November 19, 2009
An interactive wall
This is a curiosity. A German company called Festo makes an interactive all they call FinRay.
Tip o' the hat to Danilo in Brazil.
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I Am
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November 18, 2009
Bringing it to life
An interesting ad for Guinness -- lots of great scenery.
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The Matrix in 5 seconds
One of many 5-second movies.
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November 17, 2009
No 'ifs' or 'ands', just...
A refreshingly direct ad for Reebok's EasyTone shoe:
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Come out with your paws up
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November 16, 2009
Pigeon: Impossible
Amazingly well done CGI short clip.
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E-I-E-I-yOga
Res ipsa loquitur.
YogaDork did a little research (for the curious).
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November 14, 2009
The Huge Mistake
A couple of EPA lawyers describe why Cap & Trade legislation is a really bad way to reduce carbon emissions. Remember the Law of Unintended Consequences.
They're right that a "carbon fee" is a better approach to reducing carbon emissions (though they should just bite the bullet and call it a carbon tax).
And for AGW skeptics like me, the tax approach has another advantage -- you can always repeal a tax when you figure out it was a mistake. Getting rid of a cap & trade program will be much more difficult.
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Get a dog
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The journey starts
A clever ad for Nokia's N900, a Linux-based device that Nokia's touting as an open platform they call Maemo.
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November 12, 2009
Airventure 2009
An outstanding video of Airventure 2009 - many beautiful aircraft and aerobatic sequences.
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Who needs bridges?
This guy skims his ATV 400 feet across a lake in Mississippi.
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November 11, 2009
Welcome home
Mental Floss has a collection of 10 videos of dogs welcoming their masters back home, which seems like just the thing for Veterans' Day.
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Perrita bailarina
Carrie, the ballerina dog. I believe the dog and her master are from Chile.
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November 10, 2009
Roomba Pac-Man
Geeked to the max.
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Secret knock detecting lock
This is a clever piece of work - but how do you keep a knock sequence a secret?
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November 09, 2009
Wrong time of day
If I were this track inspector, I believe I'd check the train schedule before I checked the tracks.
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Grand Theft Auto vs. Frogger
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November 06, 2009
Life lessons from an ad man
This clip's a little long but I enjoyed it all.
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TGFB
I could live without the falsetto asides but that said, this is a pretty funny routine about bacon.
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November 05, 2009
Cast iron, floor standing, 3 phase, 20 amp craziness
Industrial strength bizarreness from Japan.
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No corkscrew? No problem
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November 04, 2009
Tricks of the trade
A make-up artist for hamburgers shows how it's done.
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November 03, 2009
Whoops!
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November 02, 2009
Finally
Microsoft makes a decent ad.
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No OSHA there, I think
Though I'm not sure where this was shot.
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October 31, 2009
Happy Halloween
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October 30, 2009
Halloween math
A little hokey but pretty well done overall.
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Spooky
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October 29, 2009
What a backflip
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A chat with a cat
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October 28, 2009
Markets in everything
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Scary magic
Seems more clinical than scary to me, but it's an interesting trick.
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October 27, 2009
George Carlin on germs
It's a hilarious rant - and definitely not safe for work. But you know George.
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News flash! (3)
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October 26, 2009
Suit yerself
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Don't stop 'til you get enough
I'm no Michael Jackson fan but somebody did a great job on this clip.
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October 25, 2009
Sound
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October 23, 2009
Symphony of science
I don't like most of the auto-tune clips I've seen but this one struck my fancy. For one thing, it has Richard Feynman playing drums.
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All it needs is some fine Corinthian leather
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More wackiness from Japan
I'm thinking that Monty Python might look like this to people who don't understand English.
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October 21, 2009
Get your fair share of abuse
Paul sent a link to this with the comment, "The world is nuts." The dialog is certainly a blue streak -- definitely not safe for work.
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Flying iron
RFT article here.
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October 20, 2009
Bring it on
More hijinks from Tom Mabe.
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Easy social networking
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October 19, 2009
This is definitely a parody
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I think this is a parody of something...
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October 16, 2009
Russian scam
This is a little long at 10 minutes but it's pretty interesting. It's quite a story, if true.
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iDriver
This is an interesting prototype because of the iPhone interface. (The rest of it appears to be off-the-shelf technology.)
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Baby-shaped pears
Very clever.
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October 15, 2009
What a splash
The audio's pretty hot on this one, so mind the volume.
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Nice changing room
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October 14, 2009
What a rhythm section
I especially liked how they miked the exhaust pipe on the tractor.
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Incredible indeed
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October 13, 2009
World's deepest bin
Here's another video along the lines of yesterday's post about the piano stairs.
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Street art in San Diego
It was part of their Columbus Day celebration.
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October 12, 2009
Clever dogs
Willow can read
Maggie can count
Both via ohmidog!
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Piano stairs
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October 10, 2009
Who wants a wet willy?
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Feelin' fine
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October 08, 2009
Projector show on English mansion
This is a little long but it's worth the while.
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U3-X
An interesting experimental device from Honda. More info here.
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October 07, 2009
The speeding ticket
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Anti-smoking parody
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October 06, 2009
The glass harmonica
The YouTube notes say, "Invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. Music by Wolfgang A. Mozart. Played by French artist Thomas Bloch, exhibiting the glass harmonica in the Paris Music Museum, Nov. 29, 2007." Wikipedia has an article about this device.
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SNL out takes
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October 05, 2009
Hep cats
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October 02, 2009
I think they're pumped
They've got a great promotional clip at any event. The music's infectious.
Maybe Danilo, our contributor in Brazil, will leave a comment and tell us what the local reaction was to the IOC announcement.
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Before the Photoshopping
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October 01, 2009
Who da man?
Unbelievable -- worth watching whether you like baseball or not.
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First time ever
For a person to ride on a jet-powered carousel.
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September 30, 2009
Talking animals
A preview from the BBC's Walk On The Wild Side.
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More cute dogs
At Hunde Show bei der Privathengstschau Verden 2009.
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September 28, 2009
Deep Green
A pool-shooting robot developed in Canada.
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Draw, pardner (3)
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September 26, 2009
He's a lumberjack
Big Mouth Billy Bass does Monty Python (among others). Nice hack by Steve Ravet.
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Pop art
Watch and be impressed.
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September 24, 2009
Combo
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Are they crazy? Maybe!
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September 23, 2009
Baby aerobics
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Cell phone card trick
A trick by Cyril Takayama (and mostly in Japanese).
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September 22, 2009
Layered stop action
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Protect your chicken
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September 21, 2009
Distraxion
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Stuck in the middle with you
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GPS
Clever.
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September 18, 2009
ACORN humor
Leno has a pretty good spoof ad for ACORN.
And I thought this image from BigGovernment.com (the site running the ACORN exposé) was pretty hilarious.
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Easy on the chicken, Ernie
This news anchor in New York drops an F-bomb about 5 seconds into this clip. The expression on his co-anchor's face is just priceless.
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September 17, 2009
Seal cuteness
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The bear facts
One of the goofiest TV news reports I've seen.
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September 15, 2009
What a shot!
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Better than Diet Coke and Mentos
Capacitor bank: 21.5µF 30kV 9270 Joules 5kg watermelon (about 11 pounds) Pieces of watermelon flew over 15 meters. Air smelled and tasted like watermelon for some time.
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September 14, 2009
If the Enterprise ran Windows
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Hubble First Light
An impressive show of images from the recently refurbished Hubble Space Telescope.
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September 11, 2009
Lindsay's profile
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Listen to your mother
An illusion turns into a painful reality for this Israeli magician.
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September 10, 2009
What's worse than the Blue Screen of Death?
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Ode to Forgetfulness
Mary sends a link to this well-done parody about aging.
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September 09, 2009
Atheist's miracle
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Pool-shooting dog
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September 08, 2009
The ultimate 'Downfall' parody
Hitler's really ticked off now.
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September 04, 2009
Cross-platform support
Where to install Vista:
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How to levitate
Danilo sends a link to this video about how an Indian yogi 'levitates': I don't know the source of the clip.
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September 03, 2009
Musical rant
A little long but pretty entertaining.
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Enicycle
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September 02, 2009
A better parody
Another parody of The Candy Man Can.
Tim Hawkins is the guy who did the Things You Don't Say To Your Wife parody. I didn't know he got political.
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Stalking your kids at college
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September 01, 2009
Clever Keas
I believe the text means "Instinct or Intelligence"?
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Sooner or later
This is a dramatic clip and a little long - but very well done.
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August 31, 2009
There's an app for that
A parody ad for the iPhone.
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Music for ads
Eric O'Shea's suggestions for music to accompany commercials.
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August 28, 2009
At the edge of space
This 11 minute clip is about Top Gear's James May's ride in a U2.
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Headache!
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Blonde antelope
H.T. Mary
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August 27, 2009
Order now
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Milkman vs. Mailman
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August 26, 2009
Through the glass
Here's another illusion in broad daylight by Chris Angel. This guy reminds me of Cyril Takayama.
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Measure twice, drill once
This 10-minute clip is about an oil exploration rig that drilled into a salt mine and drained a Louisiana lake.
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August 25, 2009
A little something for nothing
"Putpockets" give a little extra cashLONDON (Reuters) – Visitors to London always have to be on the look out for pickpockets, but now there's another, more positive phenomenon on the loose -- putpockets.
Aware that people are suffering in the economic crisis, 20 former pickpockets have turned over a new leaf and are now trawling London's tourist sites slipping money back into unsuspecting pockets.
Anything from 5 pounds ($8) to 20 pound notes is being surreptitiously deposited in unguarded pockets or open handbags in Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden and other busy spots.
The initiative, which runs until the end of August in London before being rolled out countrywide, is being funded by a broadbrand provider [TalkTalk - JdJ], which says it wants to brighten up people's lives in unusual ways.
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8-bit trip
Clever stop-action clip done (mostly) with Legos.
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August 24, 2009
An ending that suprises everybody
This street magician does a trick with an ending that surprises (almost) everyone.
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Synchronized swimming in Korea
You have to wonder what the fish thought of this.
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August 22, 2009
Weekend Watching 7
It never ceases to amaze me to hear Daniel Hannan - a British politician - talking Jeffersonian ideas of government, but he does a great job of it. The gist of this speech is: Do not do what we've done in Britain.
The speech is broken into four clips; the other three are after the break. Total time is ~30 minutes.
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August 21, 2009
How cute is this?
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Car chase with a twist
I wonder if this video is related to this story.
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August 20, 2009
He's gone
Criss Angel does a disappearing illusion in broad daylight.
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Come out fighting
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August 19, 2009
United breaks guitars - part 2
Dave Carroll continues his musical crusade against United Airlines with another video about his broken guitar. (The first one, United Breaks Guitars appeared here.)
His story's been written up in Salon.
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Swimming dogs
A cute video about dogs in the water.
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August 18, 2009
iGun rampage
The language in this clip is not even close to safe for work, so mind the volume.
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Where else but Japan?
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August 17, 2009
Requiem in sand
Danilo sends a link to a sand-painting clip and he writes, "This is a long clip too. But I think it´s fantastic. And the music is good too."
Google's translator leads me to believe this woman is named Kseniya Simonova and this appeared on a show called Ukraine has Talent
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Born to be blind
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August 16, 2009
Sportakrobatik
Or what we English speakers would call sport acrobatics. At 9:19, this is a long clip but these acrobats do some amazing things.
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August 14, 2009
And the water in this pool is just right
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Water jet pack
Danilo sends a link to this video about the JetLev Flyer.They're estimating that they'll ship these things in September of this year at a price of $129,000.
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August 13, 2009
Hubble Ultra Deep Field
This is one of the most impressive clips about astronomy that I've seen. It explains recent work with the Hubble Ultra Deep Field photographs to create a 3D model from them. 4 minutes well spent.
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Les Paul, RIP
Here he appears with his wife, Mary Ford. I don't know when this was recorded. He passed away today.
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August 12, 2009
I thought this guy was supposed to be smooth
<obi-wan>That is not the analogy you are looking for.</obi-wan>
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A walk around the world
At 5:20+, this is one of the longest commercials I've seen (not counting 'infomercials', of course). It's a very well presented history of Johnnie Walker whiskey: the man who walked around the world.
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August 11, 2009
Funny ads
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C'mon down!
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August 10, 2009
42
The answer to everything.
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Hill climbers wipe out
Video from the Great American Championship Motorcycle Hill Climb in Billings, Montana. One rider actually makes it.
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August 08, 2009
Hyper-realistic
Like the Touchable holography video, this one comes from SIGGRAPH (held last week). This one's really impressive: it's a full-motion, 3-D green screen.
A team from INRIA and Grenoble Universities in France will demo a new virtual reality system called Virtualization Gate that tracks users' movements very accurately using multiple cameras, allowing them to interact with virtual objects with new realism.
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August 07, 2009
Touchable holography
This looks like the start of something pretty cool -- like a holodeck, maybe.
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August 06, 2009
Splash down
A pretty cool clip from Germany. If this for real (which would surprise me), it's one hell of a trick. Find the perpetrators at http://www.mach-es-machbar.de/.
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Urban screen
Another interesting clip from Germany - by Urbanscreen.com. These are 3-D projections on the surface of a building.
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August 05, 2009
Clever bike
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Field engineering
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Fishmen
The YouTube notes say:
A musical version of 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' by H.P Lovecraft. Set to a song composed by the HPLHS (http://www.cthulhulives.org).If you don't get whats going on and want to read the original story, its a good read and online at:http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Over_Innsmouth
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August 04, 2009
Pwned! (4)
Some Nederlander does a nice job on Bill O'Reilly & guests for their characterizations of Amsterdam as a crime-ridden place.
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What a hot dog
This kid's really good on her blades.
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August 03, 2009
Ride the Shweeb
At the Agroventures Park near Rotorua, NZ.
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July 31, 2009
Good boy!
Mary sends this funny Bud Light ad:
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They're alive
Doctors at Toronto General Hospital use a ventilator, pump and filter, to keep lungs breathing in a glass dome for up to 12 hours following donation. See for yourself:
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Cat retirement home
This clip is about The Cat House on the Kings in Parlier, CA.
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July 30, 2009
Vortex cannon
"Incredible," writes Danilo. "It might help Big Bad Wolf against the 3 little pigs."
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Be Amazing
From mental_floss:
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July 29, 2009
This soldier deserves his standing ovation
At a town hall meeting in St. Louis, he asks for an apology from Sen. Claire McCaskill (D- MO) for backing the health care bill. The crowd eats it up.
"Enumerated powers" - bless his heart.
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Not once do his fingers leave his hands
Carol sends a link to this clip of Dom DeLuise performing a trick on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
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July 28, 2009
Fly guy
A cute animation by someone who knows cats well.
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Touching the void
A long (9:32) clip about 'free solo' climbing. There are some really impressive shots in this clip.
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Somebody's oxygen supply needs to be checked
I don't know who made this video. I'm only hoping she doesn't vote.
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July 27, 2009
Bandsaw virtuoso
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How to open bottles
Mary sends this funny, Candid-Camera type clip about a woman serving bottles of something - beer, maybe? I'll bet she sold a lot of them.
It's definitely NSFW, so discretion is advised.
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July 24, 2009
Animal thieves
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Need for speed: the video
Here's a video of the German who rollerskated a roller coaster in this weeks Need for speed post.
It's back, Danilo.
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July 23, 2009
Not your traditional wedding processional
But it looks like it was fun.
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Twits
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July 22, 2009
Future Vision (sort of)
A nicely done, understated parody of Microsoft's Future Vision 2019 clip.
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The face of Leonardo
Interessante.
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July 21, 2009
Free fall acrobats
Spaceland Anomaly's gold medal free routine and world record breaking speed round from the 2007 US National Championships.
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The Mathemagician
This is a long clip (15 minutes) but it's an entertaining one.
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July 20, 2009
Apollo 11 in 5 minutes
NASA video edited by USA Today.
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World's best card trick - revealed
This is a follow-up to the recent video of the World's Best Card Trick. It shows how the trick is performed, so don't watch it if you prefer to keep your illusions.
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July 18, 2009
Listen to the rhythm
Bill writes, 'Close your eyes while watching this one.' That sounds a little odd so let's say instead, 'Close your eyes while listening to this one.'
I don't know who these people are or where or when this performance occurred. It's very well done.
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No subtitles needed
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July 15, 2009
World's fastest everything
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World's best card trick?
Maybe - it's pretty cool
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July 14, 2009
Creation
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How to peel a banana
Now you know.
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July 13, 2009
Cirque de chats
Great Cats!
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Web Site Story
A very well done parody.
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July 10, 2009
A good plan for the weekend
Find more videos like this on AdGabber
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See the core
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July 09, 2009
Olympus PEN
A cleverly-done stop action clip (that I assume was shot wih an Olympus camera).
This is the PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production!
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July 08, 2009
Roller babies
LOL
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Broken-guitared
Paul sends a link to this guy's musical story about how United Airlines broke his $3500 guitar.
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July 07, 2009
Duke Nukem's disease
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Old timers
Here's an interesting clip about Rachel Veitch and her '64 Mercury Comet Caliente that has over 500,000 miles on it.
H.T. Mary
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July 06, 2009
Interesting technology
The Earthtronics page for this generator.
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A pool-shooting prodigy
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July 04, 2009
Happy 4th of July
FlippyCat posts this lighthearted clip on Independence Day.
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July 03, 2009
Freelancer's Hall of Fame
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July 02, 2009
Careful with the Mac Book
An amusing French clip:
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June 30, 2009
Phone advice from Argentina
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June 29, 2009
Coffeebot
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June 27, 2009
Animal thieves
We have a dog like the Dalmatian at our house.
H.T. Bill
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How to fail a breathalyzer test instantly
H.T. Rob
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Hang Twenty
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June 25, 2009
Solid indeed, citizen
Mary sends a link to this clip of the Ross Sisters doing a little song & dance in the 1944 movie Broadway Musical. (That's Manhattan Serenade during the dance scene, for you Godfather fans.)
It's a pretty amazing video; you'll need to watch the first couple of minutes to see what makes their act special.
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Mandles
Rob says, "A fairly well done parody." I'll second that.
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June 23, 2009
Out for a ride
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Invisible cat gear
Carol sent some pix of cats with 'invisible objects'; then I found someone had compiled them into this clip.
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June 22, 2009
More interesting music
Joe sends a link to this clip of a guy making music with (almost) only a can of Coca-Cola.
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June 20, 2009
Let there be light
The fascination with permanent magnet-only motors is difficult to resist. But I don't believe any person or company has ever delivered a successful commercial motor.
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JibJab does Father's Day
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June 18, 2009
Synchronized swimming in Japan
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June 17, 2009
Augment your mobile browser
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June 16, 2009
Craigslist
From YouTube: "Weird Al's homage to The Doors, featuring Ray Manzarek himself on keyboards. Video directed by Liam Lynch."
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June 15, 2009
Palm Pre ad
A pretty nicely done ad for this Palm product. I've read that it was made in China and the dancers are Shaolin monks.
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June 14, 2009
Get along
Steely Dan doing Kid Charlemagne, one of my favorites back in the day. This is from their DVD Two Against Nature, recorded live in 2007 at the Sony Studios in New York.
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June 13, 2009
Happy Father's Day
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Slow motion hummingbird
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June 11, 2009
Deadline
A very clever stop-action short film done with Post-it notes.
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June 10, 2009
What governor?
Tucson John sends a video of a wind turbine that fails to regulate its speed in a high wind. Parts everywhere...
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June 09, 2009
Best Bud Light ad ever?
It's a pretty funny one.
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June 05, 2009
Voodoo
Joaquin Baldwin's entry in this year's NFB competition.
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Sixth sense
Bill says, "This is cool."
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June 04, 2009
Interesting music
A couple of clips featuring uncommon musical instruments.
Here's Eliana Burki on the Alphorn with her band, playing a jazz-rock fusion style.
And this is Liron Man playing a hang. I can't categorize his style but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
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June 03, 2009
Multiple personalities
Kevin Spacey doing a number of quick, good impersonations.
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June 02, 2009
The straight dope
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The Day the Robots Woke Up
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May 29, 2009
Quite a parody
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May 28, 2009
Fancy footwork
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May 26, 2009
REACH
Luke Randall's entry in this year's NFB competition.
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May 23, 2009
Ode to a Butterfly
I'd never heard of Nickel Creek when I ran across this clip so finding it was pure serendipity.
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Pancho & Lefty
One of my favorite covers by Emmylou Harris: Townes van Zandt's Pancho & Lefty.
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May 20, 2009
Don't litter
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May 19, 2009
A metaclock
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May 15, 2009
Bud bot
Thanks to John.
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Nunchuck master
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May 14, 2009
Amazing dancer
I've never seen a pole dance before. But Felix Cane does her act like an Olympian. There's no nudity in this clip but it still may not be SFW.
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History lesson
This clip's a real blast from the past.
Hat tip: Tucson John
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May 13, 2009
Play dead!
Carol sends this video of a stupid pet trick on Letterman's show.
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May 12, 2009
L'homme 100 têtes
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May 11, 2009
What were they thinking?
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May 08, 2009
Famous mothers
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Big slow wave
Super slow motion video of big wave surfer Dylan Longbottom in a 12 foot monster barrel - the first shots of their kind ever recorded.
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May 07, 2009
Intel rock star
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May 06, 2009
Honda's BMI
I don't know whether this is for real or not. But Gizmag has an interesting post about it.
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May 04, 2009
Where the balloons go
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Musical Mayo
Fran & Marlo Cowan (married 62 years) playing impromptu recital together in the atrium of the Mayo Clinic. He'll be 90 in February.
I believe this means he turned 90 in February '09.- JdJ
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May 02, 2009
Grizzly buddy
Casey Anderson and his buddy Brutus, who appear in National Geographic's Expedition Grizzly which airs tomorrow.
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April 30, 2009
A great illustration of game theory
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April 29, 2009
Back to the future
Another funny Mac / PC ad from Apple.
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Kingsford goes for a swim
John sends this clip about a feral piglet (in Australia, I believe). Übercüte!
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April 24, 2009
Truly Japanese
More strange & bizarrre Japanese videos. In this first one, 'asagohan' means breakfast.
Update: Internet Ronin (how approrpriate) comments that there's an English-subtitled version here.
Weirdest anime series ever?
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April 23, 2009
Personal outsourcing
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April 22, 2009
Wii Guys
Rob (good to hear from you, dude) sends a link to this SNL skit.
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Church bloopers
Carol says, "Things you miss when you don't go to church." (Warning: lamest audio ever - adjust the volume to zero.)
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April 21, 2009
Facebook etiquette
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April 20, 2009
A palindromic sketch
Clever.
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April 18, 2009
Talent
Very funny but parts of the dialogue may not be SFW.
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April 16, 2009
For that 'almost baptized' feeling...
I'm a little late with this one, which made more sense before Easter, but it's still funny enough for a look.
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April 15, 2009
Childbirth song
A "parody written by Helen Austin and performed at Voices Three 2007".
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Why everybody needs a dog
Bill sends a link to this clip of dog antics. (I don't know what's up with the chinchilla at the start.)
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April 14, 2009
Another lesson
...about judging a book by its cover.
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Kaboom!
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The Deficit Trials
This clip was made in 1986.
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April 13, 2009
Dans in het Centraal Station van Antwerpen
A little cheer on a cold, rainy day in the Midwest.
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April 11, 2009
Beyond Twitter
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April 10, 2009
Smile... you're on Candid Camera
Burglary Live On The Internet
Florida woman watches intruders rob home via surveillance feedAPRIL 9--A Florida woman who used a live Internet video feed to monitor the interior of her home was shocked yesterday when she saw two men burglarizing her residence in real time. Jeanne Thomas, 43, was seated at her office desk when two strangers appeared in her living room (the intruders got into Thomas's Boynton Beach house through a doggie door at the rear of the home, according to the below probable cause affidavit). Thomas, who set up the live video stream after her home was burglarized last October, immediately called 911 to report the burglary (click here to listen to her conversation with a police operator). Cops raced to her home and arrested the two men inside the house: Curtis Williams, 20, and Steven Morales, 19.
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April 09, 2009
Happy Easter!
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How to intimidate your chocolate bunny
Show it this clip:
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April 07, 2009
Shadow puppets
Carol sends this video of Raymond Crowe doing shadow puppetry to Louis Armstrong's recording of What a Wonderful World.
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April 06, 2009
Three good reasons
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April 04, 2009
DMV auto repair
This clip's been getting a lot of attention (it was featured on Fox News) but it's too funny not to post.
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March 28, 2009
The word on work
Jeff writes, "If you do nothing else this weekend, watch all of this 20 min video by Mike Rowe of 'Dirty Jobs' talking about work; then take a few minutes to think about the example of the sheep farmer"
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March 26, 2009
Practice makes perfect
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March 25, 2009
Faster nature
Wired has a collection of ten time-lapse videos of natural processes. Here's a lunar eclipse in a little over 20 seconds.
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March 24, 2009
Miniatur Wunderland
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March 23, 2009
Look where you're going
A funny ad for Toyota from a couple of years ago.
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March 20, 2009
Beware the Fail Whale
I don't know much about Twitter but this struck me as pretty funny.
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Mona Greasa
A clever ad for Arby's
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March 19, 2009
Automated confessions
Thanks to Bill.
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March 18, 2009
Extreme shepherding
One of the cleverest - and funniest - things I've seen recently.
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Rap on
This one's pretty funny, too. A steward on a Southwestern flight raps the pre-flight advice.
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March 17, 2009
Irish eyes
From the 1940 film Tear Gas Squad.
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Double K.O.
I wonder how the referee called this match.
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March 16, 2009
Dwarfed punk
A pretty funny mash up.
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March 13, 2009
Gears
An entertaining French animation:
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A real nut case
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March 12, 2009
World builder
An amazing dramatic clip.
This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of '405'. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.
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March 11, 2009
Payback time
Entire State Of Maryland Roped Into Online Prank War
By Dashiell Bennett, 11:36 AM on Wed Mar 4 2009, 57,630 viewsRemember the Yankee Stadium proposal prank where one goofball used a fake marriage proposal to humiliate his goofball friend? Well, 18 months later, revenge is a dish best served at a Maryland basketball game.
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March 10, 2009
The new Citibank
Very funny but definitely NSFW - so mind the volume.
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Baby giraffe born
The birth of a rare Masai giraffe at the Safari West in Santa Rosa, California.
Thanks to Carol.
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March 09, 2009
Walk on in spoof
In mid-January, I had a post about an ad featuring a walk-in refrigerator stocked with Heineken. Here's a clever spoof of that ad from Bavaria, one of Heineken's competitors.
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March 08, 2009
A rude awakening
Kevin sends a link to a clip about a dreaming dog.
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March 06, 2009
Facebook explained
I found this pretty amusing but maybe that's because I don't really know anything about Facebook.
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March 04, 2009
Amazing avians
Here are a couple of clips about talented birds.
Hank the heron fishes using bread for bait.
And here's a cockatoo named Frostie, dancing to Ray Charles' Shake a Tailfeather.
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March 03, 2009
Signs
A nicely done short drama from @radical.media.
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March 02, 2009
The Interview
Very funny ad for Pepsi Max.
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February 28, 2009
Kite photography
At 10:15, this is a fairly long clip but I found it very interesting.
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I'll drink to that
Jeff sends a link to Jimmy Buffett performing a new tune titled We've Got a Lot To Drink About. Jeff's link is to this YouTube video which appears to have been shot using a hand camera. The audio isn't too bad but the video's out of focus and dark.
There's a version with better video & audio at Buffett's Margaritaville site. Click on the 'Watch' button under the 'Lot To Drink About - Live From Key West' listing.
I'm guessing Dave will like this one, based on his recent comment. (Assuming, of course, that he doesn't mind a little Jimmy Buffett.)
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February 27, 2009
Tough competition
Here's a clever ad for Volkswagen.
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February 26, 2009
Trapped like rats
Here's an ad from a couple of years back for Becel (which appears to sell margarine and cooking oil).
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February 25, 2009
Plenty o' ham at this food festival
Chef Paula Deen loses her pants during festival demoSuperchef Mario Batali may have dropped a couple of f-bombs at a South Beach Wine & Food Festival dinner honoring the king and queen of Spain. But Paula Deen did him one better Sunday afternoon, unwittingly mooning the audience at her festival demo.
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February 24, 2009
The downfall of the Third Reich
Due to grammar?
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February 23, 2009
Where's Joaquin?
This first clip is Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman's Late Show earlier this month.
This second clip is Ben Stiller doing a hilarious goof on Joaquin at the Academy Awards presentation.
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Men talking to women
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February 22, 2009
Weekend Watching VI
These two clips about the credit crisis are simplified -- naturally, or you'd be here the rest of the month. But they show the major points.
One thing not mentioned is that historically (for most of the 20th century), mortgages in the U.S. were handled by savings bankers and not by investment bankers. There were no phone calls from Main Street to Wall Street, as the video describes it. Investment bankers got involved with mortgages in the 70s and 80s when GNMA (followed by others) began to securitize mortgages to make MBS's. These mortgage-backed securities are a big topic in Michael Lewis' book Liar's Poker. (It's a good read, btw.)
MBS's were a way for bond brokers to trade a group of mortgages in much the same way they traded corporate and government bonds. MBS's became CMOs (CDOs, as the video calls them) when traders cut them up into tranches (a French word for slices).
It's an interesting cultural take that the prime borrowers appear as a couple with 1 child and a dog. But the sub-prime borrowers are shown as overweight smokers with 4 children. It's a wonder they didn't put horns on their heads and work an SUV in there somehow.
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February 20, 2009
Despondex
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February 19, 2009
Chicago Tea Party
This is a great clip from CNBC but you'll need to follow the link to watch it (since offsite embedding's not available).
Santelli's Chicago Tea PartyCNBC's Rick Santelli and the traders on the floor of the CBOE express outrage over the notion they may have to pay their neighbor's mortgage, particularly if they bought far more house than they could actually afford, with Jason Roney, Sharmac Capital.
Update: Here's the video -
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Top PowerPoint mistakes
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February 18, 2009
A banjo-pickin' fool
Who tells an old joke with pretty good style.
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February 17, 2009
Fast and low
The Blue Angels at San Francisco bay.
And threee fighters in Belgium (I believe):
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