you haven’t watched before.

July 25, 2008

GET YOUR WAR ON: the new animated series

The same Get Your War On you know and love, now with moving pictures and ringing telephones int he background. Hurrah!

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July 21, 2008

The Muppets Unleash More Viral Videos onto the Web

So great to see the Muppet company having fun with the medium of YouTube. Incredibly reminiscent of the old musical numbers on The Muppet Show.

July 16, 2008

Dr. Horrible's Freeze Ray Will Stop the World

Summary of Joss Whedon’s new online musical miniseries. I plopped down the $4 for a “season pass” in iTunes, and loved the first episode. Looking forward to episode 2 arriving in iTunes tonight.

July 15, 2008

Feist on Sesame Street

In retrospect, “1 2 3 4” was an obvious choice.

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June 22, 2008

YouTube - テルミンを演奏するネコ

THEREMIN CAT IS THEREMINNING!

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June 6, 2008

Big Ideas (Don't get any)

Beautiful video of Radiohead’s “Nude” being “performed” on old hardware. (Slightly skeptical because I don’t recall the 48k Spectrum having multi-channel sound, but let’s not piss on the chips of a great clip.) Forward to 1:10 if you want to skip the Spectrum loading sounds.

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June 3, 2008

Video speech matching (TheyWorkForYou.com)

TheyWorkForYou has a crowdsourcing project matching the Hansard transcripts of parliamentary debates to BBC video. It’s pretty easy work if you keep going through one debate (and you get to watch a little bit of politics in action). Fancy taking a half hour to help them out?

May 30, 2008

Guitar Hero: On Tour: R.I.P. Guitar Hero (2005-2008)

Activision stares down that delicate “So bad it’s good” line, before pissing all over it. “Wiggle wiggle wiggle YEAH!”

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May 25, 2008

Weezer, "Pork and Beans"

The YouTubiest video ever, with helpful links to the original videos.

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May 16, 2008

Irn-Bru: If

Excellent advert from Irn-Bru: A staggeringly accurate glimpse into the Scottish psyche.

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The Best of "Manny Being Manny"

ESPN’s Baseball Tonight runs down some of the best WTF?! Manny moments.

May 15, 2008

US Trailer for 'Life on Mars'

Preview clip of the US version of Life on Mars. Getting past the generic music and cheesy voiceover, this looks like it has the potential to get the right mix between the original’s storyline and 70s Americana. Looking forward to seeing more.

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May 14, 2008

XBMC on OS X

Port of the XBox Media Center to OS X. Works with the Apple Remote, making it more elegant than my usual VLC + Sofa Control combination. Looks good.

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May 6, 2008

Richard Herring slams a heckler

How not to heckle, a handy guide.

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April 29, 2008

YouTube - batting stances: red sox

Accurate and entertaining impressions of Red Sox players’ batting stances. His “Youk getting a third strike” is uncanny.

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April 15, 2008

Trapped in an Elevator for 41 hours

Frankly claustrophobic CCTV footage of a man, trapped in an elevator in a New York office building for 41 hours. (Note: You may not want to watch this if you have to ride in an elevator any time soon)

A Random interesting video from Flickr

Hack by Kellan to find the interesting moving pictures on Flickr. Some wicked cool stuff is being uploaded.

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April 14, 2008

Britain's Got Talent: Gin the Dog

Awesome animal act.

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April 12, 2008

Splendour

Splendour

Joy & I have been staying at the Mosser Hotel this week in San Francisco while apartment hunting. Come join us on this video tour of our luxurious suite.

(This is primarily a test to see what breaks on my blog when I post a video to Flickr -- Seems to have worked pretty smoothly, but goddamn, there needs to be a way of choosing the frame that becomes the thumbnail!)

April 11, 2008

Portishead in Portishead // Current

Portishead concert, showing on Current TV over the next few weeks. Material from their splendid new album, Third.

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April 2, 2008

MLB.TV Mosaic

MLB.TV Mosaic

Since NESN isn't really gonna be an option when we're in SF, I've signed up from the MLB.TV package. Their Mosaic application is pretty cool (if a tad rusty and prone to collapse at the moment) -- you can stream up to six games live to it, and flip the audio between games. Can definitely see hooking this up to the TV later in the season.

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March 26, 2008

ImprovBoston's Bachelor and Bachelorette Auction

Attention Boston! The amassed hawtness that *is* ImprovBoston are holding a bachelor auction in May to raise money for their new theatre in Central Square. There’s some excellent videos already up to let you know just who you could be walking away with at the end of the night, whilst supporting a worthy non-profit.

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March 21, 2008

How to Make a Button

Miranda July’s searing behind-the-scenes exposé of the button manufacturing industry.

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March 12, 2008

Apple - Trailers - WALL•E

After the teasers, the full trailer is up for PIxar’s next flick. Summary: Amazing!

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March 9, 2008

Rock Band, Less Effective On The Street

Reddit’s Alexis’s Rock Band combo “breadpig” has their first public gig.

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March 6, 2008

David Sedaris delivers a pizza

Pitch-perfect parody. One for the NPR listeners in the crowd.

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March 3, 2008

iPhone Stopwatch hits 1,000 hours

What happens when the iPhone stopwatch runs for 41 days and 16 hours.

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February 27, 2008

Trunk Monkey Compilation

A series of superb car dealership commercials. My next car had better have a Trunk Monkey.

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February 26, 2008

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 08 Election

The Onion News Network is getting better and better.

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February 22, 2008

YouTube - VIVA OBAMA 2008

Well, if a mariachi band won’t bring out the “hispanic vote” in Texas, I don’t know what will…

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February 17, 2008

Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98!

Posted mostly because it’s clever, but also because I miss hacking on MOD files.

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February 12, 2008

YouTube - Rabbit Rescue

Amy Sedaris and some bunnies do some top-notch pimping for Microsoft Office.

Late Night: Behind the Brawl

Outtakes from last week’s Late Night where Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart killed time/entertained the nation (delete as appropriate) by brawling.

February 11, 2008

Spongebob Voice-Overs

The actors who do the voices for Spongebob et al were worred about being typecast, so they made this film. Quality!

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February 5, 2008

20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack (Lessig Blog)

Reasoned video from Lawrence Lessig on why he supports Obama. If you’re worried that Obama is all-sizzle-no-steak or cult-of-personality, this is worth watching.

(As an aside, I see from the comments that noted raging fuckwit Marc Perkel is anti-Obama. I consider that another positive.)

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February 3, 2008

Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video

Song and video by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas (plus a bunch of other artists), based upon Obama’s stump speech. I cannot imagine anyone doing this with a Romney speech.

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January 31, 2008

Craig Ferguson Takes Citizenship Test

A fellow Scotsman takes the US citizenship test.

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January 27, 2008

Michel Gondry Re-creates His Own Trailer For "Be Kind Rewind"

Michel Gondry’s next film involved Jack Black and Mos Def recreating movies amateurishly. Here, Michel Gondry recreates that film’s trailer amateurishly. Genius!

You Suck at Photoshop

Excellently silly melodrama under the guise of photoshop tutorials. Ace!

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January 22, 2008

January 18, 2008

A Bit of Fry and Laurie - "Mystery" song

Classic bit of early Hugh Laurie musical brilliance. (Also worth seeking out on YouTube: his version of Hey Jude)

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January 16, 2008

Exclusive: The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress

Hard to watch without remembering his interview scenes in Magnolia. “When you’re a Scientologist, and you drive by an accident, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you’re the only one who can really help…”

January 11, 2008

Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES

Posted without comment: Conference with lots of TVs + geeks with TV-B-Gone remotes = …

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December 27, 2007

Catch up on "Lost" in 8 minutes 15 seconds - ABC.com

Everything you “need” to know about Lost in 8m15s. Great catch-up with wonderfully droll commentary (“Kate and Jack kiss. Kate is confused”). I gave up on Lost late in Season 2, but I could be tempted to dive back in.

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December 26, 2007

Mario knockoff is the most evil game ever - Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Videos of four levels of hilariously evil gameplay.

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December 23, 2007

Apple - Trailers - WALL•E

New teaser for Wall-E. Hurrah!

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December 16, 2007

A Taste For The Theatrical

Trailer for the new Batman movie, and it’s dark, twisted and stonking. I’ve reached a point where I think I will go see any movie Christopher Nolan directs from here on out, because I haven’t been disappointed by any so far.

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YouTube - BBC One Christmas Ident 2007 - Penguins

Christmas isn’t christmas without a BBC 1 ident. And this year’s is a corker. PENGUINS!

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December 14, 2007

YouTube - Authors@Google: Randall Munroe

Talk and Q&A given at Google by Randall Munroe, author of XKCD. Notable for a question from Donald Knuth about 22 minutes in!

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December 7, 2007

Sesame Workshop: Video

Massive collection of Sesame Street clips, all indexed and ready to play. The “Pinball Count”, “King of 8” and “Over and Under and Through” clips brought back memories. (Alas, no permalinks to videos)

November 30, 2007

YouTube - prevent-it.ca

I want to move to Canada so I can see more PSAs like this. Freakin’ *AWESOME*!

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November 20, 2007

STEWART LEE - Officially the 41st Best Stand Up Ever :: Previous Work

Stewart Lee’s uploaded high-quality versions of “Fist of Fun” and TMWRNJ to Google Video. Some of it hasn’t aged well, but there’s some great stuff in there. Definitely shaped my sense-of-humour.

November 16, 2007

YouTube - Doctor Who, Children in Need Special - Time Crash

I completely forgot this was on tonight. Lovely little bit of Who geekery. Number 5 was “my” doctor too — the first one I remember watching.

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November 15, 2007

YouTube - Not The Daily Show, With Some Writer

Excellent (and lo-fi) video by some Daily Show writers on the current writers’ strike.

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November 14, 2007

Cowbell Hero

Exactly what you expect it to be.

November 6, 2007

Facebook News Network - CollegeHumor video

“All the News Feed that’s fit to print.’ (And features my chum Jill Bernard’s status in the crawl — clearly I’m a friend-in-law to the video’s makers.)

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October 22, 2007

Drink Responsibly | The Daily Show

Classic Daily Show clip — Steve Carell gets shit-faced drunk in the name of science.

October 21, 2007

Eddie Izzard / Lego mashups

A handful of Eddie Izzard routines illustrated with Lego. Quality.

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October 18, 2007

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Official Website

Comedy Central has launched a complete archive of The Daily Show since Jon Stewart took over in 1999. It’s a wee bit wonky (I haven’t had much luck searching for old “Even Stephven” segments), but promising.

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October 17, 2007

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters | The Onion

“For a majority of likely voters, meaningless bullshit will be the most important factor in deciding who they will vote for in 2008.”

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October 15, 2007

People Getting Punched Just Before Eating (SNL Digital Short)

I’m mildly ashamed of just how funny I found this. “BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS”

October 13, 2007

Popjustice - Kylie - '2 Hearts'

Corky O’Reilly, It’s Kylie! Top new track. As Popjustice put it: “Woo etc.”

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September 7, 2007

Jennifer: Some Of My Lost Loves

I was squawking laughs at this like an idiot. Beautifully done.

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September 4, 2007

Glass and a Half Full Productions

Best use of a Phil Collins soundtrack EVAR! Quality bit of viral advertising from Cadbury’s.

August 28, 2007

August 27, 2007

YouTube - Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question

Impressive shattering of all stereotypes about beauty queens *and* South Carolina.

August 25, 2007

Monkey Mind - 8-23-07 UserTalk - Twadget

Twadget (my Vista sidebar gadget for Twitter) is described by a user as the “one nice thing about Vista that [she’s] been able to find”. Best feedback I’ve ever received!

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August 22, 2007

Video with new YouTube advertising

YouTube have launched their advertising model, and it doesn’t look too bad at all. Fifteen seconds into a clip, a little transparent-ish message pops up at the bottom of the video, which you can click on for more information (pausing your video), or close if you like. Ten seconds later, it fades away again.

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August 21, 2007

YouTube - Image resize

Demo of a wicked-cool smart image-resizing technique, from the SIGGRAPH conference.

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August 15, 2007

YouTube: Of Muppets and Men

The whole of a *fantastic* behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of The Muppet Show.

August 10, 2007

Be Kind Rewind trailer

Michel Gondry’s next film. Jack Black and Mos Def remaking Ghostbusters and Robocop? Looks good!

August 9, 2007

YouTube - New Line Home Entertainment (2001)

All day, I’ve had this bit of music stuck in my head. All I could remember was that it was a movie company’s logo, and things flew around on the screen. I’ve been reduced to scouring YouTube to work out what it was — The ident for “New Line Home Entertainment”! Thank you, the Internet.

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August 8, 2007

Apple - iWork - Tutorials

Quality screencasts of the new features in iWork 08. Only had a minor play myself, but the ability to have two independent “tables” visible on one spreadsheet is bloody great.

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Apple - Trailers - Sleuth

This looks a bit ace. Michael Caine and Jude Law, directed by Kenneth Branagh, screenplay by Harold Pinter.

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July 25, 2007

Official Gmail Blog: Help make a Gmail video

Fun little collaborative video project from GMail.

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THE HELLO EXPERIMENT

Answering the question on many people’s minds… If you were blind and tried to make a clay bust of Lionel Richie (like in that 80’s mawk-fest video for Hello), how would it turn out?

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YouTube - "Thriller"

Best video on YouTube? Possibly. 1,500 prisoners in the Phillipines performing the dance routine from the Thriller video.

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July 22, 2007

Cute Overload: Seriously hungry, hungry hippo

I want a hippo for a pet! I’m sure Bacon and Clyde wouldn’t mind.

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July 11, 2007

Apple - Trailers - 01-18-08

Quite possibly the best movie “teaser” ever. No title, no cast list, no clue as to WTF is going on… But dagnammit, I want to see the film!

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Will It Blend? | iPhone

Best viral marketing for a kitchen appliance EVAR!

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July 8, 2007

YouTube - Spinal Tap + Army of Bass Players - Live Earth

“Big Bottom” as it was meant to be played — by every bass player they could find. “On bass drums: Skippy Scuffleton - pray for him!”

July 6, 2007

YouTube - Franz Ferdinand on Jools Holland

My favourite song off their last album, Outsiders, performed on Jools Holland with a metric shitload of drummers. Fantastic!

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June 20, 2007

Dramatic Chipmunk - CollegeHumor video

“Best five second video on the internet.”

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Apple - iPhone - YouTube Browser

Apple continue throwing out tasty morsels of iPhone announcements in the run-up to the launch next Friday — This time, a built-in YouTube browser. (Random thought: If Steve Jobs is trying to tell the developer community that Web Apps are a perfectly good way to develop for the iPhone, how come Apple have taken the perfectly good website that is YouTube and created a custom app for it?)

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June 18, 2007

Michael Moore's "Sicko" on Google Video

Probably will be pulled pretty quickly, but the full two hours of Michael Moore’s new film is up on Google Video.

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June 17, 2007

Apple - Trailers - WALL•E

Teaser for the next Pixar flick.

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June 14, 2007

Second Life in Real Life

If the world was the same as Second Life. Also, people would be walking round with cups of coffee stuck to their stomachs.

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May 31, 2007

VIDEO: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Highlight Reel | D5 | AllThingsD

Clips from their joint interview (the full interview is also available). BillG clarifying he’s not Fake Steve Jobs is one of the most bizarre, awesome and meta things I’ve heard in a long time.

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May 27, 2007

YouTube - The Zimmers "My Generation" Released: 28/05/07

British charity single to promote a documentary on the disenfranchisement of old people in the UK — a choir of OAPs performing “My Generation”.

May 24, 2007

powerpoint presentation humor - information aesthetics

Mildly amusing powerpoint-powered standup.

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May 17, 2007

YouTube - Ghostride the Volvo

If this doesn’t keep the A’s in Oakland, I don’t know what will. Pisses all over nonviolent direct action as a protest tactic.

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May 15, 2007

Panorama - Scientology and Me - Google Video

Last night’s Scientology documentary from the BBC. I watched this last night, and it’s really quite jaw-dropping. I’m surprised the scientologists have been kicking up such a fuss about it, because it’s only raised public awareness of what a bunch of controlling manipulative fruitcakes they are.

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May 11, 2007

Acceptable.tv - Kosbees

Not to be confused in any way with the sued-by-Bill-Cosby animated shorts “House of Cosbys”. Obviously.

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May 9, 2007

Live Earth: Spinal Tap to Reunite for Live Earth Concert

New 15-minute Spinal Tap film to help promote the “Live Earth” concerts in July. “6%”

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Apple - Trailers - Ratatouille

9 minute preview clip of the upcoming Pixar flick. The 720p version looks *stunning*.

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May 8, 2007

SOX & Dawgs » Red Sox Love

Remy and Orsillo lose their shit in the announcers’ booth, as Manny pets Batshit Tavarez. “Sometimes, you just want to fix your friend’s hair.”

May 3, 2007

YouTube - Pulp Muppets

Why have I not seen this until now? Beautifully-made pitch-perfect re-casting of Pulp Fiction with Muppets. Sam the Eagle *is* Christopher Walken.

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April 20, 2007

reacTable media

Wicked cool multi-touch-esque synthesizer-thing.

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April 10, 2007

YouTube - Instant laser coffee

Note to self: Convince Sodexho to install one of these in the [RhymesWithNose] cafeteria.

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April 8, 2007

YouTube - Cadbury Eggs...smaller?

Conclusive proof by BJ Novak of “The Office” that Creme Eggs *are* smaller this year (only in the US?)

April 5, 2007

nike :: JUST DO IT.

As we await Daisuke Matsuzaka’s first start as a Red Sox pitcher, here’s his new Nike advert playing in Japan. The shot of Wally the Green Monster in the middle is kind of disconcerting.

March 29, 2007

YouTube - Otters holding hands

Ridiculously cute.

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March 26, 2007

March 24, 2007

This American Life On Showtime

Full video of the first episode of the TV version of “This American Life”. Vaguely considering subbing up to Showtime.

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March 22, 2007

BarCampBoston2 Video Collage

Video snapshots from BarCampBoston2. Top middle is me over-excitedly and choppily-editedly raving about OpenID. See if you can spot the joke I stole from Simon Willison.

February 16, 2007

YouTube - Scissor Sisters Live - Take Your Mama

Another great live puppetry performance with the Scissor Sisters from last year’s Brit Awards. I love the way the entire set erupts to life.

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YouTube - Scissor Sisters at the Brits - I Don't Feel Like Dancing

Stonking live performance by the Scissor Sisters. Disembodied legs and floating singers a-go-go. $5 says the Jim Henson Creature Shop was involved.

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February 14, 2007

YouTube - AsahiSUPERDRY CM "Change! Daisuke Matsuzaka"

First sighting of Dice-K in a Red Sox uniform? Pounding back a beer n a Japanese commercial. Reading about the start of spring training is getting me excited for the upcoming season. Let’s Go Red Sox!

February 12, 2007

Mac Rumors: More Multitouch from Jeff Han

I saw the demo of this last year at ETech, and it was mindblowing. We’re inching closer to the Minority Report user interface.

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February 5, 2007

YouTube - Girls Aloud vs Sugababes - Walk This Way

Bah. I had such high hopes for this, but it’s a decidedly underwhelming cover.

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February 2, 2007

Empire: Future Films - Knocked Up

Trailer for the new film by Judd Apatow (of Freaks & Geeks, Undeclared and 40-Year-Old Virgin), which has the excellent Seth Rogen in the leading man role. Made me laugh.

Clip: Conan Vs. Serena Williams In Wii Tennis - Kotaku

Conan O’Brien takes on Serena Williams at Wii Tennis.

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January 30, 2007

YouTube - Bill Gates in South Park

In celebration of BillG telling us all about how great Vista is today, here’s his appearance from the South Park movie, telling us all how great Windows 98 is.

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January 26, 2007

YouTube - Kitty Washing Machine

Automatic “spa” for pets. I’d pay good money to see Bacon and Clyde take a run through one of these things.

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January 23, 2007

Life on Mars meets Camberwick Green

Viral clip promoting new series of Life on Mars. What would Windy Miller say?

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December 21, 2006

cityrag: 50 Greatest Cartoons

Links to YouTube and Google Video for the 50 Greatest Cartoons, as voted for by animators in 1994. “One Froggy Evening” is one of the best things ever.

YouTube - SNL - Digital Short - A Special Christmas Box *Uncensored Version*

How odd. When I saw this bleeped on SNL, I thought it was “Cock in a Box”, as did Joy. I’m not sure how I feel about “Dick in a Box”. Doesn’t seem as funny, somehow.

December 20, 2006

YouTube - How Michel Gondry Faked His Rubik's Cube Stunt

If you haven’t already seen the original video, watch it first and see if you can work out how he does it. It’s a lot less high-tech than I’d imagined!

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YouTube - Jarvis - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time

Great new video from Jarvis Cocker.

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December 17, 2006

Live Free or Die Hard - Movie Details - Yahoo! Movies

Teaser trailer for the new Die Hard movie featuring Bruce Willis and A Mac. Disappointingly, given its title, not set in New Hampshire. Spoiler: Shit blows up.

December 15, 2006

FLV Online Converter - vixy.net

Very handy — Paste in a YouTube URL and download the video clip as an avi, mov or mp4 file.

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December 13, 2006

Are You Ready for Obama? - New York Times Blog

Barack Obama puts “all the doubts to rest” and makes his announcement.

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December 8, 2006

YouTube - Rayman European Launch Trailer

Raving Rabbids is by far my favourite Wii game. This promo clip does a good job of showing why. (If only I could find a second Wiimote so Joy & I could play together!)

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December 7, 2006

Fritalian (Dunkin' Donuts commercial)

Another series of Dunkin Donuts commercials featuring music by They Might Be Giants has started hitting the air. This is my current favourite.

December 3, 2006

YouTube - Live Action Hamster Video Game

Hamster trapped in an 8-bit video game. It’s like Tron. But with a hamster.

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Working Title Films - Hot Fuzz trailer

New movie from the folks behind Shaun of the Dead and Spaced. Looks pretty danged good, too.

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November 29, 2006

Young at Heart Chorus covering Coldplay's "Fix You"

Young at Heart is a choral group of senior citizens who cover rock songs. This rendition of Fix You is just chilling.

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November 14, 2006

CNN.com Video: Microsoft's Zune released

Ouch. I’m not sure Microsoft will be happy that their launch-day feature on CNN features incredulent hosts (“Who do they think is going to buy this?”), one of whom ends the segment raving about her new teeny iPod Shuffle.

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November 13, 2006

YouTube - South Park : Bigger, Longer & Uncut - Teaser

A considerably funnier version of the 3D animation gag in the Simpsons trailer: the South Park movie teaser from *1998*.

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November 11, 2006

アップル - Macをはじめよう - TV CM

The Japanese versions of the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads. They’re entertainingly precise copies of the originals.

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November 8, 2006

Office Space Re-Cut

Office Space as psychological thriller.

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November 7, 2006

YouTube - Grand Theft Mario

Quality clip from Robot Chicken.

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November 6, 2006

YouTube - Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Oooh

Man, this is the best sliver of pure P!O!P! gold I’ve heard in a long time. I’m going to have the chorus engraved on my tombstone.

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November 4, 2006

YouTube - Torn

That mime-doing-Torn you may have seen before - extended remix with live Natalie Imbrooglywoogly.

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October 23, 2006

YouTube - Borat -The first 4 minutes of his Movie

Can’t wait for this to come out!

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October 15, 2006

Apple - Trailers - STRANGER THAN FICTION

Saw this trailer yesterday, and it caught my attention in the same way that the trailer for “Being John Malkovich” did years ago.

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October 13, 2006

YouTube - A Terrifying Message from Al Gore

Trailer for An Inconvenient Truth made by the chaps at Futurama. Your first (and only?) chance to hear Al Gore say the words “hybrid pimpmobile”

October 11, 2006

YouTube - Grind House Trailer

Trailer for the upcoming Tarantino/Rodriguez flick. Could be awesome. Could be a train wreck. But it _does_ feature Rose McGowan with a machine gun for a leg.

October 8, 2006

YouTube - New BBC One Ident Montage

Montage of the eight new idents for BBC One continuity announcements. The “hippos” one (starts at 3:35) is my favourite by far.

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October 7, 2006

Nobody's Watching offical site

As part of their development deal with NBC, the creators of the sitcom “Nobody’s Watching” got some cash to make online videos. This is their site, chock-full of amusing videos, as they wait to find out if they’re getting picked up for midseason.

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October 6, 2006

Battle of the Bands

When album cover art attacks… One for the music geeks.

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For Your Consideration trailer

Trailer for Christopher Guest’s upcoming flick.

October 3, 2006

Jet: Shine On: Pitchfork Record Review

Normally, I can’t be arsed with Pitchfork’s reviews — too pseudy by half. But this one is short, witty, incisive, and pretty danged accurate.

September 29, 2006

stereogum: New Gnarls Barkley Video - "Gone Daddy Gone"

Computer-animated insect upskirt action!

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Steve Jobs: "And Boom!"

And Boom!

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September 26, 2006

That OK Go treadmill video + Lego =

It’s thinks like this that remind me that I don’t actually have too much free time.

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September 15, 2006

Viral Video Chart

What videos on YouTube and Google Video are getting the most links from blogs. Alternatively, your guide to what the hell those strange noises are you’re hearing from neighbouring cubicles at work.

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September 12, 2006

YouTube - The Muppet Show - Beaker Sings

One of the best Muppet Show clips ever. Beaker performs “Feelings”

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September 11, 2006

YouTube - MySpace seminar

Funny SNL sketch. “I used to look like Ashley Parker Angel”

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September 8, 2006

Amazon.com Unbox Video

There’s an instant discount of $1.99 on your first purchase, so you can kick the tyres and download a TV show episode for free. And yes, the DRM they use is strippable using FairPlay4WM.

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September 3, 2006

TubeSock - Rip videos from YouTube

OSX app which downloads YouTube flash videos, converts them to MPEG4, and loads them onto your iPod Video.

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The Kransky Sisters: Overload

The Kransky Sisters’ show “We Don’t Have Husbands” was the best thing I caught at the Fringe. Here’s a small taster of their wonderful character-driven comedy — a cover of the Sugababes song “Overload”.

Ricky Gervais - Microsoft 1 - Google Video

Ricky Gervais (in character as David Brent) and Stephen Merchant make a “training” film for Microsoft.

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August 15, 2006

How To Break Web Software - A look at security vulnerabilities in web software - Google Video

Google TechTalk from one of the authors of “How to Break Web Software”.

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August 7, 2006

django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines - Google Video

Google Tech Talk from Jacob of the Django team. Good overview of the origins and philosophy of Django.

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August 3, 2006

OK Go - Here It Goes Again

Very cool (and pretty low-budget) promo from OK Go. Just four guys, eight treadmills, and presumably hours of sweat and choreography. Anyone know who directed it?

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August 1, 2006

YouTube - Colbert Analyzes Wikipedia

Colbert defends Wikipedia as a great bastion of Truthiness — So long as a majority of people believe it, you can include it as “fact” in Wikipedia. Currently, about 20 elephant-related articles are locked down!

July 30, 2006

Windows Vista Speech Recognition Demo Gone Awry - Google Video

“Dear aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all”

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July 26, 2006

YouTube - Pulp - Bad Cover Version

It’s a great song, but this video just made it even better. I’ll always have an especially soft spot for it after someone on a mailing-list I was on made it clear he didn’t get the joke, and wondered how Pulp had pulled it off.

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July 25, 2006

Pug Bowling

Can of Pledge + Bowling Pins + Laser Pointer + Pug Dog == Pug Bowling!

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July 21, 2006

The Pipettes - Pull Shapes

Top music video (blatantly/lovingly ripped off from “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”) from quality new Spector-esque polka-dotted powerpop group.

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July 20, 2006

YouTube - Daily Show 7/19/06 - Net Neutrality

Another great John Hodgman “Resident Expert” segment.

July 19, 2006

YouTube - The Big Lebowski - F_cking Short Version

Warning. May contain swearing.

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July 17, 2006

Apple - Trailers - The Prestige

Trailer for the upcoming movie from Christopher Nolan (director of Momento and Insomnia). Looks good to me!

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July 13, 2006

NBC.com > The Office > Webisodes

The first two “webisodes” of The Office are up now.

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Bullet in uber slow motion - Google Video

69 seconds of slow motion footage of a variety of things getting shot. Awesome.

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July 7, 2006

YouTube - Nobody's Watching Part 1

Breaking-the-third-wall-tastic sitcom pilot co-created by Bill Lawrence (creator of Scrubs). (Quick summary: Two sitcom-obsessed guys live on a sitcom set, and try to create their perfect sitcom) The WB turned it down last year, but since being posted to YouTube and gathering some acclaim, NBC are considering resurrecting it.

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June 21, 2006

Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos

Does what it says on the tin. Pitchfork scoured YouTube for 100 awesome videos, skipping over your usual suspects like Jonez, Cunningham and Gondry.

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June 20, 2006

Warioware Smooth Moves - E3 footage of the game.

Sweet Jeebus, this looks like fun.

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June 16, 2006

Game Over

Classic video games re-enacted in stop motion with food and toys.

Swansea North Residents Association - NEWS

Tango do a nice spoof of that Sony bouncing-balls-in-SanFran advert. The rest of the astroturf site is pretty decent too.

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June 14, 2006

Video Player - 30 Rock

NBC have posted a preview of Tina Fey’s new sitcom, 30 Rock. Tracy Morgan, Rachel Dratch and, oh yes, Alec Baldwin co-star. Looks good based on the three minute highlights reel.

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June 12, 2006

June 9, 2006

Apple - Trailers - Ratatouille

The next Pixar movie, directed by Brad Bird. If your PC can handle it, try watching the HD trailers. The detail is freaking incredible.

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June 8, 2006

myvu™ personal media viewer

Whacky sunglasses-with-embedded-video-screens for the video iPod. I got to try a pair on today, but since I took my glasses off, it just seemed out of focus.

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June 3, 2006

The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments

“What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints?” The Mentos and Diet Coke meme taken to the extreme.

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June 2, 2006

Vimeo / really expensive cat toy video clip

You can be damned sure that if I had a MacBook, Bacon wouldn’t be getting within 10 feet of it, no matter how cute he is.

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June 1, 2006

BBC SPORT | BBC website shows World Cup games

Wow, the Beeb are streaming live video of all their World Cup coverage. Geo-limited to the UK only, but still, that’s a lot of bits to shuffle. I can’t imagine office IT folks are particularly thrilled about this move!

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May 21, 2006

YouTube - S60 Promo

Splendid-looking 6 minute preview of Aaron Sorkin’s new show “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”. This clip was pulled from YouTube by NBC lawyers last week, but someone kindly re-upped it. Hurry up and enjoy before it gets yanked again.

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May 20, 2006

Apple Store - Fifth Avenue

Apple is posting time-lapse videos of the first 24 hours outside their new NYC store. Respect is due to the person in that 5am video who uses the camera to propose marriage!

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May 19, 2006

Jinjur: Welcome to Eltingville

Failed pilot for an animated series based on Evan Dorkin’s “Eltingville Comic Book, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Role-Playing Club”. Most of my Star Wars trivia knowledge comes from reading those strips.

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May 14, 2006

Fare comment! BBC interviews cabbie by mistake

This is just splendid in ways unimaginable. A cabdriver who was in the BBC’s reception area was rushed onto air by mistaken producers, thinking he was an internet expert to talk about the Apple vs. Apple case. Full marks to the bloke for struggling through the interview despite being clearly horrified!

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SNL: If Al Gore were President

Nicely done parallel-universe cold-open from last night’s SNL.

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May 12, 2006

YouTube - O! News - Apple v Apple

Another round of quality impressions from Peter Serafinowicz. John Lennon invented the iPod, apparently.

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April 28, 2006

Coca-Cola: What Goes Around

Trippy Coke ad, with music by Jack White.

April 23, 2006

Incredible Machines - Google Video

12 minutes of Heathrobinsonian/Rudegoldbergian contraptions from Japan. Be warned — The backing music will drive you bleedin’ mental.

April 19, 2006

YouTube - Pinball Number Count

The Pointer Sisters’ greatest hit? Classic Sesame Street animation.

April 17, 2006

Dunkin' Donuts: Things I Like To Do

I’m loving the new Dunkin Donuts jingle by They Might Be Giants. “I’m slightly more efficient than I previously was” is possibly the most honest advertising slogan for coffee ever.

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The pleasure of finding things out - RP Feynman - Google Video

1982 Richard Feynman interview. I downloaded this last month from UKNova, and it’s just a fascinating insight into the man.

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April 10, 2006

1986 World Series Game 6 Re-Enacted in RBI Baseball

“It gets through Buckner” in an 8-bit NES stylee.

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April 3, 2006

YouTube - The Simpsons Movie Trailer

Oh, I’m dreading this so much. Is there any chance that this will be a good movie? Please?

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YouTube - NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo

Steve Jobs — The original screencaster. This is from _fourteen_ years ago - round about the time Microsoft were releasing Windows 3.1.

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April 1, 2006

NBC.com > The Office > The More You Know

Some excellent Public Service Announcements from the cast of The Office. I fast forwarded right past the one in Thursday’s episode, because I figured it was a genuine “The More You Know” segment. Luckily, Joy got me to skip back.

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March 27, 2006

Videora TiVo Converter

Free one-click conversion of video files to the specific MPEG format required to copy video onto your TiVo. No messing around with demuxers or codecs required. They also have one that converts to iPod Video format.

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March 19, 2006

Snakes On A Plane trailer

Everything you dreamed it would be. SPOILER WARNING: There’s an aircraft, and it appears to be infested with some form of cold-blooded legless reptiles.

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March 6, 2006

Google Video: From the Googleplex

Google share some videos of various talks given at the Googleplex. Some really interesting-looking stuff here.

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March 4, 2006

YouTube - O! News

Silly little Oscars news parody from Peter Serafinowicz — Apparently just made for fun. His Alan Alda impression is spookily good.

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YouTube - Real Life Simpsons Intro

Simpsons opening sequence remade with humans. Anyone know the origin of this? It looks British. Promo for Sky One?

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February 28, 2006

If Microsoft designed the iPod packaging

Pretty much spot-on.

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February 5, 2006

zx spectrum walkthrough - Google Video

Complete video walkthroughs of classic Speccy games (although JSW has clearly been poked to avoid the Attic bug).

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January 27, 2006

Channel4.com - IT Crowd

Channel 4 are streaming the first episode of Graham Linehan’s new sitcom. It’s good, but not great, but then I didn’t think the first episodes of either Father Ted or Black Books were all that good, but the series turned out to be fantastic.

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January 24, 2006

Clerks 2 - Teaser

Looks like Kevin Smith is heading back to the Askewniverse after “Jersey Girl” bombed. Here’s hoping it’s a worthy successor to the original.

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January 13, 2006

YouTube - Birds of Britain

A little snippet from the (just about to be released) Look Around You DVD. Quality!

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January 8, 2006

Vongo.com - Choose Now. Watch Now.

Starz’s online video download service: $9.99 for all-you-can-eat movies. Windows & US only, naturally.

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December 29, 2005

Top 50 Music Videos Of 2005

All linked and ready-to-view. Some great stuff here. I’m of the opinion that the 4-minute pop promo can be an incredible work of art, and there’s a lot here to help support that argument.

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December 19, 2005

SNL - The Chronic of Narnia Rap

So not only did SNL hire the Lonely Island dudes, they’re also taking a page out of their “distribute it online” book too. This is possibly the funniest non-Robert-Smigel-cartoon SNL clip in years.

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November 23, 2005

Mario Unleashed - Google Video

This is insane — Video of some kids at a high-school talent show, performing segments of the Super Mario soundtrack on marimba, complete with costumes and props.

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November 15, 2005

Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker

BitTorrent tracker focused on video content of a suitable resolution for video iPods.

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November 5, 2005

mplayerplug-in

The best video plugin for Linux I’ve found. Plays Quicktime, Windows Media and Real Video without complaint, hiccup, or browser crash.

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September 14, 2005

The Jolly Wacky Executionist (video)

Found whilst rummaging through folders on my webserver: A (crappily-encoded) video of a sketch I wrote and performed in at the Improv Asylum in 2001.

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September 7, 2005

I, Cringely . NerdTV

The first episode of NerdTV — the online-only PBS-funded geek interview show hosted by a Bob Cringely — is now online. There are some really interesting guests lined up, so this definitely has potential.

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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

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