Interesting. I hereby resolve to write more viral friendly titles on my posts in the hope I will make millions of dollars from the Internet and be as cool as this guy.
Tag: youtube
How to organise your bookshelf
We picked up a couple of new bookshelves on eBay over the holidays. So now we have space. Lots of space. For new books. Because, you know. New books are where it’s at. Although now I have Logos and the Kindle new books will be squarely in the “2nd hand purchases from garage sales” category, or the “huge donation of books to college” category.
Anyway. That’s neither here nor there. This is how to organise a bookshelf:
Via Kottke, I think. I was actually a little disappointed that this was really cool, and not at all a tutorial on how to organise your bookshelf.
Playable Angry Birds Cake
Firstly, the concept of a playable cake, in itself, is pretty cool. But look at this….
Thanks to Amy, who sent me this video.
Samurai v Shadow
My new week’s resolution was to post less YouTube.
This video killed that almost straight away.
Bonus. This Wolverine v Hand graphic novel/video thing is cool.
Wolverine Vs The Hand from Gary Shore on Vimeo.
Both are from one cool thing a day.
Censoring John 3:16
The Superbowl. Watched by millions. For the ads. American Football is a commercial juggernaut. They pause play for ads (they do this in Aussie Rules too). The Superbowl regularly features big budget advertising blockbusters. They don’t necessarily steal the show. But they go close.
This year a group of Christians decided they wanted a slice of the Superbowl action. So they produced an ad, and booked a slot, and the broadcaster decided to turn the ad down. They didn’t want anybody being offended by a religious ad. And this is in a nation that prides itself on its Christian heritage.
Here’s the ad.
There’s not a lot in there that’s offensive. It’s pretty clever. The website is nice. The ad, at the time of writing, has been viewed by 300,000 people (approximately) on YouTube – a far cry from the millions who would have tuned in on the day, but at least the producers are getting some benefit for their efforts.
This, friends, is why we shouldn’t be kicking up a stink and trying to get atheist bus ads pulled. What goes around comes around. If we’ve got truth on our side – what have we to fear from other voices being heard in the marketplace of ideas so long as we can put our side of the story out as well. Now we may not be able to do either – because if they can’t show an ad like that in America, what are the chances of similar decisions being made by TV networks in the rest of the world?
Here’s a New York Times article on the fiasco which again goes to show that the ad wasn’t wasted – when was the last time a major newspaper ran a verse from the Bible as the second par of a news story?
The ad’s producer Larry Taunton had this to say about his motives:
“Corporate America uses its creativity and millions of dollars to come up with 30-second blasts to get you to buy a beer or Coke or tennis balls… Last year, as I began to reflect on this, I thought, ‘If I had 30 seconds to speak to a billion people, what would I say?’”
What would you say?
I ought to have known about “What you ought to know”
I don’t have to worry about the is-ought fallacy anymore when it comes to “What You Ought To Know” because I now know “What I Ought To Know” so things is as they is, and they is as they ought to be.
Remi v Ronaldo
Ronaldo retired this week. The real Ronaldo. Not the Portugese imitation. Check out this video of football tricks featuring Remi Gaillard and Ronaldo.
Real Life Mario Kart
This is one of the better Mario Kart in real life videos I’ve seen.
But, perhaps, not as good as Remi Gaillard’s version.
And look, there’s a sequel…
Hat tip to Scott who posted the top video on Facebook.
Hardcore bible thumping spirit filled Jesus freaks
Oh. No. This even gets autotuned at the end. It’s like all the badness merged together. I like how they say this is the “official film clip” in the title – as though anybody is going to make an unofficial one that could possibly be worse than some guy sitting in front of a fence, if you watch closely you’ll notice that they horizontally flip one of the clips (which makes all the writing backwards) – is there some sort of backwards masking going on there?
Steve “the Mad Drummer” Moore
Aaran sent me this video.
So I watched a few more. This guy should get together with the Mystery Guitar Man.
This one has over eight million views.
It seems he’s a viral sensation – there’s even a Star Wars edit…
And a metal version…
The lengths kids will go to to avoid boring church
Don’t be boring and your parishioner’s kids won’t steal their parent’s cars. This is what Eutychus would have done if cars were around.
So you’re going to write a novel
This made me laugh a little bit. But not a lot. These days that’s enough…
Grizzly Bear play Graceland
I was just listening to Vampire Weekend’s Contra album. And thought “gee, that sounds like Paul Simon”… so I did a little googling to see what they had to say about the similarity. Which led me to this – completely unrelated – Grizzly Bear singing Graceland.
Here’s the Vampire Weekend song that I think sounds particularly Simonesque (set to an amusing Japanese dance clip).
Here’s Paul Simon’s Crazy Love…
Here’s a mashup…
Cure or Carcinogen
This site, Kill or Cure, exists to chart the Daily Mail’s sensationalist stories about things that give you cancer, or prevent cancer – or in the case of caffeine (and other substances) – do both.
For some reason this all reminds me of this Eels song – Cancer for the Cure.
He-Man: What’s going on?
This gets good about a minute in. Persevere.