2008 Aug 10, 3:55Its the Barack Roll edited with Barack singing over Rick Astley.
via:ethan_t_hein barack video politics youtube mashup memes humor 2008 Aug 10, 3:33
Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog is an Internet only show you may have already watched and heard everything about. If you missed this
somehow, its a musical by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) staring Neil Patrick Harris as an aspiring super villian who can't get up the courage to talk to his laundromat crush. Its
very funny, fairly geeky, and on the Internet so of course I've enjoyed it thoroughly and have some links to share. It surprised me how many blogs that I don't usually see posting the same things
telling me about it: first on Eric's blog, then The Old New Thing,
and even Penny-Arcade.
Dr. Horrible's again available online via Hulu with commercial interruption.
Check out the official fan site. They link to such things as the owner of Dr. Horrible's house.
He had appeared on Monster House, a reality show about remaking people's homes like Monster Car or Pimp My Ride is about remaking folk's cars, and had his house turned into a evil scientist's lab.
Consequently its a perfect fit for Dr. Horrible and in return the owner appears in one of the final scenes and in the credits as the 'Purple Pimp'. Apparently the purple suit is his. Also on his
blog you can find out what's happened on that big chair that appears in the show. All I'll say about that is, good thing Neil Patrick
Harris wears a lab coat while sitting on it.
At the recent Comic Con some attendees took video of the Dr. Horrible
Comic Con panel (video clips contain spoilers) some of which I've grouped together. Besides the videos containing the creators and stars of the musical who are all hilarious (see Felicia Day's comment on twittering) there's also some excellent bits about a possible second installment and information on the impending DVD. To
finish off this series of Dr. Horrible links check out this Venn Diagram of Felicia Day's work.
dr. horrible doctor horrible humor link roundup 2008 Jul 22, 11:02Gallery of nice website backgrounds
background web webdesign free gallery graphic via:swannman 2008 Jul 15, 3:50This is 'Dr. Horrible' (Neil Patrick Harris) a man in love, and also a super villain fighting Nathan Fillion. This is all Joss Whedon's Internet only awesome thing. Its free if you watch now but
eventually it will go away unless you pay for it.
humor geek super-hero internet media video tv joss-whedon neil-patrick-harris nathan-fillion via:ericlaw 2008 Jul 12, 12:33Rice on a speaker makes interesting patterns based on the tone played. Like the cornstarch subwoofer video earlier.
rice video youtube sound science via:swannman 2008 Jul 11, 1:12Non-Newtonian liquid on a subwoofer displays creepy results. I need to try this sometime. This links to lots of other similar experiments.
video physics science youtube via:boingboing 2008 Jul 11, 12:57A commentor writes: "wow, street art's really blowin' up". This is using balloons to graffiti. Realistically though you've still got to deal with cleaning up the plastic. I like the reverse graffiti
better.
via:ethan_t_hein humor art streetart graffiti 2008 Jul 9, 10:11"I, Sam the Eagle, present a musical salute to America." Seems appropriate for Colbert Report.
via:kris.kowal humor muppets video youtube parody 2008 Jul 9, 9:59Lively is apparently a coming soon Google app that's like a web page embeddable version of Second Life.
via:felix42 second-life lively google webservices web2.0 2008 Jul 7, 11:38Many sets of twins board a subway and act innocent forming a sort of mirror on the train.
humor prank video subway nyc performance-art via:boingboing 2008 Jul 7, 10:44"My sons Arthur, 5, and Gustav, 3, are obsessed with the New York City subway system."
humor art nyc subway via:ethan_t_hein 2008 Jul 3, 1:32"Finally he cut the tape entirely, whereupon the world disappeared. However, it also disappeared for the other characters in the story... which makes no sense, if you think about it." That's what I
thought when I read that story
article essay fiction scifi philip-k-dick via:mach3 2008 Jul 3, 1:27"...get Nike to make available to consumers the futuristic-looking sneakers seen in the 1989 movie Back to the Future Part 2". Flying cars etc.
via:incredulous bttf movie humor shoes 2008 Jul 3, 12:17Humorous Obama bumper sticker that says: "Re-elect *SENATOR* John McCain 2008 [Arizona Flag]"
politics humor bumper-sticker via:boingboing 2008 Jun 30, 11:13"Scene: The History lesson in school. The teacher wearily calls Microsoft Boy to his desk to try to discover where his homework is."
humor business article microsoft satire marketing via:oldnewthing 2008 Jun 18, 9:58I like this squid bag.
purchase bag squid product via:boingboing 2008 Jun 17, 12:32Some of my favs: UFOs creating pyramids, a periodic table of elements consisting of 'Air', 'Water', 'Fire', etc., and satin in overalls burying fossils. I'm surprised by the lack of FSM.
humor via:boingboing satire religion science clothing shopping tshirts evolution intelligent-design 2008 Jun 17, 12:27"... you can see that even the mighty Google is not immune to getting tickets." Google steet view photo car talking with police officer. Were they speeding? =)
google humor photo map legal ticket cop prius hybrid via:boingboing 2008 Jun 16, 3:57An awesome and frightening photo of a tornado.
photo nature tornado weather news via:swannman 2008 Jun 15, 7:57
I just installed vmcNetFlix which lets you watch your on demand NetFlix movies via your Vista Media Center or any Media Center
Extenders like the Xbox 360. It works well but fails poorly with some cryptic error messages and long timeouts. Be sure to get NetFlix on demand movies working in your browser before installing
this plugin. Once I did that everything worked very well.
To test it out I watched Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior in which Ting must travel from his country village to Bangkok where he works with his cousin in
the city to recover his village's stolen religious artifact. Its a mix of Perfect Strangers, Street Fighter and Pad-See Ew. Martial arts movies, like porn and video games, aren't required to have a
strong plot but Ong-Bak has a fine plot line and enjoyable Thai martial arts. I saw the Tiger Knee in there several times. An enjoyable movie that
reminded me of watching martial arts movies with my friends in high school.
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