ROFLcon Turns Me On To Ustream.TV

April 29, 2008 – 11:07 am

I was amused to learn Nathan was officially at ROFLcon on behalf of his library. I wasn’t representing my work and wasn’t on the lookout for work-related tools, but I found some anyway.
Universities have been anxious to get into live video casting for a while. Our first effort eventually became PBS (NET, ETS and PBS [...]

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Snakes On A Plane

April 25, 2008 – 10:42 pm

It was only after I’d taken my seat and David Weinberger began his ROFLcon keynote that I realized there was a box of t-shirts at the side of the room with a sign over them that said something along the lines of ?FREE: t-shirts from worn out memes.? Thinking that the internet might be old [...]

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Flickr Adds Video

April 14, 2008 – 8:22 am

I asked for it in 2004, before YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, or Revver appeared on the scene, and before MySpace and Facebook added video sharing as a feature. Four years later they finally added it. Neil Rickards should get credit for creating the theme of “long photos” (Neil called them “moving photos”). And anybody who was [...]

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The Internet, According To mememolly

April 11, 2008 – 11:20 am

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Dancing With The Nerds

January 23, 2008 – 8:06 pm

Richard Stallman’s Soulja Boy dance, MIT style (via).

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Staring Contest

January 19, 2008 – 3:04 pm

Shirow Masamune himself couldn’t draw Manga Eyes like hers.

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Inside Your Head

December 14, 2007 – 12:12 pm

Video found via a photo in Soffia Gisladóttir’s photostream. The suggestion that things go rotten inside a person’s head is very sad, but I’ve also suggested it to Zach for Moldy Snack.com

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The War On Zombies

October 19, 2007 – 12:10 pm

From Kim to Zach to me to you: Bush Vs. Zombies.
Now we know: the guy doesn’t understand the difference between fact and fiction. Most people thought Shaun of the Dead was horror/comedy, not documentary. Poor W probably read The Zombie Survival Guide as an instruction manual (don’t show him How To Survive a Robot [...]

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Smashitup Smashitup Smashitup!

September 28, 2007 – 12:01 pm

After all my agitating for small, cheap, fuel efficient cars (and automotive metaphors), I figured I had to post this picture (and a few others) from the demolition derby at the Hopkinton Fair a couple weeks ago. My video of the four-cylinder event is at YouTube.
Extra: I don’t know where it fits in your stereotype [...]

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Jumping From Airplanes

September 7, 2007 – 12:27 pm

A guy walked into the student newspaper office and asked ?does anybody want to jump out of an airplane??
Without a moment’s hesitation, I said ?I’m your man.? It was only afterwards that I confirmed a parachute would be involved.
Well, that was ten years ago (can’t you tell, I look young — young!), but the video [...]

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Cliffy’s Office Prankd

August 31, 2007 – 12:50 pm

Office pranks are a bit of a thing here. Well, at least in IT. Last year Matt took charge and put together a quartet of pranks that got the attention of the London Daily Mirror.
This video is from a May 2002 prank that put a golf cart with fuzzy dice and bobble headed Jesus [...]

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Burninator: Kinetic Sculpture Never Looked So Hot

May 26, 2007 – 1:16 pm

This is what I get for not following Gizmodo faithfully: flaming industrial art.
They introduced it saying ?Do you enjoy fire? Do you also enjoy very intricate Rube Goldberg machines? Of course you do.? Though a reader there exclaims:
It didn’t do anything. For it to be a true Rube Goldberg doesn’t it have to accomplish some [...]

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Kids Need Bowling Coaches, Desperately

May 25, 2007 – 12:17 pm

There is little doubt that the great diversity of styles and techniques of bowlers from countries enjoying test match status has helped to shape the history of [the sport]. With the recent world-wide implementation of professional coaching schemes, which generally teach only one, or perhaps two optimal ways…, bowling could be in danger of losing [...]

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A Fair(y) Use Tale

May 22, 2007 – 11:01 pm

From The Chronicle:
Copyright law, a constant thorn in the sides of scholars and researchers, is generating a lot of public discussion this week, thanks in part to a new 10-minute video that parodies the law. ?A Fair(y) Use Tale? has been downloaded from YouTube about 145,000 times since it was posted online Friday. The video [...]

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Bringing Up The Cute Quotient Of This Blog

May 19, 2007 – 1:54 pm

If you ever tire of the kittens on Flickr, it turns out there’s no shortage of bunnies on YouTube.
cute, bunny, rabbit, bunny rabbit, video, youtube

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