The Phonepedia concept is simple: take Wikipedia’s rich content and add voice recognition. It’s as easy as calling a number and asking your question, the answer will be returned via SMS and email. Go ahead and try it for yourself.
The voice recognition is powered by Jott, and thanks are due to Heidi for writing so [...]

Posted January 21, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: Jott, mashup, Phonepedia, remixability, wikipedia. One Comment.

Bush speech mashups rock. From Google Video:

So, you wanna learn how to beatbox? GWB is back with another amazing performance. Surprisingly he is actually very good.

Posted September 30, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: awesome, beatbox, beatboxen bush, bush, bush beatbox, cheney, cool, funny, george bush, george w, george w bush, hilarious, lol, mashup, speech, stupid, w, weapons. 2 Comments.

TeamTigerAwesome’s Top Gun: A Requiem For Goose is more than funny, it’s the sort of thing a person should mine for insults and one-liners to use later. Of course, the recent Tom Cruise flap doesn’t dampen it any.
From the title cards:
On March 3, 1919 President Harding established the swingenest, scientologist, dew drop of a flight [...]

Posted September 8, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: funny, Grover Cleveland, high-hattenest, mashup, misplaced feelings of love, movie, piker, remix, sock dollager, splifficated, swingenest, TeamTigerAwsome, Tom Cruise, Top Gun. One Comment.

Michael Sauers pointed out Q-Unit, a mashup of Queen and 50 Cent. They’re sure to have Disney (the rights owner for Queen’s catalog) on their back soon. At least, it didn’t take Disney long to shut down The Kleptones, whose “A Night At The Hip-Hopera” has a spot on my iPod.
And that’s where the story [...]

Posted December 7, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Copyrights & Intellectual Property. Tags: copyfight, copyright, copyright law, disney, hip hop, mashup, music, q-unit, queen, rap, remake, remix, rock. 2 Comments.