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February 28, 2008
1972 Orson Welles Interview
Starts a tad slow, but he really gets going by part 3 and it's exquisite.
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February 27, 2008
Duty Calls
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The Cultural Anthropology of Web 2.0
YouTube - The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)
Very impressive meditation on what we are actually creating when we add to the Web; how the users can be thought of as disseminators of information; the giant processing power of millions of human minds to link and coordinate content. Yet, as impressive and impactful as this video makes it all seem, I can't help but think that (at least) 90% of the web is still used for essentially banal recreation (i.e. porn, myspace, lolcats) which doesn't particularly assist civilization in any way except for a chuckle and stiffy (which, after food, may be what people want most anyway (okay that, and to share their vacation photos)).
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Nokia future-tech Promo Video
Primarily focused on the (amazing) possibilities of nanotech materials.
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February 26, 2008
If You Like Puzzle Games....
And you have some time to waste, this one is pretty clever and fun. Kind of like a mini Legend of Zelda:
(took me about two and a half hours to beat it... though I did get 3 hints online for things I couldn't figure out... everything in the game is do-able but some stuff is pretty damn tricky)
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Garfield minus Garfield
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?
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February 23, 2008
Puppy Vs. Robot!
Epic Battle For Territorial Domination! - YouTube
(This must be dumb video day. It's saturday, it's raining, and I'm catching up on pointless youtube zeitgristle.)
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Dramatic Lemur
Wow, this is dumb, but it's only 20 seconds of your life and it's a chuckle.
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Bob Saget sings 'Danny Tanner was not gay'
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February 21, 2008
This Year's Flu Shot Missed The Mark
The flu vaccine must be reformulated every year to keep up with the fast-evolving influenza virus, and this year the government made a rare wrong bet on which strains would cause the most disease. The flu season got off to a slow start, but it rocketed in mid-January as some new strains arrived — and the CDC found the vaccine is a good match for only about 40 percent of the virus now spreading in the U.S.
Fucking flu, I just had it last week. Yahoo! News
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Next-gen Elmo Robot Video
Pretty far from Tickle-me Elmo.
(via dkb)
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February 17, 2008
The Apple Product Cycle
Very geeky, but very funny!
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February 14, 2008
9 Interesting Skyscapers Soon to be Built
(via digg)
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Indy IV Teaser Trailer!!
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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February 12, 2008
Saul Williams on the fucked-up state of current Hip Hop
YouTube (though only sound)
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February 11, 2008
Yes We Can Parody using McCain Speeches
Almost better than the original!
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February 10, 2008
Polls on Obama or Clinton vs. McCain
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February 08, 2008
If Banner Ads Were Forced To Be Truthful
Funny. Cracked.com
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February 05, 2008
Yes We Can - The Obama Song by will.i.am
Awesome! YouTube
Thank you Barack Obama for being the first inspirational mainstream canidate since I've been alive.
(via DKB)
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February 02, 2008
Superheroes Done In Various Contemporary Fine Art Styles
A few of my favs:
(via Digg)
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Rambo's Kill Count and Statistics
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February 01, 2008
Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells
Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.
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