Category: The Internet
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Today at the office, Jake made the startling and unsettling discovery that Cinemark’s Front-Row Joe is not a new creation, but an ancient abomination, most likely one of the cinema-trailer Elder Gods bent on bringing about Ragnarök. But I suspect he’s still mostly a West Coast phenomenon; the trailers I’ve been nostalgic for were much…
Link’s Quiver Capacity
On his blog, Lore Sjöberg announced his new project: a weekly video podcast for his Alt Text column at Wired. The first episode rates Link’s weapons. According to his blog, more will be available on Wired’s YouTube page or via iTunes subscription. Seeing as how it’s a video with drawings, and more often than not…
Namaste
Via the RiffTrax blog, Bill Corbett shares a relaxing meditation with us all. Learn it, memorize it, and go in peace.
Raisins?!?
Over the past week or so, I’ve seen a bunch of links to “How to Draw a Face” on the comedy site The Sneeze. (Which is a consistently hilarious site, by the way, and not just for “Steve, Don’t Eat It!”) That’s a neat story, yes, but nothing’s made me crack up like giving his…
Click in the middle of the Rocking Chair. You’ll thank me later.
At the end of last month, ABC launched a new viral marketing campaign for the upcoming season of “Lost.” It’s an ad for the series’ fictional airline, with a press release announcing that Oceanic would start flying again after the Flight 815 disaster, and a promo website called FlyOceanicAir.com. And oh no did you see…
Johnny Lee is my new hero
There’s a guy at Carnegie Mellon named Johnny Chung Lee, who’s been doing experiments with the Wii remote, then putting his results up on YouTube. The ones I’ve seen take advantage of the fact that the Wii remote is an IR camera, not just a standard IR-output remote, which flips the whole method of interactivity…
Crimes Against the Internets: Cartoon Brew
The biggest problem with the internet is that you’ve got to wade through so much crap to get to the good stuff. With this whole “web-logging” fad, that means to see funny pictures of talking cats, or copyright-violating YouTube videos, you’ve first got to make it through reams of text with the blogger’s “personality.” And…
Disorderly to poke by mouse is accepted in fleshe
I realize that fun with Babel Fish translations is old news, but I’m really enjoying how it handled this Russian review of “Ice Station Santa”, the first episode of Sam & Max season 2. The only part that I can read is the reviewer gives a 55% (yikes! whatever happened to glasnost?), but the translation…
They grow so that we don’t have to
I found out too late that this year’s Whiskerino had already started, and I was ineligible on account of being goateed at the time. Cause I totally would’ve been up for a four-month beard-growing contest. There’s no part of that that doesn’t sound like a straight-up fun time explosion. Two or three weeks of being…
Fun with Audio
YouTube user StSanders has been posting some rare concert footage of the world’s finest guitarists just tearing it up. I may not be all that excited to see the new Van Halen in concert again, but there’s no denying that back in the day, Eddie was a god of the axe: Carlos Santana isn’t bad…
I can has all your base?
Hay guyz does anybody has seen that hilarious Hampster Dance page?!? Nothing can make you feel like a dinosaur faster than trying to keep up with the internet memes. The people already have a dozen parodies out on the youtubes before I’ve even seen the first one. Luckily Ape Lad is on top of the…
A big-ass table
This video from SarcasticGamer.com has already made the rounds in the real blogs, but it’s just too well-done not to pass on: You don’t have to have seen the original promotional video to be able to tell that they got the music and the intonation of the voice exactly right. Brilliant. And to prove this…