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The REAL Harlem Shake Compilation
A compilation of people doing the original (real) Harlem Shake video. And an article on The Atlantic about how the meme of the “Harlem Shake” went viral – not through word of mouth, but through a company promoting a song – How Memes Are Orchestrated by the Man And an article on Al B, the
Read on »Warehouse 13: Endless Wonder
Nice video recap of the first 4 seasons of Warehouse 13 to promote the show’s 5th season starting April 29th. “Single brunette female seeks same for hologram play and rope tricks” – glad they kept H.G. Wells in the mix. Fun explanation of her relationship with Mika.
Read on »Batgirl’s Equal Pay Public Service Announcement
How cool is this that the actors from the Batman TV show starred in a political public ad in the early 1960’s? You’d never see this today. In case you were wondering after watching the below video, the Equal Pay Act of 1963 did get passed, and has improved women’s salaries, but needs to be
Read on »Big Things – Las Vegas’ Wheel of Misfortune
Via – My Modern Metropolis: Las Vegas’ Wheel of Misfortune. Street artist Aware decided to take a “glass half empty” approach and humorously created a giant non-spinning Wheel of Misfortune at an old magnesium plant – appropriately located in Las Vegas.
Read on »For Good – Kristen Chenoweth and Anna Kendrick
Posting in case Stephanie hasn’t seen this awesomesauce yet… Kristen Chenoweth and Anna Kendrick singing “for Good” at the Trevor Projects‘ Trevor Live benefit. Not only is the song really good, the reactions of the women filming the song are pretty adorable, too. (Stephanie has a crush on Anna Kendrick. Kirsten Chenoweth is on my
Read on »Parody of “Birthday Cake” by Rihanna ft. Chris Brown
Parody of “Birthday Cake” by Rihanna ft. Chris Brown. Lyrics quoted directly from Rihanna’s police report.
Read on »Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi
A beautiful (and a bit dirty) film by Spike Jonze based on Designer Olympia Le-Tan’s embroidered clutch-bags. Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.
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Refraction – The Alphabet on Vimeo Beautiful photography of the alphabet refracted through bubbles, set to Richard Pryor saying the alphabet on Sesame Street. (tags: photography typography video) Indianapolis Recycle and Reuse Guide | Indy Recycling | KIBI Wow – you select what you want to recycle, and they give you a list of locations
Read on »Are We Equals?
are women and men equals?
Read on »Cooler than Dick Tracy
When I was a kid I thought it was the coolest thing that Dick Tracy could call people on his watch and see them on the tiny TV screen, and I thought it would be awesome if, some day far in future, I could have a watch like that that really worked. I was reminded
Read on »John Cleese on creativity
John Cleese discussing writing, creativity, and getting in the zone for creative work. One of his main points is the importance of not being interrupted while writing – once you are distracted from your task, it’s very difficult to get back on the moving train of thought. So closing yourself off to disruptions is a
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The Rachel Maddow Show – What's the matter with everybody? Tea baggers want smaller government – except when challenged on the entitlements THEY receive. Then they change their minds – they only want government to help them – but they don't want to pay for it. Or for all those other people who they think
Read on »Tea Bag Desperation
Video from two opposing health care rallies in Columbus, Ohio. Here tea baggers mock a Parkinson’s victim.
Read on »Snow does not disprove climate change
And Bill Nye calls guys from Fox News unpatriotic for claiming that there’s not climate change because of snowstorms. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Read on »Very powerful Public Service Ad
Nicely done. Find more videos like this on AdGabber
Read on »Maddow on Obama Spending Freeze: Completely Insane
I gotta say, I agree with her. It’s crazy and it’s not gonna work. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Read on »Power of the Pentatonic Scale
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
Read on »Maddow skewers Obama on backing off the Public Option
Rachel shows that the Health Care industry, the folks making a fortune of you getting sick, is jubilant that Obama is considering getting rid of the “public option” in health care reform. The “public option” would allow you to get insurance through the government, and provide competition for the health care industry. One of the
Read on »The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Jim Cramer Unedited Interview
Jon Stewart takes Jim Cramer to task for CNBC’s failure to cover the illegal and unethical behavior of banks and financial companies that created our current economic crisis. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:
Read on »How the world almost came to an end on Sept. 18th
How a run on Money Market accounts on September 18th almost collapsed the global economy – terrifying stuff that is just coming out now about what the Treasury and Congress were doing behind the scenes. Quoting from Zero Hedge: LiveLeak has caught a scary moment of previously undisclosed insight by Paul Kanjorski where he reveals
Read on »Wingsuit Base Jumping
This is crazy and amazing. And to answer the question I was asking throughout – they’re using parachutes at the very end of their jump to stop.
Read on »Yes we can
Yes We Can from Paul Lloyd on Vimeo.
Read on »Ron Howard, Andy Griffith & Henry Winkler for Obama
See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die
Read on »Chris Matthews skewers Palin
This is just too fun not to post.
Read on »Star Spangled
A low-key version of the Star-Spangled Banner on guitar.
Read on »David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign
McCain canceled his appearance on the Letterman show to “race back to Washington to work on the crisis” but while the show was being taped, McCain was in THE SAME studio with Katie Couric instead.
Read on »Uncle Sam and 9/11
Uncle Sam takes on 9/11 and says we have to move on.
Read on »How to tell people they sound racist
Which works equally well as “how to tell people they sound homophobic.” (hat tip to Bil). This nice video is courtesy of Jay Smooth at illdoctrine.com
Read on »Barack Obama on the Separation of Church and State
Very nicely expressed, Senator.
Read on »The Count Censored
Who knew the count swore so much?
Read on »McCain’s “100 Years of War in Iraq”
John McCain has said he can see us still being at war in Iraq in 100 years – here’s how that could happen.
Read on »Moving Trinity Lutheran Church
If you thought the last video was fun, check out this one. In June of 2006, the 100-year old Trinity Lutheran Church was moved across country to Manning, Iowa.
Read on »Go Around Twice if You’re Happy
teh awesome.
Bacon, Bacon, Bacon, Bacon, Bacon
Comedian Jim Gaffigan on Bacon…
Read on »This is mighty
I really need to get the hell off of youTube this morning. I love one of the comments “It’s like if Beck, John McCrea of Cake, and Liam Lynch all got together and rocked the First Continental Congress.” had a pocket full of horses, fucked the shit out of bears. threw a knife up into
Read on »Boom Goes the Dynamite
I had only heard about this; never seen the video before. Poor kid. So embarrassing that he’s from my alma mater.
Read on »Pat Condell on Islam in Europe
Why does faith deserve respect?
KT Tunstall’s awesome cover of “I Want You Back”
(via Shakespeare’s Sister)
Read on »That’s pretty lesbionic.
The video for the song “Girl I Told Ya” by Valeria.
Read on »Electrical Tape Mustache
I thought I’d be over watching another lipsync YouTube video, but fake mustaches made of electrical tape are pretty mesmerizing… (from my friend maxine dangerous)
Read on »My New Favorite Batman Movie
I’d give you an overview of this fan-produced marvel, but it would be better to just read the recap that this guy wrote. Let me point out one thing he didn’t though – Robin is wearing green rubber cleaning gloves. And then there’s the sequel: I love the interweb.
Read on »The Landlord
I’ve been telling Stephanie that she needs to be a hardass as a landlord. Here’s a video where she can get some pointers on how to do it. UPDATE: Linked instead of embedded because the auto-play was annoying.
Read on »Me, giving a testimonial on Firefox
Oh, and while surfing YouTube looking at other’s SXSW videos, I found a video of me shot yesterday by the firefox browser people, giving testimonial on the browser from the trade show space. I got a discount on a Firefox T-shirt in exchange. Which just goes to show — I can talk your damn ear
Read on »The Ladybug Picnic
Awesome – Shakespeare’s Sister posted YouTube clip of Sesame Street’s Ladybug Picnic, and I had to grab it because it’s one of Stephanie’s and my songs. She put together a great CD for me of all kinds of Sesame Street songs, including some like that this that I hadn’t heard since I was a little
Read on »halcali – giri giri surfrider
Awesome Japanese Surfer Girl Video
Read on »a scarily addictive little song…
This is as bad as the Dance Dance Revolution song “Butterfly” that can’t help singing along with in the car. Things I do when I should be writing up my blogger forum notes or getting a load of mulch for the flowerbeds.
Read on »Vote for Alan’s Movie
Stephanie’s friend Alan made a little movie for the Boston Market website movie contest, and they’ve asked me to request that you go vote for Alan’s movie, so he wins some cool stuff. The premise of the movie is “My Extra Hour” — in which you show what you’d do with the extra hour that
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Outword Bound Bookstore seeks horse, sheep for Brokeback Mountain video release party
Yup, Outword Bound Bookstore (at 625 North East Street downtown, near Massachusetts avenue) is planning a party for the video release of the film Brokeback Mountain. Here’s an appeal they sent out for some help with the party planning: We are planning a Brokeback DVD release party for April 3 starting at 9PM. (Call or
Read on »Texas A&M Hoopsters Total Eclipse of the Heart
Hat tip to Advance Indiana for this one… Texas A&M basketball players get together and lip sync to Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. Shirtless, with killer abs, and complete choreography. Considering the sheer volume of crappy imitation lip syncing videos out there on google video and youtube, (all of which came about after
Read on »Natalie Portman Rapping on SNL
Wow. That’s truly funny, and much better than the Lazy Sunday video. I want an mp3 of this. And the lyrics. Darn it. The video has already been yanked from Youtube.com, so my embedded file no longer works. Well, it’ll be on iTunes; go look at it.
Read on »My message to the suiciders is “we will hunt you down and kill you”
A great movie that anticipates what Bush’s State of the Union Address will be, with a guy doing a dead-on impression of Bush. It’s hilarious. Our children must be literized, don’t forget.
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Poker with Dick Cheney
I read this classic blog post from The Poor Man last year when it was first posted, but it’s won some awards since then and I had a chance to re-read it. Check out the whole post, because it’s one of the funniest things you’ll ever read. Unfortunately, the page is screwed up a bit,
Read on »Dubya Dubya Dubya
A great flash video on the soon-to-be-war with Iraq.
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