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YouTube - Mugshot Fail

2009 Aug 11, 9:39PermalinkCommentshumor video mugshot news

Video: AI bot takes on Mario - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist

2009 Aug 6, 5:15Video of an entry to a Mario AI contest.PermalinkCommentsmario ai video youtube videogame

YouTube - "Weird Al" Yankovic - CNR

2009 Aug 5, 7:22Weird Al relates the awesome exploits of Charles Nelson Reilly in the style of the White Stripes. Notice the head of Chuck Norris mounted on CNR's trophy wall at 0:55s.PermalinkCommentshumor video weird-al charles-nelson-reilly music music-video

YouTube - Louis Vuitton "SUPERFLAT MONOGRAM"

2009 Jul 9, 10:53"...but the inside of his stomach is gateway to a psychadelic wonderland." Need I quote more? The whole thing made me think of a rather upbeat and trippy episode of Lain. Also, one of the repeating noises in the soundtrack made me think I was finishing a lap in Mario Kart.PermalinkCommentsvideo art ad commercial anime animation louis-vuitton superflat Takashi-Murakami cute psychadelic

Feynman on trains

2009 Jul 7, 7:36Two things I like: trains and Feynman, together at last.PermalinkCommentstrain richard-feynman youtube video physics

YouTube - SOUR Hibi no neiro

2009 Jul 6, 3:02"This music video was shot for Sour's 'Hibi no Neiro' (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album 'Water Flavor EP'. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam."PermalinkCommentsvia:waxy sour music-video music video crowdsource youtube

YouTube - John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner

2009 Jun 22, 2:42"Humorist John Hodgman was the entertainment headliner at the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner." John Hodgman does his thing and questions the president's nerd cred.PermalinkCommentshumor video nerd obama youtube john-hodgman politics

Linking to or Embedding a Portion of a Video

2009 Jun 19, 10:12

I'm excited by HTML5's video tag as are plenty of other people. Once that comes about and once media fragments are adopted, linking to or embedding a portion of a video will be as easy as using the correct fragment on your URL thanks to the Media Fragments WG who has been hard at work since the last time I looked at fragments.

However, until that work is embraced by browsers, embedding portions of videos will continue to require work specific to the site from which you are embedding the video. On the YouTube blog they wrote about how to "link to the best parts in your videos", using a fragment syntax like '#t=1m15s' to start playback of the associated video at 1 minute and 15 seconds. Of course if you want to embed part of a Hulu video it will be different. Although I haven't found an authoritative source describing the URL syntax to use, you can follow Hulu's video guide on linking to part of a video and note how the URL changes as you adjust the slider on the time-line. It looks like their syntax for linking to a Hulu page is to add '?c=[start time in seconds](:[end time in seconds])' with the colon and end time optional in order to link to a portion of a video. And the syntax for embedding appears to be "http://www.hulu.com/embed/.../[start time in seconds](/[end time in seconds])" again with the end time optional.

For more sites, check out the Media Fragments WG's list of existing applications' proprietary fragmenting schemes.

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YouTube - "Weird Al" Yankovic - Craigslist

2009 Jun 16, 10:41Multiple friends on Facebook posted "Weird Al" Yankovic's Craigslist. Obviously a great topic for a Weird Al song: plenty of room for rhyming arbitrary nouns.PermalinkCommentsvideo humor weird-al doors music music-video youtube psychadelic

The Simpsons - Soviet Union - Treason season starts early - on BoreMe

2009 Jun 15, 10:06Took me a while to find this clip. Fox has been hard at work on YouTube getting videos redacted. Zombie Lenin says "Must, Crush, Capitalism!"PermalinkCommentshumor simpsons soviet-union tv video history russia lenin economics capitalism

High Five Escalator at Improv Everywhere

2009 Jun 4, 11:08"For our latest mission, Agent Lathan gave out 2,000 high fives by standing next to a subway escalator during the morning rush. Five additional agents spread out along the adjacent stairs, holding signs that prepared commuters for the upcoming high five fun."PermalinkCommentshumor improv-everywhere high-five escalator video youtube nyc subway

YouTube - Iain Lee Hosts Celebrity Soup

2009 Jun 4, 10:22"Iain Lee Hosts Celebrity Soup". Its weird because it sounds and is paced just like The Soup except everyone has a British accent.PermalinkCommentsiain-lee the-soup tv england british soup

Mix an Exploding Drink - Wired How-To Wiki

2009 Jun 4, 3:14You've seen the YouTube clips demonstrating the riotous effect of dropping Mentos into Diet Coke. Why not turn the fizzy fun into an epic party prank of your own? Here's our recipe for a little cocktail we call the Manhattan Project.PermalinkCommentsvia:boingboing mentos meme wired humor coke soda howto alcohol drink for:hellosarah

YouTube - Sherlock Holmes Trailer [HD] *NEW*

2009 May 20, 11:02The trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes, and Jude Law as Watson.PermalinkCommentssherlock-holmes movie trailer humor video youtube via:kottke

YouTube Blog - Link To The Best Parts In Your Videos

2009 Apr 23, 6:25"To create a deep link, append the following to the end of a YouTube video URL: #t=1m15s. This says to link to the time 1:15 - you can replace the numbers before the 'm' and the 's' with anything you like."PermalinkCommentsreference video blog google youtube api url fragment link

Clickable transcript of my Canonical Link Element talk

2009 Apr 23, 6:21You can link into the middle of a YouTube video using a fragment like '#t=30m14s'. Matt combines this with his transcript...: "If you run that over your entire caption file - boom - you have a clickable transcript of your video."PermalinkCommentsvideo blog hack youtube url transcript

CW 11 Files Copyright Claim at Improv Everywhere

2009 Apr 15, 7:38The Improv Everywhere's "Best Funeral Ever" April fools prank is reported as news and then runs into copyright issues: "The biggest fools of all were the CW 11 news team who reported on the funeral as if it actually happened... I of course uploaded their story to my personal YouTube channel to show the world their lack of journalism skills. Tonight I got a copyright notice from YouTube informing me that Tribune ... had filed a copyright claim against the video and that it had been removed."PermalinkCommentscopyright humor video prank improv-everywhere funeral via:boingboing

YouTube Super Luigi Bros.

2009 Apr 9, 1:39"Luigi is running after Mario"PermalinkCommentshumor youtube mario luigi video videogame

Boing Boing: - Cut down in his prime: the short and thankless life of the Goomba

2009 Apr 9, 1:33Funny, I can hear exactly where Mario is.PermalinkCommentshumor video mario videogame youtube goomba

Awesome Spokesmen Billy Mays and Vince Offer

2009 Apr 8, 4:06
Vince Offer photo from onebutan-iphoneBilly Mays photo from onebutan-iphone

There can be no doubt that infomercial pitchmen Billy Mays and Vince Offer are awesome, but how can I decide which is my favorite?

Infomercial Performance.
Among other things they sell Zorbeez and ShamWow respectively, both of which are absorbant towels so first up I can get a somewhat apples-to-apples comparison on informercials for comparable products. Thankfully someone has created a Vince Offer vs Billy Mays youtube video featuring these informercials.

Billy has an upbeat yell to everything he says while Vince has an endearing condescension to his "You followin' me camera guy?" In the end I must give this one to Vince Offer.

Extracurriculars.
Billy Mays has a new show Pitchmen on the Discovery Channel, a reality show involving folks pitching inventions to the pitchmen Billy Mays and someone else. Vince Offer was arrested for assaulting a prostitute. A clear win for Billy.
Intra-pitchman Interactions.
Billy has challenged Vince to a pitchman-off which on the surface sounds like a point for Billy, but if you listen to the challenge Billy says that Vince attempted to extend the olive branch. Billy Mays calls out Vince on the Adam Corolla Show
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