This song (and video) is waaaaaaaay better than YMCA:
I infinitely prefer Japanese Billy Joel over the original:
[via Gawker]
This is fun. Some day in the distant future, TysonBatter will have the time to fix the hosting data, and blogeologists will discover 10s of posts buried for at least weeks on the site and gain a better understanding of how I spent my time on teh Internet.
For example, I found this funny in the same way that I find the best Onion things funny - they're pretty much not made up:
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
I know nobody is reading this because a certain somebody hasn't had time to change DNS servers or whatevers, but this is funny:
[via The Guilded Moose]
Copy-er, not copier
So, xerox changed their logo recently:
Don't know about you, but it looks very, very similar to the logo on the Kyrgyzstan flag:
More about the change here.
A little blatant self-promotion ...
'Round Christmastime over at VideoJug I was lucky enough to get assigned a series of six videos outlining how to do various dances from the 1980s. Before it even got to me, our senior VP of production had the brilliant idea to make these look as if we discovered the videos behind some boxes in the VJ vault and 'age' them.
Anyway, through a partnership with MSN, three of the videos are up on the MSN Video site, including this one that's currently in the No. 5 'What's Hot' spot!
80's Dances: The Robot
Check out the other two ('Thriller' and 'Cabbage Patch') while you're there ... and note that the videos aren't on the VJ site yet, but hopefully will be soon.
UPDATE: Four of the six films are on the VideoJug site! Here's a link to 'Robot,' which has links to the three others (Thriller, Cabbage Patch and all-new Go-Gos!).
This has got to be one of the best worst (only?) Hungarian anti-war song raps:
It starts bad and gets worse, starting with the white-boy chorus and truckin' on through to the end.
Quoting Xeni Jardin from BoingBoing quoting the dude in the song, 'Yee, comeon, thasright, check, peas.'
And I have one thing to add: 'Bizniss.'
Oh, damn. This video makes me want to get my hands on a high-speed camera and film myself punching NASCAR-sunglass-wearin', cellphone talkin' jackasses in the FACE:
[Robyn: Be Mine (Ocelot Remix) via Idolator]
Cauldron.
As I picked out the banana chips from my trail mix, I pondered, what would the 'best of' from all the known food mixes in my world? Maybe something like this:
green M&M's from the gorp
those salty thin crutons from Chex mix
the Orange sweet potato terra chips
the cheesy poles from the party mix
the baby corn from the vegetable medley
the pineapple from the fruit salad
the hearts of palm from the chicken provincial
the zesty pretzels from the southwest airlines snackpack
and DEFINITELY the dried papaya from the 5 year old Sweet and Salty fruit/nut mix from my local bodega.
And what do you have? a chocolaty, fibrous, orange crunch. I love combining the best of all worlds.
Jon Stewart in his first show back sans writers: 'The writer's strike is now nine times worse than Sept. 11.'
Yeah, yeah, the quote is at the very very end of the clip, but the whole part before that is entertaining, too. It's only 7.5 minutes out of your day. Enjoy.
See it bigger here.
David Pogue at the NYT tackles the issue of bait-and-switch movie trailers:
'For example, in one of the trailers, there are shots of the pyramids and other Egyptian landmarks. None of the movie takes place in Egypt.'
UPDATE: The director of 'Book of Secrets' responds: 'Basically, what happens is that as we film a movie, the "dailies" are sent to the marketing department. They cut together the trailers LONG before we have had time to cut the movie together. The first trailer for "Book of Secrets" was finished when we were only halfway through the filming!'
[via Consumerist and again]
I've been saying for years it's absurd that, for intents and purposes, the yokels of Iowa pick the presidential candidates. Christopher Hitchens of Slate calls it a 'scam,' and I have to say that's a pretty good word for it:
'So, once you subtract the breathless rhetoric about "surge" and "momentum" and (oh, Lord) "electability," it's finally admitted that the rest of the United States is a passive spectator while about half of 45 percent of 85,000 or so Republican caucus voters promote a provincial ignoramus and anti-Darwinian to the coveted status of "front-runner" or at least "contender." '
UPDATE: Iowa backlash continues: 'The Rolling Stones are more historic than the freaking Iowa Caucuses.'
Well I'll be damned: Radiohead, the band, finally makes an appearance in iTunes, selling their latest album as singles. I almost cannot believe it.
As Jon Gruber points out, it's $2 cheaper over at amazon.com.
[via DF]
You're not the only one who is annoyed and irritated by the TSA; so are the pilots:
'At every concourse checkpoint you’ll see a bin or barrel brimming with contraband containers taken from passengers for having exceeded the volume limit. Now, the assumption has to be that the materials in those containers are potentially hazardous. If not, why were they seized in the first place? But if so, why are they dumped unceremoniously into the trash? They are not quarantined or handed over to the bomb squad; they are simply thrown away.'
David Byrne and Thom Yorke sit down and talk music, specifically Radiohead's latest, In Rainbows.
Muffinblogger Michael and I split the diskbox, which I just recently got my hands on. I can't wait to listen to the vinyl versions of these tunes, especially 'Videotape.'
[shivver!]
You designer-types will get a kick out of this:
Yeah, it's a bit long at 7 minutes, but the 'Emotionator' product toward the end is worth the wait.
[via DLS]
I hate Americans:
[via zefrank]
Bill Keller's Hugo Young lecture (via The Guardian):
I think the polarisation of our political life together with the free-for-all of the internet have contributed to a climate of intolerance, a closing of minds, a sense that competing viewpoints are not merely to be refuted, but obliterated. We don't debate, we demonise. Occasionally the hostility is clever. Earlier this year the New York Times announced that it would be converting to a narrower page format. Somebody immediately posted a message that shot around the right-wing blogosphere: "One and a half inches down" it said. "Twelve inches to go."
....
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers. A question at least as interesting as 'will we survive?' is, how will the new medium change us? There is no doubt that as we manipulate the medium, it manipulates us back, so that for someone in my job the challenge is not just to generate revenues, but to retain the best qualities of the New York Times.
One of the more impressive paragraphs appearing in the New York Times recently:
For the record, it is apparently true that elephants there get drunk on farmers’ homemade rice beer, then go on rampages. But it is not true that Ms. Hilton, who served jail time this year for violating probation after a drunken driving arrest, told reporters, “The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them."
Nice. The music video for Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) by Granddaddy was "programmed entirely in Applesoft BASIC on a vintage 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM -- a computer so old it has no hard drive, mouse up/down arrow keys, and only types in capitals. First open-source music video, code available on website."
hi, I still work here....
Wikipedia has the answer to everthing, including.... the meaning of life.
There is nothing on the Meaning of Love. Nor one on Understanding Women. Does anyone have an afternoon free?
Oh, God. Make it stop.
More fun with the recently freed New York Times archive: 'The Times Has A Shrinking Problem.'
What's the world coming to when you can't even have sex with your bike in the privacy of your hostel room without everybody gettin' all up in your banana seat?
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