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[UPDATED 05/20/07 – 2056 MDT] First, thanks to Glenn for the Instalanche[tm]! And welcome all, however briefly it may be. Second, this comment from friedaK deserves to be called out: I was 6 years old when the war ended in Germany. Our little town was pretty close to where the Russians stopped and we were […]
This video has 100 scenes from 100 movies — containing the numbers 100 down to 1. A remarkable bit of compilation and editing. Hat tip to Metafilter. ..bruce..
Slate provides some simple animation for a recorded exchange (regarding ferret rights) between Giuliani and a caller back while Giuliani was mayor of NYC: In 1999, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani hosted a weekly call-in program. During one show, he responded to caller David Guthartz, a ferret-rights activist who was upset over city regulations making […]
A group over in Europe apparently specializes in high-quality film mashups. This trailer — Arnold Schwarzenegger in James Cameron’s “Hamlet is Back” — is so well done that it’s not entirely clear how they did it. And if you go to their web site, you’ll find such things as Gollum and Smeagol singing a Barry […]
This ad wasn’t done by Barack Obama’s campaign — and I suspect that Steve Jobs at Apple won’t be very happy with it [*] — but, boy, it’s certainly effective (or, at least, amusing). Hat tip to The New Editor via Instapundit. ..bruce.. [*] The ad uses footage and sound from Apple’s famous ‘1984’ ad, […]
For all of you burka fans out there (short German intro with a song)
Valleywag has a link to this YouTube video that appears to be a 1993 CBC Prime Time news report on “Internet”. It’s well worth watching, both for the unintended humor to the viewpoint of what the Internet would provide. Enjoy. ..bruce..
Yes! Really! Jobs has his own blog! I mean, read this entry and tell me that this isn’t really being written by Steve Jobs: Well the engineers want to kill me but you know what, I know how to design products. And I’m sorry, this circuit board for the iPhone is just way too friggin […]
The Daily WTF is one of my daily reads. Subtitled “Curious perversions in information technology”, it allows readers to submit wretched source code examples, IT development horror stories, and similar cringe-inducing true-life accounts. (It’s fun to read the comments on source code postings; they bring to mind the old joke, “Q: How many programmers does […]
…here’s a website devoted to ways to destroy the earth. As the web creator notes, it’s not quite as easy as you might think: All the explosives mankind has ever created, nuclear or non-, gathered together and detonated simultaneously, would make a significant crater and wreck the planet’s ecosystem, but barely scratch the surface of […]
