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JB’s favorite Mighty Boosh song. (I have too many to count.) Cheese is a kind of meat A terrific bit of surreal, hand-drawn animation, The Head by parquerama. Click through for the larger version at Vimeo. TheHead / hand-drawn animated short from parquerama on Vimeo. For those of you unfamiliar with Chatroulette (possibly NSFW) here’s Kottke’s perfect summation: “I spent about 30 minutes on Friday night on Chatroulette (very NSFW). You push the start button and you’re instantly in a video chat with some random person. During my session, the average “chat” lasted about 5 seconds and I observed several people [...] Rollicking tune about the most important dilemma of our day. Maurits Fondse Terrific promotional video for the New Zealand Book Council. Pages of books are cut into shapes and animated. Umm, that description doesn’t really do justice to this spectacular stop-motion work. Cool animation and explanation of how a virus invades your body. David Bolinsky did the animation. Here he is talking at TED in 2007. Here is his short piece “The Inner Life of a Cell.” It took more than a year to create these 8 minutes of animation. This headline – NASA to Bomb the Moon Friday, reminded me of this Mr. Show skit. Look out moon! America’s gonna get ya! Nifty animation for Beethoven’s Fifth.
Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean? Clear explanation of why we need health insurance reform (h/t tiny little dots) Animated by Andy Lubershane. JS pointed me to this cool story about the power of the sun. The Carrington Super Flare In 1859… “Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes [...] The Story of Marjoe (1972) via Wikipedia - “Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner, is a former revivalist who first gained a certain fame in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s when he became the youngest ordained preacher at the age of four, and then outright notoriety in the 1970s when he starred in an Oscar-winning, [...] Bugs Bunny in Glen or Glenda? Bugs Bunny in “Glen or Glenda” Pushing Rope posted this hour-long interview between the Orlando Sentinel editorial board and Representative Kosmas.
I listened to about 5 minutes before I got too bored to continue, but Hussey listened to the whole thing and offers up some of the key points in the post. Coburn is right! We don’t need government sticking its nose into health care. What we need is neighbors helping each other. Exactly. Since I’m not sure which of my neighbors need help, and which don’t, I have a proposition how we can make this work. First, I don’t mind pitching in some money regularly to help out [...] Consumerist, via Foodgeekery, reposts this cell phone recording of KFC’s latest sally in the War on American health. And, Patton Oswalt thought the “sadness bowl” was the lowest KFC could sink. Obesity actually shrinks your brain, which might explain why logic and reason don’t mean diddly-squat in our health care debates. School is just around the corner, and just because you won’t be attending university doesn’t mean you can’t sit in on some lectures. Academic Earth collects individual lectures, and the lectures from entire courses, and puts them up on the web. Here, for example, are four lectures on copyright law. “This course is an introduction to copyright [...] there was a time before we were born MGMT performing This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) *** Shawn Colvin performing This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (one of my favorite covers). Never for money, always for love. *** We’ll make it up as we go along. Put away that gun *** Turn like a wheel inside a wheel. The Sweater by Meryn Cadell “Girls, I know you will understand this, and feel the intrinsic, incredible emotion. You have just pulled over your head the worn, warm sweater belonging to A Boy. Now you haven’t had a passionate kissing session or anything, but you got to go on a camping trip with him and eight [...] “His name was Harvey Milk. And he was here to recruit us, all of us, to join a movement and change a nation. For much of his early life he had silenced himself. In the prime of his life he was silenced by the act of another. But in the brief time in which he [...] Pastor Drake unabashedly says he’s praying for Obama’s death. He and Osama bin Laden both want the president of the United States to die. Bill O’Reilly is attacking the father of David After the Dentist. One of these is insignificant and the other appalling. O’Reilly and I disagree on which is which. 1950s educational film on how to survive a zombie attack. What To Do In A Zombie Attack (via Missions Unknown) America’s Best Christian, Betty Bowers, explains Biblical marriage. (Thanks, JB!) In this episode Dr. Steve Brule extols the pleasure of sweet berry wine. Den of Geek offers up some suggestions for the top scenes about taking drugs. They include YouTube clips when available. The second batch of 25 is here. If I had the time I’d download all of these, stitch them together, and play them at my next out-of-control drug-fueled orgy. Here’s Jackie Gleason in Otto Preminger’s Skidoo, a hard [...] Sarah Palin debates Ralph Nader. If you haven’t been watching Lisa Nova, seriously, put everything you’re doing aside, and go watch her videos. Tremendous talk by Carl Malamud to Google engineers about how to increase government transparency. Malamud wants to stream video from conference rooms and committee meetings within the halls of Congress. |
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