Monday, March 31, 2008
Cows Are Evil
An animated short about Cow 1011's gory attempt to destroy her arch nemesis, Barry the Dairy owner. "break in case of cow uprising"
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Drunk History w/ Michael Cera
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Learn about Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton with a drunk guy and Michael Cera.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Voice Over, Over: Jon Friedman Fired From Commercial
Rejection Show host Jon Friedman shares the footage and story from being removed as the voice over artist for a series of national promo commercials.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Dave Eggers: 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School
from http://www.ted.com
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open their own volunteer-driven, wildly creative writing labs. But you don't need to go that far, he reminds us -- it's as simple as asking a teacher "How can I help?" He asks that we share our own volunteering stories at his new website, Once Upon a School.
Karen Armstrong: 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion
from http://www.ted.com:
As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Judaism, Christianity -- have been diverted from the moral purpose they share to foster compassion. But Armstrong has seen a yearning to change this fact. People want to be religious, she says; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Finding the most beautiful woman in Italy.
How can one find the most beautiful woman in Italy? A Japanese expert determined the following 4 steps:
1) Find a random woman on the street.
2) Ask that woman to introduce the film crew to a more beautiful friend.
3) Have that more beautiful friend introduce the film crew to an even more beautiful friend.
4) Repeat until one meets the 12th woman - she will be the most beautiful woman in Italy.
A Japanese TV show traveled to Italy and attempted this method, and the results are in the video.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Wireless neckband allows first voiceless phone call
via videosift.com
A neckband that intercepts nerve signals allows you to talk on the phone without emitting a sound
Holiday (1957) - extract
From Youtube:
Few films have captured the kiss-me-quick pleasures of Blackpool more colourfully, energetically and convincingly than 'Holiday'. Made by British Transport Films, it chronicles a day in the life of this most British of seaside resorts as it's invaded by people hell-bent on getting the most fun possible from their precious holidays.
It is certainly no chaste and po-faced trip. Among the candy floss and donkey rides the camera spies canoodling lovers; it lingers over near-naked flesh; captures some very suggestive shellfish-eating and offers images that must be among the most homoerotic in British cinema of the 1950s.
Cinematographer David Watkin (who sadly died on 19 February 2008) achieved this level of intimacy by hiding his camera away from prying eyes under a cardboard box on the top of his van, presumably not worrying too much whether or not his subjects ever got round to signing release forms. (Robin Baker)
'Holiday' is available to buy on the British Transport Films compilation DVD 'See Britain by Train' - http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk
Elevator - Most Viewed Video
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Sharon's affair with comedian Daniel Tosh may be at an end.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Curious property of Prince Rupert's Drop glass
via videosift.com
If you drop molten glass into a bucket of water, it will solidify into what's called a "Prince Rupert's Drop." According to this Corning video, the surface of the drop is in a state of great compression, while the interior is in a state of great tension. You can squeeze the bulbous part of the drop with pliers or bang on it with a hammer to no avail. However, if you snap off the hair-thin tail at the end of the drop, it'll shatter into dust. ((Via forgetomori)via BoingBoing)
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The Leningrad Cowboys perform Sweet Home Alabama
The Leningrad Cowboys (from Finland) and the Red Army Choir perform Sweet Home Alabama.
Food Court Musical
Sixteen Improv Everywhere agents stage a musical in a Los Angeles shopping mall food court.
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah
The entire "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" song from one of our favorite shows, 30 Rock. If you're not watching it, you should be.
Christopher Hitchens - Why Women aren't funny
via videosift.com
Christopher Hitchens responds to a piece in Vanity Fair that was a response to his famous article "Why Women Aren't Funny".
Original article by Christopher Hitchens
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/01/hitchens200701
Response by Alessandra Stanley
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/04/funnygirls200804
Rebuttal by Christopher Hitchens
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/04/hitchens200804
Friday, March 07, 2008
MST3K: Spider-Man
From Y/T: "http://www.rifftrax.com/cart.php?m=pr...
When Peter Parker is bitten by one of Columbia University's many genetically engineered "super spiders" (now we know what they do with their 6 billion dollar endowment) instead of doing the sensible thing and dying, he transmogrifies into an arachnid, extruding fluids from his spinnerets, leaping about, swinging and twirling just like a spider. But being a spider naturally puts him on the bad side of Norman Osborn, the charismatic head of OsCorp Industries who manages to find enough time in his day to moonlight as an evil goblin (played by real life evil goblin Willem Dafoe.) He also finds it difficult to manage his relationship with the beautiful Mary Jane, because, well, he's a freakish wer-spider. His exoskeleton alone makes it literally impossible for him to come out of his shell until it's time to molt -- and at that point he's too vulnerable for a relationship. It all makes for the most thrilling arthropod-on-human love and adventure tale ever told in the year 2002!
Joining Mike are Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett and several harvestmen that live in the corners of the studio. (Yes, we know that harvestmen are not spiders. And, no, theirs is not the most poisonous venom in the world -- that's just a myth.)"
Thank You Mr. Gygax
Via Videosift:
Gary Gygax, cocreator of the pen-and-paper game D&D has died at the age of 69. This clip is from "The Dungeons & Dragons Experience", a documentary about the world's first role playing game.
Slow Jerkin'
The Whitest Kids U Know explore the fine line between office fun and sexual harassment.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Monday, March 03, 2008
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Fly me off the Handel
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain cannot agree on what song to perform. But it doesn’t really matter, as long as the songs all have the the same basic structure. -via Metafilter
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
From TED:
Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of "three stories and an argument." The Net's most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the "ASCAP cartel" to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and reveals how bad laws beget bad code. Then, in an homage to cutting-edge artistry, he throws in some of the most hilarious remixes you've ever seen.
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