August 17, 2008
ERNEST BORGNINE - Secret to Old Age
Ernest Borgnine delivers a pitch-perfect stage whisper on Fox News.
August 6, 2008
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
June 22, 2008
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
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.