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August 17, 2008

ERNEST BORGNINE - Secret to Old Age

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

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.

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!

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.

June 22, 2008

YouTube - テルミンを演奏するネコ

THEREMIN CAT IS THEREMINNING!

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.

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!”

May 25, 2008

Weezer, “Pork and Beans”

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

May 16, 2008

Irn-Bru: If

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

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.

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.

May 6, 2008

Richard Herring slams a heckler

How not to heckle, a handy guide.

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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