While this technically came out in 2010, needed an excuse to test the new YouTube embed. Should play HTML5 video now if your system supports it and you have opted in, otherwise it will still use Flash when needed.

This was something I came across recently, "Literal" trailers. The one for Tron and the recent WoW expansion are pretty amusing.

I LOVE the literal trailers. I have them saved to "watch later" on Boxee, and I've shown the Tron trailer with at least 12 people

The voice-over was awesome!

A loong time ago I mentioned my lack of success at finding a funny video from the 80's that aired on a local oddball cable program.

I should go buy a lottery ticket, because today is a lucky day!
Calling Captain Kirk by Electronic Voice Phenomenon

I happy me so much!

Words can't really describe the action scenes from this Indian movie (apparently the most expensive they've ever made):

Wow! Best.. supervillian.. action.. ever.. ?

A pretty small nit to pick... but did you notice at 5:55 that the augur is turning the wrong direction to drill into the earth?

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Looks like Michael Bay moved from Hollywood to Bollywood.

That is by far my favourite part!

FWIW, that's the second of two Endhiran clips making the rounds.

The first:


If anyone's interested in watching a few video interviews with the VFX supervisor, I can post links.

Nice Wilhelm scream in there.

lol
After the first 10 or 15 seconds of any given fight scene I have a hard time believing that anyone would willingly continue to attack him/it.

I caught that too! I love that it's even used in foreign cinema. That's really cool.

The Learning Channel promo.

I would watch every one of those programmes.

I LOL'd at that. ;D

This is a bit of a silly video but this kid actually seems to have some talent. In addition to rapping he also does spoken word poetry:



The video to his latest single is pretty funny too:

From a Polish Mustang club:


Top Gear quality from a fan club, pretty cool to see.

Ever since that Gears of War trailer with Gary Jules's version of "Mad World," video game companies have been doing the "sad trailer" thing. This one was actually pretty damned effective to me. My only problem with that is I'm sure the game won't have that effect on me, and I wish there were more games that did:

Microsoft OS upgrades over the ages. Starts with MS DOS 5.0, and ends with Windows 7, with a ton of windows versions in-between.

That wasn't very much "like it was". Where was the 12 reinstalls of win 3.1 required every year to keep it going? Can't speak in terms of years if it was all done in a day. Also, he ignored win ME. For most gamer types, the path was win 3.1, win ME, then win XP.

He should have ignored Windows ME. It was shit. For me, it was Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, then Windows XP.

Actually, that was almost a complete lie. For gaming (i.e. dual boot), that holds up.

Actually, it was Windows 1.01, Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0 (first one I programmed for), Windows 3.11, Windows NT 3.51 / Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 / Windows 98 / Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista (which I actually liked) and then Windows 7.

I think I went: DOS 5.0, Win 3.11, Win 95, Win 98, Win 98SE, Win 2000, Win XP, Win 7 (my favorite so far).

Windows 2000 was one of my favorites once it started supporting games and essentially becoming just as much of a consumer OS as their other products. I always found it funny how much better it was than ME. My parents "upgraded" to ME (I think they just happened to buy a new computer for that short time it was out - what luck). I was soon able to get them upgraded to XP, thank goodness.

This would be closer to what most folks did, with the exception of 2000. I found all the versions of win up to 3.11 unusable, where 3.11 was the first somewhat usable one.

2000 is still my favorite.

My memory is somewhat fuzzy on this, but I think the sequence here was CP/M, PCDOS 3.3, MSDOS 5.0, QNX, OS/2, Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux.

Kind missed out on that whole virus treadmill thing.

For me it was Windows 3.1 -> Specialized Stumpjumper M2 -> Linux.

Oh yes! I forgot to include the Specialized bike in there (not a hardtail, though).

That guy must be some sort of masochist, installing just one Microsoft operating system is a tedious enough task, but all of those....

Then again maybe he's a sadist as I just sat through it all!

Neat! I have a Stumpjumper, though I'm almost embarrassed to own it as I've never even given it a shred of the riding it's capable of. I have no ideal what model of Specialized Stumpjumper I have (I didn't know there were models). I must have gotten it 18 years ago now...

In my case, it was actually a critical part of the upgrade path. I sold my only computer to finance the bike. The next time I got a computer, it was a hand-me-down that didn't have the memory/disk-space to run the current Windows. Since I'd been using a variety of unix systems in the at school (UWaterloo!), and at work, Linux was a more logical choice than going back to a version of Windows that the machine could run.

If it's that old, it'll probably be the original steel frame. The M2 (and later M-models) were next-gen frames made from aluminum-ceramic(?) alloys. I think the "M2" stood for "Metal-Matrix".

My brother and his team have been messing around with Kinect.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/kinect-meets-a-pufferfish-display-produces-wonderfully-creepy-a/

Marvelous!

Very cool Andy

Hmm, combine that with facial recognition, and it would be awesome to have an eye of saruon looking at the last person to break the build.

"Who broke the build this time? Oh, looks like Bob is getting the evil stare, wonder what he did this time".

Absolutely insane mountain bike race.

Watch this full screen if you can.

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Sweet vid. There were a couple of big gap drops in there that would make me nervous (I was never that comfortable in the air), but otherwise looks like a fun course.

Cool. Love the dog, and the whistles from the course marshalls.

I can't believe I missed this when it was first posted. I just watched it in a default-sized frame within the original web page.

I don't think I'm going to sleep right tonight. That was beyond insane, at least from the POV.

The guy was wearing a pin-stripe suite. Too bad there wasn't a pic of his full getup.

More here: http://vimeo.com/downtoearth

This one is a whole bag of awesome. Even coming from someone who usually votes Republican.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42756956#42756956

Although he should have left out the progressive tax bit with the story of the widow's mite. You really can't even make a tenuous link between the two.

A more proper viewpoint on Jesus and taxes would be, "Respect your government leaders, pay your taxes and then get on with stuff that really matters" (Matthew 22:21, Mark 12:17). See also Romans 13:6-7. He could have hit Rush over the head with that point too.

I think the verse in Luke about (paraphrasing) "from he who has been given much, much will be required" gets pretty close to the logic behind progressive taxation.

Luke 12:48. It's surely better than what he chose. Although I believe that it speaks more about our obligation to God than to government, there's a principle there that can be applied more broadly.

But Rush is right.

The question "What would Jesus do?" is a whole different kettle of fish, and there are very good reasons why Rush won't ever ask that question. I'm pretty certain that, if Jesus had a pool of tax money to distribute among government programs, the army would not be the top benefactor. Likewise, if he had to make budget cuts, I'm pretty certain that he wouldn't be making cuts in the same places that the Republicans are.

But, if you frame the question "what would Jesus take?" then the answer is a very clear nothing. Jesus wasn't there to force people to follow God. He wasn't there to force people to take care of the poor. He always gave people the option (in contrast with the Old Testament God, who would eventually get pissed off enough to send giant fish out to harrass you into doing his bidding), and told them the spiritual consequences of the choices. "If you follow me..."

The imposition of taxes is not giving people that choice, so having your money go to the poor in that manner is of no value, from a spiritual perspective. All the rebuttal's biblical passages did (with one exception) was outline the spiritual consequences. That one exception was telling people to quit their bellyaching, because if a poor woman could pay her taxes, they could too. At best, from the quoted passages, you can assume that Christ would be in favour of using collected tax money to pay for social programs, but in no way can you extrapolate that to assume he'd be in favour of progressive taxes, or higher taxes, or anything else regarding taxes. There just simply isn't enough there to make a case for that.

Rush is a master of twisting words. He asks the question that lets him give the answer he wants, not the question that needs to be answered.

This is a copy of an email that was forwarded (through many generations) to me.

This summer, Philips and director/producer Ridley Scott launched a global filmmaking competition dubbed "Tell It Your Way" following its Cannes Lions award-winning short-film project "Parallel Lines." The entrants were given freedom of expression and could take up any theme they wanted.

There were two strict rules:

The dialogue could be precisely six-lines (as it was in the ‘Parallel Lines’ films), and entries could not exceed three minutes.

Here's the prize-winning entry in Philips' "Tell It Your Way" competition. Easy to see how it impressed and touched the judges. Watch it here:

A very powerful film to be done in such a short duration. It's HD, view it full screen.

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Despite not being pleased with the new prices, I must admit this is pretty spot-on:

http://www.allisnotlo.st/index_en.html

Chrome recommended. No clue how it will behave in inferior browsers.

Bah, standards, who needs 'em? I say we all go back to the 90's and stick these buttons all over the place


Anyhow, Loren posted this elsewhere, and it's worth resharing.



And that is just one of three.





All worth watching HD fullscreen.

Wow videos are great Tom, even if the guy looks a bit like one of my least favourite comedians.

Haha! I liked the spinning wheel at the end.

I also love jokes of changed expectations, so my favorite part of the whole short was when the guy goes bounding down the hill, and just before he comes down on the precariously-placed boulder he gets scooped up by a giant bird. Good timing there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8S_eEv_A5k

mmmmmmm

Nature is amazing...

http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10397

Doug likes this video. Betcha dollar!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badast...roy-your-brain/

Anybody who doubts the authenticity of this illusion... just print the attached photo on a good color laser printer, then fold the page so that squares A and B touch each other.



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It's a very cool idea to do that for real, but I really would have liked to have seen the stage without the shadow.

Actually, you've stumbled upon the trick of the illusion. Comment 22 outlines the scenario well.

There are insane-mountain-biker videos and then there are insane-mountain-bikers-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands videos.

I'll be honest: the music isn't my thing, and I stopped watching the music video about a minute in.

But that behind the scenes video was incredible! I'm always amazed by the patience some people have, because I would never be able to do that

Equally amazing is that they repackaged and sold all those jelly beans. True story.

Were they touching the cute girl? Did they make a profit?

I didn't say they sold them into the Japanese market... Though they'd make a killing in vending machines.

Cool! A nicely executed take on the Sledgehammer thing. I even like the song.

Disappointed that the "Making Of" video doesn't mention Sledgehammer though.

You're assuming they're even aware of the connection.

Wish I had a Ferret Skeleton room...

I believe that is a safe assumption to make. I cannot imagine that anyone who makes music videos could possibly be unaware of the Sledgehammer video. In fact, I cannot imagine anyone involved in filmmaking of any kind who would be unaware of the sledgehammer video. Like the Wikipedia article says, it's the most famous, most played, and most awarded music video ever made. A music video producer being unaware of Sledgehammer would be like a modern rock musician being unaware of The Beatles.

I'm sure they deliberately avoided mentioning it in the Making Of, possibly because they didn't want to step on any copyright toes.

I've worked with a lot of 'creative' media people, and more often than not, their knowledge of anything over 20 years old is pretty shocking. Especially the ones under 25!

Okay, that Hodgman video is hilarious. I've met him a couple of times at early before-he-was-famous Coulton gigs, nice guy, very funny.

I'm tweeting all of these videos, by the way. Figure the twitterverse should see them too.

Speaking of JoCo alumni, here's a clip that I found awesome this morning:



(Full Song Here)

Awesome.

Even better version here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w1bXy5pSGJE

You guys need to watch Bored to Death. Hodgeman pretty much plays his "PC" role, but it works well.

Followup to the video from the club last year, their 2012 one released early.