2008 Jan 20, 2:51This is Sarah's "favoritest video on the Internet."
puppy cute sarah dog video youtube for:hellosarah 2008 Jan 18, 1:39As Jon says its the 30th anniversary of this wonderful performance.
music video youtube william-shatner rocket-man humor 2008 Jan 18, 1:17A documentary on the vanishing of honey bees. Need to add this to my list.
bees documentary biology movie video environment 2008 Jan 16, 3:55FTA: "A bunch of men launched a whopping half million balls down the stairs of Holy Trinit on Pincio Hill in Rome."
art video culture cultural-disobediance humor via:boingboing 2008 Jan 14, 4:03FTA: "CinematicTitanic picks up where MST3K left off -- much of the original cast are back, along with some new voices, except this time, it's direct-from-net distribution of DRM-free DVDs and (soon)
DRM-free downloads."
via:boingboing mst3k video product purchase 2008 Jan 14, 10:16Stephen Toub implements closed captioning searching of videos recorded with Windows Media Center through Windows Desktop Search as an IFilter. I wanted to do the same thing after reading the related
Ars Technica article. Other interesting things in the
.net mce programming reference video caption dvr-ms howto ifilter development com software microsoft msdn blog article 2008 Jan 13, 10:14Penn (of Penn and Teller) has a video blog thing.
blog video humor politics penn-jillete 2008 Jan 13, 1:20This one goes out to Jon -- where ever he is (in Germany).
humor video funnyordie high-five 2008 Jan 12, 4:10Yoda and Darth Vader to appear in the next Soul Calibur game. Screenshots and videos on the link.
game starwars videogames xbox yoda darth-vader soul-calibur 2008 Jan 8, 6:43The promotional video for this wheel feels like the beginning of a porn video. Images are delivered wirelessly to the wheels but the site doesn't say what protocol. I really hope they didn't consider
security.
humor wheel pimpstar video car via:boingboing 2008 Jan 2, 8:57
Two and half weeks ago Sarah and I went to Las Vegas where I got to
see Jesse, Pat, Chris, and (briefly because he's some kind of big shot too busy for his friends now etc) Grib from college. They're mostly in San Jose and I hadn't seen them for a while so it was a
lot of fun to hang out. We all stayed at the MGM which is a nice hotel with some good restaurants. In other Vegas related links, Sarah added Sarah's Las Vegas restaurant reviews to her reviews and Jesse has Jesse's Vegas
photos up too.
Sarah and I saw the Blue Man Group (video from a concert) and the Price is Right Live Show. The Blue Man Group
was very cool although the music was all rock with a heavy drum focus (not depicted in the videos I linked) which I got a little tired of. But despite that I really enjoyed the show, very funny and
I totally recommend it. The Price is Right Live Show is like the regular show on TV except the recording is not televised and its not hosted by Bob Barker or Drew Carey. So folks from the audience
are still called up to play the same games and really win prizes. It was advertised as hosted by Todd Newton, B-list game show host, but was instead
hosted by JD Roberto who hosted such things as "Reality Remix" and the show "Are You Hot? The Search for America's Sexiest People". The showcase
showdown included the 2008 version of my car and thankfully I wasn't picked to compete for that because, well I don't know where they bought the car, but I would have gotten the price very wrong.
We sat right next to the stage for that show and had a good time.
For New Years Eve Sarah and I stayed in and watched the glitched Seattle Space Needle fireworks show from a safe distance. On New Years we went to a pot-luck at Todd's house and had a fun time. Todd's place
is on the top of a hill and has a lovely view of Washington's snow-capped mountains.
newyear vegas lasvegas personal bluemangroup 2008 Jan 2, 4:41Cory Doctorow the always entertaining and informative speaker talks on new business models, DRM, etc. FTA: "Cory Doctorow is an activist, a writer, a blogger, a public speaker, and a technology
person. He speaks about "Digital Rights Management" at LIFT0
video cory-doctorow drm music piracy 2008 Jan 2, 1:11Radiohead's New Years video as seen on Current.
current audio music radiohead video tv via:felix42 2007 Dec 27, 3:54Jack Black on piracy. Another humorous piracy related video on youtube. Who would have thought?
piracy youtube video jack-black humor 2007 Dec 26, 8:41So many things I shouldn't like: its on court tv, its a reality show, lame name, the website is entirely flash. But its like Sneakers the TV series so...
television tiger-team video free 2007 Dec 24, 12:41These days it seems like there's a social sharing website for everything representable as bits. Like
Scribd for (mostly legal) documents,
SciVee for scientific research videos,
Wordie for words, and
Kuler for color themes. Kuler seems
like a ridiculous website (overkill) but I had been meaning to update my homepage's color design and Kuler has an
RSS based REST API.
The API lets you obtain things like the most recently added color themes or the most popular or all themes containing the color dark red, etc... So of course rather than update my website's design I
hooked up my css to the color themes coming out of Kuler. Select my main page's color theme from a
list of random Kuler themes. As I'm sure
the regular readers can guess I use
an xslt and blah blah blah... It looks OK with
Silver Surfer and
Happy Hipo but in general
changing the colors this way doesn't produce something pretty.
When reading about Kuler I found that they may have stolen the whole idea wholeslae from
ColourLovers. They discuss
the thievery in an article on their blog. I would have switched over to ColourLovers out of principle but
they don't have an easily accessible API.
colourlovers color xslt theme homepage technical kuler design 2007 Dec 13, 4:57A bear dances with a dead bear friend after sharing half its heart. Love the DBZ reference.
zune art video music dbz 2007 Dec 13, 4:54Some interesting animated videos created for the Zune Ad campaign but created by actual artists.
zune art advertising animation design flash microsoft music video 2007 Dec 13, 1:02Video of a cup of boiling water being thrown into the air outside with sub-freezing temp. Found on The Old New Thing
youtube science water ice video
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